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500GB Samsung 850 EVO M.2 at $169. RRP according to computer alliance is $249
Please note this is using the SATA link, via the M.2 Interface.
500GB Samsung 850 EVO M.2 (SATA) - $160.55 + $15 Shipping @ Computer Alliance on eBay
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LWorulz on 10/05/2018 - 22:52 ebay.com.au (1768 clicks)
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I’m sure that’s just an error, as the price on their website is same as their eBay store & it’s 500gb in the description on the website as well as in the title.
What's a good price for a 850 Evo 250GB for someone who's happy to wait up to 6 months?
$160.50 + $14.95 shipping and you should hold out for 7 months
a deal for Samsung 870 Evo please
iforgotmysocks will be very happy about this deal.
Why not use DEALS4U code and get 10% off?
Comes to $152.10 + $15 shipping = $167.10
Deals4U is targeted so not everyone has it. I did though and got it with essentially free shipping!
Awesome! I also forgot to apply cashrewards!
Link for SATA version
https://m.ebay.com.au/itm/500GB-Samsung-2-5-850-EVO-Series-S…
$10 more but still a good price.
Why pay more for something that isn't m.2 connection? This one that OP listed is more future proof
Some lower end chipsets (cheap entrylevel notebooks with those 32/64GB onboard storage) won't support non-sata M.2
Edit: After doing a Google search it comes up that this particular M.2 SSD is SATA3 anyway not PCIE so if you use this you will lose the use of 2 of your SATA ports on your board. If you buy the one he linked which is 2.5" SATA drive then it only consumes one port and gives you more futureproof for an extra drive further down the track.
Why would this consume two sata ports?
@based: when an m.2 slot is filled with a SATA interface drive then the chipset will use lanes ordinarily used for 2 of the SATA ports. Check your motherboard manual to see which 2 you lose. If the m.2 drive uses PCI interface you will not have this issue.
@Agret:
From my z170 manual:When the M.2 socket is operating in SATA mode, SATA port 1 will be disabled
I think I've seen that you can lose multiple SATA ports on lower chipsets when using one in nvme mode, because it's taking lanes from the SATA controller.
But it doesn't make sense to me why redirecting SATA to the m.2 slot would disable more than one SATA port@based: It's because the m.2 interface uses a technology called SATA express. It combines the bandwidth from 2 SATA ports to provide higher bandwidth to the SSD. Many motherboards have SATA express ports which are basically just two regular SATA3 ports next to each other but supported drives will plug into them and combine the bandwidth. The technology was brought to market when SATA was being saturated by high end SSDs but they didn't yet have M.2 designed.
It's because the m.2 interface uses a technology called SATA express
No. m.2 is a connector shape, not an interface.
Computer bus interfaces provided through the M.2 connector are PCI Express 3.0 (up to four lanes), Serial ATA 3.0, and USB 3.0 (a single logical port for each of the latter two).
A connector shape which does not provide SATA Express
There is no m.2 keying listed that supports SATA express per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.2#Form_factors_and_keying
Can you link to a manual that mentions a SATA m.2 drive disabling two SATA ports?
The only time I can see that mentioned is when there are two m.2 slots@Agret:
That's just a link, what point are you trying to make?
All that article mentions is that on that particular (old) chipset using NVME drives will disable SATA EXPRESS, not regular SATA.
It makes no mentions of regular SATA ports being disable that I could see.edit: I read it again, and found what I assume is the part you were referring to
Based on Intel's implementation of SATA Express in Z97, if you utilize the new technology, you lose access to two of the storage controller's SATA 6Gb/s ports and the M.2 interface. If you instead choose to go with M.2 (the devices are more plentiful, after all), you can't use SATA Express.
On Z97 SATA Express disables 2x SATA ports, m.2 does not
@based: Using a SATA based M.2 drive will disable the SATA express. SATA express is just 2 regular SATA ports which you can normally use for hard drives/SSDs.
I guess on the newer chipsets you will only lose 1 SATA port which is good news but SATA Express is on my board which is the ASUS Z170-A the manual seems to say you can either have the SATA express or the M.2 drive in SATA mode active at once not both.
Not sure if it's just bad English though as some boards will only disable one port of the SATA express.
we will be using normal sata connection for a quite a whiles i think
this version is SATA NOT NVME OR PCIE so will be limited to ~550 MB read write
It will also disable 2 of your SATA ports when used. Better off buying the 2.5" version as per https://www.ozbargain.com.au/comment/5933828/redir since it will only take one SATA port.
Being an EVO drive I don't think it's going to get past 500MB/s anyway, PRO is where that would become an issue.
Bit the bullet and bought one
I think the WD Blue 500GB would be a better bet (more recent tech etc) and currently about $155 shipped to Aus (5 year international warranty too) - [Amazon] (https://www.amazon.com/Blue-NAND-500GB-SSD-WDS500G2B0B/dp/B0…)
850 is too old model
Says drive size 250gb in the description