Not a bad price for a decent 4TB SSD after cashback. Comes with a 3 year 1440 Terabyte warranty.
https://www.samsung.com/au/offer/ssd-eofy-cashback/#particip…
Samsung 860 QVO 4TB - $679 ($606 after Cashback) - Delivered @ Centre Com
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oneleaf86 on 13/06/2020 - 23:50 centrecom.com.au (272 clicks)
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bough the 2TB in April . Was $318 +31 cashback from Centrecom
MX500 is 319 at shopping express. Just grabbed a 2TB. And a better drive than QVO anyway.
I was waiting for this to drop for so long, and nearly bought it back when it was $531 after cashback. I ended up getting a 2TB MX500 for my desktop's Steam library since it was significantly cheaper.
In hindsight I should've bought the 4TB QVO drive since my case only has space for two 2.5" SSDs and both are full now :(
I think you are better off with the MX500. The QVO is grossly overpriced for QLC IMHO. I wound up going for a 2TB Samsung T7 for games, at least it's double SATA speed. They were $450 on eBay recently (the non-fingerprint model).
In hindsight I should've bought the 4TB QVO drive since my case only has space for two 2.5" SSDs and both are full now :(
Do people actually put SSDs in proper spaces? I've always just plugged them in and crammed them into any space I can in my case. You can easily just smoosh 4 2.5" SATA SSDs behind your motherboard tray.
As someone with 8x 3.5" HDDs (soon to be 10x), yes, I use the 3x specially designed SSD slots on the back of my mobo tray.
That’s a lot of Linux distros
You don't need to use a "case space" for an SSD - just jam it anywhere you can with a bit of tape. There's no moving parts, so rigid mount is not required 👍
FWIW, I wouldn't recommend purchasing a 4TB QVO. I have a 1TB 860 QVO and 1TB 860 EVO, and the write performance of the QVO is horrible after the first few minutes.
Presumably if you're purchasing a 4TB SSD, you'll be copying large amounts of data. Unfortunately after the first few minutes, the QVO will slow down to HDD level speeds (around 100-150 MB/s), which doesn't happen with the 860 EVO. This is fine for mass storage or for "read heavy" applications, but if you're doing a lot of writes or ingesting, I'd suggest either going with the 860 EVO or going with 4 x 1TB 860 QVO's so that you can parallelise the writes.
I thought it would work well for a cheap Steam library which isn't write heavy… but then the 4TB model wasn't that cheap.
Yeah, it'll be fine for a Steam library, but some benchmarks are showing that a traditional HDD + Optane cache can be just as fast. So there's that option. Even if you want to stick with SSDs, I'd still go with the 860 EVO's.
Either way, ~$150-ish per TB for an 860 QVO isn't great. Personally I'd just go for 4 x 1TB 860 EVO's for $165 (see https://www.budgetpc.com.au/catalog/product/view/id/79564/s/mz-76e1t0bw-samsung-860-evo-1tb-samsung-v-nand-2-5-7mm-sata-iii-6gb-s-r-w(max)-550mb-s-520mb-s-98k-90k-iops-600tbw-5-years-warranty/). Just RAID0 them and you'll have a single drive for Steam.
Sure, I get the convenience aspect of a single drive, but I'd rather pay an extra $50 or so just to have them be 860 EVO's, even if it means having to deal with 4 of them.
I think the practical challenge is not everyone can run four drives eg power, space, SATA ports. Sure you can upgrade or use an add in card but there is some value to a single drive.
4 drives isn't a viable option for most…. That's why bigger drives exist.
For read access I'm sure these are fine.
The QVO 2TB and 4TB have almost double the SLC cache of the 1TB so they can transfer almost twice as long at the faster speeds (78GB vs 42GB). The 2TB and 4TB models also have their QLC transfer at twice the speed of the 1TB, meaning that when it does slow down, it is still twice the speed of the 1TB (80MB/s vs 160MB/s). Since it transfers to the QLC while the SLC is filling up, the 2TB and 4TB would require you to write over 100GB continuously at the maximum SLC speeds before encountering the slow down of the QLC transfer rate.
Despite what I writing here, I still wouldn't recommend them for those writing a lot of data regularly, they are great for storing digital games though, such as a Steam library.
I bought one of these on a similar deal from Centrecom a couple of months ago. Honestly I'm super happy with it, the write times are pretty bad but it's perfect for my Steam Library, the most painful part is just copying your library off your old HDD.
After that it's pretty smooth sailing for the most part, no annoying HDD clicking noise coming from your PC anymore is a bonus ;)Hey stole my idea!! https://www.ozbargain.com.au/comment/8825370/redir
Haha good work. I was too lazy to post it.
OP farming for karma votes
Looks to be 1.2% surcharge on credit card / paypal. Only this price for bank transfer / zipmoney.
Also if you use a VPN it will still charge you but put your order on hold…..
Can't even claim cashback, it keeps telling me invalid serial number.
getting the same issue with requiring 15 char s/n but the drives only have 14 char
15th letter is on the ssds S/N not the box
Damn still waiting for a 2TB deal… $355~ really doesn't seem good value with the prices for 1 and 4TB