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Colorful SL500 480GB MLC SATA SSD $72.99 US (~$96.52 AU) Delivered @ Joybuy

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Colorful SL500 480GB MLC SATA SSD $72.99 US (~$96.52 AU) Delivered @ Joybuy
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Clear on 11/06/2018 - 23:00 joybuy.com (575 clicks)

Continuing the trend of budget SSDs, Joybuy have this one on sale from a more well known brand. Unlike the other SSDs posted recently this is using MLC instead of TLC. You can see translated promotional images on Colorful's website here.

It's using MLC 3D NAND flash from Micron/Intel and a Silicon Motion SM2258XT controller with a sequential read/write speed up to 500MB/s and 480MB/s. The SSD supports SMART, TRIM, DEVSLEEP and NCQ. It has a MTBF of 1.5 million hours and write speed (IOPS 4KB) up to 75,000 IOPS and 75,000 IOPS.

Currently $171.98 AU at Mwave

Deal valid for 6 hours. AU$ based on current Mastercard exchange rate.

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  • paulaus on 11/06/2018 - 23:09
    +2

    It's black don't look colorful. Might buy it anyway thanks.

    • Clear on 11/06/2018 - 23:10

      I was waiting for that comment! Shame they're not stocking the link version but at least their GPUs and motherboards are colourful.

  • paulaus on 11/06/2018 - 23:14

    Looks like warranty is 3 years but it's wording is confusing.

  • regsofweb on 11/06/2018 - 23:26
    +2

    This brand is known by display card and mother board. But for SSD, it was said they used refurbished chips or black chips in some products. I think it would be better to go for a reliable brand 'cause you data is more expensive. For this price it is good to be a disk to run BT or downloading.

    • Clear on 11/06/2018 - 23:28
      +2

      But for SSD, it was said they used refurbished chips or black chips in some products.

      Source?

      I think it would be better to go for a reliable brand 'cause you data is more expensive.

      These SSDs which are cheaper than big brands should be used for less important data. I personally use mine to store Steam games and VR. Flawless thus far.

      • lostcm on 12/06/2018 - 00:23
        +5

        There was an article in one China IT website（PCEVA）,showing that some companies use Flash chips for smartphones or SSD to produce SSD products. That site was under attack after the reveal of the article.
        The brands mentioned in that article includes Colorful, Teclast, kimtigo, and GALAX.
        You can check this copy of original article if you can read Chinese:
        http://computer.discuss.com.hk/viewthread.php?tid=27026878

        • Clear on 12/06/2018 - 00:29

          Thought I'd never see a source! Chinese isn't an issue for me 😊

          Pretty much confirms what most people already know about Chinese SSDs. They're often using second grade or reject flash. Since the article didn't mention this model we can't know for certain if this is one of them.

          I do know for a fact that all other SL500 capacities are TLC. Or at least the 640GB and 960GB.

        • netsurfer on 12/06/2018 - 00:53

          @Clear: While the review only reviewed SL300 SSDs, the information provided by the review is a concern:

          • Used flash chips in all the SL300 models reviewed, one even used NAND flash from used Samsung S6 mobile phone.
          • No consistency on the flash memory used, could be second hand Samsung, Sandisk (Toshiba) or Intel flash memory.

          Now, MLC 3D NAND… not that many makers make them nowadays and those aren't cheap. TLC 3D NAND seems more likely. Official Web site states 3D NAND only. MLC wasn't specified.

        • Clear on 12/06/2018 - 08:58

          @netsurfer: MLC came from their Amazon store. I guess I'll find out when it arrives.

        • systema on 12/06/2018 - 10:43

          @netsurfer:

          Check this one out as well. Review on SL500 640GB seems to indicate significant issue with background SLC cache folding - https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=zh-CN&tl=en&…

    • p1 ama on 12/06/2018 - 02:04
      +2

      cause you data is more expensive

      Depends on what it is - most things you store on a budget SSD are not precious.

      Most people will probably use something like this as a boot drive or a steam library drive. I'm intending to use this as a secondary boot drive for Linux.

      SSDs are still far more reliable than HDDs and good drives still fail. I'd say the moral of the story is to keep backups rather than to avoid cheaper drives.

    • Enjj0y on 12/06/2018 - 09:53

      I use cheap SSD for VMs. Easy fast and if anything goes wrong recover from regular snapshots. Easy safe & fast.

      • slackme on 12/06/2018 - 12:54

        Snapshots use same drive.

    • WinstonWithAY on 12/06/2018 - 10:40

      You can get a Silicon 480gb SSD on Amazon for $83 + shipping. Not sure how much more reliable that brand is plus its a quite a bit more expensive

  • xuqi on 12/06/2018 - 00:25

    Ships within 7 days, Delivery estimate: 30~40 days

    30-40 days wait for a SSD seems excessive.

    • Clear on 12/06/2018 - 00:27
      +1

      30-40 days from China is normal. Considering the SSD is a small package they wouldn't be using something like an expensive courier.

    • Diji1 on 12/06/2018 - 00:32
      +1

      Made two orders from Joybuy, both arrived about in 10 or so days despite ETA of 40 days.

    • Scotch on 12/06/2018 - 08:38
      +1

      Anyone know how the new GST import laws effective July 1, would impact this given the 30~40 day delivery rule? I don't think I'm the only one that has some concerns about my online OS orders now taxable on any amount given the $1000 limit would be abolished.

      • Enjj0y on 12/06/2018 - 09:52

        It won't be much concern as majority of Chinese sellers are under quoting actual price. We orders $2000 DVR and they mentioned $50 sample order. So GST on oversear purchases won't be that significant unless and until they add on source of payments like bank cards, paypal etc.

  • Yan47 on 12/06/2018 - 00:44

    Just got one. using for gaming system so data is not crucial. also used 5$ discount they had on the site. $91.47 delivered. pretty good to me.

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