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Right. So this press-release article somehow doesn't count?
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Western Digital Quietly Launches the SN5000 Budget NVMe SSD
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I agree, people will see and recognize the name. They are not going after the enthusiast market with this product
It looks like a soft launch (you announce the product but it's currently not available for purchase) but I do see it on sale on the WD web page although nowhere else. The WD web page states no delayed ship date so they seem to have it in stock.
Also to create even more confusion, in the WD store on Amazon has a Gen 3 SN500 listing that is still up
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I understand a "launch" as something explosive, like a rocket launch. This was a catapult launch at best.
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There was a 3-4 week lead time on all drives over 500 GB when I wrote the news post, now all of them appear to be available.
Looking at the specs, the SN5000 has a smidgen lower random IOPS, but the rest of the performance appear identical. Somewhat worse TBW on the 2 TB drive though.
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Think of it more as reporting, the source here was Anandtech, as they were the first post on it (not WD).
Companies typically issue press releases to announce their products, build some hype, and there's lots of marketing fluff injected.
Sometimes the entire release is nothing but fluff and BS (which is where you usually see me or others here putting them on blast).
Not even, a quiet launch is more like crop dusting a fart down a hallway.
People will find out about it, but not because you told them so.
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they already have QLC variants of these 2 SSDs
not to mention waaaaayyy faaster
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For some mysterious reason, the 2TB SN770 and SN580 prices dropped to 118€ and 108€ yesterday at Amazon Germany. That's the lowest since January.
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even it labelled budget, in here the price usually much much higher
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Are we ever going to get large 2.5 SDD's! Even at older sata 6, id be just fine with a few 2.5 SSD's, 10TB+ at $500ea , as long as it held up 5 plus years....
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Most consumer SSD controllers top out at 8 TB.
MaxioTech might have a solution for you though, but if any SSD makers will deliver based on what the controllers support, I don't know.
China-based Maxio creates full line of PCIe 5.0 SSD controllers — capable of up to 14.8 GB/s
A full lineup of PCIe Gen5 SSDs.