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Yeah got me good lol $185 would have been nice!
w anchors!!!
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Yes,$185 I'll have 10,thanks :-)
"They said I could become anything. So I became Amazon."
Typo in title? Although I will happily take one off you for $185… ;)
EDIT: beaten to it! ^
Wrong price in title. Darn, I was excited for a sec.
was going to get loan and buy all their stock
Sorry for the typo
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thought its $185 and gonna buy it, realize $385, will pass it, can wait for another year to get the prices down.
Anyone on OzBargain own one of these Samsung units?
I currently have a Corsair model and wanting to know what are peoples opinions on the Samsun series,
Just got a 120GB 840 EVO yesterday to replace my 50GB Vertex 2 (purchased May 2010, nothing wrong with it, just can no longer maintain the OS drive that small).
The Data migration software is awesome. I keep my OS drive fairly lean & clean (40-43GB), so was happy to transfer everything straight over. Took about 20mins all up to install software, mirror the old HDD to this one and install it in my laptop.
Booted straight up like nothing had changed. I'm running it in a Lenovo W510 (i7 Q720, 20GB ram, Win 7 PRO) with SATAII 3Gb/s controller (not SATAIII 6Gb/s). The drive gets windows experience score of 7.7 and the Samsung Magician software's in build benchmarking produced:
Seq Read: 282 MB/s
Seq Write: 264 MB/s
Randon Read: 46169 IOPS
Random Write: 38408 IOPSOverall I haven't noticed this to be any quicker "in the real world" than the Vertex, but then I didn't expect to either. Just very happy with the ease of install and the extra space I now have. (iTunes might get moved from my secondary HDD back to this now?)
Do you know the expected read and write if u were to use SATAIII?
Samsung Specs are:
Seq Read: 540 MB/s
Seq Write: 520 MB/s (250GB-1TB); 410 MB/s (120GB)
from data sheet:
http://www.samsung.com/global/business/semiconductor/minisit…I'm kinda in the same situation as you. I have a SATA II motherboard.
It is worth the upgrade?
Depends what you have now… if you need extra space like me then yes; if you like doing benchmarks to see how fast your machine is then yes; if you have an adequate SSD now which is NOT the bottle neck in your system then no.
IMO ;)I suspect Samsung's specs which ozdavo posted are pretty spot on for a Evo with SATAIII; I actually slightly exceed Samsung's listed specs for read/write on my 256GB 840 Pro (I get 550/530 MB/s read/write). :)
Are you guys familiar with the read and write speeds of WD drives? I'm specially wanting to know about the read/write of WD Black FAEX on SATA II and SATA III motherboards.
Being a HDD with spinning platters, you are never going to max out SATA II, so SATA III wont perform any better. For actual speeds, you may get up to around 100MB/s for seq. read & write, but the randoms is where HDD's really suffer in comparison to SDD's.
A simplistic explanation is that an OS is made up of thousands of small files which need to get accessed randomly & frequently. On a HDD the head has to phisically move to find each file as it spins past.Very good info. That makes SSD approx 3 to 5 times faster than HDD in terms of read and write speeds.
Good price. $4 cheaper than Shopping Express.
However, I dont need that big capacity ssd. Any deal on smaller size SSD? 256gb or 120gb?
+1
Too small! MOAR!
I was going to buy, but price is actually +$10 with credit card or paypal so $395. Means i can get it locally for $4 more and not wait.
guesing you are based in WA then :)
Good price but still wait till it go down further.
And fair weather fans were upset when Dockers sacked Harvey. SMH
It wasn't that they sacked him, it was the way he was sacked… Very poorly handled and unprofessional…
Go the Hawks!
Good luck Freo, be nice to see you win … but your club song is terrible..!
How does trhis compare to Crucial?
Crucial have a range of products. This one is fast, but not top teir. Reliability is considered very good, lifespan medium.
Hmmm, what about specifically vs the Crucial M500 which was offered by SS? Is this Tender Loving Care or Mother Loving Care?
If you want specific product specs and comparisons why not use the internet yourself?
I use the internet all the time. I ask questions on forums, as well as do my own googling. Beyond TLC/MLC, I wanted to know what others on ozbargain think when comparing the 2 products, especially when so similarly priced.
just bought one, 5 dollars cheaper than MSY with no delivery insurance selected. nice professional website. they deserve the sales.
