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Samsung 950 Pro M.2 512GB PCIE Internal SSD $419 + Delivery @ Kogan

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Samsung 950 Pro M.2 512GB PCIE Internal SSD $419 + Delivery @ Kogan
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tight-ass on 31/01/2016 - 18:38 kogan.com (256 clicks)
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UPDATE: - This can be had even cheaper now due to the Ebay sale. See this post - https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/232799

If you're looking to upgrade your pc or building a new one and providing your motherboard supports the M.2 form factor you should invest in one of these. Delivery seems to vary between $15-$27 based on the postcodes I tried.

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Cheapest price on staticice is $475 at MSY - http://www.staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=MZ-V5P512BW…

Sequential Read** Up to 2,500 MB/sec
Sequential Write** Up to 1200 MB/sec
Random Read (4KB, QD32)** Up to 300,000 IOPS
Random Write (4KB, QD32)** Up to 110,000 IOPS
Random Read (4KB, QD1)** Up to 12,000 IOPS
Random Write (4KB, QD1)** Up to 43,000 IOPS

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  • WiseUp on 31/01/2016 - 18:53
    +1

    Seriously ?

    ACCC Fines Kogan $32,400 for Alleged Misleading and Deceptive Conduct

    https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/230739

    Kogan in Court for Refusing Warranty - Anyone Else Having Issues?

    https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/207477

    Why would anyone bother posting a cheap deal or anything from Kogan. They lie, they're dishonest ( deceptive ) but hey they've got a cheap deal.

    • tight-ass on 31/01/2016 - 19:19
      +1

      Wasn't aware of the issues and fines they had received.

      I've bought several things from Kogan in the past (Samsung S4, Canon digital SLR etc) and only had to return one faulty item, which luckily they exchanged easily enough - this was some time ago though. Maybe they've gone downhill ever since.

      Despite all this, I'd happily take the risk and buy one of these off them. I don't think this is the sort of product that will have any sort of issues in the warranty period.

    • FabMan on 31/01/2016 - 20:24
      +1

      Samsung was fined $1 billion US.

      Intel was fined $1.4 billion US.

      Johnson + Johnson was fined $2.2 billion US.

      Time Warner was fined $2.4 billion US.

      • Faulty on 31/01/2016 - 20:58
        +10

        OMG!! They were all fined, I'm going to boycott them, mmkay!!!

        • FabMan on 04/02/2016 - 07:30
          +1

          People do get that was my joke right? Dammit, this person steals my joke and gets the love, I get the hate…

          :(

          SadMan

        • Faulty on 05/02/2016 - 15:10
          +1

          @FabMan: Oh shit, sorry dude. I got your joke, and replied in a joking manner. Getting upvotes was not an intent of mine. Sorry I my comment came off the wrong way man. :(

        • FabMan on 05/02/2016 - 15:17
          +1

          @FaultyMango:

          Haha naa, I have no problem with yours, I knew you got it, heck I even upvoted you straight away. I just saw all the love to you and I got a neg… I too want the love!

        • Faulty on 05/02/2016 - 15:22
          +1

          @FabMan: Yeah man. I don't get why you got negged, after all you were just engaging in some good banter which is a large part of the ozbargain community.

    • garage sale on 31/01/2016 - 21:43

      my 4 purchases have been fine, the 5th was a return ….. they only asked why I was returning and refunded, it was bluray player and fiddley to use multi region so they refunded because I wasn't happy.

      Maybe people don't know what they are buying, or are in denial about what they are getting.

      I would fear a warranty claim with Banggood or gearbest more.

      I once took back some paint to bunnings, unopened primer ….. the man checked the can, I asked why … he said "some people use most of the paint, refill the empty portion with water and want a refund saying the paint was faulty"

      It's good to read details not just go with headlines ….. now we have the lady that said she got hepatitis A from the Chinese berries saying it wasn't hep A, she must have just been sick …….

      It is important to work with facts and details not opinions.

    • spackbace on 31/01/2016 - 21:50
      +2

      1st post is news, interesting that the 2nd post is your own.
      I've heard of pushing a certain agenda but holy crap!

      • tight-ass on 31/01/2016 - 22:32
        +2

        Have you had a look at his comments on other deals?

        WiseUp has made it his life mission to comment/warn others for every single Kogan deal listed on OzBargain. Time to move on I think

        • AlexF on 01/02/2016 - 00:11

          .. right, so, if anyone comments/warns about a company based on personal experience and/or public knowledge, it should be ignored (I guess, because it's unlikely to happen to anyone else).

        • spackbace on 01/02/2016 - 00:22
          +3

          @AlexF:

          There's certain limitations to that. That member has had 1 post in total, which is about Kogan, and 46 out of 51 of their comments are on Kogan posts. Not commenting on any other deals besides the occasional 1.

          Theres a difference between advice and vendetta…

        • AlexF on 01/02/2016 - 00:31

          @Spackbace:

          Plenty of people have had bad dealings with Kogan's product support. Don't understate their issues by only referring to a single specific OzB poster.

          Should a potential customer be aware Kogan's product support history before purchase? If so, who provides that awareness is irrelevant.

        • spackbace on 01/02/2016 - 00:35
          +2

          @AlexF:

          And plenty have been fine. Unfortunately like most things on the internet it's the negative people that shout louder and longer than the positive people.

        • AlexF on 01/02/2016 - 00:50

          @Spackbace:

          negative people that shout louder and longer than the positive people.

          because they spent money and didn't get fair transaction. In Australia, retail support is a legal requirement and is included in the transaction.

          Would a retailer shout loud if customers paid with forged notes?

