Just wanted something under $100 for the wife's old Dell laptop and this seemed like a good deal. Works out to be $96.95 shipped to Melbourne.
There's also Kingston UV400 480GB available at $96 (https://www.shoppingexpress.com.au/buy/kingston-suv400s37-48…)
Order total: $110.29 on eBay (promotional price 10% off in cart and then 5% using coupon)
$96.95 shipped to Sydney so it's definitely cheaper to buy here.
Also, speaking of Shopping Express, they are also selling Radeon Vega RX 64's for $599 + Shipping for an hour only starting 9PM. Is this worth buying or should I wait till October and see what AMD is doing with their Polaris 30 refresh?
No, that model has worst cooler out of all Vega 64.
Polaris 30 refresh could be intended to better compete with the rumored GTX 2060 (interestingly, not RTX 2060) and GTX 2050.
Polaris 30 getting ~15% performance increase won't be a huge deal. 15% boost is not enough to be on par with GTX 1070.
because gtx2060 don't have rtx ?
Wow I bought Intel 520 MLC 128g couples years ago around $180, but this price is too good for a half TB SSD drive, did I miss something or some new SSD technology revolution is coming?
over supply
All tech products come down in price eventually…they are not investments.
Buy only when you need it.
Like… a BMW ?
Well it helps get girls…can't say it's false.
@dcep: Sounds like you need to see a therapist to improve some self confidence. You can add plastic surgery if you really want. Everything I have mentioned together still comes out cheaper.
well there is higher density 3D QLC coming out for consumer drives, so most companies are getting good yields from their existing TLC dies, so no shortages, next thing is they phase out smaller drives as the case, controller, packing, etc are base costs they can't escape. They rather seller bigger for same price than smaller at cheaper prices to keep the cash flow going.
https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/8/7/17659906/sa…
This is a DRAMless 3D TLC SSD. You can "borrow" some system RAM to compensate for the lack of DRAM in the SSD to boost the really terrible random read/write performance - but the end result is just changing from terrible to really bad (in terms of SSD random read/write).
Dirt cheap and if your usage pattern is heavy read, then it might be fine. Or, you are replacing an ancient laptop's HDD with this.
About $9 shipping to Sydney
Is this fast/reliable enough to serve as a primary SSD? Need to upgrade a laptop as current SSD has run out of space and there is no space for a second drive.
I have a BX100 as a boot and data drive on one of my machines, has been going for a few years without issues and it runs 10 hours per day.
BX100s were MLC drives, these are 3D TLC. May not last as long.
Hard to know without knowing what your current one is. It is faster than the one I am swapping out. http://ssd.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Crucial-BX500-480GB-vs-…
I have had terrific reliability and real world performance with Crucial drives. Only one RMA out of the 6 Crucial drives I have had. An old M4 128GB that couldn't be flashed so new laptops didn't recognise it.
This is a DRAMless TLC SSD (the lowest class of SSD you can get now). If your laptop supports SATA3, I would get a better SSD (because most of the time, you can only put one SSD in a laptop). BUT, if your laptop is quite old, then it is worth considering (no point spending too much to upgrade an old laptop).
Its sequential read is decent enough, random read/write is really bad for SSD - so it depends on your usage pattern. General Web surfing, should be fine. Heavy project work - maybe not ideal. The SSD does support using system RAM for caching - which will help random read/write a bit.
This is a DRAMless 3D QLC SSD.
QLC… I see… That explains the really slow sustained write (didn't make sense for TLC, but would be in the ballpark for QLC).
Thanks for the reply.
Can anyone recommend a good, reasonably priced SATA 3 SSD for upgrading a reasonably new laptop (Lenovo e470 i7). The 256Gb SSD is just too small and I want to clone and replace with at least 500Gb. The laptop doesn't have an M.2 slot, or space for a second drive so it needs to be a replacement.
i7-7500U? If yes, I would suggest just get a Samsung 860 EVO or MX500. Don't overspend on upgrading systems based on 7th gen intel CPU or prior. With AMD being competitive, intel finally put in some effort in 8th gen CPU. I regret buying two 7th gen intel CPU based devices.
Samsung 860 EVO is slightly better based on endurance ratings. Both 860 EVO or MX500 have 5 year warranty. I've used Samsung warranty, it's good for SSD - generally you get a free upgrade as a replacement (but bear in mind, ideally, you prefer not to go through warranty replacement process). Despite my mixed experience with Samsung SSDs (and other makers using their NAND chips), I cannot fault their warranty / RMA department.
I am looking to replace a hdd in an older laptop.
Is there any great difference between the Crucial SSD or the Kingston SSD ?
Is the kingston worth the extra money?
Thanks
The biggest weakness of BX500 is sustained write:
Sequential sustained write chart - BX500.
So, if you don't need to constantly write large files (copying big video files) to the SSD, then its use of SLC cache should hide the ugly side of its true QLC NAND flash write speed (~100MB/s). Kingston UV400 is better (at least it is a TLC SSD), but it's not that good either. Old laptop just for general Web surfing / word processing, this should be okay.
Do they have this on their eBay store at the same price?