Dram-less drive utilising HMB. Currently selling for $450+ locally.
$85.91 $84.54/TB seems a good deal
Back in stock after 3 hours with 1.6% price drop from $343.62 to $338.15.
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latest win 11 update just ruined my ssd.
Have you tried updating again without the patch update?
The connection for this site is not secure
Are Amazon down or it's just me?
Just you.
Now it's back to normal. The other sites were ok earlier when I opened them.
Damn that's Lexar territory…. And it has a higher mtbf
Not local support though… But Amazon is pretty good.
I keep reading that and yet every time I need to deal with Amazon it's like pulling teeth.
Just yesterday I made a warranty claim on a power supply that had a capacitor pop 5 years into a 10 year warranty.
I had to prove to them it had the warranty.
I got told they couldn't help me because their system doesn't allow them to process returns beyond 5 years.
I had to point out that it's a month short of 5 years since I purchased it.. so explain how that 5 year limitation is stopping this.
Then I had to fight to get the thing escalated because they continuously told me that because of the limitations of their system they can't do anything and I was going to have to accept that I was shit out of luck. Seriously, they told me that a couple times.
And then I had to feel like a tosser because I had to bang on about Australian consumer law and how what I was asking for was nothing more than what I'm legally entitled to before they finally escalated.
And now I'm 30 hours into waiting for an email that will "definitely come in less than 24 hours" from the specialist team it was escalated to because they don't do chat or phonecalls.
Every damn time it's some similar bullshit to that. I have NEVER had a simple, positive experience with Amazon's customer service.
Yep worst experience with a return I've ever had was with Amazon.
Goods were received at the Amazon warehouse and they just flat out refused to acknowledge this, despite them organising the return and me simply handing the box to the courier. It took months, and for most of that month it seemed like they were going to keep $500 of mine as well as the returned goods.
I had email trails of all the comms with Amazon returns department, I had tracking numbers and everything they could possibly need. Worse still they could not advise me of any action that could be taken to resolve the situation, they basically just assumed I was trying to scam them, or they felt like it was in the too hard basket.
In the end I had to communicate at length with the courier company to get them to provide extra evidence that the return had happened. This is the courier company that Amazon had organised, whom I had nothing to do with.
Anyway in the end got my $ back.
Another Amazon return went really well and ended in a full refund no questions asked without them even confirming the product was defective.
Bottom line is, when everything goes well, and it often does, it is super smooth sailing. But when something breaks down in the process, the support team are as useless as the worst call centres you have ever dealt with and things may never be resolved.
might be a you proble. Every interaction I've had with Amazon customer service has been good - from returns, stolen items and even refunds / amazon credit for items where the price has drastically dropped after I've bought something. Only one vendor (so wasn't dealing with ACS) wouldn't give refund / credit of $20 after a price drop, so I ordered the same item (cheaper) from them, then returned the first one at $0 return rate for full refund. So the vendor was out $20 price difference AND delivery to and pickup from me (at post office). I gave them their chance.
Dram-less drive utilising HMB
Genuine question:
Is DRAM-less a good thing ?
DRAM is generally always better to have, however these days high quality drives/drives using HMB unless you're really doing lots of small writes and consistent workloads (think rendering, 3d workloads, scratch disks blah blah) I don't think it matters.
I grabbed a 1TB of this model and haven't noticed any issues coming from my (older and slower*) DRAM based drive.
No. DRAM vs DRAM-less is irrelevant for most people though. Only advantage being DRAM-less is often the drive will have lower power draw vs DRAM drives (all other things equal).
Nobody actively seeks out DRAM-less drives. OP would have just mentioned it as some people do want DRAM, so they can ignore this deal or at least factor that in.
Back to $455 price it seems.
Can gen 6 PCI please run cooler?
gen 6 would have double the bandwidth of gen 5, so it should run even hotter
Currently unavailable.
We don't know when or if this item will be back in stock.
How does this compare to this?
https://amzn.asia/d/a8UWlk9
This nameless brand seems to have even faster speed on paper and cheaper.
Guys. Stock is back! Just go to link and buy one as soon as possible! I grabbed one at $338.15 just now.
Thanks :)
Guys. OOS again.
does this have firmware issues that i should be aware of? im strongly considering kingston snv3s 4tb locally
Much better than the gen5 4tb deal