Fantastic prices and considered one of the most reliable SSDs on the market, utilising MLC NAND. Note these will be shipped next Tuesday from Shopping Express's Sydney warehouse. Apply coupon SATARSE at checkout for discounted prices. Have a ripper day folks :)
Sat Arse?
SATA rse
Good deal TA. SSD prices are falling sharply.
My impulse/Ozbargain buy of 500 GB Samsung SSD for $250, still unused, now seems like a bad purchase.
If you got it cheap it's never a bad purchase ;)
Good deal, very reliable but keep in mind that it's not that fast:
http://ssd.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Samsung-850-Evo-500GB-v…
Benchmarks aren't everything.
Samsung (and OCZ in the past) optimised their drives for great benchmarking e-peen boasting.
I'd rather have a solid performer that doesn't bench quite so well but lasts a lot longer - Intel, Crucial, even Samsung Pro series.
You honestly wouldn't tell the speed difference in normal usage (except for maybe the new Kingston and maybe some others).
Bought Samsung 1TB from Amazon during a deal found OZB. Still unused. Losing it's value. Collecting dust. Not sure if I should be happy for the deal haha
ill give you $270 for it
Sure. Shipping will be $150 anywhere in Australia and will take about a week.
behind you
Gonna have to scratch my itchy arse for a couple 1TB SSD's soon….
Intel. Great Quality.
I expect SSD's will keep freefalling in price with the imminent release of 2TB and 4TB units
Wow 10TB.
I bet there's a reason they didn't mention the price. :)
Thats all good for consumers as even though 10TB+ is a long was off for the consumer market, the tech will filter down and make the 2-4tb stuff much more affordable
Pretty sure i've scoped it out and the 10TB SSD is around $30,000
wouldnt it be better to run 3x $750 4TB SSDs in raid 0?
Oh man!
I bought a few Crucials (which are excellent!) a month ago in between sales because I needed them.
Otherwise I would buy these now.
Glad I have no money at the moment.
I usually glad-er if I have money..
The 480 GB is showing up as $289
You need to apply the SATARSE coupon code at checkout.
How is the speed for these intel SSD? Are the comparable, in terms of reliability, with Samsung Evo or Pro?
I don't want to jinx it, but I've had my 120G as my main Windows drive for about 3 years now (maybe more) and it's been flawless. Speed for everything I've needed has been excellent.
Same, intel ssds are what I use when I still want to see them running in at least five years time
Lastability. Speed… Run them in raid?
Don't run SSD's in RAID
Why not?
535's are slower but for normal uses it would be almost impossible to notice a difference without looking at benchmark numbers
Much better reliability than the EVO. Speed, you won't tell the difference.
http://ssd.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Samsung-850-Evo-250GB-v…
Not sure why you'd go for the Intel honestly.
Because you wouldn't notice the difference in real world situations. If you wanted actual number it would be in the milliseconds to 1-3 seconds.
Why not just get the best performance and reliability (They both have 5 year warranty) for basically the same price?
@Jorkus: Who says that Samsung has the best reliability? I'm personally avoiding them after what they pulled with the 840 (Evo).
@AngryNil: I have the 840 Evo and it's pathetic how slow it gets and you have to run that silly 'performance optimization' that rewrites the entire drive every couple months to keep it running at an acceptable speed. Mine was below 80MB/s in SSD read (slower than my WD green!) after not having ran the 'optimization' for a year and then I ran the 'optimization' and it's back around 400MB/s.
Not the sort of performance I expect from an SSD.
For 4nonymous while that is true for a secondary drive, for the OS drive you would prob be better off with the Samsung but yeah Intel for storage because of its long term reliability which is what you want in a storage drive rather than speed. For the OS drive you just want to get the fastest drive you can get and buy a copy of Acronis to backup your computer on a regular basis to your NAS. If the drive fails just slap a new one in and use the universal restore disc and your PC will be up and running in under an hr (provided you get something 500gb or smaller).
@Agret: That's weird I've had my 840 EVO for 2 years now and I just recently did a benchmark on Samsung Magician and CrystalDiskMark and my speeds are still what it was being advertised…
[@4nonymous]@Agret: I also have that drive and has never dropped in performance in terms of speed. I will say that it sometimes locks up totally for ~a minute when it is very close to capacity and writing a big file.
