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Just arranged 3 nice price drops for you @ Futu eBay. Enjoy :)
Toshiba Dynastore 240GB SSD $71
Toshiba Dynastore 480GB SSD $143
Samsung U28E850R 28" 4K Monitor $468
Futu Price Drops: Toshiba 240GB SSD $71, Toshiba 480GB SSD $143, Samsung 28" 4K Monitor $468 Delivered @ Futu eBay
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tightarse on 06/10/2016 - 10:23 ebay.com.au (1773 clicks)
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Review conclusion: http://www.anandtech.com/show/10084/the-toshiba-q300-ssd-rev…
tl;dr an SSD that has nothing wrong with it for the price but it's not a standout product either - you'll likely be happy with it but you might be a little more happy with a Sandisk Plus instead.
I was researching the Sandisk plus yesterday and think paying a little bit more for 850 evo makes more sense….comments?
It seems tweaktown didn't like the sandisk plus, I'm now toying with the idea of the OCZ Trion 150 which should be a few dollars more.
An unknown value right now is the Patriot Spark with the new controller, I can't find any reviews.
Crucial's new MX300 seems pretty interesting with capacitors to protect the sdd if there is a sudden power loss, they should help finish the write. However, the MX300 seems to perform poorly in read-heavy tests, but shines in write. Personally i'd prefer the faster read.
Have a look at the Samsung 750 Evo, performs very close to an 850 evo. I'd get the 750 evo over the OCZ for $2 but $10 is harder to justify. $20 is even harder.
Most people wouldn't be able to tell Jack shit about ssd speeds when transferring word docs
Just asked jack and he noticed it!
You don't know Jack!
You're not meant to ask him, you're meant to tell him some shit about ssd speeds while you copy some word docs around.
Agree. Not much difference in normal home usage, though definitely better than a spindle hard drive, so if you don't already have an SSD in your PC then get one.
If my laptop has a DVD drive slot, is it just a matter of pulling that out and plugging in the SSD - or do I need to buy special mounts or cables to support the drive?
Sounds legit, if it physically fits then a bit of double-sided tape should be all the 'special mounts' you'll need?
The Dynastore 240GB seems to be incorrectly marked as using TLC, Toshiba advertise it as MLC with only 260MB/s sequential write speed.My bad, looks like Toshiba Australia don't show them on their website, must be sourced from overseas.
How is this monitor ?
It is TN, not IPS. You might want to spend a $100 more and buy Dell or LG 27" 4k IPS.
28". 4K. TN?! The shame.
I had this monitor, wasn't a fan. Sold it after a week.
Yep, When I was trying to sell my 4K IPS monitors for around the $400 mark some loser would link me a new TN Panel 4k at $580 and demand i sell for $300 smh.
It is TN, not IPS.
TN is not necessarily inferior to IPS
Viewing angles, blacks and colour saturation tends to be better (and more even) with IPS, however IPS panels are usually much slower than TN. Generally, gamers prefer TN for the better response, less smearing and blurring.
I haven't checked specs on this monitor or compared to Dell or whatever, these are general comments. Buyers need to be aware of this and make their own comparisons and judgement.
I would take lower response time over viewing angle and color saturation any day. It is not as though you will be looking at your screen from a 45 degree angle while gaming. Moreover this is a good quality monitor, it has 10 bit colors with Free Sync. Most older TN can only do 6 bit or 8 bit.
I got a TN for my main screen and an IPS as secondary. I really don't like gaming on the IPS but it is great for looking at it from an angle which is where the panel shines.
Agree, if for gaming TN can often be slightly better as it's single user straight on viewing and angle/colour accuracy it not the top priority (response/refresh times are)….
However if you planning to do image editing or creative work oftem IPS is the prefered technology as in this case response time is not important but colour accuracy and tonal range is more so important which IPS monitors are much better at producing more accurate results…
No idea on the quality of this monitor though but if you are a gamer don't write it off just because it's not IPS… I would sugest check a few reviews and make a decisions on your needs..
As someone coming from 2 x Dell 2408wfp IPS panels, with an eye on the P2715Q, do you think I would I be happy with this Samsung? I haven't worked on a TN panel in years.
Not using it for gaming. May be using it for occasional design work but nothing too demanding.
Samsung 28" 4K Monitor cheaper here at MSY for $490, however not shipped. Perhaps an alternative to others who have a MSY store near them :)
On to it. Stand by. Gotta love competition.
EDIT: now $22 cheaper than MSY with free shipping :)
$9.80 shipped so it still is cheaper.
Also not sure if these SSDs are the best quality looking at the previous deal on them
I think you should check the prices again.
Nice, +1 for TA's effort for the community :) Keep it up!
