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Buy a Sandisk SSD Plus 120gb and receive a 32gb Sandisk Ultra MicroSD card free.
SanDisk SSD Plus 120GB + Free SanDisk Ultra 32GB Micro SD $55 @ MSY
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Jase2801 on 21/10/2015 - 07:08 edm.msy.com.au (4694 clicks)
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Last edited 21/10/2015 - 10:53 by 1 other user
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They're hardly rubbish, there's just better options out there. Either way, this SSD is going to make a huge difference to a normal conventional hard drive.
I do run a Samsung for my primary OS but I have one of these for a second one and it works fine.
Actually, I have done back to back testing with SSDs including these ones. They are rubbish (and the only rubbish ones I have used). I deal with SSD installations every day and they are the slowest I have dealt with. They are not a bargain and should not be advertised as such. To give you an idea, they are only a little quicker in the real world than a Western Digital Black 7200rpm drive. Access times are quicker, yes, but throughput is not much better.
People giving negatives are probably not qualified to comment or maybe have a vested interest? I fail to see why people are so defensive of these other than people wanting to save a few dollars for an inferior and slower product.
They are only OK to replace a faulty HDD if you don't need much storage capacity and the computer is old. Anything in the last 5 years gets handicapped by putting one of these in.
I stand by my comments: rubbish drive and not a bargain at all.
You need to compare it to a mechanical hard drive that's fragmented. Low access times will have a bigger impact on system responsiveness than just throughput.
Thanks for your inputs! I am about to get it this morning but now may be not :)
I am using the Sandisk SSD Plus 240GB and the performance is OK with normal use given my old laptop only has Sata II. However on Sandisk website the "ideal" read speed is 180MB/s (compared to 350MB/s of Plus 240GB) makes me think twice.
Throughput isn't the strong point. It is randomised access times which excels greatly over HDDs.
If you have a constantly seeking HDD, read/write times on the HDD will be horrible.Yes, the 240GB is definitely much better but still you should avoid the SSD Plus model altogether as there are much better choices (anything really!). :)
@eug:
That's missing the point though. I am saying that for a little more money you can actually get a SSD that performs like one though, as opposed to only being a little quicker than a WD Black you can get a Samsung/Crucial drive that blows any HDD out of the water, as they should. The 120GB Samsung SSD Plus is not the improvement you expect. May as well pay a little more and get something nice and fast! :)
/hugs his Kingston Hyper X and his Samsung 850 Evo :P
@johnleckie70: My point is that this slow drive will blow a fragmented WD Black out of the water for $55, in terms of having responsive system.
A Samsung 850 Evo will definitely blow the Sandisk out of the water, but it'll cost $105 without the 32GB microSD card.
The Crucial BX100 is faster than this drive too, but at 50% higher cost, also without the microSD card.
I personally wouldn't get it for my main rig, but I think it's fine for e.g. the media center computer, the parents' desktop/laptop, the NAS/router/home server OS drive, the spare computer in the other room, etc.
120GB SSD will be a good deal slower because it has half the NAND. You can avoid it by buying more expensive SSDs with higher performance NANDs. But I reckon you're better of just putting the money towards bigger capacity drives in the first place.
Samsung 850 EVO has the opposite problem. Its SATA3 speed limited so doubling the NANDs to 500GB doens't give additional perfomance improvements.
@com930: I wouldn't worry about it; even though this drive is 'slow' in Read/Write, it will absolutely smoke your spinning rust in random reads/writes. Which means booting, installing and opening programs is going to be way quicker.
Sure thing, you can't go wrong with 55$ plus bonus 32GB mSD card. I was thinking as I have bought so many stuff that never used via OZbargain :)
thats all i want to do ( booting , installing and opening )
so if it beats a regular 7200 drive for that then its a big win for the money.
Specs don't look too bad. Would be fine for an older computer I'd say.
Definitely not a rubbish SSD. Plenty of positive reviews on Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Internal-120GB-2-5-Inch-SDSSDA…I'll be picking one up today. Perfect for those that don't want/need a high end SSD.
I keep reading the comments on Amazon this morning also.
Most of the benchmark is for 240GB as I can see. There was one guy telling that his drive can do more than 300MB/s write speed with the 120GB drive, which ideally can do up to 180MB/s as the manufacturer states, oh dear!
PS: this comment btw,
http://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R2T6IFYR0C4LQT/ref…
I agree with your opinion, and would not buy the Sandisk SSD again. If someone really want to buy the Sandisk SSD, then you'd better to buy the Ultra or better from a local store.
Meh. I have an Ultra II and Intel SSDs… the base Plus tier isnt that much slower in real life.
Sure if you want to pore over benchmarks there's a difference but a day to day test? Nah.
No IOPS info, No controller info, said is MLC NAND but a extreme slow MLC? Sandisk is trying to hide something here. very hard to find out review, if the following guy saying the true, then yes this is a rubbish drive which is 10 times slower than Kingston V300 in common usage.
IOPS:
8100 Reading, Writing 4500
(http://www.ssdlabs.net/incelemeler/sandisk-standart-g25-128g…)Not worth
There's a few different Sandisk models out there and some of them are crap. The one you linked is 128GB whilst MSY's one is 120GB.
you are right, look like this is improved version of the G25 rubbish:
http://www.overclockers.ru/lab/69256_4/obzor-i-testirovanie-…but still, the above result shows this Sandisk is the fastest drive in 4K random write queue 1? much faster than 850EVO and 840PRO? that's hard to believe. ( I have 850EVO and 840PRO but never try this Sandisk SSD Plus.)
Hey mate, it's a price error. However, we decide to honour the price.
It should be $65 for the Sandisk + Free Micro SD
how does one add to cart for $55?
It is showing $55 for the Sandisk SSD. Just add that SSD into cart and website will automatically add the 32GB MicroSD at $0 cost.
Thank you
Why cant it be the other way? 128gb microsd with 32gb ssd?
pfft, just glue the ssd to the back of your phone
How good is one of these in a micro server? Looking to put one in the optical bay.
as nas drive? o/s drive? what do you use the server for?
if its the share the meagre 120gb then you are capped by the nic.
to be used as OS drive.
How do you buy this online? I tried clicking on the link and it goes to the MSY website and says Deal of the day - THere are no products.
Also tried searching for it in their website and it comes upto $65 with the Micro SD card (gift).
Im thinking up to 5 minutes ago yesterday's deals were still there. Perhaps the page is still being updated?…
Yeah, seems to work now. I went through to the deal of the day page and the items appeared correctly in my Shopping Cart. All good.
My my, time have changed, I remember the first SSD I bought, my OCZ vertex 120gb for like $600 from PCCG! But that was like 7 years ago, look at now, $55 plus free microSD card!
Just FYI, I apparently bought the last 2 SSDs from the Malvern store.
I was going to buy an Adata 128GB SP900, but you really can't beat a pricing error being honoured! Plus, the performance of the Sandisk is supposedly better anyway. Not that I'm a huge benchmark geek or anything.
Happy shopping.
jl70 on 21/10/2015 - 07:11 Comment score below threshold.