GTX970s for $429 with Coupon PALIT970 View
120GB SSDs for $59 Coupon SPSSD120 View Out of stock
240GB SSDs for $99 Coupon SPSSD240 View Out of stock
16GB DDR3 Memory Kits for $149 with Coupon GEIL16GB View
Corsair M65 RGB Mice for a bargain $69 Coupon M65RGB, they're normally $89 and not to be confused with the non-RGB version.
Where do you get these codes from?
I am looking to buy some m.2 ssds.
Was looking to buy a few 120s or 240s but there doesnt seem to be stock for either. Whats the point of a promo with no stock?
We had over 50 units, they were a special in our newsletter. Unfortunately OzBargain has a habit of clearing out good specials quickly. We did not post this to OzBargain ourselves because we knew we didn't have the 100's that would be expected for a real OzBargain.
Still stock of all the other specials though :)
Damnit! Wanted a couple of 240's myself. Good deal btw :)
How do i get your newsletter? I've signed up ages ago but never really get anything. Last email i got was 27th Feb.
Or is this some physical newsletter im not familiar with?
Oh wow i was about to head into your Bentley store and get a 970 but it looks like the code has expired?
Dammit, was literally about to leave.
can we use this ssd in laptop
Should just be a case of putting a 9mm adapter on it which is more or less a piece of plastic.
Maybe email the seller and ask if it comes with one as it does not say on the site.
As long as your laptop has a normal 2.5" SATA disk bay (Ultrabooks for instance won't).
OP, please change "all SSD out of stock"
240GB still available at Heatherton.
were they even in stock in the first place? like 1 unit?
"We had over 50 units, they were a special in our newsletter. Unfortunately OzBargain has a habit of clearing out good specials quickly. We did not post this to OzBargain ourselves because we knew we didn't have the 100's that would be expected for a real OzBargain."
Can't order it online for shipping… It says "We're sorry, these products cannot be shipped to your location as your local warehouse is out of stock."
To paraphrase the immortal Forest Gump:
Silicon Power is like a box of chocolates… you never know what you're gonna get.
— UPDATED Dec 30 2014 —
If you have seen favorable reviews of the Silicon Power S70 on the web, you might want to keep in mind that Silicon-Power is now shipping an alternate version of the S70 that is totally different from the one which they previously sold.
It looks like Silicon Power is relabeling their lower-end S80 three year warranty drive and selling them as "S70s"
The ORIGINAL Silicon Power S70 you will find reviewed on the web had:
You will find several favorable reviews for this version on the web. Unfortunately, favorable reviews don't mean much when they apply to a totally different product.
The NEW "S70" version that I received uses:
The new "S70" PCB (right down to the chip part numbers) seems to be exactly the same generic Phison OEM circuit board as Silicon Power uses in their lower rated 3 year warranty S80 drive.
This same basic Phison OEM circuit card appears in several other products from other manufactures such as the MyDigitalSSD BP4, and the Corsair Force LS.
The Phison version can be identified by using a disk utility to check the firmware version. If your drive has S8FM072 (anything starting S8FM) then your drive has Phison firmware, so it's not the SandForce SF-2281 version.
For my application at least, I wasn't overjoyed by this switch. It looks like Silicon Power substituted inferior grade smaller geometry flash chips with fewer P/E cycles, and replaced the controller with another controller with less sophisticated features which could also impact the SSD drives endurance (its life expectancy and reliability under extreme write/erase/re-write conditions).
I am concerned about the drives durability, because I purchased the S70 SSD for use in my Home Theater PC. This PC has a Silicon Dust Dual Tuner which I can use to capture and record two off-the-air HD video channels at a time for DVR style time shifted viewing. Modern SSD drives can take a lot of punishment, so endurance shouldn't generally be a big issue for most users, but because time shifting HD programming with my HTPC DVR setup can potentially generate hundreds of gigs of writes a day, I could run into problems if the SSD endurance isn't up to spec.
The ORIGINAL VERSION Silicon Power S70 used a SandForce SF-2281 controller which has RAISE, a multi-page error correction scheme which uses sophisticated RAID like techniques to enable the SSD to reliably correct the more serious errors that occur during the last part of a flash memory chips useful life, which helps insure you get the maximum life out of your flash. Other manufactures also offer similar multi-layer, multi-page error correction schemes (Crucial RAIN and SanDisk MPR for example).
