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Gigabyte AORUS 2TB NVMe Gen4 M.2 SSD $299 + Delivery ($0 C&C) @ Umart

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Gigabyte AORUS 2TB NVMe Gen4 M.2 SSD $299 + Delivery ($0 C&C) @ Umart
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digitalaxon on 17/07/2022 - 18:06 umart.com.au (1126 clicks)
Last edited 17/07/2022 - 18:24 by 2 other users

A reasonable price for an older (but still good 1st generation PCI 4) NVME that comes with a 5-year warranty, and a whopping TBW of 3600Tb. This should last you a long time especially if you're doing a lot of game updates, video editing or virtualisation (snapshots and the like).

I do see a few places dropping their prices for this unit (with and without the heatsink) in the last week from its previous >$500 price. Possibly encouraged by the sweet NVME deals we had during amazon prime and EOFY sales.

Some will moan about the lack of RGB but if you're after fast durable NVME and don't need it to flash at you, this might meet your requirements.

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  • [Deactivated] on 17/07/2022 - 18:07
    +1

    I think I paid the same for the 1TB version on release.

    • Bad Company on 17/07/2022 - 18:51
      +7

      Same here. Mine then died, and Gigabyte didn't allow personal warranty claims. Good thing my retailer was cooperative.

      Sold the replacement, got a Samsung 980 Pro instead. Saw zero real world performance difference by the way……

      • [Deactivated] on 17/07/2022 - 18:53
        +7

        What gigabyte "allows" is completely irrelevant, and your retailer is required to resolve the issue under Australian consumer law.

        MSY, for one, has been repeatedly fined millions for trying to tell people they need to go direct to "x" manufacturer when shit hits the fan. It's just not your problem, in Aus.

        • Bad Company on 17/07/2022 - 19:10
          +3

          How's it completely irrelevant? Of course it's relevant. Some manufacturers are very cooperative when it comes to personal warranty claims. Gigabyte isn't one of them.

          • ThirtySixNights on 17/07/2022 - 20:29
            +1

            @Bad Company: If it's a major failure, it's your choice whether you go to the manufacturer or the retailer. They have to resolve it.

            • xyron on 17/07/2022 - 20:44

              @ThirtySixNights: And when they don't, the filing fee for the Writ or Originating Application is more than the cost of the SSD.

            • Bad Company on 17/07/2022 - 21:07

              @ThirtySixNights: It's like saying a manufacturer should cover faults within a product's reasonable lifespan, rather than relying on an arbitrary cutoff.

              Technically correct, but doesn't always work like that in real life.

      • akoli on 18/07/2022 - 13:55
        +1

        Similar issue with Gigabyte and MSY. My board just died after 18 months, was at MSY buying other gear ( needed an upgrade anyway) and they said go back to Gigabyte, Gigabyte said no go to MSY. Luckily I cant because my local store was closed and just after I purchased from the other MSY store the covid lockdown happened and I couldn't travel that far anymore. Shit fight back and forth and in the end I quoted consumer law they sent me an RMA and address and covered shipping, but bit of sour grapes from me and I wont bother with GB again. Add them to the list with Samsung and Sony.

  • AFM7 on 17/07/2022 - 18:11
    +7

    The title lol

    • Guybrush57 on 17/07/2022 - 18:42
      +15

      Gigabyte Aorus 2TB M.2 PCIe (Yes The One with The Big Ugly Copper Heatsink) $299 + Delivery ($7 to VIC)

      Saved people from having to look at revisions.

  • dogsryummy on 17/07/2022 - 18:21
    +5

    Might as well just pay the extra 50 for the constant $350 2TB 980 Pro/SN850 deals on this site

    • [Deactivated] on 17/07/2022 - 18:28
      +2

      Why? I've found this ssd to me extremely fast and it has a very high rewrite capacity. I'm not sure the others are worth $50 more.

      • ChillBro on 17/07/2022 - 18:52
        +1

        The two listed above have 7000MB/s which means they're suitable for playing PS5 games. The one in this deal only goes to 5000MB/s although there is a 7000MB/s version but that costs significantly more. If you'll only be using it on PC, I agree that either are fine.

