Not as good as last time but still decent value for a 2TB nvme ssd.
2400MB/s read
1750MB/s write
PNY CS1031 2TB NVMe Gen3 M.2 SSD $118 + Delivery ($0 C&C) @ JW Computers
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EternalFrost on 26/05/2023 - 12:00 jw.com.au (311 clicks)
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Last edited 26/05/2023 - 12:13 by 1 other user
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It's pretty close for my state. $123 @ BPC and $125.95 @ JW. Now if only Amazon price matched!
BPC's $5 flat rate shipping for CBD and Metro seals the deal for these types of productsWhich sadly isn't the whole country. Many OzBargainers forget that Australia isn't just Melbourne and Sydney.
@Clear: Government also has the same problem…. they don't think of anyone else in NSW and only think of Sydney. I'm on the mid north coast of nsw….. postage here can get expensive on a lot of items. That's why i shop at mwave and centrecom because of their flat-rate shipping fees.
So, the only factor remains is what's JW's warranty like. We know BPC will only offer store credit by default.
For people living in NSW and near the store locations, then it might be a bit tricky to decide. However, cheaper is cheaper (that's the OZB way).
ChatGPT, why not post the JW deal???
PNY - never really heard of it - any good? reliable?
A lot of cheap PNY SSD deals lately. Like Kingston, Silicon Power, component swaps is quite normal for these SSDs.
There are at least 3 different NAND types for this SSD.
SSD reliability is not based solely on the brand. Had Samsung, Kingston SSD died and a Sandisk (now owned by WD) SSD with re-allocated sectors. Would still buy SSDs from those makers.
Probably a bit of a noob question but I was thinking to expand my storage for my games. A fellow Ozb mentioned that the M.2 might be an overkill but given how M.2s are cheaper than SATAs, would this then be a better purchase then?
Up to you how well you want your games to run (loading times + maybe a bit of FPS boost), I typically store a few favourite games into my M.2 (so 1-2TB is enough) they load up very quickly and run well. But I keep my less/barely played games i own on a SATA SSD/HDD, load up times are abit longer but still play well.
It also really depends on your build, I only just built a new pc last weekend in a Small form factor case, so I only want to have two M.2 drives in there, so i have a 1TB m.2 980 pro currently for windows 11 + a few favourite games and Im holding out on buying a 4tb PNY for cheap (provided i actually dont keep missing the deals lmao) to keep my other stuff like some movies / other less played games idc about.
At the moment, m.2/NVMe SSDs are more cost effective. So, if you have a spare slot, then consider m.2/NVMe, especially for data storage (since $/GB is cheaper).
There are mainly two advantages of SATA:
- Most PCs have more SATA ports than m.2 slots.
- Some BIOSes allow you to disable SATA ports, which can be handy if you want to install multiple OSes on different SATA SSDs (but generally, that's not applicable to most people).
$109 + Delivery @ BPC