Not the fastest drive by any means, but still a good price for a SSD. VAT is removed upon checkout, bringing down the final price to £140.55.
Crucial BX200 960GB SSD £140.55 (~AU $264) Delivered @ Amazon UK
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I love them! This is a good price. I may likely get one and do check the page for ssd deals frequently. If it's not for me then cheap ones for other people's builds i earmark ("hey x there is a 240 gig ssd for cheap check it out")
Maybe it's the new eneloops?
I'm not sure where you are going by generalizing me as one of the few. I still respect and like a good coles special for example. Looking at the front page i see a free coffee by delonghi. Should that be scrapped because i am not one of the few who can make it there? No not really.
Seems like they are extremely popular here.
Posts of mine like this and this, have at least 10 people who said that they bought it, and the 1000+ clicks suggests that there are many many more lurkers.
I also remember 100+ units sold for this ebay deal, kind of ridiculous considering that it's an >$100 item.
I don't think there's any doubt for SD Cards as well. Ozbargainers collect SD cards like eneloops, yesterday's TA deal sold 250 units quickly, and everytime a great SD deal comes out, it doesn't last long.
Yeh i know…and that's my point i just don't get how they are so Popular.
I mean people don't have dozens of them laying around their house like eneloops do they? - that would be plain stupid - they are relatively expensive and depreciate quickly
Not bagging anyone, just curious as to why every day several deals in this category hit the front page
I bought 1 SSD off ozbargain like 18 months ago
I upvoted it, and i think ive clicked on half maybe a dozen since, including this post
They hit the front page because this deal in particular is at least $120 cheaper than anywhere else Here
@Jase2801: yeh but a comparable product will pop up tomorrow if not later today , and probably a few times inthe past week or so
That my point….every day another SSD thats pretty much the same as the ones that bookend it
@pointless comment: I understand what you are saying. I guess people upvote these deals based on the price and it does not mean they are all gonna buy one. It's a bit like the micro sd cards. Even if they drop by 20cents they get upvoted to the front page. Maybe they are just popular items I guess.
Many people seem to 'collect' SD cards, but I don't think that is the case with SSD's.
From previous deals, there are a lot of 'awesome price… must resist' comments. As long as the price keeps tumbling down, I think SSD deals are fine. A $10-$100 price difference is very significant to most people who are considering buying a SSD.
Ozbargains userbase seem to have a great percent of techies, which probably explains it's popularity. My deals are centralised around tech as well, feel free to use the 'hide' feature to hide my content if you do not wish to see them.
Though not every SSD and SD deal makes the front page, for example the same drive was posted for >$70 more a few days ago.
@Jase2801: yep youre right…i just dont see why they are so consistently popular, just a quirk of people on this site i guess - its not a criticism , just a query.
@lyl: yes i understand there is a hide feature Lyl, thanks for that suggestion - but i would not want to miss your next deal on say pens at officeworks, for example
@pointless comment: I think you are missing the point of Ozbargain. We're not here because we can't afford to pay a few dollars extra. It's the thrill knowing you got something at the lowest price ever, and that everyone else paid more than you :)
Because seriously, if I had invested all my time spent on Ozbargain into a business, I could have retired last year.But to answer your question: people like me sometimes get asked "can you help me get something cheaply". For instance, I helped two people buy a Lenovo Yoga Pro this week. I have bought countless SSD's for work, and have upgraded friends' laptops to SSD. I buy a few a year on average. Because of the SSD deals coming around, I know what to say when people ask me "how much would it cost to…."
There are lots of bargains which don't interest me, but I'm not bothered because I know others like them.
BTW, don't underestimate how many people browse Ozbargain and buy from deals.I think you are missing the point of Ozbargain.
I think u r just missing the point - entirely
See bottom of page
@pointless comment: @Bloody Noses has provided very valuable insights, but they have nothing to do with your original question: why do people post and upvote these deals frequently.
