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Silicon Power Ace A55 512GB TLC 3D NAND 2.5in SATA III SSD $36 + Delivery @ Umart/MSY/Mwave

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Silicon Power Ace A55 512GB TLC 3D NAND 2.5in SATA III SSD $36 + Delivery @ Umart/MSY/Mwave
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Namidairo on 06/02/2023 - 11:06 umart.com.au (593 clicks)
Last edited 06/02/2023 - 12:49 by 1 other user

Horrible dramless budget SSD for potato computer. Only worth mentioning as it's sub-40 dollarydoos. Do not place in a system you care about/data you care about. Flash prices may still be in freefall for all I know.

Specs:
TLC, no dram cache.
SMI SM2258XT controller
3 year warranty
250TBW.
I don't eat crayons, probably.

Other places at the same price before delivery:
MSY: https://www.msy.com.au/product/silicon-power-ace-a55-512gb-t…
Mwave: https://www.mwave.com.au/product/silicon-power-a55-512gb-25-…

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  • kupeka on 06/02/2023 - 11:11
    +3

    Also, Amazon sells it for $39.45 delivered with Prime: https://www.amazon.com.au/Silicon-Power-512GB-Internal-Solid…

    • Namidairo on 06/02/2023 - 11:23

      I saw this before posting, all gone now.

      Someone must have bought the last 3 in the meantime. (Which also made it insufficient to post as a deal as you need at least 10 stock)

  • bestbarginever on 06/02/2023 - 11:14

    Why are flash prices in free fall? Any chance to nab a 4tb ssd under $300 anytime soon? Am building a proxmox homelab to run 24x7 so need a large ssd

    • Clear on 06/02/2023 - 11:17

      The flash and component shortages have ended so prices began to fall in 2022. Flash memory and SSDs have been dirt cheap in China for months (DRAMless 1TB SSDs ~A$50) and now they've started to fall in Australia.

    • Namidairo on 06/02/2023 - 11:20
      +1

      Overall decreased demand, if I recall.

      Also don't cheap out if you're putting it in a server. So obviously rule out any dramless drives such as this.

    • PainToad on 06/02/2023 - 11:22
      +12

      Why are flash prices in free fall?

      Obviously because it’s a flash sale.

      • FireRunner on 06/02/2023 - 11:36
        +15

        Thanks jv

        • dazza826 on 06/02/2023 - 12:04
          +3

          Jv you've done it again.

        • smartazz104 on 06/02/2023 - 14:01

          Like jv, but better.

        • PainToad on 06/02/2023 - 14:27
          +3

          You’re welcome

    • dealhunter52 on 06/02/2023 - 11:23

      Supply and demand…..Inflation and cost of living, leading to interest rates rises, leading to less money for discretionary spending.

    • jedimaster on 06/02/2023 - 12:28
      -1

      can you use 2 x 2 TB SATA SSD? 2TB WD RED SSD are $70 on ebay

      • bestbarginever on 06/02/2023 - 12:38

        Nice. Do you have the link? Are these Brand new?

      • Yekul on 06/02/2023 - 13:58
        +1

        Ahahaha these aren’t WD (Western Digital). They’re some knock off crap. That no doubt magically isn’t 2TB at all 😬

    • whats up skip on 06/02/2023 - 13:16

      Not free fall, but mainly due to smart phone sales volumes dropping. Most the extra supply of NAND is going into the spot market, hence cheaper low spec drives like these. There hasn't been as significant price drop in the SSDs with DRAM.

      • Jackson on 06/02/2023 - 14:10

        And yet Apple and Samsung will still charge you an extra 150 bucks to go from 128gb to 256gb

        • whats up skip on 06/02/2023 - 14:43

          I agree that it is an excessive amount, but I suspect the NAND in these phones is very fast, so commands a premium price.

  • Vorsprungdurchtech on 06/02/2023 - 11:19
    +2

    Upvoted for the sass, as well as the bone thin price.

  • doobey1231 on 06/02/2023 - 11:20
    +3

    I bought one to put cod on - it didn't like being on a HDD - and can say its been fantastic so far. A bit annoyed I paid $50 but I am impatient lol.

    • shabaka on 06/02/2023 - 11:32
      +20

      why is everyone putting fish on their SSD

      • HollyT92 on 06/02/2023 - 11:37
        +1

        asking the real questions

      • doobey1231 on 06/02/2023 - 11:53
        +5

        Why aren't you?

