Hey Guys,
FINALLY, have a reason to join the elite and post for the first time on this site. I know a lot of you (like myself) have been waiting for this.
Any feedback is welcome and enjoy!
EDIT: Price dropped again to even more of a bargain and we all missed it….
EDIT 2: Small Price Increase
I believe it is the first time below $200
Bummer! Oh well, mine is still cheaper!
Yes.
That cashback rate is horrible! Good price on the drive though!
Better than eBay (just)
SSDs are finally becoming affordable as your only drive.
But all the other components are still expensive and power supplies seem to be on a rise too :/
Yeah ram is absurd.
If you know how to shop around you can often find used stuff like 4th gen motherboard/processors with DDR3 ram for a very affordable price. The motherboard/cpu/ram is less than just the ram would be on new parts.
Definitely. The 4770/4790k CPUs are still pretty good and the i5s still hold up well too. PC hardware has become so inflated in Australia that you can't even build a system to beat the Xbox One X console for $500 - but even that has it's flaws.
Not just PC hardware to be honest just tech in general.
@Ostrk: Not just in Australia. Elsewhere seems like this for RAMs and CPUs as well from what I can see on reddit.
It's slowly coming down though. A lot better then it was at the start of the year.
From now on, new benchmarks! Here to next weekend, other sellers will follow…take your breath
Great first post
Wow!
Shipping from States, wonder how long that usually is.
depends but usually most stuff i order from america thats not through amazon comes in about 2 weeks.
Free shipping to Darwin
China 1-2 Months
UK 4 to 6 Weeks.
USA 2 Weeks
Sydney 3 Days
Hobart 2 weeks
Perth 1 week
Bris 3 days
Cairns 20 days
Townsville 1 week
Katherine 1 year (ordered a nut)
Express shipping to Darwin ($$$$)
China 3 days
UK 1 week
USA 1 week
Sydney 1 day
Hobart 1 week
Perth 3 Days
Bris 1 Day
….
Given that these are coming from the US - what's warranty like
US warranty means you have to send it back to the US. Samsung Australia won't cover it. Nor will you get Assassin's Creed game code
You're not getting AC game code locally anymore anyway.
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What is the chances of relying to warranty for this sort of product historically?
It's really really tempting, but I think I'll hold out for black friday and hope someone comes down to 200 with local warranty… (maybe amazon + 8pct cashback ;)
Op, the Samsung T5 500GB portable SSD is $148.50 delivered. You might want to add it to your post.
https://www.newegg.com/global/au-en/Product/Product.aspx?Ite…
Buys an SSD three months ago
Screams internally
live by the bargain, die by the bargain!
This is a wise saying
Yep. Paid $215 for the 500GB version of this in February :/
…and 3 mths later ppl will be saying this?
its a never ending cycle mate ;)
Nice post OP, all time low for 1TB.
How can we connect this to the laptop, can someone please help
Either via usb with a 2.5 inch sata enclosure, or if you want to put it inside, it will vary laptop to laptop so find your manufacturer's instructions.
Sorry, but could you please suggest a good 2.5 inch sata enclosure. And can we make this ssd as primary and migrate the data from existing hdd.
Google is your friend
lazy
Thanks OP!
Just ordered one.
:-)
$127.99 on their US site which is around $175 Aus. Nice little markup of $20 to cover shipping :(
GST, and shipping, GST 10% so $17.50, it is free shipping.
forgot about the GST when I did the conversion
They charge more than the 10% for GST though, not sure exactly how they justify it. Purchased some ram from them last week and it was $125 for the ram and they estimated $12.50, but then got to checkout and it suddenly became $14.36 for GST. Not the end of the world, just does seem a little dodgy trying to claim it's GST.
I belief its the GST on top of the GST, so its like 11%
@Andrew1232: Haha that's ridiculous. Surprised they can get away with it whilst claiming it's GST. Bet if I charged people more calling it 'GST' I'd get the ATO coming down hard on me!
"GST-Inclusive Price".. thanks LNP Government.
First thanks go to Jerry Harvey, THEN his buddies in the Liberal Party for listening to that old coot.
they gotta pay for their lobster lunches/dinners you know.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-08/matthew-guy-alleged-m…
just a little while longer to black friday
All the cool kids wait for Cyber Monday now.
Can anyone recommend a good USBC enclosure for this unit ?
Is this a new all time low? Nice.