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HP EX900 500GB PCIe3.0x4 NVMe SSD M.2 $29 + Shipping ($0 for C&C Perth) @ Storm Computers

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HP EX900 500GB PCIe3.0x4 SSD M.2 SSD 2100MB/s & 1500MB/s 3D NAND Flash, 2YY44AA

Great drive for people upgrading older systems, notebooks/laptops or building on a strict budget.

Available while promotion stock lasts or 11th October 2024 - Whichever occurs first

For specs/details of the drive: https://hp.biwintech.com/products/hpex900m.2/

final edit: All promotional stock now sold.
edit: 04/10/2024 We have almost exhausted out stock. Sale will end at 5pm WST time. Thank you.
03/10/2024 4:pm WST, EDIT: Thank you for all the support. We have been received a lot of orders, as we are small team, orders will be shipped out late tomorrow and over the weekend/early next week. Thanks.

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  • +9

    TLC? Yes
    DRAM? No

    • +1

      Exclusive? Yes. Expensive? No.

    • +1

      So this means it won't be a good option for upgrading old systems. No d ram can result in the system that's actually slower than some hard disks for large file copying.

      • +4

        It uses HMB, same as the NM790 for example

        • +1

          Which is why I said they aren't really suitable for old computers that don't support HMB.

      • +5

        How many people with old systems where a 500GB harddrive is an upgrade are doing a lot of large file copying?

        • +3

          Yeah was gonna say. Be perfectly fine for my old mans 10 year old pc that is just him watching Serbian videos on youtube. Unless he has a secret media empire I’m not aware of.

        • You would be surprised. Notebook with movies for kid on holidays. Photos or movies being backed up. It is amazing how slow these drives get just copying 5GB of large files.

      • Have you trying using windows 10/11 on a spinning disk ? It's not a pleasant experience

        • Of course. I have used every windows back to Windows 2.11 on a spinning disk.

          • @whats up skip: They were blistering fast when compared to Windows 1.0 on a cassette tape 😅

  • +3

    Shipping is $11.55 for SA :(

    • +1

      It's flat rate shipping Australia wide, it's the same price wherever you are.

      $11.55 to be shipped to the same suburb as their shop.

      • +2

        Yea, shipping > 30% of the cost of the item is not great

    • At least it's for items 500g and less, so you can buy a LOT of these and still pay lesser shipping rates, since these SSDs are as light as a feather.
      And then resell them later on for a dollar more and make easy bank.

      • For a dollar more? I hope you’re trolling / joking. I’d have to sell hundreds to make easy bank

  • +6

    I thought this was a VHS tape from the thumb haha

    • +2

      I thought it was A Vape…

      • +1

        I thought it was a printer cartridge

        • I thought it was A4 Copy Paper

    • How does it look like a VHS tape?

  • Would this fit/work in my laptop?

    HP Victus 16" FHD 144Hz Gaming Laptop (12th Gen Intel i5) [GeForce RTX 3050Ti]

    I only have a 128bg ssd in it.

    • Should be fine as it should support NVME drives

    • +1

      how does a “gaming” laptop come with 128gb ssd? lol

      • my skyrim mod pack is 3 times this guys total storage poor soul

      • Lol bad old days

  • +19

    shipping kills the deal

    Australia Post : Parcel under 500g: $11.55
    Australia Post : Parcel under 500g +Signature Includes $2.95 Signature Fee: $14.23
    Australia Post : Express Parcel under 500g: $17.00
    Australia Post : Insured Parcel under 500g +Signature Includes $2.50 Insurance Fee Includes $2.95 Signature Fee: $16.50
    Australia Post : Express Parcel under 500g +Signature Includes $2.95 Signature Fee: $19.68
    StarTrack : Road Express Includes $2.63 fuelSurcharge Fee: $20.32
    Australia Post : Insured Express Parcel under 500g +Signature Includes $2.50 Insurance Fee Includes $2.95 Signature Fee: $21.95
    StarTrack : Road Express Insured Includes $1.00 Insurance Fee Includes $2.63 fuelSurcharge Fee: $21.32

    • +3

      purchasing multiple units is one way to mitigate that cost

      • -1

        Paying more costs more

    • -1

      while Aliexpress can ship stuffs from overseas for a few bucks!

  • +1

    Wow, are SSDs now finally cheaper than HDDs? How much does a 500GB HDD sell for? Probably more than this.

