T5 is much better than T3. See previous messages on this thread.
T5 is much better than T3. See previous messages on this thread.
SanDisk Extreme 900 has RAID 0 inside, which increases failure probability more than twice, since if one of the two disks inside or the controller fails, all is lost. Curiously, SanDisk Extreme 900 product page does not mention such RAID 0 specification, which is suspicious and not good. Such critical thing should be fully disclosed. The potential buyer has the right to know what is purchasing. SanDisk, do not be evil!
RAID 0 may be good when speed is top priority, but not when data integrity is paramount, as when booting Mac and working from it all-day-long. Although SSD are more reliable than now-obsolete mechanical-rotational disks, the former do not usually warn before failing, as the latter may do (clicking noise, etc).
On the other hand, Samsung has state-of-the-art technology for V-NAND SSD, like 960 Pro (fortunately, no RAID 0 inside!), with outstanding sequential read/write speeds up to 3,500/2,100 MB/s and random R/W speeds up to 440/360K IOPS, respectively. But that is PCIe NVMe M.2 internal SSD (not external one). Companies like Sonnet and JMR will deliver such Samsung 960 Pro inside an external portable SSD for Mac. Here are their two previous related products to be updated soon:
Sonnet Fusion Thunderbolt 3 PCIe Flash Drive
http://www.sonnettech.com/product/fusiontb3pcieflashdrive.html?tab=4
JMR Lightning LTNG-XTD portable Thunderbolt SSD
http://jmr.com/product/jmr-lightningltng-xtd-portable-thunderbolt-ssd
Such new Thunderbolt 3 (not the ones on the links above) Sonnet and JMR external portable SSD to boot Mac and work from them all-day-link are overdue now, due to thermal throttling issues. Just check out the bizarre enclosing (designed to work as huge heat sinks) used by their former versions on the links above.
Claims of energy efficiency and reliability. Move from 48- to 64-layer 256Gb V-NAND. Business products shipped months ago, nice products - consumer products are in the pipeline. Not new here to the T5, posted about it before this thread started. My storage vendor related a 3-6 week lead time for decent supplies, in part due to waiting until T3 inventory tanks.What's the difference between T3 and T5 other than size?
Old news - TLC. One of these in my office, not great for anything other than PS/FCPX project/scratch work. Cherry picked this one for you:SanDisk doesn't care about that one bit. If SanDisk cared about the consumer, they would disclose in which products they use MLC vs. TLC NAND
Old news - TLC. One of these in my office, not great for anything other than PS/FCPX project/scratch work. Cherry picked this one for you:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/3046...review-10gbps-usb-31-performance-at-last.html
The Glyph Atom RAID in my office makes the Extreme 900 feel stupid slow.
The Atom RAID is pretty awesome, I'll likely be buying a few more when my next FY starts.It's old news because of independent reviewers - not because SanDisk openly disclosed that they were using TLC in the 900 or in which of their other consumer SSDs. The same goes for other SanDisk flash products as the company does not disclose this information.
The Atom RAID looks awesome.
Very interesting- when do you reckon it will be available in Europe to buy. I am planning to cancel my t3 order just now.Besides a very significant read/write speed increase of 20% (450 to 540 MB/s), a critical advantage of T5 over previous models (T3 and T1) is higher reliability, if you value your data. This is a new generation 4 V-NAND with 64 layers (instead of 48 layers of previous one for T3). T5 comes also with two USB cables (Type C - C and Type C - A) instead of just one as T3 does (Type C - A).
For me, all that is a huge difference. Prices will be similar between T5 and T3, and it is not expected a reduction of previous model prices, as happened with T1 when T3 was released. Of course, it is expected a drop of all prices over time, as usually happens with electronics.