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Just purchased it myself; haven't seen a 960GB SSD this cheap anywhere yet.
OCZ Trion 100 960GB $268 @ Futu Online eBay
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I've got an Ultra II that I can compare this with when I get it - but I'm expecting it to be slower; though for me it would still be fast enough for mostly read ops (gaming!).
http://www.anandtech.com/show/9408/ocz-trion-100-240gb-480gb…
"In fact, the Trion is the slowest modern TLC drive we've tested and in some cases it is so by a quite hefty margin. Typical to TLC drives, the Trion falls short under anything IO intensive. It does perform okay (although it's still the slowest) in our Light trace, but as soon as the IO workload is increased the Trion begins to hiccup. Since the Trion is an entry-level drive, that's not a matter of life and death because in most cases it will only be subjected to basic client workloads, which are far from being IO intensive, perhaps negating the issue and moving the contest more to price."
so does this represent differences for the average joe in a single pc?
Im keen to know this too. I've been looking for a cheap 1TB SSD to breath some new life into my 4yr old macbook. Usage is fairly light so is there any reason not to get this Vs sandisk etc which are ~$100 more
Writing large files to it can slow down to HDD speed.
That's a "How long is a piece of string" question.. What is an "average Joe's PC"? Boot / load times for the OS and apps will not be as good as a Samsung or Sandisk. The worst instances where you will notice this if you are meddling around with small files where this is at its lowest performance. Large files will be ok with block transfers.
I put this up only in response to performance questions. Not everyone is just an "average joe" and some people may want to pay the difference to get a more powerful SSD.
i'd think as a boot drive the speed would be good compared to a standard HDDD
it might not compare so well to a standard SSD, but then you're getting a hige amount of storage for not a lot of coin.
if you want a speed bump from a HDD then this would be a perfectly acceptable drive.
This one seems to be winning by about $3 vs previous deals: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/search/node/960gb+271
This one is Aus stock and has local warranty.
I'm yet to have an SSD fail, warranty might be superfluous on such (well made) products beyond DoA (which amazon covers).
The Samsung 830 in my work PC has almost 4 years power-on and 21TB written.
I actually had an Ultra II fail on me after about 2 weeks of use; got it swapped by the retailer (MSY) and it's been flawless since. It does happen once in a blue moon :)
Looks good for loading games :)
Pretty much my use case for it - got an Ultra II 240 for the OS, this should do nicely as a storage / read drive :)
Thank you for your post. Bought one. Now I believe many of us is facing the problem to deal with so many SSDs in the drawer.
I have a 5-years-old Dell laptop, which has an extra slot for another hard drive. Will this one nicely fit in that slot? And because of the weight, I mostly using that laptop as a desktop now for gaming, youtube or movies, is this drive good enough to help with improving the speed of turn on/shut down process, and gaming experience in overall?
TIA.
FYI this drive is extremely prone to failure, especially if used with a nvidia chipset motherboard. Make sure you apply the latest firmware update when you receive it, and don't forget to backup! Check Amazon reviews if you don't believe me.
It's a fast SSD - I get 400MB+ read and write over USB3.0!
How does this compare performance wise vs a Sandisk Ultra II?