Original 15% off Computer Alliance on eBay Deal Post
Very good price for a capable SATA drive (especially for the M.2 form factor). You can get extra discount if you can get eBay gift cards with discounted Woolworths/Coles gift cards.
Check out the eBay listing or official site for specs (sorry posting on mobile).
Do note that the drive is slightly slower than the MX500 500GB which was at a similar price, but if you're after the M.2 form factor, this is a pretty good price.
Is Samsung Evo 970 better?
yes
are you going to notice much difference?
no
I do, you probably won't.
lol wat to the guy who said you won't notice the difference.
There's a huge difference between SATA M.2 SSDs and PCIe M.2 SSDs.
@idonotknowwhy: You keep saying that.
"You won't do ___, but I do! Here's my justification, I JUST DO!"
The only people who notice the difference are those that notice the difference. There is no "you won't" and "I will".
@StoneSin: It's as @camshandez said, it's more a case of: "If you have to ask, you probably won't".
For loading and playing games, browsing, office tasks, I notice absolutely no difference.
I have 2 Samsung 960 PRO nvme drives and work with / move around very large files daily, which is where I notice a huge difference.
Nobody notices the difference for loading games and apps, there are benchmarks out there to prove it. It'd only be the same crowd who thing they hear more detail from up-scaled high-res audio ;)
P.S.
Here's my justification
I didn't even attempt a justification in that comment lol.
ahh… (profanity) yes.
500MB/s compared to a minimum of 1500mb/s its at least 3 times faster.
I'm assuming that the speed difference is negligible or rather not that noticeable to the Crucial competition.
Would this be a worthy add as it's non nvme to an Asus Ranger 7 mobo with only m.2 version one slot?
Really depends what you're doing. For most users it would be negligible. Gaming and general storage would be more or less the same between to two. The faster speeds would most benefit you if you do a lot of transfers, say video files, audio files etc.
Gaming loading is significantly faster, Windows boots almost twice as fast as SATA when using PCIe.
I'm not sure why you're explaining to people that they won't notice anything.
This is not m.2 nvme (using pcie). this is m.2 sata.
The poster was asking about two SATA drives. The difference between the above WD Blue and Crucial MX500 (for example) would be negligible for most users.
Worth considering to put in a small enclosure and make yourself a very fast USB thumbdrive.
Beyond that I'm still hoping 2.5" SSD's will get even cheaper.
Wonerful for my macbook install wintogo onto it alone with an egpu wow
Nice price