Depending on what exchange rate you can get on your credit card, could be as cheap as $398 delivered.
Not as cheap as some other previous deals but better than local prices of $470…
Samsung 950 Pro 512GB £199 - $411 AUD Delivered Amazon UK
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any deals on time machines?
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Yeah but expired now :(.
What are these nano ones used for, laptops or something?
That's part of it.
The m.2 interface is capable of up to 32gbps transfers so they have a much higher max speed compared to even high end sata ssds.
This one is capable of 2.5GBps read and 1.5GBps write, that's around 5 times faster in read and 3 times faster in write than any sata drive on it's own.Hot damn this thing is fast. Just checked a video of it. So now that SSD's are dirt cheap, this is the thing we're waiting for now..
These m.2 drives are the reason 2.5" SATA drives are so cheap now.
it's not so much the interface that gives you the blazing speed as you can also have an M2 SATA drive with the same limitations as a normal 2.5" SATA SSD.
It's just that the M2 interface also has the ability to connect directly to the PCIE lanes in your desktop/notebook which is much faster than the SATA ports.
There are also many other SSD's which don't use M2 and are just as fast.
You obviously know what you're talking about but just putting this out there in case someone reads your post and thinks M2 is the reason for the speed and ends up buying a M2 SATA SSD which is just as fast as a normal 2.5" SATA drive…. its all in the keying.
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015/02/understanding-m-2-the…
Yep, you want to make sure that your motherboard supports NVMe on that M.2 slot, which is what will allow the Samsung 950 Pro access to those fast af PCIE lanes.
Otherwise your M.2 slot will be stuck running slower M.2 SSDs like the 850 EVO M.2 SATA drives, which are the same speed speed as the similarly-named 850 EVO 2.5" SATA SSDs.
You can, but equally if not better for desktops.
It's the next gen of SSD
I have one in my desktop and yeah it gets the speeds advertised and is great. But to be completely honest the OS itself isn't noticeably that much faster than a regular SSD and most people wouldn't be able to tell the difference. The one thing I found it is really great for though is unzipping large archives.
So pretty much it's the usual case where the difference between HDD and PCIE SSD is very noticeable. But the difference between a sata SSD and PCIE SSD isn't that noticeable to a typical user. I mean if you have 2 of them not in a raid and you were copying between them you would notice how quick it is but usually your other drives aren't PCIE SSD's so still your transfer speeds will only be the speed of the slowest drive.
I still don't regret having one though.
I'm hanging out for the next deal on a 512GB 950 pro that beats the last deal's $365.