Have gotten out of the loop of SSD prices but this seems like an alright price for 500GB.
Apparently the "new" Barracuda whatever that means.
Free delivery with prime.
Knock yourself out.
CamelCamelCamel.
Sure it's easier if you are near one of their stores but a lot of people probably aren't.
I love those comments. Why buy 'x' product when you can pick up from umart/MSY/IKEA/aldi/costco
It's because city people don't have any sense of other people in other situations existing.
@SlappersOnly: Business opportunity! But how much cheaper would that be compared to a shop that delivers? Might be more. But at least you could get things within 24 hours.
But also this Seagate SSD is shipping from Amazon US so it will take weeks to arrive. And also doesn't MSY have an online store for delivery for those who aren't near a store?.
Do they ship from the US? I've bought Amazon US stuff from the Amazon AUS site before and has arrived within a week. I just assumed it was all stored in an Australian warehouse somewhere.
As for the MSY online site, yeah they deliver but majority of the time people are commenting on it's cheaper/similar price when you pick it up in store. It becomes dearer when you add the $10+ shipping on top of the posted deals.
IKEA is even worse. I looked at it before because I noticed they had warehouses all over Australia so you can buy stuff from them online and pick up at their warehouses, but you get to the checkout and you get a $40+ handling fee. Not ideal to buy 4x ladda rechargeable batteries then pay the handling fee
Shipping from Amazon US doesn't take 'weeks'. I used to receive packages from Amazon faster than I did from Melbourne to Perth.
@Nousernamehere: It does for me to here in Central Queensland (hundreds of kms from the nearest international air shipping port). Packages from Melbourne to Rockhampton through Australia Post take about a week in comparison. I've had parcels from Amazon US take 2 weeks or more to arrive. It may depend on how congested Australian customs is at the time. And it also takes like 3/4 of a week from Sydney and a full week from Melbourne just to arrive here and that's after it passes through customs. So you could see why it could take weeks for a parcel from USA to arrive to me here in Rockhampton, QLD.
Not every body is so fortunate to live in a capital city with a major international airport freight hub there.
@hollykryten: You’re in Rockhampton? So you basically have to get everything delivered anyway. It’s all the same unless you want to slightly faster and pay the shipping costs from MSY/umart/Scorpio or the credit card surcharge for purchases from pccasegear
@SlappersOnly: Yup always need delivery. I built my PC totally from delivered parts from either the USA (Amazon US, Newegg) or online PC stores in Australia (Umart, PCCG, PLE, etc).
@hollykryten: I built/ordered parts for my recent computer just before cyclone Debbie last year. Thought I would finally try direct deposit for Pccasegear so I don’t have to pay the extra surcharge. They completely lost track of my order and couldn’t find my payment, then by the time it was posted it was lost in post because of the cyclone and was delayed for weeks.
Or from msy for the price of a large coffee more
and the Sammy is faster.
Seagate STGS500401
https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B07CYYGTJ7
Read 560
Write 535
Samsung 860 500GB
https://www.umart.com.au/Samsung-500GB-SSD-860-EVO_41469G.ht…
Read 550
Write 520
That's interesting. Would be good to know some of the comparison reviews made without including the biased hate for seagate
The Evo will be faster, advertised read/write is mostly meaningless as it's theoretical of SATA III max speed. The Evo is actually faster than some of the old Intel NVMe with 1900 Mbps read and 900 Mbps write, also prolonged session will drop cheap SSD read and write speed very quickly. The Evo is pretty much fastest you can get for SATA III interface.
Not sure I'd rely on manufacturer's claimed speeds - it'll be interesting to see how the Seagate benchmarks.
@Bigboomboom: HAHAHA that is the best review
For VDI Initial Login, it looks as though a toddler got a hold of a crayon and scribbled on our charts.
There's one eBay seller with the 500GB Samsung EVO 860 listed @ $125 including delivery. Use the PLUG5 code and that comes down to $118.75
I didn't even know seagate had a SSD range. Gets overshadowed by samsung and cheaper brands like crucial
Oh, so they only recently just started to branch out to SSD?