Personally I think think it is good value for money for people who never move anything remotely as large as 12GB. I know plenty such users, and helped migrate them to SSD. But I might not buy this drive for my own use.@Make it so: lets be honest here - this is a 1TB SSD drive. Its best used for storage video and gaming,where you are playing with 12Gb + worth of files often
If you are advising users to buy a 1TB SSD drive for MS office spreadsheets and word applications, or for their solitaire adiction, you are giving terrible advise - they could make do with a cheap small SSD for the OS and their existing HDD for their files.
@pointless comment: Talk about the Ozbargain demographic being skewed. Do you honestly believe the world is split between people interested in gaming/movies, and people who use Microsoft Office? And all of them using desktop machines with multiple SATA connections?
90% of the SSD's I have installed ended up in laptops, which had one hard drive bay.
Don't worry about my ability to give advice - I actually take into account their circumstances, rather than extrapolating my own.
@Make it so: i know very little about computers. If someone asked me to give advice on their single bay laptop, id say to either dual drive it by removing the dvd drive or put in a small ssd and use an external for large (video) or less used files.
If that didnt suit, id send them to some one like you
If there is a cheap SSD deal, i (profanity) want to know….
People who knows pricings upvote to say "It's a good price for this one"
Then people who need it at that time can buy it, with millions of computer users, let's just put it this way
Day 1: A, B, C, D want to buy a new SSD. But E, F, G, H don't.
Day 2: E, F, G, H want to buy an SSD now, but G and H don't have the money, so they can't buy it until they get paid on Day 7
fast forward to Day 7: G and H can buy now, but the deal one Day 1 expired.Not everyone who wants an SSD can buy it on the exact day or period that one is on sale. It basically is creating an array of choices (different quality and sizes) for an array of different periods for an array of different people whenever they need to purchase it.
Someone mentioned Coles Specials, let's say this week I need nothing from their Specials range, I mean, I already bought these things last month, and I don't feel like eating the things they offer this week when it comes to food, someone else may need those this week. Same for the next week, some may not need those products but maybe I do, who knows?
No dosrespect but Your post made my head hurt - have a look at whats been said at the bottom of the page for a different perspective, cheers
Well, to make things simpler, I was talking about Demands at Different Times, which is something many people don't pay too much attention to. To make you feel better, I did not neg your question because I find it a valid question.
A simple explanation would be: different People needs different Things at different Times with different Requirements.
The post at the bottom of the page is valid based on technology, however, this drive also meets certain groups of people's needs, I personally would only use this for storage and not performance drive, for example. But I wouldn't, because my workload requires better performance.
The negative response to this drive is not out of question, either.
If there are people who have experience in the product and can vouch that it is a good deal, why would they not up-vote it so that it can be beneficial to other OzBargainers?
I think. U r missing the point…i suspect many dont have the said experience; they are just upvoting without any actual justification
Unless you're a psychic mate, I have no idea how you could come to that conclusion.
@Ryanek: this post is a perfect example - take a read of whats been said at the bottom of the page.
This drive is a bit of a dog - yet it hits the fromt page in minutes coz ppl like to upvote SSDs for the sake of it.
Maybe 1-2 tops actually bought the drive, and if they did would be thinking of cancelling after someone who actually knows what they are talking about weighed in with their opinion based on fact rather than that of the mob
And the ultimate irony is the ones upvoting it consoder themselves geeks and techies in the know - and they thenproceed to argue that although they may not buy the drive for themselves, they upvote so someone else knows its a great deal
@pointless comment: Ahh see that's because this is not a review site, it's a bargain site. People are not necessarily posting the best of the best. For whatever reason, people have up-voted this product because it is good value for what it is. I mean the closest price for this on staticice is $385.
Who knows, maybe someone needs an SSD for capacity and not speed. I bought a dashcam the other week because of a post here. It's by no means the best but it fits my needs. What's the difference?
@Ryanek: chances are your dashcam was the best value for money …this drive is not - yet it has been seemingly bindly upvoted…now people are scrambling for justification in hindsight…never a smart approach.
Basically, you just want OzBargain to have a filter to exclude popular items that you have no interest in purchasing. Then you wouldn't see these popular desks and everyone would be happy.