The Phison PS3108-S8 controller used in the new "S70" has only simple single layer BCH ECC. This should be fine for the first few thousand Program Erase cycles, but may not be adequate to correct all errors as the flash memory gets close to the end of it's useful life.
This may not be a deal breaker for everyone though, since with even a thousand P/E cycles you could still conceivably write/erase/re-write a hundred terabytes or more over the life of the drive, which could last 5 to 10 years or more with normal use. Crucial, for example, only guarantee their drives for 72 terabytes TBW (Total Bytes Written).
On the plus side, its simplicity gives the new Phison PS3108 controller a few redeeming qualities. It's a faster writing non-compressable data (since it doesn't do as much compression and processing), and it's power consumption is quite low (which will be greatly appreciated by users of portable devices like Netbooks and Laptops)
For example, with the Phison S70 installed in my Netbook, I get:
10 hours battery life with the original WD Scorpio Blue mechanical drive
10.5 to 11 hours with a 240G SanDisk Ultra II SSD
12 hours plus with the Phison version S70
That's with an extended nine-cell battery pack, but still pretty impressive.
In the higher capacity mechanical drive market WD offers BOTH, a 'Green' HD which offers low power, low cost, and good performance for the price - and a 'Red' series, which is their 'Home NAS' HD - also reasonably priced, but optimized more for endurance than raw performance (5400 RPM).
I thought Silicon Power was doing something similar - with the S70 being their higher endurance 'NAS' type drive, and the S80 being their lower power, lower cost 'Green' drive.
I ordered the S70 thinking I was getting a high endurance 'NAS' type drive (based on the specs published on Silicon Powers Website) - and got the 'Green' version instead (fairly good performance, and lower power, but probably much lower endurance).
SILICON POWER DIDN'T HAVE TO PLAY THIS SLEAZY BAIT-AND-SWITCH - they already HAVE a Phison PS3108-S8 based S80 model - so folks that want the "Green" model, can buy the S80.
Just to add to the confusion, at this point, some folks who order S70 drives are getting drives that seem to use the original SandForce SF-2281 controller (though I wouldn't put any bets on their having received the 'promised' 5K rated flash) … while others get the Phison based S70.
It's a shame that Silicon Power has done this. The ORIGINAL S70 used the same tried-and-true formula as the Kingston HyperX Fury 3K which was one of the best performers in 'the SSD endurance experiment' i.e. a SF-2281 controller with high quality MLC flash. In fact, with even better 5K P/E flash, the ORIGINAL S70 was basically like a HyperX Fury 3K on steroids, which should have given more than 1000 terabytes TBW of guaranteed write endurance, making it a slam dunk for anyone looking for a super reliable, super high endurance SSD for a Home NAS or Video Server.
… but that's not true anymore since if you order an "S70" now, it's anyones guess what you will end up with.
Kingston took a huge hit on their 300v model drives when they pulled a similar switch-a-roo and got caught substituting lower performance flash chips after they had sent the product out for reviews (some folks still don't trust Kingston because of this).
Silicon Power seems like they know how to build a quality product, they just need to stop playing games and accurately describe their products, then ship EXACTLY what they promise.
This is the perfect example of a TL;DR being required.
Oils ain't oils.
Browsing on mobile, feels like I've just done a marathon.
TL;DR this isn't for the products being sold here so ignore it. These are S80's and the post is all about S70's.
Cool story bro
I saw that before ordering too.
What you didnt see is that it's for the S70 as that Amazon page is for like 3 models and 3+ sizes of each model.
So yeah, the review is totally moot and pointless as it's not for this product.
A good buy for the GTX 970
Gtx970 is never a good buy with their memory issues
It's still a powerful card for a cheap price. But yeah, it's 3.5 gigs not 4.
Nvidia was very sly with there advertising.
I'm tempted with the ddr3 memory but after doing a search, newegg reviews are rather scathing regarding their reliability, and compared to other vendors on other sites for around $80 more (2 packs for a total of 32gb) you can get 1866Mhz DDR3 memory which is low profile so more overclocking headroom (not that I overclock past specifications).
The ozbargainer in me says 'buy buy buy'…. oh the dilemma …
I know! I went there for the SSD's and found they were sold out, ended up buying a heap of other things instead.
Gotcha.
Some nice prices, does anyone have any experiences with those SSD's though? I cant even find their MTBF or service life