Encryption validation=Good
Speeds=Good
Warranty=Good
Software=Good
Power loss-protection....None=Bad

This is is why the Enterprise market is sticking with Intel drives.

Pretty good if you can get it for £105.

Yeah definitely not something I'd use on commercial machines but a good deal for the drive!

power loss is why you have journalling filesystems (and ups) and nobody in their right mind would trust hardware encryption.

the samsung 850 evo 500gb benchmarks way better for the same price

Yes that is a given. What you won't have are the parts of data lost on the cache before it it written to the flash. While for personal use it probably won't be an issue, but for server use where the input data might be from an external source it may be an issue. It's that fraction of a second before the UPS kicks in. For home use most people won't be using UPS or redundant power supplies. It's just another point of failure covered.

The Evo is hardly a comparison product. It's more speced like a Pro. Which is nowhere near this price. It's a bit like saying the Intel 730 is faster than its sister enterprises drive.

that's interesting as looking at the specs the EVO benchmarks slightly better on sequential and random read/write (IOPPS and MBps) and has almost double the TBW warranty, i imagine the 850 pro would **** all over this

You seem to be missing the point. Server guy say stability, sability, stability. He cares not for speed. So he asks for Intel drives. Accountant says no, too expensive. This drive is what he may look at. These should be more expensive but they have probably had to drop the price to shift them as some server guys won't touch them.

If all you require is the fastest drive for your cash just buy an 850 Evo as you say. :smiley:

Starting to see some affordable drives suited for servers now thankfully - Samsung PM863 and SM863 are very reasonably priced - even the (near) 4tb version at £1.5k

I'll take 32tb! :laughing:

Nice drives but more than twice the cost per GB at this size.

Thanks

This has dropped in price by £5 to £99.95.

Bought after Amazon lost my £150 960GB SSD in Nottingham after coming all way from France fine (I live 20 minutes away!) I was buying this for my Macbook Pro 2012 as about to start a PhD working on data analysis (amongst other things). In retrospect that was probably a blessing as although this is a lot less capacity, the reliability is more important.

It seats at 99 GDP right now, btw.