Possibily the cheapest 1TB SATA SSD yet. Sure you're buying from China so the quality may be questionable, but I have 2 of these 1TB drives and they've been solid performers in USB enclosures.
From my testing they're DRAMless and have about 250GB of pSLC cache so it's able to write a decent chunk of information without slowing down.
- US$5 discount applied automatically at checkout
AU$ based on current Mastercard rate and GST inclusive.
Prepare to lose all your data at any time.
I haven't heard of this brand, so quality is untested. But c'mon, sick of the country of origin comment.
Most of the idiots saying this stuff have a house full of China made products.
Is this good for an old PS3? Worth a shot? I don’t really care about losing the data as I have it backed up
Roll the dice, hell even for a PS4
Noname chinese error 404 dram not found for 66 bucks I approve.
"Sure you're buying from China" that usually happens, most stuff is made there, ive bought stuff from aliexpress many times with no issues, same as any other platform you gotta dig in deep to avoid scams
People are always being triggered by China here. The irony.
There is reason for that.
Unnecessary paranoia?
Gullible MSM consumers?
Xenophobia?
too bad they didn't learn that 1/2 the stuff they buy is made in China anyways or least part of it.
Not for much longer, so much manufacturing is moving to SE Asia.
@Jessie Ryder: Medium term meaning? What kind of timeframe?
Please enlighten us and help us to see it.
@Jessie Ryder: you are being overly dramatic or being deliberately ignorant.
have you have any idea how big the manufacturing industry is in a country like china or india?
claiming "Not for much longer, so much manufacturing is moving to SE Asia." from your article is anything but.
@Jessie Ryder: your point has no merit.
china's manufacturing base existed way before those companies entered the market, and will exist after those companies leave.
if you can't do simple objective research, then you are just being deliberately ignorant.
trying to throw a random timeframe to cover your own backside is as valid argument as claiming 'everybody dies in the end, see? I told you.'.
do better.
@slowmo: Say what…..
Companies are moving manufacturing out of China (Fact)
They were not planning on doing that 3 years ago. (Fact)
Something has changed.
Any other wisdom from you?
Two social points for your defense of China.
my biggest issue with buying from aliexpress, is that i can't buy it as a gift for someone, because the packaging would be utterly tested for it's product protection capabilities.
it is a mixed bag yeah, got a parcel today with 4 layers of bubble wrap and encased in a plastic shipping bag, other times its just been an envelope
yeah a parcel is really rare. It's always those black plastic envelopes for me. Even when I ordered their convoy torches… lol, the boxes are cylinders by the time i opened them up. value of item don't matter too.. really random.
For that price, don't be surprised if it's just a couple of SD cards in a trenchcoat inside.
Any suggestions for a good cheap boot ssd? 240gig or larger
MX500, wait for a bargain. Hit subscribe here to be notified: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/product/crucial-mx500
Cheapest SATA SSD with a dram cache that actually has a brand/credibility behind it.
Anything cheaper is usually cacheless &/or a reliability lucky dip.
Thanks.
Crucial MX500 500GB $67. Local stock, 5-year warranty and decent size. If you want cheaper again, they have the BX Series $55, but I'd recommend spending the extra $12 if you are going to be using it as a primary drive.
If you can handle an M.2, then $65
For this price I would be more comfortable buying used/refurb enterprise drives, as you can find good ones for a similar price which use 3D MLC NAND (eg. SM863). They usually have much more endurance than these cheap budget SSDs. They also perform better as they have DRAM and don't need pSLC cache, meaning full speed writes across the whole drive.
Old MLC might not be much faster than spinning drives, but the do tend to last. I have a 256Gb, 6 years and still going.
I managed to get used 1.92TB SM863a drives for around $70/TB, and they are able to max out the SATA port for sequential reads and writes. They are rated for 95K IOPS random read and 28K IOPS random write, which isn't the fastest but is still decent. These drives were released in 2015.
Good idea, but the cheapest is around $140/TB
So it is not a good idea lol
Don't buy unless you want to be burnt. There is no point in comparing apples to oranges.
Fyi: don't be that pathetic ozbargainer who decided to buy a second hand ring for marriage lol.
You have no proof. Baseless comment.
Unless you have been living under a rock there are plenty of forum threads and articles on how unreliable, slow and sometimes downright fake these no name cheap solid state memory products are. Here is a video about fake capacity SD cards from LTT, the principle behind fake SSDs is the same.
Have you ever filled up the entire capacity of your drive, read everything back and most importantly verified everything you read back? If you haven’t then I strongly suggest you do before you continue to use your drive. Because you may have a much smaller capacity drive than you think, it may work as expected as long as you stay within the actual (much smaller) capacity of the drive, but the moment you go over you'll be writing and reading from aether ;)
Stop talking crap. Works fine.
