- Is this drive meant for a normal desktop PC?
- It is an enterprise drive aimed at servers and workstations. It will work in a desktop with an M.2 PCIe 4.0 slot, but you pay for endurance and features most home users never use.
- Does it come with a heatsink?
- No. Plan on a motherboard heatsink or a server chassis with airflow over the drive, since sustained writes generate heat.
- How does it compare with consumer 4TB NVMe drives?
- Consumer drives often post higher peak benchmark numbers, but this one is built for steady performance under continuous mixed workloads and carries a much higher endurance rating.
- What endurance rating does it have?
- SanDisk rates it for roughly one full drive write per day for five years, far above typical consumer SSDs.
- Will it fit a laptop?
- Physically it is a standard M.2 2280 drive, but its power draw and heat make it a poor fit for laptops. Use it in a server or desktop.
- Where is the SanDisk Optimus GX 7100 4TB Internal SSD cheapest?
- At Best Buy, for $749.99, as of our latest check.
- Where can I buy the SanDisk Optimus GX 7100 4TB Internal SSD?
- 3 stores we checked sell it, including Best Buy, Newegg, Antonline.