Are they any good? well no reviews from their web site yet and no mention on when deal ends.
Also have a 120GB $40 & 240GB $67 USD
https://www.geekbuying.com/item/Tigo-S300-120GB-Solid-State-…
https://www.geekbuying.com/item/Tigo-S300-240GB-Solid-State-…
Depends - some would say it's not worth it for a SATA drive, others would say that since it's only a SATA drive, just get the cheapest…
Only SATA
What?
This is only a SATA SSD, as opposed to the much faster PCIe SSDs.
The SATA interface is an older, slower standard for hard drives. It's typically the bottleneck in data speeds, since most SSDs (even the cheap off-brand ones) are capable of higher speeds than the SATA interface is capable of delivering.
There's little point buying an expensive one….the cheapest one with the desired capacity is fine. Of course, other issues like reliability and longevity might be worth considering.
Oh I know all that. The whole "only SATA, spend less on it" mentality has me scratching myself though. Regardless of the interface, you want reliability. I'm not putting 1TB worth of data on a drive that could crap out after 100GB of writes.
@potplanty: The point of getting an SSD instead of a HDD is for speed - and SATA simply doesn't cut it for that. It's still faster than a HDD, but NVMe is the standard for SSDs nowadays. All SSDs are more reliable than HDDs nowadays as they almost always fail gracefully (some sectors become unwritable, but can still be read, and there are 'spare' sectors so you don't even lose capacity).
You should always have backups (and offsite backups for your backups if the data is really that important), and the drive will be covered by warranty if it fails within the first 100GB (which should be within a few months).
The point of getting an SSD instead of a HDD is for speed - and SATA simply doesn't cut it for that. It's still faster than a HDD, but NVMe is the standard for SSDs nowadays.
Right. Except that nowadays the speed NVMe offers literally isn't usable by base Windows and likely won't be for several years at the very least. The only place where 99% of people are going to get any noticeable difference is in rendering, huge NVMe>NVMe transfers or using it as a cache drive. Now, unless you NEED those speeds for the aforementioned reasons, you're better off staying with SATA because it's cheaper and more reliable.
@Nukkels: To be honest, NVMe does open the door for bigger cheating. Only the SLC cache is capable of reaching NVMe speed. Once exhausted, the actual MLC or TLC flash speed is the speed you get. For example, Samsung 960 EVO will only do about 11GB at the quoted sequential write speed, if you have a file > 11GB (say 40GB), then the remaining part will be written at 300MB/sec.
Random read/write performance is more important and most consumer grade NVMe SSDs do not offer unbelievable improvement over SATA ones. I have NVMe SSDs. The only ways I can actually hit those quoted sequential read/write speed are (1) benchmark software (2) RAM drive and (3) another NVMe SSD, but only before the SLC cache is filled up. Day to day use, they are only a little bit faster than decent SATA3 SSDs. If you really want better performance, SSDs based on X-Point is the way to go (they cost a lot more, but random read/write is good).
El cheapo brand SSD drives… not recommended. Like most TLC SSDs, there is normally an SLC cache, so yes, the quoted sequential read/write is the SLC cache speed (again, cheating a bit).
120GB can be had for $34.99 US with coupon ZYXLTKCZ
Tigo are a very well known budget SSD brand and are the sister company to the Ramsta I've posted previously.
Says A$136 for me and A$47.63 for the 120gig after code.I guess speed wise they won't compete with the brand names.
How much for 1TB?
Code retailmenot gets 5% off.
480gb is US$ 94.99/AU$ 125 delivered
i would rather pay a bit more and get Kingston - local stock, local warranty and thus peace of mind.
Kingston is really the cheapest SSD i would go - don't really want to cheap out any further when it comes to storage as the data you store on them is going to worth a lot more than the few $$$ u save now
Reminder that the Goldenfir from Aliexpress seems to be the cheapest I've seen them: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/366810
480GB is $87.35USD.
Worth the $40 savings compared to local prices?