    • -1

      Absolutely not lol. 500gb hard drive would cost more purely because all the components.

      SSD aren’t even remotely close to beating the cost per/tb of hard drives yet for any relevant storage sizes for today.

      • why this one?

        • +1

          it really doesn't. if you were buying a HDD you would be getting 4 or 8TB as a minimum, you can easily get 4TB drive for around $120 or so (cheaper on sales) and 8TB for $200. so that makes both 4TB and 8TB drives half the price per TB of this SSD.

  • I have very old Asus Z78C motherboard will this be compatible?

    • Z78-C or Z87-C

      • Sorry yes Z87-C

        • +1

          Old….and not without a PCIe to M.2 adapter as the board doesn't have a m.2 slot onboard.

  • +1

    +1 for the store having a REAL "someone just purchased abc" popup!

    Also, these are flying off the shelf haha.

  • Thanks OP - bought three

  • Hi Op, any deal on the 2TB SSD?

  • +1

    how does pairing this up with this go as storage?

    • +1

      For this SSD, I would go for a cheap $12 or less (preferably $10 or less) USB 3.2 gen 2 NVMe enclosure from AliExpress.

  • Just bought one.

  • End of discussion: is it sh1t or not?

  • +4

    HP EX900 500GB SSD (rated 200TBW), there are multiple reviews available. Below is a quick summary based mostly on 2 reviews.

    • HP Custom SMI SM2263XT (4 channels; HMB / DRAMless)
    • Micron / FortisFlash B17A 64L TLC
    • pSLC cache: ~12% (so 60GB maximum when the SSD is completely empty, once the SSD is written over 80%, it is likely no to little pSLC cache available)
    • pSLC cache max sequential write speed: 1580 MB/s, TLC write speed: ~200MB/s, foldback write (SSD must re-write data previously written in SLC as TLC and there is still new data coming in to be written at the same time): no info (no reviewer did that test, but my guess is 100MB/s or lower)

    ATTO
    CrystalDiskMark

    Subjective view: typical OEM PCIe gen 3 x4 SSD, designed to be cost effective; old TLC NAND and subpar in today's standard (but then again, inferior grade TLC is still better QLC). If you live in WA and can pick up, you could consider it. If you want a reason to resist getting one, Centrecom did sell low end PCI gen 4 x4 256GB SSDs for $5 each (but technically, they were used).

    • Thanks. I always appreciate your contribution regarding the world of SSDs.

  • +1

    Can vouch for the store, have picked up some items that were niche or I needed in a hurry in the past.
    Proper real local pc retailer

    Ordered a couple for pickup as I'm local, hopefully stock left 👍

  • I'm in WA, but south. Worth paying the shipping?

  • No credit/debit card payment option :(

  • can we buy multiple and put the mm in one enclosure that can hold multiple is there such a thing

  • Thanks OP - bought three

  • +2

    Review here:
    https://www.servethehome.com/hp-ex900-1tb-nvme-ssd-review

    Price is great but it's an old model made long before anyone worked on DRAMless being any good. Sustained write falls to 30MB/s. It's going to be slow and painful to copy anything large to this drive.

  • my desktop only has 1 m.2 slot. I want to more storage.

    how can I set up this for?

    just buy ennclosure?

  • Would these be any good for my Synology DS920?

    • -2

      Get a better SSD for that NAS.

      • I know it has a couple slots for them but unsure if something like this would actually help with Plex

        • Synology's official recommendation is an enterprise grade SSD with high endurance and high IOPs for random operations. It's best to get an SSD with DRAM because those are better in handling lots of small files. If you look at the review syousef pointed out, you can see that under heavy testing, old gen DRAMless SSDs like this one has very inconsistent performance. Foldback write of 30MB/s is not good for NAS.

        • +1

          Won't help with Plex but helps when you want to run docker containers or VMs on your 920 (you create another pool with the two nvme drives in mirror and install docker container and vm's on that pool).

          https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/B082BWY2C2 - I run two of these mirrored on my DS920 and they work fine.

          I also run this script to ensure they are supported: https://github.com/007revad/Synology_HDD_db

          • @bdl: Very interesting way of utilising that space, thanks for the helpful info and links

  • Expired?

    • Yes, it is in the title

  • Anyone come across anything similar here on Ozbargain?

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