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Samsung 750 Evo 2.5" SSD 500GB $160 Delivered @ Futu Online eBay

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Samsung 750 Evo 2.5" SSD 500GB $160 Delivered @ Futu Online eBay
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nocure on 20/07/2016 - 09:00 groupbuy.ebay.com.au (2238 clicks)
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Boost your computing experience with fast performance
PC users are choosing high-speed SSDs for better computing performance and reliability. The Samsung SSD 750 EVO, with a SATA 6GB/s interface, is an outstanding high-performance choice for an everyday computing experience. With sequential read and write speeds up to 540/520 MB/s and random read and write speeds up to 97,000/88,000 IOPS, you will find yourself handling multitasking exceptionally fast.
Enjoy exceptional computing for everyday use

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  • cdaddy on 20/07/2016 - 09:01
    +3

    Um capacity in title?

    Nvm there we go

  • Kaise on 20/07/2016 - 09:07

    Why do we keep posting these inactive deals? Why can't they just be posted when they're live?

    • [Deactivated] on 20/07/2016 - 09:09
      +8

      Everybody wants to be number 1 like Smitty Werbenjagermanjensen.

    • lplau on 20/07/2016 - 09:09
      +12

      I don't mind about getting inactive deals. Cuz it lets you plan ahead… instead of finding that you purchased the same item for more expensive 1 day before the active date.

      Also the price is incorrect, it should be $200 as the Tech Sale would have ended. Since it will become active on 25/07 0:00 unless they extend the tech sale.

      • lplau on 20/07/2016 - 09:23

        Also not a bargain unless the tech sale can be applied.
        Usual price around $185.

        http://staticice.com.au/cgi-bin/search.cgi?q=Samsung+750+Evo…

        • gadget on 20/07/2016 - 10:01
          +7

          According to the blurb on the group buy page - it says specifically that the code can be applied.

          Having said that the 850 evo is a much better buy for only $20 more during the sale.

        • lplau on 20/07/2016 - 10:49

          @gadget: Ahh just checked. Nevermind looks like it is already active. haha wasn't active this morning.

        • edfoo on 20/07/2016 - 10:50
          +3

          @gadget: Yeah, I would choose 850 EVO over 750 EVO. Bigger number :p

      • lyl on 20/07/2016 - 09:25
        +1

        Isn't it already active? Usually these deals are axtive within minutes

    • lyl on 20/07/2016 - 09:29
      +9

      Don't see a problem with posting deals early. I remember how the clickmore deal was leaked 2 days before it went live, saving me and plenty more others 20% as I was planning to purchase something anyways but held off.

  • syba on 20/07/2016 - 09:29
    +1

    When clicking the link it shows up as active. 3 bought, 297 left

  • Tech and cars on 20/07/2016 - 09:56
    +4

    So much hatorade… thanks Nocure… I'm going to buy one!

  • Spawn Peak on 20/07/2016 - 10:05

    Is this the cheapest it's been?

  • narcoleptic-haze on 20/07/2016 - 10:16

    I know nothing about SSD's etc. Do these just hook up like a typical SATA HDD? Or do they require special chipsets/controllers/other hardware etc?

    • JohJoh on 20/07/2016 - 10:27

      Hooks up like a typical SATA HDD. Although you may have to format after you do so whereas I'm not sure if that's the same for HDDs these days.

      EDIT: And make sure you have somewhere to put it in your case, they are 2.5". There are 3.5" to 2.5" adapters you can buy if you want it.

      • [Deactivated] on 20/07/2016 - 10:32
        +2

        Maybe a SATA 3 6GB/s port. I don't think you'll get full speed with a 3GB/s port. I could be wrong :\

    • narcoleptic-haze on 20/07/2016 - 10:58

      Cheers for the replies! Yeah I'll have to double check what SATA speeds I have.

      • narcoleptic-haze on 20/07/2016 - 11:06

        I'm mainly just keeping an eye on SSDs, because I'm looking into getting a faster access drive for use with VST's like Superior Drummer, and for recording/playback.

  • netsurfer on 20/07/2016 - 10:33

    Like most, if not all TLC drives, there is a SLC cache portion in the drive. The read/write speed up to 540/520 MB/s is actually the SLC cache speed. Its true TLC write speed is about 210 MB/s for sequential write.

    I had really bad experience with 840 and 840 EVO. Samsung handled the read issue slowly and at the end, all they did was introduce a workaround for 840 EVO. For 840, they don't even care to offer a solution.

