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Samsung 960 EVO 500GB NVMe SSD $205.64 USD (~$265 AUD) Delivered @ Amazon

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rhz on 05/04/2018 - 07:50 amazon.com (900 clicks)
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Normally 249 USD but it seems they have it on special for 199 USD.

Next cheapest price I can see using Staticice is 309 @ MSY/Gamedude. I paid in USD and it came to $265 AUD on my credit card.

One of the best NVMe drives on the market at the moment, seems to be a pretty good deal.

Storage Capacity: 500 GB.
Form Factor: NVMe M.2.
Sequential Read: 3,200MB/s.
Sequential Write: 1,800MB/s.
Interface: PCIe 3.0 x4, NVMe 1.2.

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  • KLoNe on 05/04/2018 - 07:53
    +4

    That reminds me, I have to hit up DELL for giving me a cheapass Toshiba NVMe in my XPS-15 when others got this beast.

    • Kewjonson on 05/04/2018 - 10:11

      Mine was also Toshiba one

    • Jiv on 05/04/2018 - 10:28
      +2

      What's wrong with a Toshiba/OCZ one?

      I got a second hand Toshiba XG3 1TB NVMe for $427.
      It's a laptop version of OCZ RD400 1TB that performs 90% as good as Sammy 960 Evo.

    • Audisez on 05/04/2018 - 10:36
      +2

      If it makes you feel any better, these drives are not going to make much difference in real-world applications unless you are doing something like hosting a server or something.

      • [Deactivated] on 05/04/2018 - 10:46
        -1

        I think they boot up a few seconds faster but otherwise no difference to Sata type drive. I wouldn’t waste money.

      • KLoNe on 05/04/2018 - 12:12
        +2

        I'm hosting a server.

    • jace88 on 05/04/2018 - 13:00
      +1

      Interesting… were the specs that bad?

      I had a cheap Liteon 128gb m.2 SATA SSD which was not great in my Alienware 15R3 bought from JB Hifi.

      … but then when I ordered an Alienware 13R3 from Dell online in December, I got a 512gb m.2 NVMe Samsung PM981!

  • cloudie9 on 05/04/2018 - 09:11

    For an extra $44, wouldn't it be better off buying locally for peace of mind and ease of claiming warranty?

    • Diji1 on 05/04/2018 - 09:39
      +14

      Sure if you like losing money.

    • [Deactivated] on 05/04/2018 - 10:15
      +1

      Wouldn't it be extra $10-15 with ebay 20%?

      • Jorkus on 05/04/2018 - 10:22

        I bought mine for $276 in one of the recent ebay sales. So $11 more for local stock, provided you can wait to snipe an ebay sale.

    • [Deactivated] on 05/04/2018 - 10:46

      Amazon are excellent with warranty.

      • Huck on 05/04/2018 - 12:01
        +1

        Only in the short term, my Gigabyte 980ti from them died, it was 2.5 years old, locally I think it has 3 years warranty, and also covered by ACL.
        Amazon told me I have to go through Gigabyte, but I've read others have tried but say Gigabyte has no international warranty.
        So I'm out $1000 because I didn't buy local.
        But I guess depends on each manufacturer, some others are better.

        • SLY JD on 05/04/2018 - 12:30
          +3

          Recently dealt with Giagybte for warranty. By far the worst warranty experience I’ve ever had. Feel for you man.

        • ruddiger7 on 05/04/2018 - 14:44
          +3

          Yep, EVGA are recommended for international purchases as they have a good international warranty. Would avoid gigabyte on past experiences too.

  • DenDen711 on 05/04/2018 - 10:03

    B&H has it for same price (US$199.99), in case supporting world retail domination is not your thing.

    https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/search?ci=30903&fct=fct_brand…

    Cheers, Dennis

    • Briefcase Mong on 05/04/2018 - 10:09

      There’s $15.50 US shipping so $199 +15.50 you do the math. This is $205.64 US Delivered

    • Jabba the Hutt on 05/04/2018 - 10:10

      Looks like total with shipping is US$215.49, so a US$10 fee for opposing world domination. (Edit: ninja'd).

  • Briefcase Mong on 05/04/2018 - 10:06

    Perfect time to upgrade my MacBook SSD

    • aim54x on 05/04/2018 - 11:07
      +2

      You may want to double check this fits inside your MacBook….most of them use proprietary SSD’s (ie funny pin outs)

      • Briefcase Mong on 05/04/2018 - 11:48

        You can buy an adaptor that allows you to use NVMe SSD

        • aim54x on 05/04/2018 - 14:33

          I've done this in Mac Pro's but would be interested in something like this for a Retina (my mates company runs a variety of MBP's and SSD upgrades are a hassle)

  • Godric on 05/04/2018 - 10:10

    Good drive good price

  • [Deactivated] on 05/04/2018 - 10:13

    So annoyed my Mobo doesn't support these small drives.

    I must have bought a year before they started doing this. :(

  • Wolfofwallstreet on 05/04/2018 - 10:23

    This or its big brother the 960 Pro?

    • ethan961 on 05/04/2018 - 10:32

      These are very well performing already, so unless you have serious performance needs it's probably not worth the cost increase. There's a better case for buying the Evo over other less expensive competitors.