There already is a way to turn stuff /posters off that you dont like.
So, if noone wanted to read my musings on the over representation of SSD/Sd cards for example -'or any of the other hot-button topics and hilarious jokes i make comment on, from now til infinity they could simply ban all content under my username!
No more pointless comment!
u cant be serious? Stop posting these ssd good deals!!!
I need money for other things, not just SSD!!!Most ozbargainers are geeks and geeks like computer technology. So shock horror that a piece of emerging technology, which dramatically improves cp speeds, has the greatest dollar/performance effect on a system and that is currently witnessing a dramatic drop in prices would be od interest to ozbargainers. I've bought 5 for myself and relatives that have been posted here. So I'm not sure what your problem is?
No problem buddy, just an observsation and curiosity, thats all.
I never got the whole eneloop thing either - as with my SSD, i bought some once then barely gave the subsequent deals a look-in.
You sound very passionate about SSDs - thats great
The number of comments you made on this deal (considered this SSD isn't that good) justifies posting of these deals.
If you don't care about the SSD or SD card deals, then just ignore them.Your logic is inherently flawed and you have totally missed my point
Unless you can be bothered to take the time to both read and comprehend, then id actually suggest that you be the one to do the ignoring
@pointless comment: If you actually bothered reading some of my comments on past SSD deals, you would know that I hardly ever vote for one, especially TLC SSDs.
A lot of people think the Samsung TLC drives are great, but they too use the SLC cache trick. When the write speed fall back to TLC, even the Samsung ones are not that great.
You complained about this deal because it is BX200. If it were a more decent drive, I wondered whether you would have such a response.
However, at the end of the day, it is about what you plan to do with SSD. Reviews on the Web can be biased too.
@pointless comment: You + voted for BX200 240GB SSD $84 AUD.
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/239634That's not the only SSD deal you + voted.
@netsurfer: nah yeh….cant remember , maybe my finger slipped or whatever…this post is pretty much dead - should be another SSD deal coming up in thenext 12 hrs or so, maybe focus your forensic analysis for that :P
@pointless comment: Yeah, your finger slipped multiple times (must have something to do with your SSD(s)). Also, no new SSD deal within 12 hours… You gonna post one?
Price:performance wise crucial drives particularly the bx2xx's are the Worst, with particularly horrendous write speeds transferring anything above 4gb. The build design for these is actually a dual layered setup, so you're basically getting two ssd's on top of each other sharing the same amount of cache.
They're even worse than the OCZ and toshiba ssd's on the market, and those already have issues not only with performance but also prone to disk failure.
I mean sure you could grab an almost 1tb ssd for $265 but honestly for the $300 mark you could get a leading edge 500gb red extreme performance sata ssd from samsung or even one of the newer nvme's.
Interesting development….someone who actually seems know what they are talking about not only doesnt upvote but busts out a neg!
Either this guy is wrong or the rest of you SSD fans are upvoting all these SSD deals with little actual justification.
@Bloody Noses is right. The BX2XX series from Crucial are particularly bad and prone to failure, whilst boasting unimpressive speeds. Their BX1XX series on the other hand are pretty good in terms of performance and reliability. It's a shame that Crucial dropped the ball so hard with their newer lineup.
Ok, well id actually like to neg this deal then as its obviously not the best deal in the price bracket.
But i dont think i can - Because so many have negged me at the top of the page for simply questioning their infatuation with every SSD deal, i have jeopardized my right to vote prior to the act.
If i am correct, if you collect 5 negs on any comment on a deal you neg, your neg is automatically revoked.
So effectively my potential neg is already disallowed
honestly there are too many idiots on ozbargain particularly in the tech pages. They literally see 1tb ssd and they're already sold not even bothering to question…well anything at all.
I mean i've actually seen people neg someone who was trying to explain to the multitude of buyers that Sodimm ram (laptop class ram) can't be used in desktops for about half a day before someone who actually knew their stuff came in to save the day and even then took several more comments to convince the fools that this deal wasn't for them.
