$5 cheaper than the previous Crucial P1 1TB NVMe PCIe M.2 SSD deal
Crucial P1 1TB NVMe PCIe M.2 SSD $109.80, Kingston A2000 1TB NVMe PCIe M.2 SSD $116.10 + Delivery @ Shopping Express
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Twix on 11/03/2021 - 12:28 shoppingexpress.com.au (1885 clicks)
Last edited 12/03/2021 - 13:50 by 2 other users
Last edited 12/03/2021 - 13:50 by 2 other users
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for a 1TB? how the hell did I miss that?
Yeah was this https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/560553
May have been a price error but I got one and so did a few people.
Never seen that price… but I have a crucial P1 for a year or so now and very happy with it. Paid about $135
Yes for 1Tb
I’ve had no problems with my a2000 - highly recommend.
A2000 is well worth the extra $7 over the P1.
A2000 uses TLC flash rather than the P1's QLC, which gives it better endurance as well as much better performance under write-intensive situations when the cache is filled.
delivery kills the deal
Titles should include the minimum cost of delivery IMO.
Also that scummy 1.5% processing fee some shops do.
I had the Crucial P1 $120 and Kingston A2000 $126.30 delivered. The mods updated the title.
Using Google Pay seems to remove the credit surcharge
What's the difference between P1 and P2?
P2 is newer, faster and more reliable
In synthetic benchmarks that may be true but seems game loading times P1 is actually faster in the real world:
Diamonds hands on this…. hold n the price will go down further!
Paper hands here, panicked and simped out on the 1TB 970 Evo+ deal for ~$150….
Hopefully the extra performance was worth the $50.
that's a pretty bloody good price for a samsung drive, i'd be happy with that for sure
With shipping, comes up as $120 for me.
$10 shipping for me. Yeah nah
Does anyone know how to use NVMe PCIe M.2 SSD as OS drive in old mobo ( 7+ yo ) ?
My mobo recognize the drive but I cant get it to boot from it.
Here are some of my post https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/607924Make an identical copy with CloneZilla.
I used AOMEI Partition Assistant Professional Edition 8.4 for the job. Maybe I did something wrong … gonna try again. Does the MBR or GPT matter ? How about Logical Partition or not ?
MBR or GPT is really important for booting options! You have to choose the one that your original drive had. It is most likely you have the wrong one if you can't boot.
@frewer: There are many variables, some motherboards (which are likely to support booting from NVMe SSDs) only boot in UEFI, which needs the disk to be GPT. But if your original disk was MBR, you should try to make it MBR as your PC expects an MBR boot disk.
Did you try it yet?
@Blue Cat: Hi, I format the NVMe SSDs, do another clone. Took out the original one, try to boot the new one using UEFI. It didnt work ….
I couldn't get my old boot disk to clone onto my NAMEe and boot. Finally did a fresh install on the NVMe then copied old disk over it (kept the files it wouldn't allow overwrite). Maybe I got lucky, but it worked. Good luck
@Cheapkiwi: I just did a disk-to-disk clone with CloneZilla. It didn’t boot at first, but then Windows Startup Repair popped up automatically and after that I could boot normally!
Everyone’s got a different story, hopefuly your solution will work out well in the end.
By the way, my 970 Evo+ is not reporting any SMART data at all… is this normal for M.2 NVMe drives?
@Blue Cat: @Blue Cat - sounds good, maybe that'll work when I eventually upgrade Boot NVMe size
Sorry I can't comment on your query - I have more questions than answers just thought I'd share the experience I had that worked <once> - sounds like Twix is on to something for you though….
ASUS P8Z77-M PRO and you are going for the BIOS patch / hack…. Good luck.
Also, do bear in mind, with your CPU and motherboard combo, you are looking at PCIe gen 2 x4 at best, so you won't get the same results from the reviews, especially for sequential reads/writes.
Personally, I would temporary disconnect all bootable SATA3 SSDs, try install Windows (fresh install) on the NVMe SSD, getting it to boot properly first (so you know it is definitely bootable). Then, clone the drive (use an app that clones properly, rather than going manual - the software should just clone it for you, it shouldn't ask you for partition type, otherwise what's the point of using the cloning software?). Even with the manual BIOS patch / hack, there is no guarantee the BIOS boot code will work with the NVMe SSD (could have boot compatibility issue). Though, honestly, I would actually use no native NVMe boot support as an excuse to get a new PC.
Good advice thanks for that.
I would actually use no native NVMe boot support as an excuse to get a new PC.
:D that is the next step
@frewer - if you've got an older system that doesn't have NVMe support, you can actually do it with a rare SSD model - the Samsung 950 Pro. One of maybe two SSD's that has a built-in option-rom that allows it to be bootable in pretty much anything. I've got one and have previously run it in X58 systems without issue. Shows up as "SCSI:0" in the bios and is perfectly bootable.
Thank man, it's too late for me. I already bought the 970evo plus…
Me looking at every SSD deal with the enticing prices waiting to pull the trigger & then realising my 6-7yo laptop doesn’t even support an additional HDD
Get a 2.5" SSD.
Get an SSD, clone that HDD, replace the internal HDD with the SSD.
good price
Waiting for $100 or under delivered.
Lol same. It's probably not going to happen anytime soon, but we can wait :)
https://www.shoppingexpress.com.au/buy/wd-blue-sn550-1tb-240… SN 550 1TB, This is the same price as the A2000, they are both pretty good in different use cases
what's the different use cases?
I was debating between the A2000 and the SN 550. Ended up pulling the trigger on the WD for $130 delivered via Amazon.They are both good value and you and I won’t notice any real world difference.
But this goes into more depth. https://premiumbuilds.com/comparisons/kingston-a2000-vs-wd-b…
Anyone know of a good NVME USB-C enclosure to use the A2000 as an external drive?
Cheapest for P1 was $94 mid last year.