The lowest price of all time I think (after cashback ofcourse)
Delivery shows up as $7.81 for Metro Melbourne.
Deal ends at 00:00 am, 24 July 2020
How much was it? It's not going to make a real world difference going for this anyway.
Totally agree no real life difference.
I jumped on one of the Amazon WD deals for 240-odd, long before any sammy cashback.
But hey, it was an impulse buy :)
Ah yeah before the SN750s were in the $200-220 range, nothing you can do about that.
Samsung V-NAND 3-bit MLC
Wow Samsung is desperate to trick customers into thinking this is using MLC NAND which is 2-bit, just call it TLC like the rest of us!
The 500GB one was at a good price, but I still can't recommend this even at the $245 price to most people. The Kingston A2000 is $179 at Centrecom with free shipping and will perform just as well as this in real world scenarios apart from 4K high bitrate video editing. With those $65 savings you could get a better AIB for the GPU (quieter and cooler), a better motherboard, a nicer case (personally wouldn't), quieter case fans or an additional spinning hard disk for bulk storage.
This one is twice the price of the 500GB posted yesterday but also has twice the storage. Is that not good? I'm asking because I don't really know.
The gap goes up and up the more you multiply the price. What was once a $30 price gap can now become a $60 one.
Oh Samsung does this all the time
The habit goes back decades
So you'd recommend the Kingston over this for everything other than video editing?
Unless you have bandwidth heavy tasks (extremely high res video editing a prime example) the Kingston is plenty, a SATA SSD would even be fine.
My current PC doesn't have a SSD. I want to get one for my OS and games.
Should I be getting one big one to migrate both my OS and games onto, or should I get 2 separate ones, one for the OS and one solely for games?
@drose1: One big one is perfectly fine, not a spinning head like a hard disk so as long as you aren't maxing out the bandwidth which you probably won't it's fine. It's different if you're saturating the entire SSD with video editing while playing a game.
Hey mate, I saw you posting in the Kingston thread about having issues with that SSD. Is your use a fringe case?
@theknight27: Yeah, the Techfast motherboard no like it (the B45M2). Put it in my laptop and bam it just works, really well. Weird because when I put my laptop's NVMe SSD in it it ran flawlessly, so it's probably either SSD firmware or my BIOS version.
Or for the Samsung software, Data migration (easily cloned from my SSD to NVMe drive) and Samsung Magician (real time temperature monitoring and bench marking). Peace of mind with Samsung install and forget. NVMe performance is better for me with OS boot time and doing disk intensive tasks like Windows 10 feature update upgrades, running Disk Clean-up utility and searching for files. Obviously going from spinning rust to SSD is a massive improvement and moving from SSD to NVMe is small gains, but in my use-case was worth the extra cost.
I think you Samsung people are a little insane in the brain lol. You can just use Macrium Reflect to clone, I did it from big HDD to small SSD and it was so seamless that dare I say it Samsung's software would be more difficult to use. An SSD is a storage device, cloning it is no different to a HDD.
Does anyone know if it's worth waiting for the 980 Evo / 980 Evo Plus?
Definitely yes! Almost twice the Read and Write speeds. But, its depending mostly on your budget. The 980 Pro will release in a around a month which will cost 6 arms and 12 legs. That is why Samsung are pushing these 970's for peanuts as the 980's are literally around the corner.
Also depends on if you can wait. The 980 Evo/Plus will probably come months after the PRO release at a more consumer reasonable price and that is if it comes out.
I know I'm going to wait.
Will the 980 have any benefit if you only have pci-e 3.0 slots?
Good question. Samsung 980 Pro should be backward compatible with PCIe 3.0 but will be capped at around 3500MBps. So if you have a 3.0 slot and dont plan on upgrading to a 4.0 motherboard for a while. I definately believe 970 is your best bet.
Also, the 980 Pro will be about 30-50% more expensive than the equivalent size 970 Evo (or 980 Evo when released).
Absolutely not. Sure on paper twice as fast but it's barely noticeable in 90% of use cases and will probably cost twice as much. You're talking fractions of a second for most tasks
Does anyone know if this Samsung 970 Evo plus NVMe drive would work on a HP ML10v2 server as a boot drive/datastore on ESXi 6.7u3 via a PCI-e adapter? Thanks heaps
Great price, paid 299 a few weeks ago, should have held out ahh :)
I really want to get a bigger C: which is currently 500GB…… but I feel like the next logical stop is to go to a 2TB NVMe! But nothing seems to be dropping under $400……. come on supply!!
The SX8200 Pro is $399 + shipping at Umart, but it's out of stock. I doubt you're going to be getting a Samsung NVMe drive for under $400 though lol. There's such a big price gap between NVMe and SATA in the 2TB space that I'd recommend going for a SATA drive like the MX500.
Yeah I could go SATA I don’t want to have to run another SATA power cable from my PSU so would prefer to stick with NVMe and upgrade my 500GB.
I’m annoyed I didn’t grab a 2TB Sabrent rocket Q from amazon pre covid for $369.
Oh the humanity!
@bobs burgers: Beeeeecause there's negligible real world difference and sometimes it's a lot cheaper?
@Void: Actually I do have both types of drives. It is a significant difference, even in day to day multitasking. The cost difference is negligible these days for the superior speed increase.
@bobs burgers: Placebo, either you've got them in different systems or you have something wrong with one of the drives.
This vs Sabrent Rocket for a macbook pro upgrade? Apparently the 970 is a big power hog.
Probably only a power hog when it's writing at 3.5GB/s. Sabrent Rocket, ADATA SX8200 Pro and WD SN750 are all good alternatives, Samsung tax is real even a little in their cashback deals. Though if you aren't video editing at 4K with a ridiculous bitrate or doing anything really bandwidth heavy you'll never find a difference between those options and a Kingston A2000.
Shame it's gone. I need a good SSD to get ready for MS 2020 :)
Nah, you don't. A SATA drive would even be perfectly fine and you'd probably never tell a difference, a video game is made up of tons of small textures, and NAND flash is slowed down significantly when reading or writing such small textures that it's pretty much in SATA III's limitations. I'd recommend a Kingston A2000, I've benched my 500GB one at half full when it isn't on my motherboard which hates it (limited to PCIe 2.0, so it could probably go further) and it's still getting 2GB/s on both sequential read and write. That's more than enough for gaming.
In case you haven't seen yet, they are back in stock now!! Make sure you get one :)
I have and use alot of sata and nvme SSD in various flavours, the biggest difference I notice between all simply gets down to the cache type memory they use in each drive
ex: a samsung 860pro sata SSD, will normally seem a bit faster than say a crucial P1/kingston A2000 nvme in RL conditions
if you want nvme at decent speed to cost ratio I would recommend SP A80 or SX8200 over the samsung, but each their own
The SN750 when on one of those Amazon deals is also pretty good. Though an A2000 or SN550 (DRAMless but controller has virtual DRAM of sorts) is plenty for most use cases, even a SATA drive is.
What difference between this and Crucial P1 1 TB M.2-2280 NVME Solid State Drive?
TLC vs QLC, double the endurance. Also just faster random and sustained writes. I'd go for a Kingston A2000, very nice middle ground, also TLC.
Toying with buying this .. running my boot drive on a sata ssd - Sandisk Ultra II, will I see any performance? My work computer boots up in 5 seconds (running a 500gb samsung Nvme), where as my computer takes like 30 seconds or more.
Oh Centrecom seemed to have this for $3 more.
https://www.centrecom.com.au/samsung-970-evo-plus-1tb-nvme-p…
Nice price - shame I bought the WD black