A great price for the 850 PRO SSD, similar to local prices of the 850 EVO. Considering that SSD prices have increased over the last year I think it is a good deal.
Although it displays €340 when you click the link, VAT Is removed at checkout to bring the final price down.
~$443 is the approximate AUD conversion when you pay in euros with a fee free card such as 28 degrees or Bankwest Zero.
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Evo performance drops off if you fill the cache with heavy writes. Pro has no cache so it's performance is consistent.
For most people there's no appreciable difference.
But this is not that much more expensive than an 850 EVO when normally it is significantly more.
the most advantage of pro is 10 years warranty.. but i wonder if you get any warranty if u buy from oversea.
Why not go nvme if already trying to spend that much
Pcie 1tb is quite expensive though. The cheapest is the 600p, and even that's 550 bucks.
According to staticICE, GameDude Computers has the Intel 600P 1TB for $469, and Scorptec has it for $475.
Not much more than this, local warranty, but 5 years warranty vs 10 years.
I have 960 Pro, and came from 850 EVO. Honestly, there is no real world improvement in gaming load times. That's due to bottlenecks being somewhere other than the SSD.
Copying files it is a bit faster.
Everything else, SATA seems to suffice. Had I known this, I would have got 1TB SATA instead of 512GB nvme m.2.
They only benchmark better. In real world application, SATA is good enough and cheaper.
intel is tackling storage bottlenecks with new chip sets and architectures …… if you have anything other than the latest motherboard and the new storage interfaces the ssd isnt your bottleneck and faster drives won't add much… …….10 year warranty from overseas ….. good luck making a claim in even 5 years …… proof of purchase, serial number, original,owner, etc by then you will be using other technologies and densities.
all my ssd drives regardless of brand seem about the same speed. much faster than spindle,
Agreed. As long as your drive is at least SATA3 which is around 500MB/s, you won't notice any difference in operating speed except when transferring large amounts of files.
For gaming, bottlenecks are elsewhere. That's why you don't see that big an improvement when inserting an SSD into a PS4.
Wrong, both ps4 and xb use sata 2 due to being cheap and short sighed. Sata 2 is the bottleneck on those platforms.
@snakes: Wrong. PS4 Pro uses SATA3. It was tested by digital foundry. Made no appreciable difference to load times over SATA2 for games that did not receive PS4 Pro updates, and was attributable to margin of error. The ones that made use of the extra power had slight improvements in load times, but that was due to the console being faster.
SATA2 was not the bottleneck after all.
For $60 more you could get a 10TB HDD .. just saying 1Tb vs 10Tb ..9Tb extra
apples and oranges
i have a 1 tb c:/ drive and it's great ….. buy yes for movies etc they are on spindle as how,often do l watch the same movie,
1tb is nice if you don't already have an ssd c: drive and you need to install, transfer data etc so do,it,once and you are set for a long time.
also laptop owners as often there is just one sata connector .
98,000 4k reads vs 64 4k reads.
Special is over, I'm getting $533.58 AU now.
Just curious. What's the point of buying this over 850 evo for extra? There's almost no noticable difference in real world performance. Only advantage might be the 10yrs warranty over the 5yrs for evo.