They released a firmware update that fixes the slow read speed problem (only for the EVO though).
The first firmware fix they released was only a stop-gap but then they released a permanent fix later.
At least they haven't had any firmware problems with drives becoming bricked.
@4nonymous: that is the problem, you are using the wrong benchmarks. Use this tool
http://www.techspot.com/downloads/6712-ssd-read-speed-tester…
@Agret: I've had this SSD for 2 years but have reformatted it a couple of times, no optimization programs have been ran on it.
SSD Read Speed Tester Average data read speed: 420MB/s
http://imgur.com/a/ba3cm
@4nonymous: Here is an album of screenshots I took - http://imgur.com/a/hUff2
First pic is before doing the firmware upgrade (turns out I still had the one from when they first "fixed" this issue)
Second pic is after I upgraded my drive to the latest firmware
Third pic is after I ran the "advanced optimization" again and rewrote the entire drive.
http://imgur.com/a/hUff2 (album link)
As you can see the new firmware still benefits from the "advanced optimization" so it's still not properly fixed by Samsung :( it is a lot better than it used to be though.
@Agret: I downloaded the latest firmware, advanced optimized it and tested my speeds under Samsung Magician and SSD Read Speed Tester. No improvements whatsoever, instead of 420MB/s read it went to 442MB/s and my write IOPS went up by 10K so instead of 40K~ it's 50K~. Seems normal to me since these SSD advertised speeds are just theoretical anyway, you know marketing hype stuff. I mean each SSD manufacturer/reseller use different software to measure their advertised specs not to mention the version of that specific software aswell has an impact on the specs being advertised. As long as your speeds still somewhat match up to the advertised speeds and you don't notice any noticeable performance degradation you should be good to go. But you did mention having to optimize it every couple of months which is quite worrying…
Like this Hyper X Savage that's 75% full, the read speed isn't quite hitting what's being advertised but the write seems fine.
http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/7109/kingston-hyperx-savage…
@4nonymous: I hope that I won't have to run the optimization again now that I'm on the latest firmware but those shots were all taken on the same day, as you can see the starting speed was rubbish. I'll be happy if the slowest it gets is that 400MB/s
Hi, I just purchase 240GB one to upgrade my laptop ssd. On my old hard disk, there is recovery partition of the operating system. Could someone explan to me how to clone the old ssd to the new one so that I can also use the recovery option if needed. Thanks
*** I guess that I would need a cable (usb-sata ssd) and some sort of software?
Macrium Reflect free version should do the trick.
If you have a desktop computer you can attach the old laptop drive and the new SSD to your desktop using some sata cables (the connection on laptop/desktop drives are identical) and then use a program on your PC to clone the drive to the new one. No need to buy anything extra that way :)
MSY Prices …
535 120gb $79 (save $4 with the pricing above)
535 240gb $139 (save $20)
535 480gb $269 (save $60)
Pity there isn't a larger discount on the 120gb.
Looking for a couple of those around the $100 mark.
Good buy for those wanting larger SSD's though.
And free delivery :)
Sit your arse out for your SSD to arrive.
Msy now the reduce the price of the 535 240gb to $125 !.
I am considering Sandisk Ultra II 240GB and Intel 535 240GB. Which one is a better choice?
It appears that the Sandisk is faster.
http://ssd.userbenchmark.com/Compare/SanDisk-Ultra-II-240GB-…
Sandisk is TLC (less durable), Intel is MLC (more durable)
Sandisk has 3 year warranty, Intel has 5 year warranty.
Considering for microserver， if that helps. It seems intel is better as it will be running 24x7
Personally I would spend a little more and get reliability. You won't be gaming on the microserver, so having ultra-fast read/write speeds isn't a concern. I want two for exactly the same reason (two microservers), but don't need anymore than 120gb for a boot drive (as I use 3tb WD Reds for storage). Hopefully the 120gb drive will drop to around the $60-65 in the near future.
Nope. http://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?doc_id=1327904
3D TLC is slightly better than MLC though, which is what I guess they are referring to (2nd generation Samsung NAND) in that article.
It's confusing.
sandisk is 99 bucks at msy
Yes. 99 vs 119.
Would be an easier decision if the Intel was still $109 like last time.
