Kingston A400 480GB SSD $74.95, Crucial BX500 960GB SSD $128.94 + Delivery @ Shopping Square

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  iseeyou1312 on 01/07/2020 - 18:58

  +7

  Both SSDs are DRAMless and worth avoiding, especially as an OS drive.

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    dsp26 on 01/07/2020 - 19:11

    +10

    agree with this and the many posts about the A400,i/o errors galore. partition totally disappeared into "unallocated" and get an i/o error when trying to initialise. error logs showed increasing i/o errors in the <1yr i've owned it. was used as mainly an ISO storage so mostly reads rather than writes.. barely used, probably less than 300hrs of reads and only left plugged in for those sessions.

    was going to replace with a BX500, but now realise they're on the same boat, hence the same price so thanks for post

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      clokeyyy on 01/07/2020 - 21:59

      +3

      Ive seen four BX500 SSDs completely fail without warning within 12 months of use

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    LordNoon6 on 01/07/2020 - 19:22

    +3

    Good to know! Had never heard of this until now.

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  MagicMushroom on 01/07/2020 - 21:42

  +5

  Please spend $3 more and get Samsung 860 Evo 500GB https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/548181

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    inherentchoice on 02/07/2020 - 06:46

    I think you mean $7 less after you factor in SS delivery costs vs MSY in-store pick up. $84.94 vs $78.00.

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  jonske on 06/07/2020 - 15:49

  my A400 completely slows down after a couple months for some reason.

  i keep it as a game drive and initial installs its fine - get 300MB/s reads. after a couple months it will slow down to 50MB/s and stuff loads so slow. i have to copy the game files over to a new folder and then just delete the old files and then it becomes fast again… it sucks.