        • [Deactivated] on 17/07/2022 - 19:02

          Yeah I'm using mine on PC.

      • justtoreply on 17/07/2022 - 19:53
        +1

        I find explorer lags alot on Windows with this drive

        It benches high but bizarre real world behaviour

        • [Deactivated] on 17/07/2022 - 20:50

          Never had that happen with mine, are you using a gen 4 compatible board?

          • justtoreply on 17/07/2022 - 21:21

            @[Deactivated]: Aorus pro ax (as-recent-as-they-come b550)

            Try putting a bunch of movies in a directory and it'll show. Not sure if it's trying to generate thumbnails or file info or something? Happens in normal directories too but not as often

            • [Deactivated] on 17/07/2022 - 21:59

              @justtoreply: Strange, I'm using an Aorus X570 Master, yeah it's a better board but it shouldn't be happening. Are you sure the SSD is the issue though? Aorus bios are a friggin nightmare at times, you might be on an unstable one.

              • justtoreply on 17/07/2022 - 22:31

                @[Deactivated]: There are newer bios, but given I'm not getting usb issues I've stayed where I'm at

                • nitens on 18/07/2022 - 17:25

                  @justtoreply: If there's a newer BIOS and you sound like you're experiencing issues (USB related or not), I'd certainly try the newer BIOS. You can usually reflash back to the current BIOS if newer one doesn't resolve your SDD's bizarre real world behavior and you have concerns about other issues creeping in. I'm with you though, if everything is performing well, you can probably leave the BIOS as is. But… it sounds like you haven't quite got everything performing well. Also, I wouldn't bet on the BIOS release notes to exhaustively address all of the issues that may be addressed by the update. If you have issues, grab the latest and see.

      • Sleepycat3 on 17/07/2022 - 20:23
        -1

        And I don't really believe Gigabyte's claim of 3600TBW for this drive. And it is not really that reliable too.

    • digitalaxon on 17/07/2022 - 19:56
      +1

      I'm just going to chime in and say this drive is really tailored for those who need excessively high TBW (video editing, caching drive)

      Once direct storage is more widely used then we might see those new current gen 7000MB/s NVME's really shining, because for now, the difference between TLC nvme drives in day-to-day real usage is minor (generally speaking)

      • netsurfer on 17/07/2022 - 20:58

        All Phison E16 SSDs have really high TBW is something I am still trying to figure out. E18 ones have less. My guess is E16 requires more spare cells which in turn improves the TBW. It's relative anyway, if you filled the SSD to 90%, there is no way you get the quoted TBW.

        Direct storage is unlikely to show 7000MB/s high queue depth read advantage being heaps better (because on a small number of games which support DirectStorage, it has shown to make very little difference between PCIe gen 3 vs 4 so far, even the gap to SATA SSD is not much). PS5, so far, is unable to show significant advantage with faster SSDs (top rank PCIe gen 4 SSDs vs cheating E19 PCIe gen 4 SSDs). The main issue is that it is difficult to code in a way where you constantly do reads at 7000MB/s. It will help game loading a lot BUT that's across all types of SSDs, based on a small number of PC games supporting it. Bear in mind Series X is PCIe gen 4 x2 (which is the same as PCIe gen 3 x4) so DirectStorage requirement has to allow that.

        You might think 7000 is a lot, but in terms of coding, I'd rather go memory or video memory than even the fastest SSD even I want pure speed. Don't forget, for SN850, at Q1T1, the result is 5200 read and 4390 write. Source: https://aphnetworks.com/review/western-digital-wd-black-sn85…

      • [Deactivated] on 18/07/2022 - 10:54

        Hell, the real-world difference from a 500 mb/s cheap-as SATA 2.5" drive and nvme drives is minor for most uses, even yes, loading games.

    • netsurfer on 17/07/2022 - 21:44
      +1

      For a PC, I reckon go for 980 Pro or SN850. For a PS5, Phison E16 based controller SSDs are more cost effective (even if Sony has closed that loophole, which allowed E16 based SSD to cheat in the initial test). If budget permits, then sure go 980 Pro/SN850.

