Looks like the best(cheapest) price for local stock(?).was tempted to buy from Kogan with amex deal,but from my past experiences a local warranty is a must have,if it is more than a year.In this case its 5 year warranty.Happy to get corrected…@1st POST.
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ok, thanks!
You also might want to try connecting via SATA cable directly without the external power.
Ok thanks. Reckon the cheapest place for one of those is ebay?
Yeah definitely. Alternatively just pull out the hdd of your laptop and put that in your external enclosure and put the SSD in. Boot off your external drive :)
@yojabbajabba: ok cool! Thanks. I just go into the bios or something and change the boot order? I'll do that. Thanks for your help.
if its old USB dock, it may not newer support 4k sector drives which I believe most SSDs are?
Probably won't help, but I can't see one of my main portable drive on my main laptop. I was worried that it had died but plugging this into another computer and it comes up fine. Problem might be specific to your laptop.
Yeah true. Thanks. I did try plugging the enclosure into a little netbook however and I got the same result. Anyway, I should stop talking about this here before I get in trouble. Thanks for your help.
Is this a good price? And why are these so popular?
Fast and very reliable.
Top tier of SSD's.
The Evos are not top tier…
What is? The Pro version? San Disk Extreme Pro?
@Spizz: Simple answer - yes.
The 950 Pro has read/write speeds 4x faster than the 850 Evo. Evo's are great for the price, but they certainly aren't top tier..
Oh man.. Bought this 2 weeks ago for $219 :(
Can't believe that happened to your life. So sorry. So sad.
Mwave is same price, was free delivery the other day but no longer appears to be free. No idea if Mwave are local stock though, or decent to deal with after sales.
Sorry if I sound like a muppet, I understand SSD are quicker than HDD, but what is the attraction if you only have 500GB storage?
Is there something I am missing in how you guys are setting these things up in conjunction with your HDD's perhaps?
Only keep OS and programs on SSD. Everything else goes in the HDD(s). 500gb is plenty of space, if you seem to be running out of room, best to sort out what you really need. I have a 200gb ssd + 2TB HDD.
When comparing speed, SSD vs HDD is like night and day. Do yourself a favour and buy one.
What Abadacus said.
Although with that much room i tend to utilize the extra space with programs and games i frequently use.
Example my internet browsers, photoshop, essentially all the programs.
Then just a few games like Dota, Counter Strike an Rocket League.
You could even use it for a htpc without any mechanical drives which i'm planning to soon seeing as how prices in SSDs are cheaper than ever and quite large! : D
Thanks guys, makes more sense to me now.
can use this for my desktop PC? just bought one from ebay and whilst its new, i'm hoping the MB can handle a SSD because they say i can upgrade to an SSD if required so its not just for laptops
Pretty much any computer can use a SSD, even a really old one. An SSD acts like a standard hard drive but is much faster due the technology and the fact it has no moving parts.
A SSD, like a standard hard drive connects to a computer via a sata interface (the same initerface your current hard drive would be using). So you could essentially pull out your old hard drive and plug in the SSD into the exact same cables/ports (remembering though there'll be nothing on the SSD until you install an operating system and software and the SSD may be smaller so you may need a 2.5" bracket to hold it in place securely, depending on your desktop case).
It's better however as mentioned to use a SSD as your primary operating system drive and a standard hdd as your storage drive (all desktops should have more than one sata port, usually it's a minimum of 4, but DVD drives also use the same sata interface)
I put SSD's into all my PC's without fail, even my old ones. Once you go SSD, going back to a standard hard drive as the primary hard drive is like going back in time to the 80's (from my experience with back to the future)
On the back of a SSD, HDD, or DVD Drive there are 2 different sized L shaped ports. The smaller one is a SATA port that connects to your motherboard via a SATA cable, and the larger one is a power connector of which you connect a sata power cable from your power supply to.
DF IT Solutions in Malvern VIC sell these drives for the same price and provide excellent after sales support.
They also sell the Pro version for $5 less than MSY.
Not biased at all.
What do you mean?
I work at DF IT Solutions and I'm just saying that we have prices same if not better than MSY but in my opinion we have a better after sales service.
You are welcome to come and check us.
i just emailed the mount pritchard branch and they said it wasn't on sale.. is this only specific stores because this doesn't show on the msy website that its on sale
ok so i called Ultimo store and yes they have it for $205 but this is internal. i guess the external is $289 so i guess maybe in topic it should state INTERNAL - would that be fair to say? i guess i assume the portable price would be the same to use for internal (in a Desktop PC)
Am I allowed to briefly hijack this thread? About this SSD? I am after some techie help. I purchased this drive from Kogan, (with the AMEX deal) and currently have it plugged into a SATA USB 3.0 docking station (enclosure) (it is a mains powered one) but I cannot for the life of me get my laptop running windows 10 to "see" the drive, so that I can then clone it and put it in my laptop as the main drive.
It does not come up in "disk manager" it only appears under "devices" as "mass storage device" that needs "troubleshooting" as "this USB device is malfunctioning or not working correctly".
I beg for any tips! I have used the googles but cannot seem to find an answer to my issue. Do I need to format the drive or partition it or something for it to be recognized? But how do I do that if the laptop won't see it? Thanks in advance anyone.