I agree. The price on this one is exactly between a deal and a dodgy fake. I won't take the risk if I were you. But in general there's a great chance these SSDs are using recycled NAND and should not be used for proper data storage.
@Jessie Ryder: Hah, given that this is OzBargain, I'm surprised the meetup wasn't BYO at the park lmao
Im voting negative not because of political reasons but for the fact that this price is too good to be true. Chinese innovation and investment in green technology makes Australia and the US look pathetic but on the lower scale of things with lower margins, don't go cheap on consumer products. China is the world's leader in renewable technology, semiconductors(photonic chips) and new batteries(solid state battery) while China has the same amount of top 100 banks in the world as the US. Don't go cheap on low, people like Ray Dalio praise China because they have such good amounts of capital investments that they are able to take surpass the USA in two-decades(very unlikely now) in mass infrastructure and crucial technology.
but for the fact that this price is too good to be true.
It's not a fake product. Works perfectly fine. Australia has never been the cheapest country for electronics.
Someone in 'top finance' would know this.
Ill give it a 1 year top's before components start failing. Companies spend more because of reliability and those bucks saved simply aren't worth it.
bought a 512gb xray SSD from this aliexpress store a year ago.
it's in my home desktop and working fine.
You can always find some unknown 1TB SSD on aliexpress for a similar price. Not worth when you can buy a reputed brand ~1TB SATA SSD from Amazon with next day free shipping for $20 more.
I personally wouldn't buy an unknown name brand SSD from Aliexpress, or any SSD's from Aliexpress for that matter, you're either going to get a non-genuine, faked capacity or in this case (being that it's from an official store) likely abysmal read/write results.
Considering Xraydisk has a large presence on AliExpress and Alibaba and barely any presence else (eg. reviews), apart from Amazon UK isn't great and wouldn't surprise me if the majority of the reviews on Aliexpress are fake.
what are your thoughts on Netac?
Netac doesn't look bad, but their pricing sure is horrible.
$136 for a 1TB Netac SSD on Amazon via International Postage (Not even in AU) when I can get a Crucial MX500 for $118.50 or a Samsung 870 EVO for $138.00, both from AU with solid warranties. Not sure why they think they can get away with pricing their products similar to their top competitors.
They still have yet to make a name for themselves in anything but the Chinese market so their prices should be reflective of that.
Brand rep and lack of credible reviews is more the issue that country of origin. You'd have to be a really dense bogan to not understand different levels of quality coming out of China.
I'm sure this may be beneficial to some. For me an extra $20-40 is worth it for local support and data safety.
Im voting negative not because of political reasons but for the fact that this price is too good to be true. Chinese innovation and investment in green technology makes Australia and the US look pathetic but on the lower scale of things with lower margins, don't go cheap on consumer products. China is the world's leader in renewable technology, semiconductors(photonic chips) and new batteries(solid state battery) while China has the same amount of top 100 banks in the world as the US. Don't go cheap on low, people like Ray Dalio praise China because they have such good amounts of capital investments that they are able to take surpass the USA in two-decades(very unlikely now) in mass infrastructure and crucial technology.
I am in top finance and can tell you that China if democratic would have been unsurpassed even by Japan's standards by having a huge labour force that is so heavily invested in education and capital investments if tailored properly. There is a reason why heavy Chinese populations like Singapore, Taiwan, billionaire's of Thailand, Indonesia are of that culture. Blackstone and Goldman Sachs were heavily happy in opening offices in China if not for the current dictator forcing them to scale down. Australia imports indians but when you look at the world's best programmers, they are way behind, they are only good at talking. Nissan sued india for $700MM while Wipro lost Citibank $500-600MM while other VC's got burnt by the billions.
Alright so for the doubters I purchased this exact one and received today.
550 MB/s read, 510 MB/s write. It uses a single SK Hynix 128-Layer 3D TLC NAND Flash chip with the DRAMless SM2259XT controller. The pSLC cache is about 350GB where it dropped down to 90-200ish MB/s. In the check flash tests it was able to read/write the full 1TB so there's no fake capacity here.
TBW for the specific NAND flash chip is supposed to be 600-800TBW, however it's likely to be flash that didn't pass quality control so it could be less. The same flash and controller is used in the Teamgroup T-Force Vulcan Z SSDs. Perhaps factory seconds of that? Either way this is good specs and performance for an AliExpress special.
I won't post the 2TB A$80 SSD. That'll cop more hate than this.