If you don't know something particularly well let me tell you guys something. It doesn't hurt to check out that person's story. If its fake, well he/she's a troll. But MOST of the time it does have substance, and a negative comment is honestly JUST FEEDBACK. And for online shopping people depend on feedback to judge whether to buy or not. If you have enough money to splurge without batting an eyelid or caring about that item's history or ease of use then mate. you. do. not. belong. on. ozbargain.
@Bloody Noses: i posed this very question at the very top of the page…as expected it collected 20-odd negs in a matter of minutes.
Following that you have all these self confessed geeks who pipe up banging on about how these deals are all great and condescendingly tell you to ignore them
Good to see someone who actually knows what they are onabout speak up
Props to you champ
@pointless comment: Its a glaring issue, that hasn't being fixed or reviewed. I have also noticed that these deals are flooding the front page. I thought they were the best available but now will closely look into it if I make a purchase.
@GameChanger: its very hard to offer a solution without capping Daily upvotes i reckon when this is the core of the issue
too many idiots on ozbargain particularly in the tech pages.
Many of them are just dumb kids, which is ok…you get something wrong, take criticism on board and learn something new..thats whats lifes all about
But many are self professed techies, geeks and experts aged 20-50 who admit to giving Advise to all and sundry, spreading their mistruths wherever they go, and wont backdown through sheer arrogance and egotism.
These people need to take a good look at themselves - its ok to admit being wrong - especially on an anonymous internet forum no less!
This is going to sound like tech overload but this particular drive uses a small ssd that uses the better (proper industry standard of mlc) and is layered on top/running with a larger 800gb or so TLC drive. And this entire drive of 960gb only has 12gb of ram, the 480gb version only has a paltry 6gb. What this means is, while performance may be the mlc standard of 450mbs read and thereabouts in write speed, once you have a file transfer that is over the cache amount, in this case 12gb that average standard ssd speed will fall to approx 40-50mbs/sec. That's a speed hdd's can not only reach but surpass.
So in transferring say a 15gb video file, its hunky dory until 12gb's in which'll take like 7 or maybe 8 minutes and then the last 3gb's will then take another 15.
It's all about value and honestly on ozbargain value is all we want. For comparible prices there ARE better drives out there and even those who try to justify buying this at this price point i don't personally believe it is worth it, particularly when we factor in the fact that under loads and constant use (daily use) these drives aren't the most stable either.
This $250-300 mark has alot of competition from not only other comparible shit ssd's but also the upper echelons of solid state which are getting cheaper and cheaper. Price to performance against a samsung evo drive would require this particular drive to be priced at around $139 USD to even begin to compete, and that's roughly what? $180?$190?
This drive is still $100 too dear to even begin to consider honestly.
AND FOR THOSE WHO TRY TO JUSTIFY THE FACT THAT YOU'RE A CASUAL USER AND WILL RARELY EVER TRANSFER ANYTHING ABOVE 12GBS. Well go for it, but i personally prefer buying quality at great prices than buying quantity at average prices (or in this case above average).
Thanks for the information, I no SSD expert, so appreciate the read. I'll avoid posting the BX200's in the future. Always knew it wasn't the fastest drive, but didn't expect it to be OCZ bad.
Some interesting info. Thanks for the insightful post.
I'M ONLY A CASUAL USER AND WILL RARELY EVER TRANSFER ANYTHING ABOVE 12GBS.😄😄😄😄😄😄
@lyl: ocz drives are single tier or at most assisted single tier drives so their cache:memory size is actually better than the bx200's. Which i guess makes this particular line from crucial even worse than the formerly worst ssd known to mankind (though the toshiba line makes that debatable).
Honestly if you skip two lunch's and obtain a market leading ssd like anything close to a samsung evo your life would be so much more easy.
And i realised i made a few typos in that comment above:
TLC - is a piece of crap, if you ever see this in a ssd steer clear, better to crash into the railings than to hit this up.
And what i meant by 12gbs of ram is actually 12gbs of CACHE :)Yeah I've posted EVO deals before, but I'm not a gamer so I don't think I have a need for the EVO.