    • Jiv on 05/04/2018 - 10:42

      Pro has faster transfer speed, but I think some test shows that in daily usage there's no difference.

      Pro also has higher endurance (number of writes before you can no longer write to the cell).
      But again, if you use it like an average consumer, you'll not reach it for many years beyond your existing system.

      • Wolfofwallstreet on 05/04/2018 - 11:08

        Some reviewers mentioned that since this is a TLC drive the 1800MB per second write speed is not sustainable if you have to transfer large files and the speed will drop down to around 300MB/ per second after the TLC buffer is filled but on the 960 pro the speed is not throttle at all due to its MLC nature.

  • reddead2067 on 05/04/2018 - 10:28

    Can you notice a difference between NVMe drives from SATA SSDs?

    • Jiv on 05/04/2018 - 10:31

      In your daily usage, it's a couple of seconds here and there (e.g. OS boot, game load).

      Most notable difference is Video editing, especially when you're previewing which is a little bit more snappy on NVMe.

    • nereus on 05/04/2018 - 10:33

      From here:
      http://www.velocitymicro.com/blog/nvme-vs-m-2-vs-sata-whats-…

      Modern motherboards use SATA III which maxes out at a throughput of 600MB/s (or 300MB/s for SATA II, in which case, it’s time to upgrade). Via that connection, most SSDs will provide Read/Write speeds in the neighborhood of 530/500 MB/s. For comparison, a 7200 RPM SATA drive manages around 100MB/s depending on age, condition, and level of fragmentation. NVMe drives, on the other hand, provide write speeds as high as 3500MB/s. That’s 7x over SATA SSDs!

      • [Deactivated] on 05/04/2018 - 10:48
        +1

        Sure but real world difference is minimal. Not worth the extra cost imo.

        • Diji1 on 05/04/2018 - 13:19

          The real world differences are not minimal.

          You can work this out yourself by reading reviews or watching side by side comparisons of various things on Youtube. Or just use your imagination and come to a different conclusion.

    • Jabba the Hutt on 05/04/2018 - 10:53

      Performance aside, a potentially noticable difference is that, on some motherboards, a SATA M.2 may disable one of the SATA ports due to 'shared bandwidth', while an NVMe one may not.

      Meanwhile, NVMe drives can noticably frustrate those who want to take advantage of hardware encryption (e.g. via Bitlocker).

    • aim54x on 05/04/2018 - 11:09
      +1

      I moved from a 128GB 850 EVO M.2 (SATA) to a 256 950 Pro NVMe M.2 in my NUC as the boot drive….did not notice anything significant…the 950 Pro is now in another build and the 850 EVO is back in the NUC (Acronis is a good friend).

      But YMMV.

      • c0balt on 05/04/2018 - 18:55

        Same.

        It was nice seeing the incredible read/write speeds in CrystalDiskMark, but in real world usage the few seconds it shaved off compared to an older SSD just isn't really noticeable.

        That said, m.2 is a really amazing form factor and going forwards it's definitely the way to go (not having to connect sata or power cables is huge).

  • petry on 05/04/2018 - 11:07
    -1

    way over priced

  • navinjd on 05/04/2018 - 11:20

    Is there any deal on 860 evo msata ssd?

  • zqipz on 05/04/2018 - 11:28
    +1

    Side question…
    The Samsung 500GB EVO 850 and 860 SSDs are same price about $228 on ebay (shopping-express-clearance)
    - Why are they same price for each model?
    - Obvious improvement form HDD to SSD, but is it worth it for SSD to M.2? Sounds like not much from comments.

    • selphie on 05/04/2018 - 12:46
      +1

      evo 860 is newer model and has much higher endurance, so if they're the same price then definitely get the latter.
      You probably meant going from SATA (max 6Gb/s) to NVME; yeah the average person will probably not feel the difference at all so not worth upgrading to NVME if already have an existing SSD.

  • chrstphr on 05/04/2018 - 11:33

    Argh! To jump on this, or wait for an eBay 20% off sale!

  • spook290 on 05/04/2018 - 12:37

    Thanks OP, just bought one :)

  • syousef on 05/04/2018 - 15:38

    In the short term I'm more interested in SATA SSDs getting cheaper. You'd definitely notice a difference copying data files between 2 SSDs. I'd also want to be sure I could trust them with data if powered down for a while.

    I'm human so boot times do impact my enjoyment, but at this price point I can wait an extra minute or even 2 for my PC to boot.

    In the JW Easter sale I thought about buying the ADATA 250GB to replace the disk in my HP 15" i5 based laptop. $88 I could have dealt with. But my laptop is around 6 years old and it sports a 500GB spinning disk. I'd be getting faster boot but less space on the thing to store software, photos etc. 500GB was $170-something. So pity but nope.

  • Jules66 on 05/04/2018 - 15:47

    which stores had it for around this price during the ebay sale?

    • Salty Pretzel on 06/04/2018 - 01:09

      All I saw was Shopping Express and they had it for about $275ish after 20%, but it wasn't AUS stock. It was from Hong Kong.

  • kaio on 05/04/2018 - 21:07

    sadly the 1TB i want isnt on sale

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