Decent for the price and seems to be the cheapest it's been for a while.
Original Samsung SSD Cashback on Multiple Models (E.G 860 EVO 1TB $34 Cashback) @ Samsung
Samsung 860 QVO SSD 1TB $155 Shipped ($136 after Cashback) @ Centre Com
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Site says qvo
@RSmith: EVO is more write durable, the speed difference is not significant. (Both are leaps and bounds better than a HDD.)
QVO is a decent compromise for a gaming only SSD, if you need a more enterprise or business related solution or something that needs to be written heavily, consider PRO, or on a budget, EVO.
That’s definitely the QVO not EVO
Edit: I see the original question was which is better rather than which this deal is
In that case you’re correct EVO is undoubtably betterEdit 2: A good summary of an ozbargainer's (not me) research on the QVO here
Qvo
You wouldn’t feel much if any at all performance difference apart from benchmarks but EVO uses TLC which lasts longer than QLC nand used in QVO.
There is a huge performance difference, the more write the more noticeable, especially when you have a half full drive. SLC cache won't kick in anymore, and once the drive is required to do garbage collection, the system can hang straight away before it finishes(if you use the QVO as boot drive). The only ideal scenario of using this SSD is to use as game drive, but why don't I get crucial bx500 which's TLC drive in that case.
Of course, there is a huge performance difference in the benchmarks especially on sustained write speeds. Which is why I said many users won't "feel" the difference.
No there isn't, I have both an EVO and a QVO, the difference is 10-20% in random access (read ridiculously fast and 15% faster) and less than 5% on a sustained read.
Where as the NVMe is closer to 300% faster on a sustained read and 500% faster at random access, but still translates to no noticeable improvement when gaming. (It is somewhat noticeable with your OS, but the difference isn't in the order of 3-5x faster, closer to 20%.)
I wouldn't use a QVO as a boot drive purely for reliability reasons.
@Shwayne: Thank you. Exactly this. 20% faster in real usage would be like a sec difference. Unless the definition of “huge performance” difference is the size of the graph, Shwayne explained it way better.
@RSmith: If your laptop has a HDD, I am assuming it’s fairly old. I would personally go QVO as it does last long enough. If you intend to hold your laptop as long as possible (beyond 3-4 years), I would go EVO.
UwU
PRO > EVO > QVO
Here you go
Samsung 860 QVO vs 860 EVO vs 860 PRO: 1TB SSD Comparison
https://www.google.com/amp/s/thepcenthusiast.com/samsung-860…
Summed up : The 860 QVO is cheaper compared to the 860 EVO, at the expense of speed, endurance/reliability and warranty.
In technical terms: 860 QVO uses QLC NAND, EVO TLC and the PRO MLC. SLC > MLC > TLC > QLC. 860 EVO is half as enduring as the PRO, and the QVO is half as enduring as the EVO. Their sustained write speeds also take a hit.
The problem with benchmarks is that it only shows synthetic uses, not how it actually works in practice. QVO's are good for writing irregularly to it, and primarily reading data from it.
If someone had their Steam library on this QVO drive, it wouldn't seem any slower than being installed onto an EVO. Read speeds are still fast on QVO's, write speeds are easily fast enough to keep up with download speeds, and its endurance is still high when you consider how much data can be written to it.
Free shipping is metro areas only.
i'm in Maryborough Vic 3465 and it comes up as free shipping (aust post)
4TB QVO for $606 is mighty tempting.
RAID?
Nah single disk is niceeeee
wow…in 3-4 years, we'll be buying 4TB SSDs for ~ $200
imagine, a 4-TB SSD in my front shirt pocket
!remindme 1460 days
wow, over 6x the price than the 4tb external hdd i bought last year
Can this be used to upgrade macbook pro retina 2013 storage?
No. This is SATA SSD and you'd want a PCIE Flash Storage SSD.
And I just paid $120 for the 500gb evo
Still has Cashback
'just paid' means a week ago
Scan the receipt and photoshop the date?
pretty sure i got an 860 evo for the same price during the last cashback from samsung
Yep, I paid about $140 after cashback for an 860 Evo in Dec. 2018…
Is it worth upgrading from a 1tb Evo 840?
Upgrade to a NVMe is a brighter idea mate. Get yourself a SN550 or SN750 from WD.
No, it’s actually a bit of a downgrade
Even an EVO 860 isn’t too much of an upgrade
You’ll want an EVO 970 (nvme) for a significant boost in performance
hi new to this, how do i activate the cash back because i want this ssd
Recently bought an EVO 500g from Shopping Express but the offer was for Rainbow 6 and not cashback?!
QLC. No thanks.
It's not bad. Samsung QLC has a pretty decent life span/reliability, this isn't significantly slower than the MX500 and the expected lifetime writes is the same. With the ~$50 price difference at the moment, it's not worth going the MX500 if you need a drive right now.
The warranty is a lot shorter (3 years vs 5) but then I had my first SSD have a bad sector just a few weeks ago, my OS drive after 8 years in 3 desktops (just replaced it, they're so damn cheap).
I just stuck one of these in my parents machine (I think I'm the source in the cashback thread, boo OP, where's my credit? lol), it's running like a dream. Unless you're going to be doing a hell of a lot of writing to it, it's fine, I just picked up an additional one as a steam drive.
Why? What wrong with it?
As a games drive its perfect. Reads are plenty fast. Life of the QLC flash is gonna be more than ample with mostly reads anyway.
How do we get the cashback? No one mentions anything :/
Click on the link to original post
great deal, got the 1Tb evo for like around 165 or something it was on ozbargain before with the rebate
follow the link included in the description/ no one reads anything anymore:/
anyone used these with a sata-usb3 cable ?
or would it be better to get an external case for the drive?i'm wanting something i can plug into usb for my macbook for saving video files (understand that write isnt as good as read, but predominately i'll be reading from the drive)
thanks
This looks like it's the cheapest SSD per GB in a long time. It even breaks the 2x1tb is cheaper than 1x2tb rule.
Thanks OP. This is my first upgrade part for my cheap TechFast build. Don't know how I was dealing with only 120GB…
$83 on ebay, far from a deal
Got a link then?
sure: this is additional 12% off
https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Samsung-860-QVO-2-5-SATA-1TB-Int…
or just search its model number MZ-76Q1T0BW
plenty of them around $85 mark
They increased the price
@[Deactivated]: Looked into the purchase history of the link you shared, there was one sold for $95.20, and 4 more "sold as a special offer" today.
@Craze: Ordered one for 85 delivered, received next day with express delivery. Samsung magician verified the drive as genuine as well.
@303-Acid: seems mine is shipped got tracking number, good seller honored the error, i didnt really want this drive but at $83 fine ill take it :))))
@303-Acid: just got mine, everything looks great, express next day shipping and super low price, damn impressive
@Craze: i think there will be no cashback on this as this store is not listed on the cashback store list
good news is samsung magician verified the drive as genuine and all is working well
tested speeds are: Read 6089 MB/s, Write 5913 MB/s
im suprised that its faster than my nvme drives ?!
How do I submit an online form? I can't find any redemption link on Samsung website
Anyone knows when this deal ends? Wondering if I should just buy now or wait for eBay deals next week?
Receive up to $148 cash back* when you purchase a qualifying Samsung SSD between 8 June 2020 and 31 July 2020 (11:59pm AEST). https://www.centrecom.com.au/Cashback
Anybody know what is the CentreCom ebay site is?
i dont know if the Samsung cashback its still valid if you do it via ebay …
Received my cashback today- happy days!
Qvo or Evo?