Comes up as $94.09 if you're a Prime member.
Was looking for a good deal on a MicroSD and came across this. Posting this so hopefully everyone jumps on it, it gets sold out, and I save money by not buying it. Help a brother out.
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https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Lexar-High-Performance-633x-512G… - $112.50 for 512GB after using code PRIORITY10
Anyone bought these lexar ones who can suggest how good they are for galaxy note 8. Thanks.
can someone please report back whether these 512gb lexar cards are any good (on smartphones)
460.87GB, less than the Samsung MicroSDXC version. They are fine. There are no problems and is plenty fast for your smartphone.
I always knew that what you get as usable space on any drive is less than the total space, but isn't 460GB for 512GB a little excessive? Is this anything bad? I didn't know that the usable space to total space ratio differs greatly across brands…
@TwentyTwoCarats: Computer Science was taught wrong for the longest time, as CS works in base 2 mathematics and modern life works in base 10 mathematics. It was assumed that since 1024 (2 to the power of 10) was close enough to 1000, we could use the same terminology as 1000. So, as 1000 Metres is 1 Kilometer, 1024 Bytes in software became a KiloByte but 1000 Bytes in engineering was also a KiloByte. This was fine while partitions were relatively small, but 1024 bytes in a kilobyte, then again 1024 kilobytes in a megabyte, then again 1024 megabytes in a gigabyte, the difference starts to grow and grow as you get larger amounts of storage. At some point (not 2009, cos I went back to Uni then and it was still accepted as the same name), someone started to enforce the SI standard that kilo, mega, giga, etc means exact multiples of 1000. So the multiples of 1024 were given similar, but unique names, that are have "bi" for binary, or 2, in them. Kibibyte, Mibibyte, Gibibyte, etc.
In the physical world, 1GB is 1,000,000,000 Bytes of information. This is a GigaByte.
In the software world, 1GB is actually 1,073,741,824 Bytes of information. This is a GibiByte.
512 GigaBytes = 476 GibiBytes (as would be reported by your OS). The ~16GB difference I would simply chalk up to the file system overheads you expected.
@So lo: Then they should be calling it a god damn 476 GibiByte sd card.
On a side note, how is it pronounced? Gih-Bee, or Gih-bye. Or the worst possible timeline, Jye-Bye.
@ONEMariachi: Even though we all pay internet bills, after all this time the general population doesn't even know that 8b = 1B. Or that Mb is/was Megabit and MB is/was MegaByte. There's no chance that people will understand what's going on with Mibis and Gibis.
Don't even get me started on Moore's "Law"…
O.u.t o.f s.t.o.c.k :'(
(Ozbargain doesn't let you write "outta stohck" the proper way in a comment…
U1 speeds…ehh, probably better off spending a little extra for a U3 card (or V30 if it's a Sandisk)
Would this be good for nintendo switch? in terms of the speed.
Yes, it's perfectly fine card for Switch.
Switch doesn't really benefit from higher card speeds, this is fine.
Would this be good for GoPro Hero 7 Black?
Seems like it would be too slow for anything more than 1080p. Even then I would be concerned about frame drops/stuttering.
I think the use case is more for writing infrequently e.g. games for Switch, storage for phones, overflow storage for laptops. The Lexar one posted above may be better for GoPros but have read concerns on reliability for Lexar. Then again I've had SanDisk cards fails so ¯_(ツ)_/¯
You dropped this ( ＾◡＾)っ\
Man…almost half a terrabyte in the space of a fingernail.
Well they're just 1s and 0s on there..
We're all living in the 1s and 0s (the matrix)
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You can augment your body and implant one if you like.
I remember paying twice this for a 128mb usb stick back in highschool.
Ditto. Amazing how far these things have come, and how cheap they've gotten.
My first PC's hard drive was less than that
This, or the Lexar for an S10? Will there be much of a performance difference, when taking photos/videos?
My question also… really tempted to pull the trigger on the 512gb lexar one for my S10
that lexar is bezerk at that price! i've already purchased mine!
Which Lexar is everyone referring to?
Second comment on this deal.
Would these be any good for expanding laptop storage? I have 256Gb SSD, iniially wanted to install another SSD in spare bay, but tempted at this price…. would speed of these micro cards be at equivalent of at least 5400RPM standard 2.5" HDD?
it's flash memory, so it's faster than a spindle-based HDD.
the only thing is, copying files to/from these MicroSD is very slow.
I see, thanks. Both Lexar and Sandisk class 10.
Why would you buy this when 500GB SSDs are around this price anyway? Far faster, and likely more reliable.
Just a recent example: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/462486
Yeah you are right, a bit more work but you end up with a proper SSD solution. Cost the same.
I didn't think the 128 GB SSD on my 2015 Dell XPS 13 was upgradable…Am I wrong?
Yeah it will be upgradable, only it will be an M.2 SSD, not a 2.5 inch one.
Dell have excellent service manuals that show how to replace components. Search for your model on Google (it’ll be on the bottom) with service manual on the end.
@Mitch889: Thank you. I've actually found a 2016 article from laptop mag on how to do it for my model.
An SSD won't fit in my switch.
Good to know
You can expect about a 90MB/s sequential read speed from these cards, and about half of that for sequential write. From an average modern 5400 RPM drive, I'd say you could probably expect around 100MB/s sequential read/write.
Both of them are going to have abysmally slow random read/write, maybe a bit better for the microSD but both likely to be in the order of single digit MB/s.
These prices aren't cheaper than SSD prices though, so there really isn't anything to gain. And you can get a 7200RPM drive for a lot cheaper.
1TB SSD for $152 delivered.
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/463396
If you look around, I'm sure you can find a 500GB SSD for around $100.
The Ozbargain circle of life.
Bought the switch NBA 2k19 on deal 3 dollar deal only to realise I don’t have nearly the space to play the game on my original micro SD unless I delete almost everything else.
Now another 94 dollars spent on this deal to play the 3 dollar game!
Good deal. I paid the same amount of money for 200GB version when Nintendo Switch came out.
Now I'm thinking to upgrade it…