      Yes, in most cases, when not using benchmark apps, you won't be able to tell the difference, but most of us just cannot stop thinking about the best case figures. Warranty is another factor. For a PC, there is a good chance you will store data whereas on a gaming console, only games (for save games, most people have GamePass Ultimate or PS Plus so there is cloud save already).

  • jsediv on 17/07/2022 - 18:31

    Surely im not the only one who thought this was a panflute

    • spaij on 17/07/2022 - 19:46

      Shiny harmonica?

    • Guybrush57 on 17/07/2022 - 18:43
      +7

      Not the highest speeds but still not too bad. Is that really worth the neg?

    • RobBoss on 17/07/2022 - 18:52

      Haha how fast do you want this?

    • FDA2021 on 17/07/2022 - 19:17

      Why are they getting negged? They're only stating the read/write speed

      • Guybrush57 on 17/07/2022 - 19:25
        +1

        00000000 negged the deal based on the read/write speed.

        • FDA2021 on 17/07/2022 - 19:27
          +2

          Ohhh okay, that makes more sense

  • Gelli on 17/07/2022 - 18:50
    +2

    think the sn850 and the p5+ deals from last week may of been better than this

    • abadacus on 22/07/2022 - 23:35

      May have

      • Gelli on 23/07/2022 - 11:57
        +1

        thanks for correcting me. I've lost many hours of sleep over this grammatical error

  • BusMan247 on 17/07/2022 - 19:14

    If my presumptions are right in that real world between this and other drives on the ps5 don’t actually vary much if at all, this would be the one to get. I’m waiting for even less price but pretty good so far.

  • plmko on 17/07/2022 - 19:18
    +1

    This is a good SSD. Even if you only have PCIE3 it's still worth getting this.

  • jonathonsunshine on 17/07/2022 - 19:50

    Some will moan about the lack of RGB but if you're after fast durable NVME and don't need it to flash at you, this might meet your requirements.

    Are there any RGB SSD that flash based on read/right speeds?

  • John Doh on 17/07/2022 - 20:11

    Damn, I had paid slightly more than this for the MX500

    • Beyond on 18/07/2022 - 03:52

      You can't really compare the two.

      NVMe slot are more limited to SATA.

      • John Doh on 18/07/2022 - 08:19

        What? Sorry didn't understand.

        • Beyond on 24/07/2022 - 05:08

          Sorry for the late reply. I had assumed you were referring to the MX500 2.5" SSD and not the MX500 M.2 SSD. But I could have been mistaken.

          • John Doh on 24/07/2022 - 07:34

            @Beyond: Your assumption was correct. I had gotten 2.5 ssd back then because nvme were super expensive.

            • Beyond on 24/07/2022 - 22:30

              @John Doh: Well, what I meant by my first message "NVMe slot are more limited to SATA", general motherboards might have one available m.2 slot, possibly none at all. With SATA ports though, you're guaranteed four.

              My poorly written message was comparing the available slots, if you buy a drive using SATA (the mx500 2.5"), you'll be able to use that drive in your setup without issues throughout time, including options with raid. If you buy an M.2 drive, you'll potentially only have one available spot for if you ever decide to upgrade or want to make changes, it puts you in a less flexible position.

              It's speeds a 5000/4400 (peak sequential R/W), for an extra $60 you probably get something closer to 7000/6000
              Being that it's a boot/application drive, I'd probably be looking at the Random Read and Write IOPS, which is 750k/700k, better models will be closer to 1000k/1000k.

              • John Doh on 25/07/2022 - 06:08

                @Beyond: Ah ok. My b450m board has 2 m2 slots, though the second one is limited to slower speeds. Yet it will be faster than SATA ports. I got a sata ssd as a gaming drive instead because of how expensive high speed nvme were back then. Like almost 2 years ago.

                • Beyond on 29/07/2022 - 02:06

                  @John Doh: Yeah, the prices have changed quite a bit. I paid over $300 for my Samsung EVO 960 500gb several years ago.

                  M2 Slots also generally take up 4x PCIe lanes, while SATA takes a single lane (1x).

  • RobBoss on 27/07/2022 - 12:39

    For anyone who is wondering, this fits perfectly into a PS5. And it is compatible despite speed to be a bit lower than Sony’s recommendation

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