A $20 difference is a bit much but if it was only $10 difference with free delivery…
Intel anyday. Or beter yet get Samsung Evo, trumps both options.
get these or evo for imac?
Samsung Evo (although considerable jump in price) are the best SSD performance drives around. Samsung Pro if you want a 10 year warranty. If this was a drive in a machine that I use everyday I would certainly go for a Samsung 850 Evo/Pro.
Note one particular weakness of Intel SSDs is with software encryption (TrueCyrpt, VeraCrypt, DiskCryptor, etc.). The SandForce controllers used by Intel rely heavily on compression tricks for write performance, which doesn't work too well on encrypted data. So if you prefer to use software encryption tools, these probably aren't the SSDs to get.
New 480g SSD coming my way :D
Also had an Intel SSD as my OS drive for over 3 years here and it's been flawless. Great quality.
I purchased a couple of the 120GB models, thanks TA and SE!
Bought a 128G usb stick for $55 last week and scratching my head why they buy bigger and dearer ssd paying more for less storage.
One inside the other outside. Can someone please teach an old man? Do they do different jobs?
USB sticks are for portable storage, put in your pocket/case/bag and take elsewhere, depending on the USB (2 or 3) to the transfer speed, A SSD is like a hard-drive the permanently (normally) installed in a computer, much faster transfer rates than a usb stick.
Yeah they do. This is something that goes inside your computer usually permenantly and in layman's terms accesses data extremely fast making programs load a lot quicker and your computer start a lot faster.
I would trust my data more on a $75 intel drive any day of the week than a 128Gb usb stick. They are really different devices for different purposes.
And with differently specced flash chips - an SSD with your operating system installed on it is going to see a much heavier workload than a flash drive, so it's going to need more IOPS and it's going to need better write endurance.
I see and now understand..thus we can't boot up a pc from usb as it is designed as a non OS? I was thinking of using a usb (120G) as a data drive as my old pc (lenovo t60) has only 60G hdd. Ta.
thus we can't boot up a pc from usb
You can with a Linux OS as most of it get's loaded into RAM and is not disk intensive.
@A4classic: You can boot a PC from a USB drive (not sure whether Windows will install to a USB drive though), it's just not necessarily a good idea to do it for your daily use. As storage I'm sure it's fine.
@A4classic: you can, but you wouldnt
youd only do it for say media centres, or to install windows
Buy a cheap SS for your toshiba and it will feel miles faster
What usually happens when I commit to a deal is a better deal comes. So I'm gonna wait.
PC is in need a refresh badly, though. ARGH.
What usually happens when I commit to a deal is a better deal comes. So I'm gonna wait.
If that's the case you'll never buy anything!
Just do it!
But…why would you go Intel?
3:D
bought a 120gb thanks TA
You can't do usb3 as a portable drive with this?, that's what I'd like. I want to run OS from it.
Yes, you can provided your enclosure can support the drive.
Can someone give me a definitive answer if these Intel drives are any good?
I'm getting mixed views from all the comments above.
In summary … These are reliable (Intel are quality and have a 5 year warranty), but not as fast as other drives. If you want the best get Samsung 850 Evo/Pro. If you want cheap and reasonable get the Sandisk at MSY. If you want something with a better warranty get this (Sandisk is 3 years).
I've never had an SSD and looking to get one. I guess this will be a good starting point then.
All depends on what you want to spend. Just bought myself a Samsung 850 Pro 256gb, 10 year warranty and one of the fastest, you'll pay a premium but its very fast and should go the distance. Same with all computer components, usually cheap doesn't equal speed or reliable, but it will do the job. Depends on how often you upgrade also, if you frequently upgrade, something will be faster and cheaper in the next iteration. Unless you have cash to burn I wouldn't be continually buying the latest and greatest for a tiny increase in performance.
Got one. Almost went for the MSY Sandisk Ultra II, lucky I didn't. Thanks TA!
will it be good if i use this as external/backup storage (put in a sata/usb case)?
Yea SSD's these days are durable enough to widthstand lots of read and write operations.
http://techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-experim…
Bit late to the party but I just tried placing an order for the 240gb SSD. Having to pay extra for postage. Anyone else getting it?
coupon code not valid - perhaps mark deal as expired?
The 240GB is $10 more than last time