I posted this deal previously but crooked mods deleted "Hi Ulti, I really do apologise about that deal being removed, unfortunately we do ask for the marketplace seller to be existing for 1+year to ensure they're reputable, this amazon marketplace seller is only a few months old.". Hopefully your deal doesn't get deleted but I wouldn't be surprised if it did.
I was going to get back and update my deal as I bought it and had some feedback to post but sadly deleted as mentioned. I also have a 980 Pro 1TB and Crucial P3 Plus 1TB to compare with.
The Crucial P3 Plus 1TB appeared to be faster in Samsung Magician, showing up to 7400MB/s reads and 3700MB/s writes and ATTO benchmarked at 6.9GB/s reads and 5.9GB/s writes while CDM showed close to 5200MB/s reads and 3600MB/s writes. However this drive ran pretty hot and got close to 70C on sustained writes. The SLC cache was also quite small - after writing somewhere around 280GB of data, the speeds slowed to a crawl at around 70MB/s TLC writes.
This fanxiang S660 2TB benched rather oddly - 6000MB/s reads and 4500MB/s writes in Samsung Magician but only 4.5GB/s reads and 4.2GB/s writes in ATTO while CDM showed around 4850MB/s and 4400MB/s writes. It ran super cool on sustained writes at 47C and the SLC cache was surprisingly large and handled well - it has around 1TB of SLC cache in which case once filled, the TLC still writes at 600MB/s. Note that this may not be accurate because of the fact that the TLC is still pretty fast so while writing to the SLC cache, a lot of that would have been written to the TLC. A bit too lazy to try and calculate it.
The Samsung 980 Pro 1TB benches the highest unsurprisingly with 7000MB/s reads and 5200MB/s writes in Samsung Magician, 6.3GB/s and 4.2GB/s read/writes in ATTO and 6900MB/s and 5000MB/s read/writes in CDM. I didn't test the cache and TLC speeds myself but TPU quotes 113GB of SLC cache with TLC speeds of 1.5GB/s. The drive however runs the hottest in my PC at over 70C when doing sustained stuff.
Note that these are all just sustained speeds, randoms are also very important which is where the Samsung 980 Pro dominated with close to 1 million IOPS for random reads/writes while both the fanxiang and Crucial P3 Plus were similar to each other with a much lower 350K/280k IOPS random read/write.
I got the Crucial P3 Plus 1TB with the £5 off £15 spend for £39 from Amazon, the fanxiang S660 2TB with the 10% off voucher for £76.50 from Amazon and the Samsung 980 Pro 1TB with cashback and work discount for £78 from the Samsung EPP store. Needless to say the fanxiang S660 is clearly the winner in my eyes.
But yeah tl;dr - this one is probably the best budget 2TB drive with decent max sustaineds and an excellent SLC cache implementation with fast TLC speeds while running super cool. (edited)
I was going to get back and update my deal as I bought it and had some feedback to post but sadly deleted as mentioned. I also have a 980 Pro 1TB and Crucial P3 Plus 1TB to compare with.
The Crucial P3 Plus 1TB appeared to be faster in Samsung Magician, showing up to 7400MB/s reads and 3700MB/s writes and ATTO benchmarked at 6.9GB/s reads and 5.9GB/s writes while CDM showed close to 5200MB/s reads and 3600MB/s writes. However this drive ran pretty hot and got close to 70C on sustained writes. The SLC cache was also quite small - after writing somewhere around 280GB of data, the speeds slowed to a crawl at around 70MB/s TLC writes.
This fanxiang S660 2TB benched rather oddly - 6000MB/s reads and 4500MB/s writes in Samsung Magician but only 4.5GB/s reads and 4.2GB/s writes in ATTO while CDM showed around 4850MB/s and 4400MB/s writes. It ran super cool on sustained writes at 47C and the SLC cache was surprisingly large and handled well - it has around 1TB of SLC cache in which case once filled, the TLC still writes at 600MB/s. Note that this may not be accurate because of the fact that the TLC is still pretty fast so while writing to the SLC cache, a lot of that would have been written to the TLC. A bit too lazy to try and calculate it.
The Samsung 980 Pro 1TB benches the highest unsurprisingly with 7000MB/s reads and 5200MB/s writes in Samsung Magician, 6.3GB/s and 4.2GB/s read/writes in ATTO and 6900MB/s and 5000MB/s read/writes in CDM. I didn't test the cache and TLC speeds myself but TPU quotes 113GB of SLC cache with TLC speeds of 1.5GB/s. The drive however runs the hottest in my PC at over 70C when doing sustained stuff.
Note that these are all just sustained speeds, randoms are also very important which is where the Samsung 980 Pro dominated with close to 1 million IOPS for random reads/writes while both the fanxiang and Crucial P3 Plus were similar to each other with a much lower 350K/280k IOPS random read/write.
I got the Crucial P3 Plus 1TB with the £5 off £15 spend for £39 from Amazon, the fanxiang S660 2TB with the 10% off voucher for £76.50 from Amazon and the Samsung 980 Pro 1TB with cashback and work discount for £78 from the Samsung EPP store. Needless to say the fanxiang S660 is clearly the winner in my eyes.
But yeah tl;dr - this one is probably the best budget 2TB drive with decent max sustaineds and an excellent SLC cache implementation with fast TLC speeds while running super cool. (edited)
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Disclaimer: I don't know if it's an independent review