Cheapest 2TB M.2 SSD I've seen. Keep in mind it is PCIe Gen 3.
Also available in 1TB for $49 and 500GB for $29.
Thanks.
Lexar NM610 Pro M.2 NVMe Gen3x4 SSD 2TB $79 + Delivery ($0 SYD C&C) @ OnLine Computer
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Sausageman on 02/08/2023 - 15:31 onlinecomputer.com.au (1527 clicks)
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Really numpty question: will this perform better than my old Crucial MX500 2.5" SSD? I.e. faster, more reliable?
Performance will be better! But yours one is SATA and this one is NVme, different connector type.
I have a spare NVme, but just never bothered to put anything in because of all the overheating stories I heard
If you use anything that small it’s inevitably going to heat up. That’s why mass storage solutions are still chunky HDD’s.
because of all the overheating stories I heard
Should put heatsink
@superforever: Your unsubstantiated opinion is just being supplemented with more bad anecdotes. Computer components in the last 15+ years all have protections built in to prevent them from burning themselves up with very few exceptions (like the incident with 7000x3d chips or gigabyte PSUs which were fixed). This is generally done by throttling down the speed of the component or in the worst case your pc will be forced to shut down. There are many other reasons a component can die. Here's AMD's own guide on the matter regarding temps.
SSDs (minus gen 5 drives) also don't use enough energy to warrant a passive heatsink for normal usage, airflow from a case is more than enough. It's only with the release of the ps5 that people have been spreading this FUD about heatsinks.
@JerraJones: OK, even it won't die completely, doesn't mean overheating won't cause problem to the SSD, your comments very misleading, like SSD don't need it at all and won't have any problem with heat, so why Ram needs heatsink?
So my original comment "Should put heatsink" still valid.
doesn't mean overheating won't cause problem to the SSD
Thermal throttling exists to stop any permanent damage that isn't complete death too…
so why Ram needs heatsink?
I hate to break it to you but ram 'heatsinks' aren't even heatsinks most of the time, they're mostly cosmetic pieces of plastic…
They're like the fan shroud on gpus, purely cosmetic. Actually, they warm up the gpu a little bit since it traps in some heat but no one's going to care if your gpu runs at 72c instead of 70c as long as it looks good.
I'm also sorry to tell you that Santa isn't real, just in case someone hasn't told you that too.
Ram also doesn't need 'heatsinks' either, not since the ddr3 era anyways.
Thermal throttling exists to stop any permanent damage that isn't complete death too…
In that case with heatsink will minimize the chance or to prevent it throttling down the speed, so not useless.
They're like the fan shroud on gpus, purely cosmetic.
Very misleading, from what you said GPU and CPU no need to use fan to cool it down?
In that case with heatsink will minimize the chance or to prevent it throttling down the speed, so not useless.
You will not use your ssd long enough for it to thermal throttle/reduce speeds.
Very misleading, from what you said GPU and CPU no need to use fan to cool it down?
Fan shroud !=fan, the fan shroud is the plastic bit surrounding the fans. If I have to explain basic things to you then it's obvious you're a bit clueless on pc hardware. Also cpus and gpus can still run fanless, it won't damage them in anyway which is what we've been arguing about for the last couple hours. There's even laptops that don't have fans at all! Primarily made by some small company called Orange or Banana I think…
You can keep moving your goalposts all you want, heatsinks for ssds in a pc aren't needed, 'damage' or performance wise. They use ~1-5w depending on the load, not 20-600 watts that cpus/gpus use. Ram also uses the same amount. Even in laptops which have more heat circulating around are heatsinks used.
Not even 10 gigabit internet (which no consumer has in Australia) can saturate a gen 3 drive to use half its power. In a scenario where you're moving hundreds of gigabytes of data at once, your ssd will slow down from running out of its cache first.
@superforever: If you're an extreme user that be transfer large amounts of data constantly then you may benefit from a heatsink. But considering there are some reviewers that have tested constant use of an nvme heatsink for over 10 minutes which is over 4.2tb written on a faster drive at full pcie4.0, that is beyond the realm of regular use. If you were using your SSD that much you'd hit the tbw way too early. Most if not all drives will throttle the write speed if it reaches a pre programmed temperature threshold to avoid heat becoming an issue.
I've got a Lexar NM790 and a PNY CS2241. I have put $5 AliExpress Jeyi heatsinks on them, which in my use case has dropped temps around 25C. That being said, they didn't need heatsinks because they weren't throttling. I just put them on for my use case because for reasons unbeknownst to me gigabyte put one of the M2 slots on my motherboard essentially inside a gap in the chipset heatsink with a small fan, so I stuck the heatsink to help disperse heat faster to minimise heat transfer between ssd and the chipset.
all electronic have problem with heat.
No, heat is only a problem if it exceeds the temperature rating of the part.
What's important is that you don't exceed this rating - it doesn't matter how hot things get if they're within the official range
As a owner of 8 NVMe's (different brands and sizes) I've never had a single overheating issue. Highest temp I've seen is 60c under load and they ussualy idle at around 30-40c. Only my OS NVMe has a heatsink because it came with the motherboard, the other 7 just have the sticker heatsinks that they come with. Curious to know what overheating stories you've heard.
It's not nearly as big of an issue as it appears. All the people who don't have an issue don't go posting to forums, just the vocal minority. Even when they do get hot, they just throttle themselves and normally you won't be able to notice.
Thanks for all the feedback. So from what I gather, it's less "reliable" but not noticeable if I'm just using under "normal" circumstances. However, it is noticeably faster? Is that summation correct?
faster: yes..
more reliably: no..
oos
Great price. Never bought from this shop before though.
Me neither
I have with no dramas!
FYI they also run a physical store in Haymarket NSW (Chinatown) alongside heaps of other computer stores in the same building (called Technocity).
Says sold out when you go to your cart to try and buy it.
Party over oos
If we pay for it while backorder/oos will it still be filled or just cancelled?
QLC NAND
$40/TB is the dream, damn
The page for the item has vanished
Looks like was a price error page removed.
There was an old joke that the fastest ADSL model was a VDSL modem. And the fastest 4G phone was a 5G phone.
Well, I've just done some testing, and the fastest gen3 SSD is a gen4. I wondered if the 3500 GB/s speed all the fastest gen3 SSDs claim would only be matched by a gen4 SSD plugged into a gen3 socket, ie, that it was socket/motherboard limit. So I tried a gen4 in a gen3 socket, and got 3750 GB/s. Not a lot faster, but I only needed 256GB, and 256GB gen4 SSDs are only $21 on ebay.
Damn all out of stock
How come all the ssds are marketed as pro but I never see a LEXAR NM610 Amateur SSD?
That’s my secret, I’m always amateur - Lexar, probably
If we have NM610 Amateur launch in AU, how many would you buy?
Just got an email saying this order got cancelled, what a shame
Same.
too good to be true i guess, heh
The price was not tooooooo unrealistic!
Great price for mass storage. 480TBW.
Spec sheet:
https://www.lexar.com/product/lexar-nm610-pro-m-2-2280-pcie-…