Another M.2 NVMe deal for the community, it’s getting cheaper and cheaper by the day. $4.95 delivery to Brisbane. Limit 1 per customer.
I’m out of slot on my motherboard.
PNY CS1031 2TB NVMe M.2 SSD $109 + Delivery ($0 SYD C&C) @ JW Computers
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Ah nvm, free shipping is metro only
Confused?
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Always….
Yeah that's a problem with these…. not having enough slots. They need to make mass-storage versions or bring the price down on normal sata ssd's, like the 4/8TB models. Great price on this though! Nice find OP! Plus JW allows humm finance too!
Need to start buying pcie add on cards
Not the best solution but you can buy the 10gbps usb housings for these and get some of the speed benefit over a sata USB SSD. Alternatively you can get a thunderbolt nvme dock
Or just make sure your motherboard support bifurcation of the PCI slots and get a PCI card that can take 4 of these.
Warranty Period 1 Year Warranty
480 tbw pass
Yea same the TBW and it's so low for a 2TB ssd
Out of interest what would be your minimum endurance?
you want 600 Min I like to go for 1000+
It's TB written. Depending on your usage pretty easy to calculate. As system drive? No because a lots of random writes. As media drive for plex, photo storage, fast boot vms, sure.
Right setup is the key
@always-confused: Been daily driving an EVO 850 as a system drive since 2016, it's currently at about 60TBW. OzB badly needs to get over its obsession with TBW, if you need to ask, I promise you it's probably fine.
@jonathonsunshine: Yeah CrystalDiskInfo is what I use, it's never given me reason to doubt it…just gotta cringe your way past their website's odd anime obsession
Lol OzBargain is collectively way too obsessed with TBW. Outside of fairly specific use cases (who I guarantee understand their said use case is niche and as such aren't sitting on OzB going, "480tBw bAd"), I GUARANTEE YOU that 480TBW is more than adequate for your average Joe, especially at that price point.
$11.73 shipping for me.. I might wait to see if these go cheaper..
Damn, just bought it for $129.
Loving how cheap nvme are getting. I feel like Sata should be cheap as chips now. What's with the price of them now? Seems like nvme is cheaper.
dam oos in minutes
Edit: back in stock, filled in my info, oos again
4tb @ 300 is coming. Just give it a couple more months
This feels dangerously like hopium but I'd love it if you were right
Thanks OP! Got one.
This has got 1 yr warranty. Is it good enough guys?
Idk about that but on here it says 5 years https://www.pny.com.tw/en/products-detail/CS1031-M2-SSD-NVMe…
They don't seem to have any Australia based support though. Not sure the warranty would be of any use even if it is 5 years
At these prices it's getting hard to say no. Not that I need it
You don't care about the price difference? 109 vs 209?
false economy
It's easy to get tricked by the TBW figures:
- All E16 based SSDs have really high TBW figures, so this TBW has something to do with competition on similar type of SSDs.
- E16 based SSDs' flash aren't that great performance wise, I wouldn't go crazy writing to E16 based SSDs because once the SLC cache is depleted, its write speed is PCIe gen 3 SSD like after SLC cache is depleted, you won't get 1000MB/s.
- SSDs tend to die prior to exceeding the TBW figure. Zero of my SSDs which died ever written 5% of the TBW figure. One Samsung SSD died soon after written 1TB worth of data.
It was showing $109 delivered to Adelaide.
Merged from PNY CS1031 2TB NVMe M.2 SSD $109 + Delivery ($0 SYD C&C) @ JW Computers
This one seems to be back.
Features (Copy-paste from JW, pardon the formatting)
NVMe version 1.3
SSD form factor M.2
SSD capacity 2000 GB
Interface PCI Express 3.0
Memory type 3D NAND
Read speed 2400 MB/s
Write speed 1750 MB/s
PCI Express interface data lanes x4
Mean time between failures (MTBF) 2000000 h
TBW rating 480
SSD usage tag Consumer
Certification BSMI, FCC, KCC, VCCInot ps5 compatible
but find a cheap enclosure and you can put it in your prison pocket
Thoughts on using a dramless ssd in a situation where it won't have hmb? I've tired to find some benchmarks etc but didn't get far.
That TBW rating is quite low considering the 2TB size.
It’s about the same as a decent 500 GB drive.Still a bargain of course
Yeah, I bought one mainly to chuck my library of mostly unplayed games on :')
Definitely don't want important stuff on it though.zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Huh?
@PainToad: Talking about the TBW is a total waste of time for "normal" users - it's just not a metric OzBargainers need to care about.
@Nom: I'm starting to think it's just an excuse for someone to flex that they rewrite loads of data. Clap clap. Completely irrelevant to the normal user. They can make any excuse they want but it's simply just unlikely that tbw will ever be an issue.
@shiny1: Sure, probably.
Keep in mind the warranty is null and void once the drive is “exhausted” it’s TBW.
For a 2TB drive, 480TBW is writing the whole drive 240 times right.
Depending on your usages, RAW photos, video footage.. it’s very possible to exceed this.
Unlike good old Mechanical drives, SSD will just fail abruptly without warning too.
@[Deactivated]: 480TBW is about 13 years of writing 100GB to it daily.
~5 years if you write 250GB daily.
