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Similar deal to last week.
Been looking out for a while and seems a good deal!
Samsung Electronics 840 EVO-Series 500GB $222 AUD + $6 Shipping from Amazon
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local warranty in Australia bro
Is that explicitly stated anywhere? I'm entertaining this for a laptop drive, but all the material I can find appears to indicate that unless you explicitly buy it with an international warranty you only get it in the country of purchase. The warranty card I have in front of me for my drive reads:
"Except where an International Product Warranty has been provided with your Samsung product, warranty service will only be provided in the speci fic country where the Samsung product was originally purchased."
That's on the cards for my EVO 120, 250 and 1T drives.
EDIT: Link to a digital version of the warranty card: http://www.samsung.com/au/support/warranty/Solid%20State%20D… - It may just be an Australian only term, but if anyone can confirm?
That's a good price for that particular drive - 15% cheaper than the typical Australian offering ($267 cheapest on static ice), but pragmatically - not a particularly good price per GB ($0.456). In terms of bang for buck Computer Alliance and a few others on static have has the 1TB drive @ $469 ($0.469 GB), so if you're fishing for a way to bulk up on SSD's, go for the bigger drives with the local warranty, and if you want cheap 500's then go for this.
Likely as soon as stores here flush their current stock and rebuy at the latest B2B prices, you'll find that the price difference for customers drops. The larger drives tend to have less stock on hand -so you'll find they drop in price more quickly as stock rotates.
How is $0.469 better bang for buck than $0.456?
I didn't say it was: I just said that it's not cheap enough at the larger scale (If you wanted to get 1TB worth of SSD for example) that it would be particularly preferable to local stock.
The 1T versions are only 2% more expensive locally, will be in your hands much faster, and don't have any potential warranty complications to deal with. If you only want 500GB and are prepared to wait for it, as I said, this is still a good deal. Even so, this isn't the best price point these 500G drives have appeared at.
Why would you pay $240 more so you can get it quicker… Why are you even comparing the 1TB to the 500GB when they're at vastly different price points?
I'm just asking questions, why do I need to settle down…? Which part of my post made me sound unsettled? It was a $/GB comparison that didn't make sense, especially when the $/GB for the 1TB costs more…
I keep getting so close to buying one of these each time there's a deal. I only have 128GB (EVO PRO) but still have ~60GB free…
Might as well wait until they get even cheaper.
What's an EVO PRO?
Similar to you, I've got a 128gb Samsung 830 and always tempted to go something bigger when these deals pop up.
I'm holding out for similar priced local stock of the EVO 500gb
i'm still on a 7200RPM HDD.
I've never used an SSD so I don't know if they are different or not, though everyone says they're worlds apart.
I think it would be best to stay blissfully ignorant as long as i can, cant imagine dealing with a 120gb main drive, and games are getting bigger now so gotta think ahead.Night and day my friend. You'd never go back to moving parts for an OS drive once you go SSD. Worlds apart. Worlds better.
cant imagine dealing with a 120gb main drive
So don't, jump on this deal for the 500GB. It's a sweet price and you won't regret the difference it makes.
wow ssd's are getting so cheap. in 1-2 yrs time standard hd's will seem redundant unless 4k format becomes more standard and ppl need heaps of storage
how low can they go..?
Look at the price of RAM compared to 20 years ago. They can drop quite a bit, however, raw materials cost is about as low as it goes :P
Well if you compare RAM to 3-5 years ago then it's more expensive now than it was lol
ever heard of h.265 encoding?
I just had to bite the bullet, been spending waaay too much time looking for a SSD
Thank god. I really don't need a another spare SSD, but it seemed so hard to resist.
Paid $218US 5 days ago, have emailed AMAZON for a refund
Have you received the parcel? Just wonder about the delivery time.
No they only posted Tuesday, so prob 2 weeks. Actually Im in WA so lets say 3 weeks
Good deal but I still wait for a cheaper price locally
You wont get this price locally
By the time you receive it the new Samsung 850 Evo series wont be far off (which will probably drive prices of the 840 series lower anyway).
Until they sell out completely….
Good point. That happened to me when the old 840 was on the way out. After noticing all numbers and codes were identical between two 840's I bought almost a year apart. When I realised that this extends the warranty dates for the first drive, I was planning to grab another before the Evo came out. I left my run too late, got an Evo instead for similar price. As newer models have improved specs ( maybe not always better durability ), that justifies keeping the price similar to the outgoing model. Aaaah Tech marketting
IMO you're still going to get good mileage out of the 840 and the price difference between upgrading to the 850 will be quite high until they have been on the market for more than 6 months. It's nice to have the latest but I don't think it can always be justified.
According to Samsung, we price of the new 850 Evo model is expected to be about 5 - 10% higher than the current price of the 840 Evo model.
How does the warranty work with these?