I knew BX200 wasn't the best drive after the BX100 series, but I still expected the BX200 be at Sandisk SSD plus/Ultra II level. Guess I was wrong.
In my situation, is it really worth paying extra for the 850 EVO, since I'm realistically only after the quicker boottime. I was temped to jump on the 480GB version of this ultra II deal.
@lyl: The sandisk line isn't the best, but neither does it fall to the standards of ocz/toshiba/crucial drives.
If all you're after is a fast boot time then go for the sandisk drive. But as i've said before if you spend $60 more (two big meals) you are not only investing in a drive, but also investing in protection for all your data. All of these low tiered ssd's are from company's who are trying to branch into proper pc memory who only developed like flash drives before.
These initial models are not only not fast, but they're not that cheap when you take a close look at them and the most important thing is that they're not stable.
If it crashes on you (and there is a bigger chance than other companies that it will) you will definetely be spending way more than $60 worth of time fixing it. And most of the time single drive failures result in an utter loss of all data previously on that drive.
Sure these companies will mature their tech in time, and if they do then their tech will be a viable option, but the problem is that other manufacturers like intel and samsung are already a whole generation ahead with their nvme drives and unless they bugger up somewhere, will always be ahead of the others.
That performance is a premium i'm willing to pay (albeit not at its full price and rather when its on sale #ozbargainerpleb)
I still don't understand the 'reliability' issues, I've only seen good reviews of Sandisk drives such as the SSD plus/Ultra II on the web.
Thanks for the detailed write up Bloody Noses, its people like you that make Ozbargain a better place.
There is lots of mindless voting because + votes have no requirements- which is why sometimes lots of 'bargains' are not really good value price wise and quality.
Mind you have being one these mindless voters on SSD's as I thought it must be good.
@lyl: Sandisk is actually not too bad, i know several close friends in the tech industry who have seen them fail but definitely not regularly enough for that to be an issue.
Toshiba/crucial and ocz on the other hand are reknown for their instability issues particularly with fluctuating power from anything under a 80 bronze rating psu.
I apologise for not making myself clear on that point!
@GameChanger: have an upvote to counter the anonymous neg you got even after admitting to guilt of the mindless voting you are critiquing
All of these low tiered ssd's are from company's who are trying to branch into proper pc memory who only developed like flash drives before.
Crucial and Ocz started off making PC RAM. Crucial actually make really good ram and Ocz were known for their overclockability.
@CVonC: ………
Flash memory/ram isn't the exact same thing no but its very very similar. It's specifically small quantity fast flowing memory.
I don't know how much you know about either of these but i can tell you that it is much easier to perfect a stick of ram or a 8gb usb stick than it is to make a proper storage drive.@Bloody Noses:
Crucial's older SSD's didn't seem to have these issues, infact 2-3 years ago they were considered to be up there with Intel in the reliability stakes.I was just commenting on the fact that you said they're
trying to branch into proper pc memory who only developed flash drives before.
So I guess by "proper pc memory" you're talking about NAND storage technology then.
@GameChanger: to narrow it down a bit, i suspect its one of the mindless upvoters you referred to….at least they are consistently mindlesss with both upvotes and negs!
@too_much_boost: You must be talking from the ssd deprived Australian point of view. For some odd reason crucial's was all tech stores stocked in mass. You are actually right though regarding how their previous drives are better than this one. But they have never. ever. even come close to intel's reliability.
I don't know where that claim comes from but it has never been the case. I think your pov comes from over saturation of crucial's drives in the australian market a couple years ago. They dominated the cheap ssd market until really good ssd manufacturers like intel began to sell their much higher end drives for cheaper.
@Bloody Noses: This is why I keep my important data on Samsung SSD's in my PC's and the 2 Sandisks I have store steam games I want to reduce loading times on(Fallout 4 is much better without 30 second loading times).
In saying that my old gaming laptop has 2 240GB Mach Extreme msata drives as they were the cheapest at the time(by a fair bit) and both of them still work brilliantly and I have had them for almost 3 years but I don't expect them to be anywhere near as fast as my Samsung 950 pro.
