The Kingston A2000 1TB 2200MB/s 3D NAND NVMe PCIe M.2 SSD is an affordable storage solution with impressive performance. With TCG Opal 2.0 security management solutions, 3D NAND, XTS-AES 256-bit Encryption, the built-in eDrive support and Backed with 5 Years Warranty.
Centrecom with credit card surcharge and insurance comes up to almost $184 last I tried. Great if one could just rock up and buy in store
The hell are you insuring a $165 item for LMAO.
I've never used shipping insurance in my life…
$175.20 delivered is better than centrecom.
EDIT: SE also have a credit card surcharge of 1% so $176.95 with paypal or cc.
Well that's your choice to risk.
both have surcharges.
so
SE $183.76 shipped, insured, surcharges.
CC $181.15 shipped, insured, surcharges.
wonder if Scorptec would price match?
Scorptec do not price match.
@Skramit: If they have it on eBay you can use eBay price match with Scorptec, did it last week on a motherboard.
@Skramit: You can go on eBay chat and ask for price match if the place you're price matching is on their list of vendors that they will price match and they'll give you a voucher for the price difference.
@Jasonissm: I dont think I quite follow still…can you give me an example?
Ryzen 3600 is $299 at Scorptec (Store). If it's $329 on Scorptec Ebay, are you saying I can price match with eBay chat and get a $30 ebay voucher?
@Skramit: Yeah, I pricematched an X470 mobo from Centrecom and bought from Scorptec eBay, they gave me a $55 eBay voucher. This is all done by eBay and not the individual seller, in this case Scorptec. You pay full price up front and the difference is refunded via eBay voucher, which is not perfect but not bad if you're considering buying something from eBay in future.
@Skramit: Yeah pretty good, you can get price matching from stores that typically don't offer price matching.
centrecom ships from victoria, i think
I would avoid that like a plague if I want quick shipping. I bought something from eBay last week and item has not arrived from Vic
when will the intel 10th gen start a discount?
lol
Just cancelled my Amazon order of this after reading about the BSOD issues, esp when I do plan on installing MSI RGB softwares…
I was having buyer's remorse over buying a 970 evo plus over this. Now I have read about that I am glad I did. Random bluescreens suck.
Lol same here
Thanks for heads up.
Will go for WD
Rocking this as my windows boot drive for nearly a year now and still rock solid, but I guess I could just be a lucky one
same here had it for about 6 months or more, haven't had any issues running it with a gigabyte b450 gaming X mobo
Just brought one last month and it's been great, no random BSODs. Seems like the cheapest option with TLC.
I’m using this in a B450 mortar max with no issues so far.
Good on ya, maybe updated drivers finally solved it.
Are you using any RGB/aRGB by any chance?
Only for the r3700x cooler. It may not have been running long enough to develop issues (forums said it was fairly intermittent, months between problems) so touch wood hopefully i dont have any problems.
seems $179 picked up from MSY
Same from smart. Easier to pickup and deal with warranty issues (although not perfect).
UMART not smart. Damn autocorrect.
Shop smart
Shop S mart.
I planning a build over Aorus B550 and I dont use RGB software. Will the random BSODs happen too?
Gigabyte's RGB software seems to be one of the most common culprit from what I found. If you are not using it, at least that's one factor eliminated?
Thanks. That is what I am presuming too. I was doing some research and there seems to be a pattern of unexplained BSODs since early 2019 with no links (or at least it wasn't established back then) to RGB. The posts were pointing to BSODs and they all had A2000 listed in their parts and they obviously had no idea it could be the SSD. Later that year some posts started suggesting it was the SSD and it was mostly linked to desktop motherboards. When the SSD was transferred to a laptop the problem goes away. Sounds like a SSD controller firmware.
Same, I found many anecdote stories of similar BSOD and more recently, they were linked to stornvme.exe, which is Windows NVMe controller driver related.
How they linked that eventually to RGB programs is beyond me but man, it must be frustrating as for the early adopters
Just wondering if this SSD will fit in this enclosure below to make a portable SSD?
Thanks
https://www.amazon.com.au/WAVLINK-Tool-Free-Enclosure-10Gbps…
In the fourth image it states that nvme ssd supported which is this.
I am planning to use this for my 2015 macbook pro. Any suggestion for the adapter?
if your model is A1502/A1398 then either this
http://eshop.sintech.cn/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPa…
or
http://eshop.sintech.cn/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPa…
would be ok. sintech is quite popular on amazon reviews. But take your own risk.
thks for this, yes a1502 is my model, I checked on ebay but most are just generic kind adapter thats why still hesitate to buy
I assume you've seen this thread, but read here for more info:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/upgrading-2013-2014-mac…
Agree with going with sintech, as per thesydney
Shipping from them relatively quick, similar to most ebay sellers
your board has 1 x M.2 (M Key) 32Gb/s Connector
so yes
works fine in my Dell business laptop. upgraded from M.2 sata drive, no issues
speed of loading certain programs increased considerably
This the Crucial one same quality as this? (+ 5% amazon shopback as well)
https://www.amazon.com.au/Crucial-NAND-NVMe-PCIe-M-2/dp/B07J…
No the P1 is a step down. QLC vs TLC and poorer read write performance.
Back in stock.
Have the 500GB one, I love it and hate it. On my Biostar B45M2 the write speeds just turn to shit, it slows down every 2 seconds and climbs back up. On my laptop though it's really good, 2GB/s sustained on both R&W at nearly full. I'm hoping the new AGESA can fix this or a new firmware. I don't think it affects all AMD boards though.
The pricks at this store don't combine postage at all. Charging me over $10 per item.
$181.95AUD shipped and insured
Centrecom is $179 free shipping / collect