Yep that's the deal I saw it from :)
The deal on the SSDs is pretty similar to these prices too.
Have noticed theres a real lack of competition in the current eBay sales probably due to limited stores participating.
@ShamelessBargains: Yea limited stores perhaps might be the case. I'm still looking for an external SSD deal, man they are rare to find here… Will probably just end up buying an enclosure
@saty1296: Yeah thats every store on an eBay sale now though (Except GoodGuys). They wouldn't even price drop on the SSD's in EC deal. All these tech stores just work together in these eBay sales to rip off consumers through inflated RRP's and maintaining similar pricing across stores.
@stuhtb: Yeah that's probably your best bet. Umart and MSY are my go to stores. I miss those eBay groupbuy deals, they had some ripper ones on SSDs back in the day.
It'd be better if eBay would do a sale which didn't expect the sellers to kick in any money to offer the discounts. That's what's causing the issues. If the store has to put in half of the 20% discount, with eBay covering the rest, then they likely have to put the prices up that 10%, in order to discount 20%
It's a business plan which works to the naive shopper (hey look I'm getting a discount), and pisses off the savvy shopper
@Spackbace: Too true, eBay only kicks in the full amount on sitewide sales but recoups most of it through those astronomical seller fees.
I think most shoppers are pretty price savvy these days with the amount of price comparison and bargain hunting sites around :)
Has it been confirmed that eBay is asking/forcing the sellers to fund some of the discount?
Sorry, didn't realise anyone would nitpick an opinion.
Or do you not believe that's the case? You think the stores just want to intentionally jack the price up by the 20%…?
@Domingo: Yeah they are definitely funding some of the discount, talked to a Wireless1 rep about it awhile ago. They didn't disclose the % but a 50/50 split is most likely.
@ShamelessBargains: Agree. Looking for a mechanical keyboard at the moment, even with these eBay 20% sale, the prices on FUTU and PC Byte is not much different from MSY usual price. Very disappointing. Hope TightArse can twist FUTU or PC Byte's arm on some decent mechanical keyboard deal :p
Not having a go at your opinion - just most people tend to take what you say as fact, so wanted to validate. We've seen the big stores do it time and time again, but for the one off sales with other stores, they seem to not follow suit.
And yeah, I do think the stores take advantage to make extra profit during these sales. They may or may not co-fund it, I'm really not sure. Would it be a different model when they do 15% off everything?
I'm still looking for an external SSD deal, man they are rare to find here
If you think about it, you will realise why.
An externl SSD would normally connect via USB 3.0 and will generally max out at about 1/2 the transfer speed that a SSD can potentially do. In real terms, a good fast 7200rpm HDD will provide almost similar performance levels over a USB 3.0 interface.
So, a 1TB SSD in an USB enclosure is many many orders of magnitude more expensive than a 1TB HDD which will almost match it for performance. Hence very poor value or bang for bucks.
Considering that USB Sticks can be had for cheaper, and are smaller and fairly fast (if you select carefully), an external SSD is more a device for unlimited budgets where it doesn't matter about the "value".
Someone replied to a a recent comment of mine to say that eBay kicked in the whole discount on an eBay-wide sale, which is kinda fair enough, because otherwise they'd be taking from the 'Mum & Dad' sellers. Plus they would need to say they were doing it, and then it would be made public.
I believe that when they select particular stores, they're getting the store to cover part of it. When it's site-wide, or category-wide (like the 10% off one right now), eBay cover it (pretty much just using the listing fees to cover it).
@llama: >In real terms, a good fast 7200rpm HDD will provide almost similar performance levels over a USB 3.0 interface.
Wut? No it won't.
@llama: USB3's theoretical max is 5Gbps or 640MBps. All mainstream SSD's offer 550MBps transfer speed which is within USB3's throughput.
Theory and practice are 2 different things. 550MBps is the burst transfer speed of the cache, and never achieved in real life, especially for sustained transfers. It certainly won't be achieved over USB 3.0
Do a speed test on a SSD over USB 3.0 interface. Copy some Linux ISOs, or use Crystal Disk Mark and look at 4K results.
Looks like they use Toshibas own Controller for those ssd's.
Anything that's not sandforce is a win for me :)These cheap Toshibas (and the equivalent low-end OCZ models) are poor performers. They especially choke with large numbers of small files, and where the file is large and exceeds the buffer size. Read the reviews. You'll do much better with a Sandforce than one of these horrid things.
What's wrong with Sandforce?
There was a bug in 2011 when Intel owned SandForce that caused BSODs and the drive to disconnect and was fixed pretty quickly via a firmware update but that incident alone was what lost SF it's reputation.
There are many ssd's out there that are Sandforce based now, and are still considered very reliable. Intel 530 for example. Great piece of hardware with 5yr warranty. Was kind of expensive at the time though.