I have 6 SSD's in total and for some reason still look at the SSD deals. I think we are all just waiting for the day we can replace all the mechanical drives in all our devices and are hoping that day is close!
Not really, at all. I'm keeping an eye open for a 1gb ssd. I see the prices are dropping but I'm waiting for a great price on a great drive and preferably from a good australian business. I'm guessing the original poster believed this was a good deal; and it looks a good deal. Then someone else sheds more light on the deal from a different angle - the drive isn't that good. Aren't we all thankful for that heads up - I am. And we've learnt something. This is a good side of the internet - we're learning from shared knowledge.
Lots of deals look good, and we may be lacking some knowledge about the deal; this is one of the reasons why this is a good site.
So, I'm still in the market for an ssd:)
I agree to everything you say
Either this guy is wrong or the rest of you SSD fans are upvoting all these SSD deals with little actual justification.
Cmon now…dont take it so personally….its not like you crafted the SSD with your bare hands from rare earth minerals
I hope you didnt spend too long on that pointless piece of research
And yes there are bargain lemmings all over the world, not just on this site :P
Nah was just doing my daily refresh of these sites (I occasionally come across great deals there) and was pleasantly surprised to see how well received the SSD was :)
This thread is pretty much dead….there will ne a new SSd deal in the next 12 hours or so best you start preparing a witty comment for that one
To answer your quesrion: the same could be said of any recurring poster on any site….in summary; not funny, better luck next time :P
C'mon - don't give up so easily.
You are only at 30 comments - on a single thread.
Is there an OzB Gold Star for that?
GB/$ is enough, for many.
I think for the price it's OK, I don't think real powerusers who transfer a lot of things (writing) would consider this SSD anyway, and do people really transfer big chunks of files to SSDs? For the 960gb version of this it slows down after 12gb of writing, which is quite a large file.
Your example of $300 500GB vs $265 960GB is especially "interesting" I find, obviously you're comparing SSDs aiming at different consumers.
I hope you wouldn't neg a deal on… eg. a LG G4 because you think the iPhone is more reliable(for more money as well).Although your comment seems valid you are skipping several important facts.
What use is a 960gb ssd? Mass storage obviously to replace your previous 1tb hdd.
What do you usually store on such mass drives? A lot of big data that you wouldnt have on say your boot drive.
But the design of this particular drive as such completely negates such use because anything above its specific cache size gets high end hdd performance.
My comparison of a 500gb - almost 1tb ssd sure isn't 100% logical in size, but i was aiming EXACTLY at use.
That's something that ISN'T aimed at different customers but rather a suggestion to all customers that even if you want a mass storage ssd a 500gb evo is better than this in regards to everyday use as a mass storage device.
And as for your impossibly illogical sarcasm i won't even bother to comment.
If you truly believe that outright refuting an opinion with a stronger opinion with a fat 0 on supporting facts then you sir are the reason these bargain sites are becoming a cesspit of random angry squabbles.
Not exactly sure why you got all angry and defensive, and FYI there was actually no sarcasm in my comment at all, I was actually polite as well.
I think bargain sites and many other forums are actually ruined by angry "know it all" people who just like to bash anyone that doesn't know as much or think the same way as them.
I stated my opinion on your comparison, that's all, we're on a bargain site, this isn't exactly whirlpool, I think $265 for a 960gb SSD is a good price, this model sure isn't as good as.. say a Samsung EVO or PRO, but for almost half the price what do you expect? The 1TB 850 evo is $450, I sure hope it's more reliable.
You're negging the deal because it's not as reliable as the EVO and slows down after 12GB of file transfer, maybe you've forgotten that you're on a bargain website, not a SSD benchmark site?Not aimed at different consumers? Are you sure? 500GB is 500GB, it can never store the same amount of data as 960GB no matter how good/reliable/fast it is, what if today I only have $300 to spend and there's only one spare sata slot and I want as much space as possible?
These kind of cheap and big storage SSDs are actually a really good upgrade for older (not worth spending too much to upgrade) laptops that originally came with 1tb hdd, also perfectly fine as backup/storage or RAID1.
