Seems to be the usual price these days. No end date on special. 5 in stock @ my local @ Brendale. Enjoy!!!
https://www.umart.com.au/product/pny-cs1031-2tb-m-2-nvme-gen…
This is a better card but same price… Deal ends quickly so might be expired by the time you click.
Deal timing has been removed so it seems this is the going price now:
MSY price now expired
Woah insane
It's also usual practice these days for people who never post deals themselves to criticise people who actually go to the trouble of posting something.
https://www.centrecom.com.au/pny-cs1031-2tb-m2-nvme-ssd
$118 delivered if you pay by Bank Transfer or Zip Money.
Surcharge on other payment methods.
Credit Card (+$1.42 )
American Express (+$2.36 )
PayPal (+$1.42 )
what about cash notes? mailed or a cheque? :D
2TB for people still with Gen3 M.2 at this price seems pretty good, it only has 480TBW, which isn't alot but it should be sufficient since it's most probably going to be used as a games or storage drive anyways.
250+ GB per day for 5 years. Its not too bad in real world use.
Honestly, on every ssd deal people are overly worried about TBW.
How much are you actually writing? I'm using an 850 EVO from 2017 as my boot drive and it only has 98.52TB written.
I don't recall when i bought my 860 EVO but it was years ago. Power on time shows as just over 2 years so at least 4 years old.
Running as the main boot drive it has 35TB of writes. 480TB seems like plenty.
prices have slowly crept down, do these make good "usb sticks"?
These would make perfectly adequate long term mass storage solutions for laptops - I have one in my windows laptop and it works fine for holding games and videos.
Bit slower, slightly different performance. Honestly, if you installed it with a blind fold on, you'd go the rest of your life without noticing a difference.
This has >1000 TBW, way much better in term of longevities as a gaming drive
But yeah you probs never gonna hit that 480TBW if you go with this one anyway
The Team one has a small red LED that lights up when the drive is in use (assuming you don't have heatsink covering / obscuring it). Might be useful in a raid array perhaps knowing which drive is active?
As another ozbargainer has mentioned, Team has 1000TBW so a big plus there.
What a cracking deal. Bought 1 just for long term storage
I bought one of these 2TB PNY CS1031 M.2 when it was on sale recently for $109 plus postage. I can confirm it is a QLC only drive with only 34GB of fast SLC write cache before it drops down to around 50MB/s for the remainder of that sustained write. But it reads fast and it's cheap so you get what you pay for. Just don't expect fast sustained writes for large file copies to it in excess of 34GB in one go.
50MB per second on QLC with an exhausted cache is not too bad.
Tons of the "big brands" hover more around the high 20's and low 30's.
34GB. Is a small SLC for 2TB though. Games wont care. Video work might…
Intel/Solidigm QLC flash direct writes are around 500mb/s, but none of the other big brands use it afaik.
Does anyone know if this is single sided or double? Cheers
Single sided I just opened mine gonna install tomorrow.
Got one of these for $129 a few weeks back. Installed as a game drive.
I recently installed the last of us. Installing shaders took as long as the normal SSD. I gave up after waiting for about 5 minutes and it was only 5% installed and my CPU and GPU temperature sky rocketed to 70 and 90 degree.
it was a known issue from the game, not SSD. It took around 40mins on my SN850X as well at the initial release revision
Umart also has this one
https://www.umart.com.au/product/silicon-power-2tb-p34a60-ge…
similar specs but 1200tbw if that matters to you
Now thats a deal. Worlds faster.
Silicon Power’s P34A60 features a dynamic SLC write cache. We wrote 67GB of data before write speeds degraded. Once performance faltered, the drive fell from 1,650 MBps of write throughput down to an average of 140 MBps.
this one is much better! TLC so likely last longer, and 140MBps is faster than the other one.
Large capacity SSDs, one of the few items in the world that is Deflating. "Prices are going down, and are staying down".
Buying this vs Uninstall games which I don't play
my xbox ultimate annual subscription just expired, didn't play one game haha
i think the only thing i've played in the past year is company of heroes 2
Hey guys, kind of a pc noob and just wanting to get ozbargainers expert opinion.
Currently have a PC with SSD of 500gb.
looking to expand the storage to store movies, tv shows and steam games.. with the large amount of ssd sales what would be the best bang for your buck ssd i can get? not looking to spend too much (no more than 200)
Now $139 at MSY.
Updated. Thx
Slow but what a good price .