Samsung make their own controller for the 8** range; so they cover my top end.
Sandisk make their own controller for the SSDPLUS which covers my budget.and it seems Toshiba make their own, but I'm yet to find any decent RAID tests on them.
I'd be doing a 16 drive RAID 0+1@motor89:
Interesting. When did that change? The last SSDPLUS I pulled apart (though I admit it was more than 6 months ago) didn't have a Marvell controller chip on it.Which Marvell chip are they using in their cheap 'PLUS' range?
@MasterScythe: Sandisk has been using Marvell 88SS9189/88SS9190 for years but it seems like they have recently swtiched to Silicon Motions SMI controller chip for Plus range as it is mentioned On here
That's not why. Sandforce had catastrophic failure rates for several generations in a row. Sandforce + firmware tweaked for ocz was something crazy like 25-50% in the vertex 2.. Ocz admitted the rate somewhere iirc.
It was always the controller, not the nand, that died
As a previous vertex 2 owner I will never go near Sandforce again.
Their "own" controllers are essentially same OCZ controllers that have so many problems.
You got it around the wrong way. OCZ are rebadged Toshibas.
Toshiba bought OCZ with their SSD controller design team a few years back.
TN panel? No thanks.
But dude I just bought you one! Guess it's going in the bin
Nice!
Really want a discount on the Acer monitors, either the G277HL or G257HL
Thanks TA great work
On the lookout for a good price on a 500gb or 1tb ssd m.2 for a Dell xps 13. Any suggestions?
Dammit paid $540 delivered on the 27th of August 2016. Plus it. Has a dead pixel on the bottom right. Nt sure what to make of this. Plus, I'm being being very unfair as I expect screens to have the same Level of black that my S6 edge has. But alas, this is not Possible.
Maybe ask for returns? Is there a fix for this?Oh, and thank you TA!
Nice work TA but the monitor I really want a price drop on is the Acer Predator X34… any chance of this one going down?
thats a joke, I paid $655 for the screen yesterday (minus the 20% discount) which is still a massive difference. They better refund me the difference or Im returning the screen when it arrives.
Why is it a joke? Prices drop, see if you can get the difference back, if not..just unlucky is all.
I want a new monitor for my PS4 and dell XPS13 setup. So this TN monitor would be a better performer for input lag? I like to play a lot of FPS online. Would my PS4 have only 1ms response time if i hooked it up via HDMI?
Would my PS4 have only 1ms response time if i hooked it up via HDMI?
If you hook it up via a flux capacitor, it will have negative lag and actually anticipate your moves for you.
To answer your question… no.
Why not? It's a tn panel with 1ms response time right? How bad would it be if not 1ms?
Note: Do not confuse the input lag time with the response time. The response time is the time it takes a pixel to shift from one color to another, which is significantly shorter than the input lag time. Response time is related to motion blur.
Why not? It's a tn panel with 1ms response time right?
The "response time" that is quoted as "1mS" is an artificial number created by marketing people to impress consumers who don't understand what it means.
The Samsung is 1mS GtG (Grey to Grey) which means nothing whatsoever. How grey to how grey - one shade? Who games in black and white anyway, most people want colour.
This review at Toms Hardware in January 2015 measured the Black to White response time at 15mS.
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/samsung-u28d590d-4k-ultra-hd-m…
More important is the Input lag, which they measured at 98mS. This number means nothing except in comparison to other Tom's reviews. They rated this Samsung as poorer performer than other similar sized 4K monitors that were available 20 months ago. No doubt the opposition has improved further since then.
You talked about Input Lag on a PS4 and a midrange laptop. If you compare this monitor to the laptop screen, this is almost certainly better. A laptop (of any kind) is so much of a compromise that worrying about response or lag whilst using such a device is laughable.
I have no idea how you have managed to connect the PS4 to the Dell XPS13, so I cannot comment on how good or bad that might be.
However you also mentioned online (console?) FPS gaming, and if that is the case then your biggest lag will probably be the internet connection between you and the game server.
How about working some magic on LG 27UD68-W assuming they can find some stock.
Nice, although I see they charge a lot more than other retailers for their Powerline Adapters— was going to buy the TP-Link TL-PA211, which is $65.00 at Futu, bringing it down to $52 with the discount, but it's RRPing at $55 at other retailers (also with free shipping), and I can get it locally for $52.00. The TP-Link-TL-PA411 is also pretty dear (RRP $60, Futu has it for $75) making the 20% hardly worth it. I guess I'll wait for another retailer to have a sale instead.
240GB out of stock
magically more stock
The technical term for this is "restocking". Bricks and Mortar retail stores, supermarkets, bottleshops, etc also experience this same magical process.
can you find out when this will be back