Western Digital M.2 2TB SSD Blue, 3D NAND SATA, Read 560MB/s, Write 530MB/s $297.42 + Post (Free with Prime) @ Amazon US via AU

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3D NAND SATA SSD for capacities up to 2TB with enhanced reliability
An active power draw up to 25% lower than previous generations of WD Blue SSD
Sequential read speeds up to 560MB/s and sequential write speeds up to 530MB/s
An industry-leading 1.75M hours mean time to failure (MTTF) and up to 500 terabytes written (TBW) for enhanced reliability
WD F.I.T. Lab certification for compatibility with a wide range of computers. Free downloadable software to monitor the status of your drive and clone a drive, or backup your data

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  luckylittle on 02/09/2019 - 09:09

  +1

  I'm waiting for Samsung 970 EVO NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB deals…

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    p3rsonally on 02/09/2019 - 18:20

    This is pretty close:

    Intel 660p NVMe Amazon $306 w/Prime || Megabuy $313 + $15 Ship || more (local low-price stock: SA, QLD, NSW)

    Would definitely take it over above WD

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  SundayPunch on 02/09/2019 - 09:09

  Great price, good find.

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  wisc on 02/09/2019 - 09:20

  pretty slow for a M2 drive…

  thought great price.

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    yojabbajabba on 02/09/2019 - 09:26

    Not NVMe, therefore bottlenecks at SATA 3 speeds of 600mb/s.

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    Click_It on 02/09/2019 - 09:27

    +2

    Yeah I don't know why manufacturers are still messing around with SATA in m.2 form factor, end price seems much the same. If it were significantly cheaper I'd understand the rationale.

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      stumo on 02/09/2019 - 09:42

      +2

      A lot of slightly older laptops require sata M.2

      I have this drive and its been fine the past 6 months in my Toshiba Z20T-C

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      Danthemanz on 02/09/2019 - 09:44

      +6

      Some systems arent wired for both, so there will always be a use case for SATA.
      They also require a different controller on the SSD, so that comes down to time/product dev cycles.

      The other thing is that for most lower end SSDs it doesnt make a difference outside of some very very specific benchmark use cases. Low end TLC NVME drives often drop to well below SATA speeds as soon as the small cache is filled.
      Thats not even getting into the fact that most real work loads arent copying large ISO files and therefore its moving 10's of MB/s, not 100's or 1000MB/s…

      The only real advantage in these cases is latency, something that again isnt much difference for cheap TLC or QLD NAND.

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      Ahbal on 02/09/2019 - 14:21

      +1

      For me, even if its the same speed as the sata ssd, id still prefer it due to cable management. This one can just plug straight in and hide, no cables needed.

      Also compatible with more systems.

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        Click_It on 02/09/2019 - 15:54

        All valid points guys :)

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  NoRotation on 02/09/2019 - 11:30

  +3

  Intel 660p 2TB also a pretty good price.

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    SundayPunch on 02/09/2019 - 15:05

    Amazon won't deliver the 2TB to Perth, only the 512GB and 1TB. Why!?
    It's cheaper from B&H anyway, although I'd rather buy in AUD.