"Seagate opened up sale of the BarraCuda SSD in a limited release through Amazon, so you can order one right now. According to the company, availability will extend elsewhere in September"
Would be nice to see their endurance rating aka expected number of writes before dying.
I know that crucial mx300/500 is like less than 1/3 of Samsung 860 EVO's life expectancy thus Samsung is more valuable.
What are you doing that approaches any SSD's endurance rating? Normal user won't get anywhere near it.
@Diji1: Nothing but I like set and forget stuff so the less I have to worry about it the better.
So if something lasts 20 years I might have to check up on it in 5 or 10..but if they last 100 years well.. Maybe I don't have to touch it forever muahaha.
Also always good to be prepared and ready for any emergency or extreme use case scenario.. There have been times where I have required one item to go above and beyond what it is meant to do and it is nice when it can whatever it is.
All the HDD companies now have already started to shift some of their factory production to SSD's.
Seagate acquired Samsung's HDD business a while ago, with an agreement that they also let them access to Samsung NAND technology (2011) and then later also acquired Toshiba and Sandforce (2014), so they've actually been in the SSD game for over several years now.
Can Seagate be the 4th major player in the SSD market with the lack of consumer grade presence? There is the topdog Samsung, Intel, SanDisk now owned by Western Digital and Micron in the Enterprise space.
All I can see that SSD is now on the S curve rising trajectory to replace HDD in the foreseeable future. The prices has dropped dramatically since Q2 of this year.
@ChickenAdobo: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/seagate-stock-set-plunge-earn…
They are going to be in a very tough spot for 2019, if they are only now coming up with solutions for SSD's in the mainstream consumer space then it shows they are rather unprepared for the shift in HDDs -> ssd's.
@scrimshaw: You are spot on with that assessment. It will only make the consumer SSD market more competitive though. Can't wait for 1 TB to hit 200 AUD or less.
That is because Seagate does not manufacture Flash NAND. Samsung is the biggest manufacturer and Crucial is Micron's brand. There is no way you can get more competitive products straight from the horse mouth, and Samsung still occupies like more than half of ALL SSD market including enterprise.
Do we know what brand NAND they're using in this drive?
Edit: Toshiba
https://www.anandtech.com/show/13044/seagate-announces-barra…
Endurance is "unspecified" for drives upto 1TB, but 2TB is rated for 1092 TBW
So assuming its the same grade NAND, then basic math puts the 1TB drive @ 546TBW and the 500GB drive @ 273TBW.
For those comparing to the Samsung EVO's, it's worth noting that the Seagates are also warranted for 5 years (well, "Limited Warranty" - I didn't read the specifics).
internationally?
I assume if you purchase from Amazon US the warranty only applies over there and you'd need to ship it back. But if someone knows different, please do say.
Anyway as a comparison linked to earlier in the comments shows, the performance isn't anything flash, so an EVO 860 sourced locally (and for only a few dollars more) seems a much better buy.
$75 us is $104 au - so that's a hike on the us price - presumably the gst- interesting to see amazon finally responding to some of the shit they've been pulling in oz - this is only listed because the postage cost is low unlike power supplies and bigger boxes.
I would buy local because amazon are right shonky about returns these days, amongst other things.
Yes the international product prices on the Amazon AU store includes GST.
It's hardly Amazon's fault that Australians were stupid enough to vote for the party that created the GST tax regime or the party that claimed to be against it but didn't remove it.
don't get your point- amazon didn't want to collect the border tax - so set up shop here - removed access to other amazons - and don't make available the same goods at the same special prices charged in the us anymore.
difficult to see anything good about amazon's antics on this…
Depends on your experience, they have been very good with mine (just 2 weeks ago) on a Logitech mouse I bought last year from Amazon US.
my last 2 were shit
You can get the Samsung 860 500gb for $119 from umart.
its just easier.