Crucial MX500 1TB 3D NAND SATA M.2 SSD $259.20 Delivered (with eBay Plus) @ PC Byte / Flash Pro

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kudoz on 27/06/2018 - 19:53 ebay.com.au (1041 clicks)
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PIZZAZZ

Have been keeping an eye out for a high-capacity m.2 SATA for my Yoga 900 and finally hit paydirt!

Use the PIZZAZZ code and the 30day Ebay Plus deal for a total of $259.20

Features:

Sequential reads/writes up to 560/510 MB/s and random reads/writes up to 95k/90k on all file types
Accelerated by Micron 3D NAND technology
Integrated Power Loss Immunity preserves all your saved work if the power unexpectedly gets cut
AES 256-bit hardware-based encryption keeps data safe and secure from hackers and thieves
Crucial 5-year limited warranty

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  kudoz on 27/06/2018 - 19:55

  Oops, just found https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/387488 already updated their post with this one :(

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    Alzori on 27/06/2018 - 20:36

    +3

    It's not in their title so you're fine.

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  [Deactivated] on 27/06/2018 - 20:47

  +1

  tempting..

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  Frequenter on 27/06/2018 - 20:52

  What is the appreciable difference between the R/W speeds on this drive, and the insane 2500/1500 quoted by Samsung on their 950? Any opinion or advice would be much appreciated.

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    Bluberry on 27/06/2018 - 20:57

    +1

    For everyday home use = no difference. If you work with large files frquently like i do at work = very notable difference.

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      Diji1 on 27/06/2018 - 23:30

      -5

      everyday home use = no difference

      That's simply false.

      Windows boots almost twice fast. Games load significantly faster.

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    O15 on 27/06/2018 - 22:14

    +4

    Also note, the 950 is an NVMe drive. There are no available enclosures that you can put an NVMe drive in.
    This drive (MX500) is a SATA based drive and can be put in an external enclosure.

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      lplau on 28/06/2018 - 11:03

      Not true.
      There are enclosures for NVMe but just expensive…. Around $60 for an enclosure.
      https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/292614971525

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        O15 on 28/06/2018 - 13:02

        This must have just been released. Will be interesting to see if it works.

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  Harryxx on 27/06/2018 - 21:26

  +3

  Forgive me if it’s a noob question. I was about to buy Samsung 860 evo m2 drive. Is this one better value? Or am I sacrificing much performance. I work a lot with VM’s. Thanks

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    stumo on 27/06/2018 - 23:34

    I've decided to go for the NVME samsung 970 over this. I use a minimum of 2 and often up to 4 VMs at once for work doing software development.

    I currently use a pair of crappy sandisk 250GB M.2 SATA SSDs in raid 0 in my Lenovo C20x workstation on a Marvel hyperduo pcie card. Its ok but the SSDs are definitely not the fastest ones available. IOPS are pretty low.

    I will try the samsung via a NVME to pcie card, but my workstation is not PCIe 3.0 so it won't be as fast as it could be, but should be a lot faster than the raided M.2 SATAs.

    I have no idea if this will speed up my workflow at all. I did play with tried RAM caching before, since I run a metric crapton of ram, but that didn't seem to make any difference to my VMs for compiling, so I'm not holding my breath. But I think that VM is constrained by the CPUs (dual x5690) since its a single threaded compiler.

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      neu11 on 28/06/2018 - 00:26

      I didn't jump on this deal but rather the intel 535 ssd, mainly due to it being MLC nand and slightly cheaper $/GB.

      I did some quick research before buying though, mainly because I got a little bit of that fomo for missing out on that adata nvme deal from last night.

      anyway, from what I understand, nvme probably won't make all that much difference. it seems it's mostly beneficial for large sequential i/o and not much else.

      so if you are dealing with big chunks of data all the time it will probably be worth while but otherwise would probably be better served investing in better cpu/ram as VM is mostly cpu bound workloads.

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    JinK on 27/06/2018 - 23:54

    +1

    Samsung 860 is also Sata m2, so not much different in speed compare to this. So if the selection is limited to 860evo and this, I would go with the cheaper.

    The 950/960/970 of samsung is nvme which use PCIe bus and that is a different story.

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  11112007 on 27/06/2018 - 21:36

  I was about this for $343 a few weeks ago during a 20% off sale, glad i held off!

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  NoApostrophePlurals on 27/06/2018 - 21:49

  Isn't it cheaper here?

  https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/387536

  Edit: ignore. I'm a derp. USD

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  O15 on 27/06/2018 - 22:12

  +2

  SSD all the things!

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  Davesday on 27/06/2018 - 22:13

  +1

  My Samsung 840 Pro 256GB SATA is getting a little old now. I am thinking of upgrading this as an OS drive. I do normally edit and post process large photos in RAW format. Would this provide sufficient performance?

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    mec on 28/06/2018 - 08:12

    if you want basically the same performance as the 840 then this drive will be sufficient. max speeds of both drive peak at 550

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  11112007 on 04/07/2018 - 11:07

  Ordered last week, said delivery for yesterday but no update and no new scan events by Australia Post.

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    debaron541 on 12/07/2018 - 02:41

    Same here stuck in Granville NSW for two weeks for me. Already filed complaints.

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      11112007 on 12/07/2018 - 05:08

      I got mine on Tuesday…. pathetic.