A nice drop on Sandisk's fastest and most reliable SSD, which utilises MLC NAND. Lowest price ever posted, VAT is removed at checkout to bring the price down.
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Hard to imagine what actually needs to be stored on a ~1 TB SSD. They would be great for media editing but otherwise it seems like an overkill. 256 GB is more than enough for Windows, applications and games.
You obviously don't have many games you play
Because I have 500gb installed atm, and that's not even all of them
600 odd here as I checked recently to see if a 500gb ssd would do. With games up to 30 odd GB without mods it adds up pretty quickly.
Stuff like xplane, fsx etc probably doesn't help.
I'm thinking I'll get a 250gb SSD for my OS and a couple games, then get a 500gb SSD for my steam library
Yea I don't play that often to be honest. I only have a Sims/Starcraft 2 gaming phase every now and then.
Let's be honest. Of that 500 GB of games, how many do you actually play regularly?
Well when GTA5 is 65gb on its own, I don't actually have all that much installed
I cycle between about a dozen games at any time
Honestly, you're not that much of a gamer.
This is a dumb comment.
I'm planning on getting 2 x 1TB SSD's
One game can be 60GB. Look at GTA V. Ten of those, plus Windows and some other files and this thing's 3.4 full.
256gb defs not enough for raw files with photo editing. Can probs manage with 500gb, but I got the 1TB because I don't want to keep upgrading every year in my laptop
i have a 960gb and it only houses windows, games and some music
and im down to under 90gb free space
and i store my movies/tv shows on a separate drive
once a 2tb drops to under $300 ill be snapping one up
my 1TB is almost full …. I will settle for 2TB at $400
If you're using an SSD to replace a laptop's aging HDD (like I did 2 weeks ago, using the SanDisk Ultra II from here on OzB), then 1TB doesn't go very far. I used it to replace a 5200rpm 750GB HDD that was way past its "use by date" and it's made a heap of a difference.
I don't even have that many games on here, I do have a lot of audio and video files downloaded (mostly in 720p, 1080p or 4K resolution [gotta put that 4K TV to good use eh?]), so space goes that way.
Won't be too long before 2TB SSDs become the norm, but it's still a while away, so 1TB SSDs will have to do for now.
if you have a laptop they often can only take one drive …. so you make it a 1TB …… unlike desktops where you can have a boot drive and store movies and games elsewhere.
2TB SSD drives are still $500 US.
Seems like a bit of a waste connecting a top spec SSD to SATA.
How else would one connect a SATA SSD?
Because it's a standard, convenient connector, that can offer close to the max throughput of the top of the line SLC SSDS (Which this is not)?
Yeah, right.
unless you have a REAL server or SAN with scsi interfaces, SATA is great bangs per buck and the consumers interface of choice.
M.2 would be nice at this price …… but SATA is still the mass market consumer interface.
Costs $404 w/ Delivery with the amazon currency converter to AUD, dunno how much it'd ACTUALLY cost me if i made an order via EUR
When I can get 1 TB or close enough for the price I paid for my 240 GB drive, $189 or something, then I'll definitely pounce. However, it is good to see prices dropping and much better value on offer out there now.
I am not sure how much will it cost for this deal in AUD..
but for the same item from amazon dot com, it shows less than AUD350 for the standard delivery.
can anyone tell me the differences between .de and .com?
Amazon.com shows usd not aud.
Amazon.com (usa amazon): 354.29 usd delivered (approximately 457 aud)
Amazon.de (german amazon): 266.53 euros delivered (approximately 389 aud)
So amazon.de is around 68 aud cheaper
You probably should check again.
On my PC, I can show it as USD and AUD. Cart shows as AUD 322.46 (USD 239.60)…
so it's definitely cheaper on USA Amazon…
edit: screenshot. https://goo.gl/photos/eJ2yVANQZe6KvJM29
Your link is to the Ultra II, the SSD in this deal is the extreme pro: http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Extreme-2-5-Inch-Warranty-SDSS…
The ultra II SSD has been posted for as low as AU $263 in the past.
Now it makes sense!
Cheers buddy.
how does the 10 year Warranty work via SanDisk Germany?
According to Whirlpool, there's somewhere in NSW you can send it to :)
(The OP of that thread got his SSD from Amazon US, but Germany shouldn't be matter.)
Nice, won't be long now until SSDs match mechanical drive prices and they'll drop out of the market