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Member Since 10/07/2007
Last Seen 13/04/2026
Location Australia, Victoria, Sunshine
Website xcelplus.com.au
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There is a $40 discount with the AUSS40 discount code Total came to: $248.48 (including GST) Postage was free That's a good price for a…
25/03/2026 - 16:50
https://www.harveynorman.com.au/google-tv-streamer-4k.html?srsltid=AfmBOoqd32YnMEZdaeS2KJcL4Ey5v4CBLaXcroCr2pGs5d6pLewrV_NX I had the same…
21/12/2025 - 13:13
All sold out at my local store (Sunday)... but they were willing to back-order it. Local store suggested buying it online. I tried ordering…
21/12/2025 - 12:35
Bugger... missed the notification again. Must have the settings set wrong. :-(
16/12/2025 - 15:17
There's an upcoming special that will bring the price back down to ~$150'ish again. :-)
09/11/2025 - 14:45
Price just went up to $192... which is still decent... but significantly more than the $150~160 that it was selling for :-)
07/11/2025 - 13:47
My Fanxiang S660 4TB Gen4 NVMe drive gets ~7000 MB/s read and ~5000 MB/s write speeds. As the claimed speeds are 5000/4500 I was pleasantly…
17/10/2025 - 09:25
Every test and review seems to confirm that the speeds Fanxiang claims are realistic. However, the drive CPU and motherboard both need to…
17/10/2025 - 00:26
I just checked the final price and with discount, GST & free postage it came out to $155 not $164.
16/10/2025 - 15:19
https://au.trustpilot.com/review/fanxiangssd.com Trustpilot has a lot of negative reviews... but there are only 18 reviews in total... so…
16/10/2025 - 15:01
I only just figured out how to edit the original subject line. I posted the correct speed in the comments below in the interim. The…
16/10/2025 - 14:47
I've commented a few times over the years but never had a bargain that I thought was good enough to be shared... and remembered to share…
16/10/2025 - 14:36
The PS5 is Gen4 technology so it can't take advantage of Gen 5 speeds. Netsurfer is right... PS5's will benefit from extra storage if you…
16/10/2025 - 14:00
Yes you're right... slowest sequential write speed is overlooked most of the time... and it can be important some of the time. Same with…
16/10/2025 - 13:45
Yep... back up data daily. Boot drives are all high end Samsung drives. It's the no-name cheap drives that seem to fail not so much the…
16/10/2025 - 13:27
random IOPS reach up to 2000K for reads and 1600K for writes
16/10/2025 - 13:10
https://www.techpowerup.com/ssd-specs/fanxiang-s910-pro-1-tb.d2469 They say it's PS5 compatible
16/10/2025 - 13:08
Fanxiang is significantly faster (+2,500 MB/s) than the Lexar for reads. Only slightly slower for writes. They both have 5 year warranties.…
16/10/2025 - 13:06
The Fanxiang 4TB NVMe S660 is being used as a storage drive so it doesn't work very hard. None of our SSD's have ever failed and we've…
16/10/2025 - 12:54
AliExpress is pretty good at refunding if you have a problem. The seller seems to be the Fanxiang factory store i.e. The manufacturer It…
16/10/2025 - 12:39
Long warranties tell you the manufacturer is confident that the drive will probably last at least 5 years. Alternatively: Short…
16/10/2025 - 12:26
I've got a S660 Gen4 NVMe 4TB drive from Fanxiang which Reads ~7000 MB/s and Writes ~5000 MB/s. That's without a cache. They're not bad…
16/10/2025 - 12:04
S910 Pro-1TB:Sequential Read Speed up to 14000 MB/s;Write Speed up to 8500 MB/s.Max to 700TBW,With 1GB
16/10/2025 - 12:00
Fanxiang S910 Pro 1TB Gen5 NVMe SSD (14GB/s Read, 8.5GB/s Write DRAM Cache) US$102.21 / A$164.50 Delivered @ Fanxiang AliExpress
If you've been looking for a cheap Gen 5 boot SSD with good specs then this is it 14,000 MB/s read 8,500 MB/s write (tested as 14,000 by…
16/10/2025 - 11:55
Annoyingly the wifi 6 USB adapter and the wifi 6 on our laptop are both MUCH slower than the wifi 5 on the Google Streamer and Chromecast.…
07/10/2025 - 15:46
I keep buying all my laptop bags from Vinnies and other Op Shops. Most stores will sell you a laptop bag for $5~10. That's an awesome deal.…
07/10/2025 - 11:40
Our Google 4K streamer (wifi 5) gets 400 Mb/s using the BE88u (wifi 7) and 350 Mb/s using the older AX88u (wifi 6). Yes your devices limit…
07/10/2025 - 11:36
The reason people are keen on the Ryzen 7 7700 is that it offers a significant performance improvement over most Ryzen 5 offerings at…
30/08/2025 - 10:04
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