Never understand why would one need 500G SSD.
For the same reason one would need a 500GB HDD
It's just that they're expensive at the moment, in the future they'll replace HDD's in PC's.RAID 0 2 240gb drives then ……
How is that a better solution that just buying a 500GB? Yay data loss.
How's it not ? Yay for no back ups. Duuff
In my case music production, so having a large library of audio sounds and samples which can be accessed fast is a plus. Think of individual drum beats and effects being stored all over a hard drive and your trying to play all different ones in a composition.
This is obviosuly one example but I'm sure there's many others. I agree it's pretty pointless using a large SSD as a media server but if you have money to burn…
it's pretty pointless using a large SSD as a media server
it depends how quickly you want to start watching the movie…
That extra 200 millisecond wait before the 2 hour movie really gets me.
I have my OS on a 240G, with games split between that and a magnetic. With a 500 (I want but can't justify) all my games will be on the SSD.
I just use SteamMover to move games from my storage drive to the SSD as they get into my rotation. When I stop playing the game I just move it back.
Not only is that annoying, I have a list of games I play on and off that don't quite fit on the SSD.
hey this deal at the site looks good!
http://www.netplus.com.au/product/HDSE2.5%22999HYB/1Tb_Seaga…
i could use that for my dell laptop needs a new SATA drive
Can't do a deal on the 256GB version?
First, the website is very user unfriendly IMHO. It took me 3 tries through to get to the checkout so I could enter the promo code (register, address details, then checkout). Plus it kept saying I didn't have anything in my cart as I was re-doing the steps. If I wasn't really interested I would have given up after the second try at best.
You should mention that the $385 is only available when paying as a bank transfer. If paying by credit card there's another $8.86 for the surcharge.
Once you reach 240gb it's better to get 2 and raid 0 them for performance. Most mb have on board raid that is decent for faster access times and transfer speeds. Otherwise just go with big cheap nasty for space / storage. Or even no raid will be faster than 1 big drive. Is for 1 apps another.
This is very bad advice. RAID0 not just doubles, but squares the chance of data loss. The on board RAID ('fakeRAID') is also terrible.
Get real dude. On board raid is good. 1gbsec transfer speeds on my work pc. Take back ups or ur the square egghead.
Random quote (among thousands with the same message on the internet on this topic):
"In general Fake RAID takes the bad bits of the software RAID (potential CPU hit and I/O latency because of it, inability to multiplex writes (depending on controller/drivers/OS) to save bus bandwidth, no hardware cache) with the bad bits of hardware RAID (vendor dependence and sometimes controller model dependence), and not of the advantages of either (the flexibility and potential machine portability of software RAID or the the OS independence, write efficiency, cache options and so on of hardware RAID). I (and many others) recommend it be avoided."
Data loss is more than just having your files backed up. The real world advantages of RAID0 on SSDs are not great enough to justify the inconvenience, much less anything else.
If ur controller onboard goes its a safe bet to swap it out with another mb with same chipset. A lot better than if ur nas chipset went out. Single point of failure. The CPU performance hit is minuscule. Iv been runing it for 4 years no issue. Ur just as usual scare mongering in signigicsnces. Raid even mirror or 10 isn't back ups. It's just another way of operation. Hardware is do reliable that it dosnt even matter. Have 1 big HHd go and ur stuffed or have 1 small go in raid 0 it's the same down time. Don't live in fear ur never gona be safe.
signigicsnces
I don't know this word. After that it is hard to understand, but I think you are claiming that RAID 0 has the same reliability as RAID 10, but you could just as well be writing an argument for how modern abuse of the English language has let to the failing of all communication.
Would you guys go for the EVO or PRO?
From my understanding PRO has been proven to be more reliable and last longer than the EVO model.
EVO = MLC NAND
PRO = TLC NANDTLC is faster in terms of read and write speed than MLC, and it is said to last 60yrs as oppose to the EVO which is 19yrs.
EVO on a cost basis. IMO the PRO is not worth the premium (to the average user).
I've been trying to get this code to work for the past two days, but to no avail :-( too bad, it's such a great price!
Check your title mate ;)