        • WiseUp on 01/02/2016 - 07:53

          That's right tight-ass.
          I'm letting people know how dodgy Kogan are.
          And as Spackbace pointed out I don't have an agenda.
          I don't buy from Kogan anymore and I'm not trying to make any money. I'm just pointing out that they don't honor warranty and they lie to people and they jack prices.

          My incident went to court so it's not my opinion or my bad judgement it's Kogan screwing people over.

          The ACCC just fined them for screwing over the consumer again, it's not the first time. Let's have another crack to what we can get out of these dumb consumers.

          Some people out there can't afford to buy half this stuff on OZbargain so if a company says your getting a good deal they shouldn't lie, cheat and deceive them out of their money.

          As long as Kogan continues to take peoples money in the wrong way I'll be here. You just keep doing what your doing

    • [Deactivated] on 31/01/2016 - 23:17
      +2

      If the manufacturer has an Australian service center I always deal with them directly rather than the retailer, is this not common practice?

      The retailer is indeed required to provide 1 year warranty (under Australian consumer law), though as the manufacturer already does (by choice/ease of mind) Kogan is with-in their full right to simply forward the package onto Asus once received. Telling the customer to simply send it to Asus directly was saving his time, not causing problems for him.

      I've sent various items back to Kogan and never had a problem. Sure the level of support could be higher than it is, though it's not any lower than most other online retailers in all honesty.

      • AlexF on 01/02/2016 - 00:13

        … retailer is indeed required to provide 1 year warranty (under Australian consumer law) …

        AFAIK, there's no fixed period warranty duration requirement - can you hyperlink to where "1 year warranty" is explicitly specified by any Australian law?

        • [Deactivated] on 01/02/2016 - 02:06

          Just did a little research, seems it was changed in 2012… The requirement is now based around the price of a product and how long it's usually expected to last, rather than a flat 1 year requirement for electronics and 6months for batteries.

  • Ryxxi on 31/01/2016 - 19:05
    +7

    They are selling the 5 year warranty it originally comes with for $88 ..so no deal here

  • AttiHawk on 31/01/2016 - 19:32
    +3

    There's no discount big enough that makes it worth dealing with Kogan, as WiseUp posted above.

    • Lukian on 01/02/2016 - 10:08
      +3

      Go to Samsung for warranty, not Kogan…

  • daitro on 31/01/2016 - 20:10
    -7

    Just FYI these are incredibly slow to boot (initialisation necessary) and only capitalise on read and write speeds. Unless you desperately need 1-2K you're better off with a standard sata ssd

  • Sage on 31/01/2016 - 20:57
    -4

    these actually increase boot time compared to regular SSDs because it has to load the PCi drivers before loading the OS.

    • garage sale on 31/01/2016 - 21:54
      +1

      intel have a whole fast boot ecosystem, my mother board supports it (5th gen I5) and I love it, my sons I5 mother board doesn't (2nd gen I5) …… if you have support, set it up properly, in bios and load all the software bits and pieces. For a regular sata SSD it still has to load driver ………… there is a fair bit to a boot process before it asks for your user id . Problem can be people configuring their hardware and wanting support for legacy modes due to what their hardware supports and what they have plugged in.

      The gen of the processor is related to the chipsets on the motherboard.

  • shiny1 on 31/01/2016 - 22:19
    +2

    Where most arguments happens when there is confusion/arguments for the following two points:
    1. Real world tests and the practicalities of the everyday user
    2. Cost to performance improvement ratio

    Addressing 1: The typical user has a SSD main drive and HDD storage drives. My set up is as such, and so are my peers. I imagine most of the people who use SSDs in their systems have this set up. By a LARGE percentage difference, much fewer power users have SSDs all around. What does this have to do with NVMe? Well, everyday users with SSD/HDD combos rarely need to utilise the full potential of NVMe drives. Large file transfers usually happen between main and storage drives (moving media files from desktop to long term storage). As a result, the bottleneck here is the HDD. NVMe cannot shine in this situation. Program load times, boot times, game map load times are typically negligible to minimal in terms of noticeable improvement. As in, even though the NVMe drives are 3x faster, when we're talking about a second or two, it's not a big deal. Think of it similar to diminishing returns. The only time a typical user would benefit from these drives is if they constantly do large quantity and/or large file size accessing like video editing (particularly if those files are lengthy).

    Addressing 2: About double the cost doesn't translate to double the performance in most cases. If you are CONSTANTLY transferring large files or a large quantity of files across multiple SSD drives, then perhaps this will make life easier. I also would assume that servers would benefit from this tech, but that's beyond my level of knowledge. As mentioned earlier, day-to-day tasks won't have much of an improvement in speed and load times. If you want to get the latest tech and have bragging rights, that's fine. But if you're jumping in expecting performance enhancements for daily use because you saw some synthetic benchmarks that smashed regular SSDs out of the water, be prepared to be disappointed.

    I could be wrong, and I could be missing a couple of things. Let me know if I'm wrong about anything.

    • garage sale on 31/01/2016 - 23:33
      +1

      no that's about right , don't think you missed anything ……. I've upgraded from one SSD to another SSD drive due to want more storage, and the extra performance due to them being newer and better specs besides size never eventuated. the upgrade from spindle HD to SSD was a great "band per buck" ….. the upgrade from an older SSD to a newer SSD didn't give any extra bangs per buck in the perceivable performance criteria

  • t25 on 01/02/2016 - 00:16

    Just curious if this drive would fit the latest mac pro?

    • garage sale on 01/02/2016 - 00:33

      tricky one …… I have a macbook air and I know it needs a special SSD ….. apple made the size slightly different as they were using PCIe in the macbook air and the market for PCIe ssd was small when the macbook air came out. ….. they fit a lot into the bankbook air. I've lucked out in regards to cheap PCIe SSD form macbook air, hope you do better with the mac pro.

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