Those are absurd numbers for average consumers
@[Deactivated]: I agree that for specific use cases of multiple data rewrites eg surveillance etc, tbw would need to be a consideration. It would be prudent for the buyer to do the research and look for endurance type drives suited to that application. What gets me is the attitude on here where someone just parrots "gen3 hard pass" or "low tbw, pass" or "too slow, no dram" in a dismissive manner with no useful information to back up their stance. I know at this point I'm just shouting at the wind, but if it helps someone, or reduces low quality comments, then I'm happy.
@shiny1: bought one of these and sorta wish i didn't so I could buy the intel 2tb gen 3 one instead, but TBH this will go in the 'other' slot of my laptop and will hold games and some movies.
So in practicality, it would be the same as using a $400 top of the line gen 4 drive
@[Deactivated]: the Warranty is also null once the stated years are up, which is going to happen before exhausting TBW for 99% of users
Depending on your usages, RAW photos, video footage.. it’s very possible to exceed this.
No, it's not - as the other poster above mentioned, even if you're writing 100GB of data every single day, seven days per week, then it'll still take you 13 years to get to the TBW limit.
These are massive write numbers.I say again, just to be very clear : These are massive write numbers.
And if someone really is doing hundreds of gigs per day of video or RAW photos, they sure as hell aren't doing it on a $109 bargain basement 2TB drive 😁
@Nom: Yes and no… Is a $109 drive with a TBW of 480 better value than say a $160 one that can do 1600 TBW? . That's for an ozbargainer to decide if they only see the cost of an NVME or the value. Withholding the information should be avoided to help a shopper make an educated purchase.
Using myself as a small sample (and the system I'm on now is probably typical use and using a fresh NVME drive installed last month), according to CrystalDiskInfo, it has been on for 56 hours, power cycled 15 times, and has already had 921Gb written to it (install windows, few largeish games and let them update).
I know there are many considerations when choosing storage and usage profiles and believe giving a prospective purchaser all information where possible.
Is a $109 drive with a TBW of 480 better value than say a $160 one that can do 1600 TBW?
For 99% of Ozbargainers, absolutely the $109 is better value. They will never hit the 480TBW limit or even get anywhere close to it.
help a shopper make an educated purchase.
Precisely. For 99% of shoppers, the TBW doesn't need to enter the decision. We don't need to discuss it for the other 1% - they already know what they need.
Using myself as a small sample (and the system I'm on now is probably typical use and using a fresh NVME drive installed last month), according to CrystalDiskInfo, it has been on for 56 hours, power cycled 15 times, and has already had 921Gb written to it (install windows, few largeish games and let them update).
You fit the 99% profile perfectly - with that use case, you've got years and years and years left in whatever drive you did choose - it's going to write a few tens of gig per week, at the very most, from now on.
@Nom: I fit the 99% profile perfectly because I use it lightly as I have a dedicated gaming machine with high end GPU/CPU and 4 x 2Tb drives (rated for 3600 TBW each).
It does beg the question, be interesting to see users drive usages based on the type of 'user' they are (ie, low end, mid range etc) and what would be a typical ozbargainer.
@digitalaxon: Your dedicated gaming machine is also in the 99% category of "minimum writes, any old drive will have more than enough endurance" - even if you update every title every single day, it's a few tens of gigs at the most.
You just don't need to worry about endurance…
How/why are you considering 480 TBW to be low? How many TB have you written to your current drive in how long?
Warranty is written as only 1 year.
this may be JW being pricks per usual…
eg. Umart
Brand: PNY
Manufacturer Warranty: 5 Yeareven on the PNY website warranty is listed as 5 years.
@bargainhuntr: yeah some random googling says mwave msy says 5yrs
let us assume that this is just a typo but i'd get them to change it in writing before purchase rather than assuming
The warranty is indeed 5 years but good luck in claiming the warranty though
In transit from last deal.
Love the price. But TBW is so low. Speed is low as well
Yes, hence the price
Blimey Chinese nand really getting cheap!
absolutely 0 reason to not pick this up if you do not already have some form of SSD technology as a games drive
1 reason for me - but depends where you live.
"This item is currently not available for delivery."
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Out of Stock. No worries! I'm sure they'll be another deal even cheaper in 10 minutes' time. Crack the sub-ton for 2TB NVMe pickup. C'mon, you know you want to Ozbarginers!!
This is an unbelievable price.
As the Raspberry Pi is difficult to find, I've started using the Orange Pi. I like Orange Pi, and they have a model with an M.2 slot, something the Raspberry Pi doesn't.
Back in stockBack in stock as if 1827 AEST.
Bought one at $129 from PCByte 2 week ago. Did not expect the price to fall further or would have waited obviously.
Experience so far: no unpleasant surprises. Performs as advertised. My only expectation at this price or even the price I bought is that it doesn't fail prematurely which it hasn't. I am therefore happy.
Tempted to buy another at this price but no more m.2 slots sadface
Back in stock now, purchased one the other day.
Cmonnnnnn 2tb for $99 - were almost there 🤞
Why so obsessed in this relatively lower TBW?
I'm very certain that most of you will upgrade to larger capacity way earlier before it reaches the designed max TBW. I mean, look at the trend, we will possibly see a 4TB to be sub $200. Would you be able to resist that? Probably not……
After seeing how chatGPT might permanently steal our jobs in a few years, i have no interest in spending on anything. Pass.
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The PCIe 4.0 YMTC 232L TLC ssds on Jd.com are as cheap as $au100. Recently bought a Gloway 2tb YMTC that does 7000MB for ~$130
Even better because it's free shipping above $100