      • BeauKilla on 06/02/2023 - 12:29
        +1

        Because it didn't like being put on a HDD

  • s3n on 06/02/2023 - 11:42
    +1

    Gets my vote for the description

  • OMGJL on 06/02/2023 - 11:44
    +3

    Horrible dramless budget SSD for potato computer.

    upvoted for the deal description. LOL!

  • Dack Smith on 06/02/2023 - 11:47

    Is Silicon Power another cheap and nasty Chinese brand?

    The price is very low for decent components

    • doobey1231 on 06/02/2023 - 11:57
      +9

      Based in Taiwan, been around 20ish years. 3 Years warranty on top of an established company makes this a safe enough purchase. I wouldn't go putting sensitive data on it but for games storage its not a bad shout.

      Not that being a well known brand means you'll get reliability anyway - look at Samsung and its 980s shitting the bed at the moment.

      • JustAnExPat on 06/02/2023 - 12:26
        +1

        Damn that Samsung comment scared me (got a 980 non-pro in my system) until I looked it up and it's only the PRO that seems to be affected.
        As per this article: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/samsung-980-pro-ssd-failur…

        • doobey1231 on 06/02/2023 - 12:32
          +2

          Sorry yeah thats my bad I should've added more context, thanks for adding the link. Sucks that the update doesn't fix the already broken SSDs. Hopefully those users can get them RMA'd.

      • Jackson on 06/02/2023 - 14:13
        +1

        Are people saying don't put sensitive data on it just because the brand is cheap? Or is it something to do with being a DRAMless drive? I thought that would only affect performance and not reliability?

        • doobey1231 on 06/02/2023 - 15:05
          +1

          More because its a cheaper drive, cheaper drives often have cheaper components which means less confidence in reliability. At the end of the day if you have sensitive data you should always have it stored on multiple drives to be safe, as I mentioned earlier even the big expensive drives can be subject to failure.

          • Jackson on 06/02/2023 - 16:01

            @doobey1231: I was considering using 2 or more of these in a NAS with some sort of redundancy, I figuered they should be fine for that, as long as issues are more to do with catastrophic failure and not lost blocks with no way to know until you try to access the information

            • Chandler on 06/02/2023 - 17:49
              -1

              @Jackson:

              I was considering using 2 or more of these in a NAS with some sort of redundancy,

              Two drives purchased at the same time from the same store and used in the same computer are likely to fail around the same time.

  • Flognuts on 06/02/2023 - 12:17
    +6

    This SSD pairs well with a Pentium 3 800 and 2mb Voodoo graphics card,

    • pichxlonco on 06/02/2023 - 12:20
      +3

      And soundblaster sound card, using a creative CD-ROM drive

      • Switchblade88 on 06/02/2023 - 12:39

        Although Windows 95 doesn't have TRIM enabled by default.

      • PuppieWayne on 06/02/2023 - 13:01

        Look at this time traveller using a CD Rom.

    • DASHCAM NOW DUDE on 06/02/2023 - 13:28
      +2

      In high school, I compressed System of a Down - Chop Suey into a low quality MP3 so it would fit on a floppy disk. I would take this disk to school and play it on a computer in the library.

    • TSH on 06/02/2023 - 15:06

      This ssd will be bottleneck your cpu and video card. A new RTRD 5090ti Titass edition will fix all your problems.

  • Basil Fawlty on 06/02/2023 - 13:36
    -2

    $36 for 1TB SSD ! what a time to be Alive :)

    • OMGJL on 06/02/2023 - 13:48

      you might read better with one of your eye closed ;)

  • Geekomatic on 06/02/2023 - 18:20
    +1

    I've put the 256GB version in a lot of old folks' laptops to update their HDD & haven't had a failure yet. Good deal, OP.

  • sk213 on 06/02/2023 - 18:40

    As long as you dont fill it any more than 50% full… after that it becomes about the same speed as a usb 2.0 flash drive.

  • kupeka on 06/02/2023 - 19:44

    Patriot P210 SATA 3 512GB SSD for $41.95, if someone wants a cheap one:
    https://www.amazon.com.au/Patriot-Computer-Storage-Internal-…

  • ShipShapeRC on 07/02/2023 - 10:44

    I've had a few silicone power ssd drives for years and all are still running great.

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