Ozbargain favourite portable ssd drive. This item is currently on sale at jbhifi - Save $30. Pay less with gift cards from sunscrop rewards or pricebeat at office works. Was $139 last deal. Still a great price if you need it now!
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You can pricebeat at office works for less and with local warranty.
Sold out at Centrecom it seems, just has a pre-order button.
That was a great pre-Xmas price. Most likely a long wait for that price again, but you never know.
just checked officeworks and they haven't dropped their current $179 to match JB, yet anyway, - they have the 500Gb for $89 if you don't need 1Tb (but who doesn't need 1TB :?)
Harvey Norman have the 500GB for $85. Saw them in the discount bin last week.
https://www.harveynorman.com.au/samsung-t5-500gb-portable-ss…
Is this good enough to remove the internal SSD from the case and use as a main SSD storage, install Windows and everything?
Its msata.
You can run Windows externally on a portable SSD.
You will need an mSATA to SATA adapter. It would be better and faster to get a Kingston A2000 1TB NVMe drive instead.
Isn't it cheaper and faster to get an M.2 SSD and a USB/Thunderbolt SSD enclosure?
M.2 NVMe with enclosure is definitely faster
but might not be cheaper tho
Faster yes, cheaper no.
It is, also with certain cases you can hot swap the SSD or install it in a PC internally.
$139 for 1TB Kingston A2000
~$40-50 for USB-C 10gbps NVME enclosure (can get cheaper 5gbps ones but why would you?)
Only a little more expensive when the T5 is sold at full price ($179) but since the T5 is on sale it's a cheaper buy.
Crucial P1's are $129 as well
3y warranty on the T5 as well
The USB-C NVME enclosures aren't all that cheap (just had a look on amazon, 20-50$. I got a few ugreen cables that are pretty decent, but the T5 seems easier
Got a T5 1TB and 250GB a year ago and both still going strong
However, late last year I bought a NVMe 1TB Kingston SSD and put into enclosure (Type-C)
Found that NVMe drive nearly doubled both read and write speed compare to T5
Both tested in the same Mac Book Pro 2018
T5 read / write: 490 / 520MBps
Kingston A2000 NVMe with enclosure: 980 / 980 MBps
At the end, T5 a great product due to its speed and portability
but for someone looking at achieving higher read/write speed (eg. Video editing, or for me, running Parallel image directly on drive)
still recommend using NVMe drive
Which enclosure did you get?
UGreen, bought in Aliexpress around A$32 I think
Thanks! 😁
Samsung T7 is the NVME with usb 3.2, T5= sata with usb 3.1
T7's normal price is too expensive
can you use this item to run windows from instead of the onboard HDD? is it better?
Yes, but not much of benefit
While USB 3.1 can reach up to 10Gbps
In reality there can still be bottleneck
also, you can possibility get a SATA3 SSD with similar price
Better off replacing your onboard hard drive with a 2.5" SSD and putting your old hard drive into an enclosure to store larger media folders on.
You can get free software to duplicate what was on your old drive to the new SSD.
Many SSDs will often contain a licence for their own software to do just this. When I bought a Crucial SSD years ago it came with a key to do just that (IIRC it was an Acronis package).
Good price to PM with OW
Was thinking that , $141.55 is pretty good
Yet to find a 1TB+ SSD under $100, I reckon we'll start seeing them pop up at the end of this year around Black Friday.
Was $108 with Latitude Pay at Harvey Norman on Boxing Day, which is close.
Paid $128 at Harvey's on 28 Dec. When I went in to collect it, they were selling them there (on sale) for $168. I love seeing the expressions of the staff when I get things for less than their shop is selling them for- lol.
I know right. When I went in and asked for a price beat, she did all the checks but then asked me what jbhifi was selling it for when entering the price beat on the computer, so I just said $129 😀… she must have bad memory?
Wondering when will they able to clear up all the old T5 stock
If you want something simply for the hard-drive space and don't necessarily require that SSD transfer speed, I'd recommend this:
Ahh didn't know that they were ever that low, that was some time ago as well.
Other retailers give you sales as a buying incentive, eBay get you to pay for an eBay plus subscription and then you have to play a lottery to see if you're worthy to purchase their deals or not. As someone who paid for it twice I'd say avoid the BS.
I use this for my PS4 Pro. Really makes a big difference to load times.
Trying to use it with ps4 pro getting
"cannot format this usb storage……..
At loss have tried to reformat using exfat on pc multiple times with no luk
No problem with drive on pc/mac etc
Any ideas?
That's annoying! I can't remember having any issues. Sorry, not sure what it might be.
Bit of a complicated thing to write here but make sure it's in MBR format and not GPT and that it only has one partition.
Press windows key + R to open the run dialog then type in diskpart and hit enter.
Commands to run: (enter at end of each, this will wipe the drive and repartition it)
list disk
(Make sure you identify your 1tb external correctly in this list)
sel disk #
(Where # is the disk)
clean
convert MBR
create partition primary
format fs=exfat quick
Thanks I'll try that as I know it was gpt and not mbr
Same price with free shipping at Centrecom.