Pretty good price. Others on here have successfully claimed warranty when this brand drive has failed (via Sandisk) so there is some confidence in overseas ssd.
Sequential Read 550MB/s; Sequential Write 500MB/s. Would make a good primary drive for OS and some applications. Plenty of space.
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http://ssd.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Samsung-850-Evo-1TB-vs-…
that's not to say the sandisk ssd isn't good for its price point.
Was looking for one to put in an external enclosure as a portable HDD.
If you are looking to use an ssd as external storage, I suggest looking for an m.2 version instead and pop it into one of these.
https://www.pccasegear.com/products/40405/silverstone-ms09-m…
This deal for an m.2 isnt so bad atm
Then this is a good choice as it is still a fast SSD and will be fine for external use, I'd also be okay using this for installing games too.
People seem to question latency of the USB 3.0 enclosures can affect speed/performance of an SSD in USB3 enclosure. Don't know how true this is but nonetheless it is holding me from buying one for external use at present. Think the m2 enclosure will have the same performance bottleneck as it's gonna be USB interface too. However, you have to toss between SATA or m2 interface technologies. m2 will relatively go long way, i think.
If you have the dollars to spend using an NVME drive such as Samsung 960 Pro for your OS is a lot faster than this.
It was for an external enclosure but I suppose I could get one for a m.2 as well right?
External enclosures for NVMe drives do not exist. You can get m.2 enclosures for mSATA drives, but not for NVMe.
OS yes, but for game storage a 2.5 SSD is better value. Got one of these for $263 AUD shipped just over 12 months ago. No mechanical HDD's in my systems now, only in the NAS and external data backup.
I do not know why your reasoning for a neg was "no" but now it's been cleared.
I actually neg'd by accident!
I was just replying to:
Are these better than a Samsung Evo 850?
with 'no', and hit - by mistake.
It's fixed now anyway.
I have one of these from 2015 (from Amazon) and it's still running strong as my main drive, although it was actually priced less than this back then ($199 USD).
Yep, there’s a memory shortage at the moment, driving the prices of SSDs and RAM up considerably.
A memory shortage? I don't remember that.
Keep in mind this is 1TB you're getting at this price point which I think is awesome :)
isn't it less than 1tb?
Yes you're correct, 960 GB. Atleast Sandisk is displaying outright the correct usable space. Most manufacturers dont even bother showing the correct storage.
True. Is dodgy of other brands. But TBH, I guess you know know to always expect less than advertised storage.
Actually no, formatted size of this drive will be about 894 GB.
I own this drive and a 960gb crucial m500. 894gb is the formatted capacity. A quick google search will confirm it for you.
All manufacturers label their drives the same, the formatted/usable capacity will always be less.
@combatant: I own a samsung SSD 250 gb, formatted it and it was 230GB usable. 950-894= is 56gb of missing storage which is quite significant in my opinion… Usually you would see these types of storage reduction on magnetic HDDs. So thats something new and worth asking.
@ciyborg:
Nothing new, been the same for as long as I've been buying these things. Look at it this way. If you had 230gb useable of your 250gb drive, you had access to about 92% of it's capacity. If you can use 894gb of this 960gb drive, you can access about 93% of its advertised capacity. So its pretty consistent across the board.
@ciyborg: Can confirm - 894GB shown on computer owing to binary vs decimal issue that has always been around when it comes to hard drives.
With the help of the answer on the product page:
It is 960 gigabyes or 960,000,000,000 bytes. All manufacturers advertise their products using the decimal system (so 1GB=1,000,000,000bytes), whereas an operating system like Windows uses a binary system which reads 1 GB as 1,073,741,824 bytes. So it's the same space, but your computer will read it as about 894GiB.
isnt this to Say that the usable Space on the Drive is below 960GB? isnt that the Point …………………..
@combatant: oh I see, its a percentage thing. Thanks for clarifying, always wondered how it works. Today I know 😊 👍
It's a quirk of storage measurements systems.
First of all, we have SI prefixes like kilo, mega, giga etc. which mean 1000, 1,000,000, and 1,000,000,000 respectively. So a kilometre is 1000 metres, and a gigabyte is 1,000,000,000 bytes.
Computer information is stored in binary though. 1 bit (noted as lowercase b), 2 bits, 4 bits, then 8 bits is a byte (notated as uppercase B). Then you have 1 byte, 2 bytes, 4, 8 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, and then 1024 bytes.
