Per the title, Sandisk 960gb Ultra II SSD for about $253 AUD delivered.
Could be US$10 cheaper if you signed up for the MasterCard promo
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i got one of these from the amazon germany deal they had ….. great drive. i think BH are doing the evo 850 1tb for $330 but $80 difference think i would get another sandisk. the evo has 3gb cache so that's why the benchmarks are different
thks …… will grab one
Nice find. slightly cheaper than the Amazon DE deal I posted. Remember to use an Amazon collection point for cheaper shipping if there's one nearby for you.
So many SATA SSD deals recently :) but need a m.2 one for my build :/
Same boat!
The Mastercard promo credit has expired if you didn't use it
I didn't use it and they applied it to my account as a credit, so it's still there for me to use. Sent me an email to let me know. So quite possibly is still there for you to use also.
^this
I talked to their chat support regarding my credit disappearing, they said there'd get back to me within a day; that was 3 days ago now.
I'm gonna try again soon but not getting my hopes up, I just reckon they don't want to give out free money on black Friday :p
Wish I got the 750GB for like $150 yesterday tho :/
yeah i think that might have been a better deal as well. i umm'd and aaah'd and missed it as well.
don't know what the hell to do now.
So many bad reviews on this ssd..
there are lost of variables that don't always come up in reviews …and we need to compare TLC with TLC, not smaller MLC .. the bigger drives like 1TB have bigger caches and wider bus than smaller drives like 250GB or 500GB. They also don't seem to tackle endurance that often in their specs, how big the total storage pool is to get that endurance or what optimisation has been done in firmware to achive that. Probabaly because you will upgrade before you wear them out, especially when you buy a new PC and it comes with a faster interface than SATA ….check the intel roadmaps for their next chip set ….. faster storage and not sata.
Never see reviews where people tackle the read write or durability of the flash in a phone as a choice which phone they buy.
across the fleet of PCs and laptops at my Ex wifes house (for my sons PCs) and at my house, we have the 960GB sandisk Ultra 2, Crucial MX200, and Samsung Evo850 1TB ………..they all seem to perfrom the same, and none of the 12 SSDs we have have failed. Min hardware is now I5 6th gen in out platforms. We don't encrypt in case I need to recover onto a different platform, so encryption isn't a selling point for me, the sandisk doesn't have hardware encryption, the Samsung Evo850 for $80 more does …..
In the TLC space, which most of these cheap / affordable large drives are, buy the biggest you can …… the biggest differences seem to be cache architecture and size and bus width as they get bigger and better.
That is why the variation even across the same product line e.g Evo850 in R/W with the different size drives and also endurance.
If you can afford it buy big MLC ……. but they cost a lot more .
Let see if Smmry can help understand what you meant.
Smmry:
There are lost of variables that don't always come up in reviews and we need to compare TLC with TLC, not smaller MLC. the bigger drives like 1TB have bigger caches and wider bus than smaller drives like 250GB or 500GB. They also don't seem to tackle endurance that often in their specs, how big the total storage pool is to get that endurance or what optimisation has been done in firmware to achive that.
In the TLC space, which most of these cheap / affordable large drives are, buy the biggest you can the biggest differences seem to be cache architecture and size and bus width as they get bigger and better.
If you can afford it buy big MLC. but they cost a lot more.
Thanks but it comes across even stupider like that because I read websites that compare those things that he/she claims "seemingly" aren't.
I guess with reviews don't always believe what they say , but seek facts and details and make up your own mind…… there is lots of mis-information in reviews …………..
Yeah mine died after 4 months. 10/10 would not buy again.
Yup… mine just died on me after 2 months of usage.
Now I need to find out how to RMA this.
Either get a replacement or a refund.
I'll stick to Samsung from now on.
BE WARNED!!!
Still too expensive but I'm glad the price is slowly getting there.
What's a faster SSD than this one?
probably an M.2 drive
all depends though. i mean, if you're copying something to a mechanical drive there's going to be bottlenecks.
sequential read/write is all different to random read/write
and M.2 drives are much more expensive for maybe a few seconds quicker loading time.
how often you open/close apps?
I use one pcie ssd right now, so a lot?
what i was getting at, is if you're constantly closing/opening apps, or doing something with a lot of read/writing, such as video editing it's worth it to get the fastest possible.
otherwise i'm not sure bang for buck is really there.
depending on how impatient you are.
If you're already on a pci-e ssd then this would be a step backwards.
You're gonna need to look at something like a samsung 950/960 pro or one of the intel 750s for comparable speeds.
if you are on a pci-e SSD then you aren't looking at this price bracket for a 1TB drive to keep the performance you currently have …….. this is for people who are on sata connectors.
Thanks Op for post.
Bought 1. Fingers crossed no trouble.
Still on mechanical hdd laptop. So should make things faster.
You will wonder why you didn't install an SSD sooner!
Roddie uou will enjoy it …… my son has filled his Sandisk with his steam games and Windows 10 ……they are a very nice drive.
even my sons PS4 is on SSD now ……..no spindles left except in the 12TB NAS
Ditto. Just bought one for an old laptop. Should give a good boost I hope.
I think thats cheapest i've seen this one
*edit. yes camelcamelcamel confirms this is lowest price ever