Read that again, 4800 TBW on the 4tb model. The MLC nand in this thing is becoming a thing of the past with the new 980 Pro (which is of course nvme and much faster than this sata drive), but being TLC nand, and at 2tb is only 1200 TBW, which would translate to 2400 TBW if they had a 4tb version. This is "slow" sata, but its TBW (per day) rivals low end Optane drives like the 280GB (GB) 900p! Crazy. You can totally fill this drive ~2.5 times, every day, for the 5 year warranty period. To even write that much over sata would take about 15 hours per day of constant writing. For 5 years and still be under warranty. Sick overkill for most.
So do you need it? Well if you don't care about the warranty, this drive can easily serve as your cold storage for 10 or 20 years. Will sata be around that long? Some say no but add on cards will keep it around for a long time. If this was used as chia mining temp space my back of the napkin comes in around 80,000 plots before you wear it out. It is ridiculous!
So it is a good value if either you want the best of the best for fairly future proof "cold" storage, because the speed is going to be left behind even if the MLC nand cells are practically forever cells.
Normal applications just can't wear it out. Worry about fire an hurricanes first.
So make sure you have a use for it.
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