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Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1TB NVMe M.2 SSD $91.95 Delivered @ Amazon US via AU

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Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1TB NVMe M.2 SSD $91.95 Delivered @ Amazon US via AUAffiliate
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littlesoldier on 29/03/2023 - 22:29 amazon.com.au (2153 clicks)
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Discounted SSD getting even cheaper (was $99.34 few days ago)
Its a Gen 3 SSD but good enough for most PC users
Also good as a boot drive given it has DRAM

Note: I purchased this 4 days ago via Samsung 970 Evo Plus 1TB NVMe SSD $99.34 Delivered @ Amazon US via AU
and just got AU$ 7.39 promotional credit back from Amazon Chat

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  • SmoothCactus on 29/03/2023 - 22:32
    +22

    What a time to be alive

    • John Doh on 01/04/2023 - 09:51

      As long as you dont game on your PC!

  • TsundereGuy on 29/03/2023 - 22:49
    +7

    It's funny though in that despite the great prices we're getting several PC parts at right now, it still doesn't offset the price of GPUs.

    • Brrrrt on 30/03/2023 - 02:50

      Only if intel arcs drivers arent so sh*t (and yes I’m aware its being much improved, but still not enough) relative to their actual hardware. Given the current duopoly by Nvidia and AMD, prices are hard to drop anytime soon.

      • John Doh on 01/04/2023 - 09:51

        For 1080 and 1440P 60FPS, the ARC is not bad.

  • grackfight420 on 29/03/2023 - 22:52
    +1

    I'm seeing "Buy 2, save 5%" applying to this one, so $174.70 two a pair

  • megadeth on 29/03/2023 - 22:59

    A lot of sub US50/TB deals in the Amazon US, looks like these price wars are finally hitting our market.

  • nelladream on 29/03/2023 - 23:05

    Why I asked for a promotion credit they refused :(

    • I Smell Pennies on 29/03/2023 - 23:10

      Gotta be lucky these days. I think they advised their employees to not give out promo credit for price drops anymore (i.e. they changed their policy). However, if you land on a nice enough rep, you'll get it

    • Inyokuchi on 29/03/2023 - 23:30

      Just got a promotional credit Here

      Try asking again, you might get a nice rep.

  • jimojr on 29/03/2023 - 23:05
    +2

    Was $79.52 a few days ago.

    • incipient on 29/03/2023 - 23:09
      +15

      And you didn't post it?! 😮 My inner ozb now needs to wait for your price lol

      • I Smell Pennies on 29/03/2023 - 23:10

        RIP. We missed out

      • jimojr on 29/03/2023 - 23:22

        Someone did. you can Google "970 Evo Plus 1TB ozbargain".

        • leetec on 30/03/2023 - 00:17
          +4

          I posted that and got deleted. And I know local distributor cost is near $80 now, so we should see a bit more than this price soon.

          • Smilence03 on 30/03/2023 - 00:40

            @leetec: why did it get deleted? it doesn't make sense as it was a great deal.

            • craving on 30/03/2023 - 04:17
              +1

              @Smilence03: I asked the same thing and someone said it's a duplicate but I could not find the duplicate so the only other explanation I can think of was, the mod considered the deal was too hot to be listed here.

            • leetec on 30/03/2023 - 09:43

              @Smilence03: Mod said duplicated, but the others post is mainly for Ryzen and mentioned this ssd, not 990pro as well. I also think it's updated post initially there is no ssd in title.

    • harryozz on 29/03/2023 - 23:11
      -1

      nice inspect element

  • snowman3k on 29/03/2023 - 23:06
    +2

    I have purchased this from the previous deal of $99 and it is still getting shipped from US. However, after reading all the firmware issues and corrupt blocks, I am contemplating to return this when it arrives.

    I was initially planning to use the drive as a boot drive with windows installed given the DRAM.

    • Willy Beamish on 29/03/2023 - 23:16
      +11

      It will be fine, just make sure the firmware is up to date. People need to stop fearmongering with things they don't understand (not you) whenever these drives get posted.

      • snowman3k on 29/03/2023 - 23:31

        Alright, fingers crossed then!

      • bmerigan on 30/03/2023 - 23:08

        100% this

    • [Deactivated] on 29/03/2023 - 23:50
      +2

      I have been using the 500gb version of this for almost one year & haven't had any issues, production date on box was May last year & it already had the latest firmware when I checked using Samsung Magician a couple months ago.

      • snowman3k on 29/03/2023 - 23:54

        Thanks for the confidence vote. Given it was $99, I will give it a shot, worst case is I lose my OS :///

        • Willy Beamish on 30/03/2023 - 13:21

          Always keep in mind any drive can fail for any reason so always keep backups.

    • leetec on 30/03/2023 - 00:20

      I recevied two from UK within a week, both latest firmware which will be fine. I think the problem is manufacturing problem with old batch date to 15 months ago.

