Just received an email with this deal. Thought it is a great price for 240GB. Free C&C at some stores in QLD and NSW.
Kingston 240GB SSD A400 $49 (Free C&C or +Delivery) @ Umart
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Raymond1227 on 12/11/2018 - 15:24 umart.com.au (1509 clicks)
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Woweeeee thanks
RRP:$139.0 - LOL
The 480GB version is also available for $95 but not as cheap though.
Good price, its $99 at MSY (i had to buy one today lol) … not as cheap as where?
kingston 480gb $87 on the recent computer alliancesale. 3 left, though.
Yeh but shipping and I needed it tonight :(
How does this rate compared to old faithful 860 EVO?
Slower.
much slower
The Kingston has up to 500MB/s Read and 350MB/s Write. The Samsung 860 has 550MB/s Read and 520MB/s Write.
Those are 'up to' figures though, remember that these do not have a DRAM cache while Samsung Evo has a DRAM cache size of between 2-4GB.
In layman terms, does that pretty much mean the Kingston is significantly slower as the numbers quoted are 'best case scenario'?
Is the 860 EVO also 'up to'?
$11 shipping to Perth
$47 to Darwin lol
Cheaper to move, really!
~~ Manufacturer "reserves" those lost 16GB inside SSD so when it begins to have failing sectors, it just starts storing the data on the "reserved" part.
This doesn't happen on reputable brands because they don't use cheap manufacturing process which is prone to failing so you need to remove a whole 16GB to compensate for it. ~~
EDIT: this is not the thread I was replying to!
Why 240G instead of 256G, any captain here?
New to computer stuff, do you just buy it and install it yourself? Very easy for installation? Cheers
Yes, you will need 1 x SATA 3 connection cable to plug it into your motherboard if you don't have that already and a spare SATA power connector to plug into the SSD.
You can mount the SSD in hard disk bays or SSD bays depending on chassis or you can even just tape it somewhere so it doesn't move around failing that.
[Wrong thread]
How many times do I have to tell you, I will not give you my mother's phone number and stop asking me to call you Papa, dammit!
I give up
The physical installation isn't too hard for most desktops. That said, you will need to migrate your data to it if you plan to make it replace your HDD boot disk, which may or may not be challenging for you.
edit: wtf is there an issue with Ozbargain threads atm? It keeps putting my comments one thread down to what I clicked "reply" to…
Same, wtf
Did you also get randomly logged out a few hours ago?
EDIT: OzBargain crapped out, put reply in the wrong thread.
Manufacturer "reserves" those lost 16GB inside SSD so when it begins to have failing sectors, it just starts storing the data on the "reserved" part.
This doesn't happen on reputable brands because they don't use cheap manufacturing process which is prone to failing so you need to remove a whole 16GB to compensate for it.
EDIT: reply got moved to a different thread, again!Ah I see, thanks for the answer
Just buy, delete the junk from your main drive till it's about 200gb used spacey, then clone the drive. Remove the old drive, boot up once, plug back in old drive. It a laptop you may need a external USB caddy.
~~ Manufacturer "reserves" those lost 16GB inside SSD so when it begins to have failing sectors, it just starts storing the data on the "reserved" part.
This doesn't happen on reputable brands because they don't use cheap manufacturing process which is prone to failing so you need to remove a whole 16GB to compensate for it. ~~
EDIT: this is not the thread I was replying to!<I believe this is the thread blue cat ment to reply to :P
Because of the 3D nand
SSD's are cheaper than SD cards, what a time to be alive.
Still waiting for a cheapass 120gb
This is basically cheap as a 120
Does this work on a laptop?
It certainly does. Here's a screenshot of it being in my 3~4 year old Dell Inspiron 14 7447 gaming laptop. A few weeks ago I got the A400 240gb Kingston from Scorptec Clayton, VIC for $59. Shame I missed out on this deal.
Just transfer everything to a external hard drive and then reinstall windows 10 to the new SSD. It's a hassle doing it my way and installing each drivers from scratch. My gaming laptop originally had a 1tb 5400rpm HDD and that was very slow. I'm waiting on a HDD DVD drive disk caddy from AliExpress to put that hard drive in my laptop instead of a DVD drive.
I also forgot to mention that you must find out what is your Windows Product Key and writing it down before putting in your new SSD. I used ProduKey as recommended by Reddit to find my current Product Key code so you can use the same Product Key before reinstalling.
A laptop I'm looking to buy says this in the description:
It also has an M.2 slot, allowing you to connect a compatible SSD (not included) for added storage space.
Would I be able to buy this and plug it in? Following the steps Grace says above.
you would need the m.2 version of an ssd not a 2.5" ssd :)
Darn, thanks!!
That's pretty cheap for an SSD. I think for someone looking to migrate from HDD this could be a good starting point.
Ordered this morning. Called them just then to confirm. No stock at Epping or West Ryde so they have to ship from Milton to those stores - 3-5 business days wait.
Was just about buy one this morning. I'm glad I forgot my login then. Cheers mate.