This use of SLC cache idea was introduced by Samsung first. They used it to allow their TLC drives to have stellar benchmark. The Samsung TLC SSDs, once they've exhausted the SLC cache, the write speed is below MLC drives by a large margin. However, most reviews don't really mention it as a big problem (to be fair, BX200's TLC write performance is far worse).
However, everything is relative. SSDs, the read is more important. Honestly, unless you do SSD to SSD transfer, you are not going to be able to benefit from sequential write that much.
Is BX200 really the worst drive? Honestly, I don't think so. The worst one is Samsung 840. There is no firmware fix to fix the READ slow down bug. The read speed drops to below Hard Drive speed for old files. That's even worse than slow write speed after the SLC cache is exhausted.
960GB SSD no use? Well, for professionals, or people travel a lot, a portable SSD is safer and better than your traditional portable hard drives. One of my dirt cheap TLC SSDs is used for file transfer.
@netsurfer: Professional what? Are you just adding a term to make it seem like you know what you're talking about?
There is no such thing as an ssd professional, and PLEASE find me an IT professional that stores and uses the crucial bx200 as a regular work drive. Because that's the day when you've just found mankind's ultimate cheapskate & dumbass. Knows its a crap piece of tech and still goes for it.
Btw i'm interested in what you claim is 'okay performance'. Can you pleas transfer a 15gb file (single file) within your drive and tell me how long it takes?
My samsung evo to my secondary samsung evo takes abit over 2minutes
@Bloody Noses: Professionals as in photographers. A lot of pros don't use traditional hard drives while travelling for years. They use SSDs.
Okay performance means - when these drives cost LESS than the SD card equivalent (and perform better), there are some uses for them. Okay performance means, at work, where most of my files (we are talking about project files where they are small files on traditional hard drives) cannot be read that fast from traditional hard drives to even this supposedly slowest SSD (the buffer is hardly filled so this "slow" SSD is waiting most of the time).
And please.. 850 EVO.. that's one of my SLOWER SSDs. I use 950 Pro m.2 and MLCs for main systems. All my TLC drives are for secondary purposes. After so many horrible experience with Samsung TLC SSDs, I know how unreliable they can be.
This is a TLC drive. Treat them as TLC SSDs. It is you who need to understand the correct usage for SSDs. Getting TLC drives for pure performance… that's !@#!@. 850 EVO to 850 EVO, your 850 EVO is the bottleneck. 850 EVO cannot keep up with my 950 Pro, so does that mean 850 EVO is too slow (compared to MLC) for large files? Honestly, copying large files between SSDs… is that really a good use of SSDs? My large files are on 4TB hard drives. They don't fit on SSDs.
Yes some people are just after $ per GB on ssd otherwise you look at m2 or pci express drives if you need performance and have the MB for it.
My notebook has 500g ssd full so 1TB at this price is the next upgrade.
Thanks,I was going to pull the trigger until I saw this post.
So pay more for half the storage? 1tb still has its uses as an amazing storage drive.
All we need now to top off this post is a comment from jv.
jv who?
I can't trust crucial ssd for storage. Lost all of my data twice. No recover option available for ssd. Once NAND reset… all data gone forever.
What Crucial drive did you have ? Im still on my m4 128GB purchased back in 2011 (I think). Still running, but seems to have slowed down alot. Have to backup and do a secure erase.
240GB M5
In terms of reliability, SSDs are not that reliable. I have bad experience with Samsung SSDs.
Crucial m5? You mean m500?With SSDs, for important files, make sure you have another backup somewhere else. Doesn't matter which brand, which model, SSDs, when they go #@!#@!@, they just die all of the sudden and file recovery is impossible for general public like you and me.
With SSDs, for important files, make sure you have another backup somewhere else.
I'd like to add this applies to all storage devices, not just SSDs. If you value your data, backups help protect not only against hardware issues, but with accidental loss of data (e.g. deletions by user), and malicious loss (e.g. virus [CryptoLocker]).
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