  • eunos on 20/07/2016 - 10:35
    +1

    Thanks heaps, applied CTEC20 coupon and worked

  • superkieu on 20/07/2016 - 10:41
    +1

    looking good.

    I would hold out for SSD price to drop to $100 for 500GB
    and would then buy it to replace my laptop Hard drive.

    it will feel like a new, faster computer :-)

    • furythree on 21/07/2016 - 00:10
      +2

      see you in 4 years then

    • Agret on 21/07/2016 - 08:30

      Just replace your laptop optical drive with your hard drive then put ssd where hdd used to be. Best of both worlds.

  • motion2082 on 20/07/2016 - 11:00
    +1

    Good price, if only you could get a Samsung 950 pro M.2 for a little bit more…now that would be a deal

    • Agret on 21/07/2016 - 08:32

      On most boards when you install an M.2 drive then you lose access to 2 sata ports. You won't notice the difference between the 950 pro sata and 950 pro M.2 unless running benchmarks so the SATA connected version is better as you don't lose out on a sata port.

      • motion2082 on 21/07/2016 - 22:56

        what crack are you smoking?

        • Agret on 22/07/2016 - 13:42
          -1

          Check your motherboard manual and goto the section about the M.2 slot and you will see it states that you lose out on 2 SATA ports while using an M.2 drive.

  • SuperBurt on 20/07/2016 - 11:02

    I want to get a 2/4tb external HDD + a 500gb/1tb ssd for my pc soon, but looking at recent trends and past sales, I'm going to wait till christmas time. I imagine I could probably pick a 1tb up for under $200 then.

    • llama on 20/07/2016 - 17:15
      +3

      I reckon if you wait until 2018, you will get it even cheaper.

      The longer you wait, the cheaper it will get. However, the longer that you wait, the longer you miss out on using it.

    • [Deactivated] on 21/07/2016 - 09:29

      Shouldnt be far off. 1tb ssds (well, 960gb) have been as low as $240:
      https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/257073

      Hopefully the AUD exchange rate doesn't go any lower (will if the lower the cash RBA rate), or prices will go up :(

  • Velderin on 20/07/2016 - 11:34

    never mind

  • Godric on 20/07/2016 - 12:20

    How long you guys reckon till the 1tb is around $200? Another 2 years?

    • systema on 20/07/2016 - 12:36
      +1

      Well the Trion 100 960GB during EOFY was around $240, so it shouldn't be long from around $200.

      However, as the lithography process for NAND becomes smaller, performance and endurance of NAND will drop as well (assuming all other variables remains the same). So the cost of NAND will drop, but the price of the SSD controllers will likely to increase as better error correction and more processing power will be needed to compensate.

  • Mrbadabing on 20/07/2016 - 13:40
    +1

    I use a lot of ssd drives for work. Personally I try to avoid TLC nand and stick with MLC nand and if for enterprise SLC. Kingfast ssd drives I have to say are a big surprise for me. Use MLC, fast, not had any problems at all.

    Time will tell what happens with nand techniology but i agree endurance is going to falter.

  • NVidia Sucks on 20/07/2016 - 14:44

    any msata ssd deal?

  • The Araldited Wallet on 20/07/2016 - 15:40

    Tech Question…

    Anyone know how I can fit one of these in the optical drive bay of 2011 Macbook Pro and run it in tandem with platter HDD?

    Thanks in advance.

    • llama on 20/07/2016 - 17:06
      +3

      Anyone know how I can fit one of these in the optical drive bay of 2011 Macbook Pro and run it in tandem with platter HDD?

      Yes, but why?

      The whole idea of SSD is to have the operating system and programs on it.

      So, you replace the existing HDD with the new SSD, and then if you want more storage space you get yourself a adaptor so you can replace the optical drive with a HDD.

      • The Araldited Wallet on 20/07/2016 - 18:06
        +2

        Yes.. Of course. Sorry.
        That's actually what I wanted to do. Have SSD as boot/system drive.

  • llama on 20/07/2016 - 17:12
    +1

    I wouldn't be buying this clunky 750 EVO at this price.

    You can buy the infinitely better 850 EVO for $180 from the same vendor.

    • Qbagger on 20/07/2016 - 18:24
      +3

      Can you summarise the differences for an average user?

      • Wally Simmonds on 20/07/2016 - 20:38
        +1

        I'd imagine there's not a lot of difference. I'm running a number of the inferior quality Sandisk Ultra's, and I'd bet they'd be fine for 95% of the population who are running 5400RPM laptop hdd's.

