120gb SSD shipped for less than $90 isn't bad. The 240gb model wont ship here? and the hyper x models seem really expensive to ship for some reason ?
Edit: cheaper for people with their 28 degree cards etc.
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it was more of exchange rate thing
I purchased 2 of these. Although, to be honest not an excellent deal. Only saving about a $7 or so saving. However, It is a good SSD for the price and I personally prefer it over the EVO personally because this is MLC and not TLC, so technically speaking it should have better durability then the 120gig Samsung 840 Evo. Everyone loves the evo but for me knowing it uses TLC turns me off ever buying the 120gb evo. However, it's a different story completely when your talking about the samsung 250gb evo - that has much better durability and I would actually consider that… if it wasn't so expensive… anyway just sharing my personal opinions!
Sorry for the newbie questions…
The price shows USD$69.99+free shipping. Is shipping to Australia a flat rate of USD$18.00 ? These SSD packages are very lightweight.
Kingston SSDnow 300 120GB was $88 shipped locally back in February.
http://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/94334
So the price didn't really drop.
SSD prices have actually increased since February though :P
What hasn't increased in price in the computer world? Really weird observation but pretty much everything seems to costs more now with the exception of video cards - that has really come crashing down… CPU prices seems pretty stagnant, while everything else seems to be on the rise.
CPU prices on the rise, 12 months ago 3770K costs less than 4770K does now.
Part of the reason is due to the weaker Australian dollar, though I feel SSD and RAM prices have shot up because of some issue with a NAND factory burning down.
I think Scrimshaw or someone would know more about this than me, but have a google or something.
Well the USD is stronger against the AUD.
how are these compared to seagates's ssd?
120GB — Kingston 120GB SV300S37A
Sequential Read: 450 MB/s
Sequential Write: 450 MB/s
Random Read up to (4k transfer): Up to 85,000 IOPS
Random write up to (4k transfer): Up to 55,000 IOPS
120GB – Seagate ST120HM000
Sequential Read: 500 MB/s
Sequential Write: 300 MB/s
Random Read up to (4k transfer): Up to 80,000 IOPS
Random write up to (4k transfer): Up to 60,000 IOPS
Both 3 year warranty and MLC
• Real world performance difference? Probably nil
• Advice: I would personally get whatever is cheaper, which in this case is probably the Kingston
• Not sure which company is easier to RMA – Probably Seagate.
• Kingston seems to have a more rounded performance in terms of balance between its read and write speeds
Evo shines with the new controller, it can do wonders once applied to the mlc type pro drives,
For the tlc type, they are yet to be tested with the days.
I own a 840, so far so good that's what I can report as after 10 months.
Current sweet spot for ssd are under 85 locally include shipping for 12x gb
Under 160 for 24x gb include shipping
Under 320 for above 300 gb.
Samsung drives with tlc are atleast 10 precent cheaper in base production cost hence take another 10 off the evo range is its real sweet spot.
Right now, all evo are inflated in prices because its controller and it is new.
This is a really good review in regards to samsung 120gb 840-evo write endurance tests:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7173/samsung-ssd-840-evo-revie…
It should still last most people anywhere from 5-10+ years depending upon how you use it. So that's pretty decent. Most people say that by the time it "dies" the hardware will be obsolete anyway… So wouldn't be an issue for most people…
I must be the only one on ozbargain that is averse to buying anything from outside Australia that I wouldn't be happy to throw in the bin from day 1 if it broke.
wait for MSY on plextor m5s $79 sale again
I am using both this and plextor as well, personally can't tell a difference but the price on plextor was amazing
We will need anew Sata standard to push the ssd in speed.
Samsung is king on power consumption, period, thanks to its controller design.
I wish other brands can get close to them in that regard,
A 120 plus gb Ssd on any hardware from as far back as 2007 running windows 8.x would get a Great Leap Forward in performance.
I use this drive and two old gen 1 ssd on a core 2 duo desktop n 8gb ram, combine that with a 7870, it beats ps4 by a mile in gaming performance
Would not bother with the Plextor - sequential write speeds are pretty poor at 200mb (basically less than half of the kingstons write speeds). Hopefully MSY has another SSD deal soon though. They just recently had a deal on an intel series 530 120gb for $105. With 5 years warranty. I think that was quite a good deal.
$95 from MSY, not a great deal
How do I connect this with my new iMac as a external drive?
To take advantage of the true speed, you will probably need a thunderbolt to SATA 3 adapter. I'm not to sure if USB 3 would be capable of the drives speed.
It's easy. Google it but caution, you won't be able to boot from a USB 3.0 powerd drive, you'll need an external power source drive. Seagate thunderbolt adapter may work, but I have not tested.
$95 at msy. a couple of extra $ and you get a warranty
This drive was 90 at ITestate when I brought it 3 months ago, hence this 'DEAL' isn't good as any warranty claim would sky rocket the cost of the drive.
Why do people post adds here from amazon.com when Amazon don't ship electronic goods to Australia????
Guys, excuse my lack of knowledge.
Will this ssd work for any pc build? I m planning to build a computer.
Here are the specs. Thnks.
cpu: i5 4440
motherboard: asus b85m-g
RAM: G.Skill-NT 8gb single 1600
HDD storage: Seagate Barracuda 2TB
Graphics card: MSI HD7970 Twin Frozr iii
Case: Thermaltake Commander MS-III
Power supply: Antec Neo Eco 620C 80Plus Bronze 620W
Now I think I need an SSD . BUT I'm not sure. Please, any advice. Thnks.
Get an intel 530 240gb at the other link for 159 usd plus shipping
Or get a Samsung evo 250 for similar prices
200 gb is enough for the Os plus key software and some big games.
Put windows 8.1 or 8 on it, beats win 7 on ssd performance
I think this is better ram:
Kingston 8G(2x4G) DDR3 1600MHz CL9 HyperX a
G Skill 8G(2x4G)DDR3 1600Mhz PC3-12800 CL8(F3-12800CL8D-8GB
edit: why go the hd7970 and not the R9 280X?
You can grab the 7970s for really cheap atm (eg shopping express deal the other day for $289) plus they come with the older range of Never Settle games as a bonus…R series gets free battlefield 4, but the 7970s get three games of your choice including the new Thief, saints row 4, blood dragon, hit man, deus ex and dirt 3.
I just opted for a 7970 myself and I doubt there's currently much real world difference between the two cards and it saved me a pretty penny. Really probably comes down to what games you want bundled
i bought one of these a year ago for the same price from MSY. I expected prices to come down in that time, they never really have.