"gamers with budget constraints tend to buy SSDs featuring a SATA bus because of their lower price. To address such customers with something faster, SSD makers release new product families based on inexpensive controllers and NAND memory." --------------------------
Is that statement based on IOPS, peak read/write speed or continuous (consistent) read/write speed
Buying 850 Pros's when they were $120 @ Newegg gives the same price for 256GB drives
IOPS are about the same
But as for consistency and continuous read/write speed, how are these kingston drives better than an 850 Pro Sata drive?
Peak performance and 1/2 the warranty doesn't seem like much of an improvement
Do they exhibit less throttling than an 850 Pro when hot?
Where exactly is the improvement over my "budget" SATA drive?
"Since the A1000 is only beginning its life cycle, its price may be higher than it should be. The market tends to “fix” pricing of products over time."
Your answer is the last line of the article. It's brand new and overpriced and the price will drop in short order. Once reviews start to go up and we see how it compares to the competition the price will likely fall right in line with similar drives. Until we know whether it's better or worse than the 850 Pro and others don't even consider it an option.
I would expect lower pricing for a so called entry level SSD of any sort, does not seem by pricing alone to be all that much lower cost than others with similar if not superior specs.
IMO if were say 480-500gb with read/write/iops 1200/800...100k/80k for $165 USD it would be quite "fair" but anything above the $200 price point is not exactly entry level in my books because usually "entry level" means "budget priced" which this certainly is not, 240gb for ~$100 instead of $120, 480 for ~$170-$190 or something along these lines.
the makers of these things for some reason seem to gouge/over price based on the speeds given even though latency and the average desktop usage does not seem to "give" the benefit over a good quality standard Sata based SSD (pci-e, NVME, M.2 etc etc) so what is one paying for, speed you never are likely to see and less resilient to throttling, seems wonky ^.^
$420? LOL. I can buy a 1TB MX500 for $246 today, $249 amazon/newegg etc etc. Uh, that's a far cry from $400 and it's a pretty fast drive per anandtech's review. I can almost buy TWO for $420.
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ಬುಲ್ವಿಂಕಲ್ ಜೆ ಮೂಸ್ - Friday, April 6, 2018 - link
"gamers with budget constraints tend to buy SSDs featuring a SATA bus because of their lower price. To address such customers with something faster, SSD makers release new product families based on inexpensive controllers and NAND memory."--------------------------
Is that statement based on IOPS, peak read/write speed or continuous (consistent) read/write speed
Buying 850 Pros's when they were $120 @ Newegg gives the same price for 256GB drives
IOPS are about the same
But as for consistency and continuous read/write speed, how are these kingston drives better than an 850 Pro Sata drive?
Peak performance and 1/2 the warranty doesn't seem like much of an improvement
Do they exhibit less throttling than an 850 Pro when hot?
Where exactly is the improvement over my "budget" SATA drive?
WithoutWeakness - Friday, April 6, 2018 - link
"Since the A1000 is only beginning its life cycle, its price may be higher than it should be. The market tends to “fix” pricing of products over time."Your answer is the last line of the article. It's brand new and overpriced and the price will drop in short order. Once reviews start to go up and we see how it compares to the competition the price will likely fall right in line with similar drives. Until we know whether it's better or worse than the 850 Pro and others don't even consider it an option.
ಬುಲ್ವಿಂಕಲ್ ಜೆ ಮೂಸ್ - Friday, April 6, 2018 - link
Good responseNow lets look at the new 860 Pro SATA drive, keeping the following in mind.....
It's brand new and overpriced and the price will drop in short order.
I would expect to see the 256GB 860 Pro on sale for $80-$85 within one year of launch @ Newegg
I would like to test speed consistency and throttling by filling the entire disk to get the average MB/sec write speed over time
Then I would wipe the entire drive contents using Killdisk and comparing the wipe time to this Kingston drive
Peak performance is not really relevant to me when both drives cost the same!
If I wanted peak performance, I would use a disk cache
Dragonstongue - Friday, April 6, 2018 - link
I would expect lower pricing for a so called entry level SSD of any sort, does not seem by pricing alone to be all that much lower cost than others with similar if not superior specs.IMO if were say 480-500gb with read/write/iops
1200/800...100k/80k for $165 USD it would be quite "fair" but anything above the $200 price point is not exactly entry level in my books because usually "entry level" means "budget priced" which this certainly is not, 240gb for ~$100 instead of $120, 480 for ~$170-$190 or something along these lines.
the makers of these things for some reason seem to gouge/over price based on the speeds given even though latency and the average desktop usage does not seem to "give" the benefit over a good quality standard Sata based SSD (pci-e, NVME, M.2 etc etc) so what is one paying for, speed you never are likely to see and less resilient to throttling, seems wonky ^.^
Einy0 - Friday, April 6, 2018 - link
I'm glad I'm not the only one thinking why is the price on this so high.TheJian - Monday, April 9, 2018 - link
$420? LOL. I can buy a 1TB MX500 for $246 today, $249 amazon/newegg etc etc. Uh, that's a far cry from $400 and it's a pretty fast drive per anandtech's review. I can almost buy TWO for $420.