      • beyondtool on 20/07/2016 - 23:59
        +2

        The differences are mainly in the lifespan of the drives, and when we are talking SSD lifespan we are talking decades. Unless you are planning on running torrents (or a data center) 24/7 off the drive, it's going to be obsolete long before the drive gives up the ghost, so why not save the money now instead?

        There is a good technical review of the 750 Evo here: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/samsung-750-evo-ssd,4467… Interestingly the 750 EVO is a good choice for a laptop, excellent battery life. Technically there are not a lot of differences really between the 850 EVO and the 750 EVO.

        I pulled the pin… $160 for a 500GB SSD is a bargain. The wife can have my 250Gb 840 Evo.

        • llama on 21/07/2016 - 14:55
          +1

          The differences are mainly in the lifespan of the drives

          No, it's not. Lifespan is (as you say) pretty much irrelevant.

          Technically there are not a lot of differences really between the 850 EVO and the 750 EVO.

          There is a significant difference in performance under certain circumstances. See my long post below.

      • llama on 21/07/2016 - 14:53
        +2

        Can you summarise the differences for an average user?

        There are currently 3 x Samsung models
        850 PRO = best, uses MLC chips
        850 EVO = mid range, uses latest tech TLC 3D NAND chips
        750 EVO = budget, uses TLC Planar chips

        Basically, the 750 EVO is pretty much the guts from the old (and troubled) 840 EVO. This allows Samsung to create a new budget model that matches the competitors who don't have 3D NAND technology.

        So, whilst the 850 EVO is the best overall TLC SSD at the moment, the price is high as well. The 750 EVO is supposed to fill the massive price gap between all the TLC opposition and the 2 x 850 models.

        You can read online about the tech stuff, but the bottom line is that TLC drives are only fast because of the caching that they use. However the actual read/write to the TLC memory is nowhere near the 500MB/sec that gets quoted in benchmarks. That 500 MB/s is the cache speed, which is why all the drives tend to quote similar speed figures.

        So, in light activity the TLC drive gives you 500 MB/sec and then when idle it flushes the cache and writes to the memory in the background. It's a kind of "fake fastness" but for most users the load is spasmodic so it doesn't matter. Under a heavy / sustained load, all TLC drives choke and performance slows right down.

        The Anandtech review summarises as follows:

        The Samsung 750 EVO is a drive for a limited audience. It is intended for use as the primary boot drive of a system that will not be subjected to particularly intense storage workloads

        The peak performance of the 750 EVO is close to the Samsung 850 EVO and even the 850 Pro in many cases. On tests simulating lighter real-world usage the 750 EVO is generally the fastest budget TLC drive and also sometimes competes well against low-end MLC drives

        That said, if the 750 EVO is subjected to a more strenuous workload, things start to fall apart. The performance of this drive suffers greatly if it is operated in a near-full state and when sustained writes overflow its SLC cache. The same is also true of any other budget TLC drive, but most of the competition handles the pressure better than the 750 EVO

        most users who don't have a hard requirement for drive encryption would be better served by either a slightly lower performing drive with much better price per GB, or a higher-performing option than the 750 EVO.

        So, look at that Anandtech review that I linked to, and especially pages 3 and 4. You can see that under heavy loads, the 750 EVO is one of the worst SSDs on the market, slower than even no-name products that are half the price!

        The speed penalty affects power users, and stuff like rendering, transcoding of video, and any heavy duty disk-intensive work. If you are doing that, then the 750 EVO (and generally any TLC drive) are a poor choice. The 750 EVO just happens to be the worst of the worst, if that makes sense… yet it costs more than all the opposition TLC drives.

        Therefore, since the 750 EVO performs really poorly compared to it's opposition, you might as well just buy a budget drive at a lower price, or spend the same on another brand and get more capacity, or cough up a small amount extra and get the best TLC drive (the 850 EVO).

        • beyondtool on 27/07/2016 - 23:14

          I noticed that there are some differences in the 500GB 750 EVO drive compared to the smaller capacities. There are few updated benches out there such as this one: http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/samsung-750-evo-500gb-s…

          All other reviews seem to be raving about it, so I guess I'll have the opportunity to see for myself when it arrives soon. :)

  • [Deactivated] on 20/07/2016 - 18:36
    +3

    Didn't buy this but I got a couple of 6tb WD Red drives for my NAS. So I will thank you anyway, OP.

  • Spawn Peak on 22/07/2016 - 16:07

    Anyone had their orders dispatched yet?

    • beyondtool on 27/07/2016 - 22:37

      yeah this morning I got an email.

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