Samsung 870 QVO 8TB SATA 2.5" Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) (MZ-77Q8T0BW)

I'm using the 8TB variant with my Xbox Series X with a UGreen external hdd case and I've got to tell you, it is mind blowing... I got it with discount for around 65K INR, so you can wait until the price drops and get this...First of all, people complaining about non sustained peak speeds, it's obvious, it's a QLC ssd (quad level cell) which are hella cheap but comes with lower speeds (due to the same cell now storing 16 possible values, 4bit value) and durability issues, which translates to, it has a lower no of write cycles before the ssd fails... Then why did I go for it, well, simply because my use case is for using it as a dump to keep all my XSX games on and that means I don't constantly delete old games whenever I buy a new one (owing to it's sheer size of 8tb)That means I'm not going to be cycling the written portions of the ssd that often, and more often than not I'll be using to run games of off which is read only and hence for my use case it's perfect balance price and performance.And regarding the lower speeds, samsung has done a good optimization where in a sizeable part of the ssd acts as an slc (single level cell) cache, around 40 - 50 GB, which means if your writes are within that limit then you'll get the blazing fast speeds of 2.8Gbps ~ 350MBps after which it'll drop down to ~1.1 Gbps ~ 140MBps. Also keep in mind give the ssd some time after this as it'll rearrange the psuedo slc data to qlc cells more efficiently and get you back your spaceSo it's not your ssd which is performing bad, it's just a limitation of qlc flashes, that need to store 16 different values in each cell which takes time and hence are slow, but it's cheap for that exact reason.So, in conclusion, this is a great ssd with sufficient write and read speeds (reads are constantly done at 2.8+ Gbps as there's no limit to that) and good enough longevity if you understand the ssd technologies and their limitations. Please consider your use case, if it's going to dump a bunch of content (games, movies, installers) on the ssd and mostly just read them all the time then this is the ssd for you, but if you want to write large amounts of data on a daily basis with frequently clearing out old ones to make space for new writeable content, then this is going to last you less and you may even run into data loss due to corruption.