1024 is very close to 1000. It's tempting to then call 1024 bytes a "kilobyte" (kB) 'cause it's basically 1000, right? This is what Windows (sadly) does. So if a file is 2kB on Windows, it's actually 2048 bytes.
This is inconsistent with every other unit of measurement that uses SI prefixes. So some computer-specific ones were invented. The "kibibyte" (kiB) is exactly 1024 bytes. Then a mebibyte (MiB) is 1024×1024 = 1,048,576 bytes (as opposed to the 1,000,000 of a MB). A gibibyte (GiB) is 1024×1024×1024 = 1,073,741,824 bytes (as opposed to 1,000,000,000 in a GB).
This is a whopping 7% discrepancy between GiB and GB.
Drive manufacturers list their drives in gigabytes, but they do so accurately. So this 960GB drive is exactly 960,000,000,000 bytes. When Windows reads the drive, is sees 960,000,000,000/1,073,741,824 = 894.07 GiB, and tells you it's "894 GB".
So really it's Windows's fault for propagating incorrect unit usage.
Is it possible I use this as external HD? With an enclosure ofcourse. Plug and playable?
you dont even need an enclosure. Just the SATA 3 to usb 3.0 plug.
Say if I accidentally unplug it while file transferring, it wouldn’t screw up the drive right? (Because it’s flash I guess wouldn’t matter)
Probably not as seriously as a mechanical drive but you still have to take precautions like every other hard drive you are using. Even if you use an enclosure, there is also a risk of the cable coming off.
Yup, I use one of these
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/USB-3-0-To-SATA-External-Converte…
I've got an esata port that I use to quickly copy stuff from my pc onto an ssd so I can go watch it on my TV. I kinda messed up though, forgot that my HDD speed will still bottle neck it badly
I'm currently using a 240gb version of this as a coaster. Bought it around 5-6 years ago and tt died at 3 years and 3 months, right outside of warranty. Maybe I was just unlucky, but I sure hope they have improved in reliability since, because I had another sandisk SSD that died just outside of its warranty like the ultra II. Worst part is both SSD's were hardly used, as I only had games installed in them
Assuming it lasts as long as it's rated, this is a pretty damn good deal! My samsung SSD that I've had for 7 years has had 30tb writes in its lifetime, whereas this is rated at 430+tb. Would easily last a lifetime if it doesn't crap out
Why does my price say AUD 310.49 at the checkout including shipping? What am I missing?
Amazon's currency converter is price jacked. At current exchange rate it's around $299.98 AU. Do you have a CC or Debit card with no currency conversion fees? You'll get much closer to the exchange rate then if you pay in USD.
Great choice for installing into a PlayStation 4 as they can't utilise the faster speeds of better SSDs.
Damn you, now I'm tempted. Notice a difference vs the 500GB hdd?
I thought it was excellent, but I also upgraded to the PlayStation 4 Pro at the same time which helps a bit more as well.
Before I was getting irritated with load times, whenever I experimented and died I'd have to wait again. The upgrade pretty much took the sting out of waiting for me, you still wait of course, but its a less. I figured for $ my patience was worth it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HdIAshkI1I - PS4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNxTiUofwhI - PS4 Pro
If you don't want to watch the videos, in most games the level load times are reduced dramatically, boot times are reduced only a little. In a couple of games the storage isn't the slowest part, unfortunately, so the only upgrade their is to go to PS4 Pro and get the faster CPU and storage. I was playing Dishonored 2, according to the second video an example load time for that game went from 26 seconds to 12 seconds, it felt some much better.
Had one of these fail, reported all fine but had boot issues and caused weird OS/game problems, Amazon expressed me out a new one an covered my return postage.
Best customer service ever 👌
No reason it wouldn't be. Just uses the standard sata interface
I’m not sure if the PSU in the dell system would have spare ports.
If not just grab a cheap power splitter off ebay.
Just a noob question. Is this SanDisk worth the money against this one which I can buy locally?
https://m.umart.com.au/goods.php?id=38520
Thank you.
Had one of these fail after almost exactly 2 years. RMA'd and had a new one in a month. Fortunately it was just a games drive. Unfortunately Dark Souls 3 doesn't have cloud saves :(
how can we avoid the international transaction fee? which card can do it for free at a good rate?
I can't find this on that Amazon US link as a new unit at that US$229 price, I can only see this disk as a Refurbished unit, for US$229.99. New ones are ~US$260. Is it because I'm a nincompoop?
Expired on new
Are these better than a Samsung Evo 850?