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WD Blue SN550 1TB NVMe M.2 SSD $184.45 Delivered @ Amazon AU

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WD Blue SN550 1TB NVMe M.2 SSD $184.45 Delivered @ Amazon AUAffiliate
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Skramit on 09/07/2020 - 10:22 amazon.com.au (797 clicks)
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Local Amazon AU stock on the newer WD Blue M.2 SSD. It's not a world beater NVMe drive but stacks up well against it's competitors in this price bracket. It's a budget/mid-range NVMe drive and priced accordingly.

For those playing at home: TLC NAND with onboard SLC buffer! (Not QLC like many of it's price competitors e.g. Crucial P1)

Sequential read performance: 2400MB/s, sequential write performance: 1,950 MB/s

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  • Hardstuck Silver 2 on 09/07/2020 - 10:29
    +4

    I've been waiting for this day - paid $229 for this a month ago

    Was hesitant to buy from US but Amazon AU - cheering!

    Maybe I should buy another for the other M.2 slot….

  • Navanod66 on 09/07/2020 - 10:38

    Pretty sure this is a DRAMless NVMe?
    Still very good reviews and what I had been waiting on but caved and pulled the trigger on a Kingston A2000 during the great Amazon UK bug

    • er1992 on 09/07/2020 - 10:39
      +2

      Yep. This article is comparing dramless NVMEs and this is in the mix

      https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/wd-blue-sn550-m2-nvme-s…

      • Navanod66 on 09/07/2020 - 10:42
        +2

        Just pointing out that OP had stated that the SN550 has DRAM. Probably the geek in me being picky but I know some folks who would only go for DRAM SSDs

        • happychappy1 on 09/07/2020 - 14:35

          SLC Buffer, not DRAM. They're different. One's the built in NAND flash and the other one is DRAM.

    • Skramit on 09/07/2020 - 10:42
      +1

      My bad, updated. It has an SLC cache though.

  • er1992 on 09/07/2020 - 10:40
    +6

    This is a better option

    https://www.umart.com.au/Kingston-1TB-A2000-M-2-NVMe-SSD_522…

    • NotAnAudiophile on 09/07/2020 - 10:54

      Yup got this one instead.

    • NaRaSaRang on 09/07/2020 - 11:49

      this one also seems to have DRAM as compared to the one that OP's posted?

    • Toughcookie on 09/07/2020 - 12:18

      Yeah people should be getting this one instead, makes a lot of differences, have this one as my secondary drive and so far so good, speeds to seems to be sustained

    • aec on 09/07/2020 - 12:55

      why is this a better option, apart from a few dolor cheaper?

      • er1992 on 09/07/2020 - 13:24

        Check out the article posted a few threads above this. Testing shows this one to be faster

    • Martyroz on 09/07/2020 - 15:02

      Thanks, pulled trigger.

  • petry on 09/07/2020 - 10:46

    overpriced and underspecced.

  • MauTauAja on 09/07/2020 - 11:02

    $35 more you can get SN750 LOL

    https://imgur.com/6xcpkDm

  • PlasticSpaceman on 09/07/2020 - 11:53
    +1

    Good price, but FWIW decided I wanted performance more than space so went the 500Gb 970 Evo Plus for $147 delivered after cashback (eg https://www.centrecom.com.au/samsung-970-evo-plus-500gb-nvme…)….

  • Zetsubou on 09/07/2020 - 12:25

    Is this a good option for use with an external enclosure as a portable drive? Would the bottle neck would be the USB interface?

  • The Milk Man on 09/07/2020 - 12:32

    Could someone perhaps help my d0mba$$ understand what's going on in my laptop?
    Mine is the one on the right: https://www.asus.com/Laptops/ROG-ZEPHYRUS-GX501/Tech-Specs/

    Under SSD it says: M.2 NVMe PCIe 3.0 x4 256GB / 512GB / 1TB SSD

    My current storage is 512 - does it mean I have additional 3 M.2 slots? since it was like "X4"? :(

    thanks :<

    • Skramit on 09/07/2020 - 12:35
      +2

      No you have a PCIE slot GENERATION 3.0 (version) with 4x PCIE LANES for bandwidth.

      • The Milk Man on 09/07/2020 - 12:36

        so….
        1 slot? 2?
        0?

        • Skramit on 09/07/2020 - 12:36
          +1

          1

          • The Milk Man on 09/07/2020 - 12:37
            +1

            @Skramit: dreams are meant to be crushed.

            Thank you <3

            • Skramit on 09/07/2020 - 12:38
              +2

              @The Milk Man: Bummer.

              On that spec sheet it doesnt mention a second slot…. If it had a second slot you'd think it would be another line item under M.2 NVMe PCIe 3.0 x4 256GB / 512GB / 1TB SSD

              E.G.
              SSD:
              M.2 NVMe PCIe 3.0 x4 256GB / 512GB / 1TB SSD
              M.2 NVMe PCIe 3.0 x4 256GB / 512GB / 1TB SSD

              But it doesn't :(

              • The Milk Man on 09/07/2020 - 12:39
                +1

                @Skramit: I just thought like, it comes with one, but with additional empty one?
                Is there a way for me to actually check without breaking it open or contacting ASUS…?

                Because that spec-sheet is for the prebuilt , will they mention an empty one?

  • BargainKen on 09/07/2020 - 13:24

    May be worth mentioning what the endurance is with all these NVMe drives. With the increased write speed will no doubt lead to earlier failure if you use the drive to write a lot. From my research the unit in the OP is a 600TBW unit

    https://documents.westerndigital.com/content/dam/doc-library…

  • jl434 on 09/07/2020 - 15:47

    $214.07 now

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