  • I Smell Pennies on 29/03/2023 - 23:25

    Amazon US items fluctuate a lot. Some expensive items keep dropping over time and become very cheap. I predict if this doesn't sell out, it could keep dropping

  • boardumb on 29/03/2023 - 23:31
    +2

    Great price. Really hanging out for the 2TB deals though

  • BargainBuddy on 29/03/2023 - 23:32
    +1

    HODL if you don't need it. Definitely this will go down in price given that gen 4 is already mainstream.

  • Corgirun on 29/03/2023 - 23:53

    I'm looking at my 970 EVO 500GB… I bought it for $90ish two years ago…

  • Bii on 30/03/2023 - 00:13

    Do we still need Ram in the future with the coming 12GB/s Gen 5 SSD

    • Axelstrife on 30/03/2023 - 01:24

      lol yes, ram is much faster than that.

      • Bii on 30/03/2023 - 01:41
        +2

        DDR4 is at around 25GB/s so double this speed.

        Imagine the speed of SSD is close enough and we don't need to save the work before shutting down or afraid of power shortage etc

        • Axelstrife on 30/03/2023 - 02:12

          DDR4 is obsolete, DDR5 6000 is around 71GB/s.

        • BROKENKEYBOARD on 30/03/2023 - 02:31

          It would could be a big performance hit since 12GB/s is probably worse than single channel 2133Mhz RAM. It might also kill the SSD since RAM has unlimited writes where as SSDs don't.

    • Cheap Rich Guy on 30/03/2023 - 17:24

      Seeing as 32GB of DDR5 6000 costs about the same as 2TB Gen 4 Nvme, there must be something a whole lot more complex going on with DDR5.

  • reader64 on 30/03/2023 - 01:58
    -1

    If you don't need the BEST OF THE BEST

    this for the price,is one of the best NVME still out there

    I have one in a PC

    As of right now has 960Terabytes writen to it with no issue

  • Curtisebear on 30/03/2023 - 08:46
    +1

    Could anyone please explain why a slower drive with DRAM is preferable to a faster drive without for boot drives? Cheers!

    • littlesoldier on 30/03/2023 - 09:43
      +4

      TBH I don't think DRAMless will have too much of an issue in booting
      Booting are mainly "read" and DRAMless are not bad in random reads (still slightly slower than DRAM but not noticeable in real life)

      However, a system drive are usually involving lots of reads and writes overtime
      and DRAM drives tend to have much longer lifespan than DRAMless drive
      this is due to DRAM cache holds the mapping table of the data, while DRAMless drive store the table directly in NAND flash
      NAND flash it not only much slower than DRAM, but also kill the lifespan as it directly read/write to the memory cell
      So DRAM drive reduced the number of times to read/write NAND flash for the mapping table needs

      In summary, DRAM SSD are more preferable as a system drive
      but for other storage drive, DRAMless drive will provide better value for money

      (There are some exceptions where DRAMless drive are as good as DRAM, like Samsung 980)

      • Curtisebear on 30/03/2023 - 11:04

        Great! Thanks very much.
        I have a WD 770 2tb that will be used for games and 'other'.
        So this would be great for a boot drive.

  • WayneOZ on 30/03/2023 - 09:36

    I can still remember that I paid triple this price 3 yrs ago for this exact same disk.

    • ning on 30/03/2023 - 10:13

      I paid 230$ for a 1tb Samsung T5 back in the day. And I thought it was a steal.

      • WayneOZ on 30/03/2023 - 10:32
        +1

        It was a steal at that time, especially when compared to mine.

  • Homr on 30/03/2023 - 11:42

    Tempted even though I still got 59gb left on my 512gb NVME

    Can anyone recommend an decent enclosure so I can easily clone my existing NVME to this one?

    • littlesoldier on 30/03/2023 - 13:14

      I use ugreen and baseus which both runs ok
      However found that the speed will max at around 850-950 MBps

      I guess it’s ok for external drive

  • skillet on 30/03/2023 - 15:12

    Its a Gen 3 SSD but good enough for most PC users

    It's actually updated to a Elpis based PCIE Gen 4 controller. Slightly hotter temps so slap on a good heatsink on those NAND chips to slow down aging.

  • Littlebob86 on 30/03/2023 - 16:31

    Where's the 2tb deals!? ♥

  • BargainKen on 30/03/2023 - 19:21
    -1

    Soon they'll be paying us to take them :D

  • DarthLord on 30/03/2023 - 20:50

    this might be silly question, i have a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 6, will this drive compatible to be used with this laptop?

  • Grish on 31/03/2023 - 20:04

    $99 at centrecom shipped/pickup if you wanted it faster.

    • walululu on 02/04/2023 - 16:00

      Thank you. Bought from centrecom for OZ warranty

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