Slightly cheaper than last time it was posted. According to Camels cheapest price yet.
CamelCamelCamel.
Was wondering this too. Are they both TLC?
The A2000 has a real DRAM cache, and the SN550 uses HMB cache, but I'm still not sure because the SN550 has an in house controller.
I'm no expert, but I imagine they are very similar. I consider this a good deal because it includes free postage with an Amazon Prime trial; whereas other shops will charge $10+ postage, most likely.
Centrecom sell it (OOS atm) for $95 shipped.
Yeah, the A2000 is $92 shipped at Centrecom, or $87 from Shopping Express + Delivery.
Both this drive and the A2000 are good buys, IMHO.
EDIT: the 1Tb A2000 is $165 shipped from Centrecom, or $158 +delivery from Shopping Express
I have an A2000 1TB, and so far it's been flawless. I've been very impressed with how long the SLC cache on this drive works, and I've been able to write 100GB+ to the drive in one hit without seeing any degradation of write speeds.
I decided to test how much I actually had to write to the disk before it slowed down, and it dropped to about 500MB/s after 150GB or so of writes. For me, this is more than enough, and even after slowing down, 500MB/s at this price point is not shabby at all.
All around, if the other capacities are anything like the 1TB version, I can wholeheartedly recommend the A2000 range! Unfortunately, I bought it from eBay when it was up at $235, hurts to see it at $150 now :/
I have the 500GB one, but it's had issues on my Biostar B45M2. Awful write speed dips in copies. On my laptop it's fine though, seems it doesn't like my motherboard. Otherwise it'd perform like you say.
Interesting, I'm running mine in an Orico USB 3.1 NVMe enclosure as a cheap, fast, portable drive to carry around anywhere, and I haven't had any issues. The NVMe enclosure is a bit aggressive in dropping to low power mode, but that's no fault of the SSD.
No, they're not the same. It's SATA.
ah yeah thanks for that just cancelled will pay a couple of bucks more to get nvme
Apparently they make light blue ones for laptops so it doesn't weigh as much…
That's a jv level dead joke right there.
DataScientist1 is becoming the thing they swore to destroy!
If you can't beat them…
Price seems to be $114.59 when I click on the link
I wonder if this is better or worse than the A2000. It's recommended far more often despite the A2000 being at the same price or less, just WD popularity?