Lowest I've ever seen a brand-new SSD go for, let alone one from a big brand.
Enough for an OS install and then some. Get some more life out of that dusty old PC tucked away in the corner!
SanDisk SSD Plus 120GB (2.5" SATA) $19 + Delivery (Free C&C) @ Mwave
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Hm… no love for the lil kitty?
not that kind of love
Got one for my duck, you know it.
Have had this same one for a few years, paid a little more. I bought a cheap sata/USB connector to connect to my laptop or tv. Makes watching downloaded stuff easy.
any recommendation for cheap usb/sata connector?
I dont know what the going rates are but I bought this one recently and it worked perfectly.
https://www.amazon.com.au/UGREEN-Adapter-Support-Converter-D…
Used it to both copy an entire HDD to SSD and also read a number of external drives, no problems whatsoever.
Oh wow… I wonder, so why are people paying $150 for an external SSD?!
@oztite: If you're talking about something like a Samsung T7, they're about twice as fast as a SATA SSD. You could technically buy an M.2 NVMe SSD and put one of them in an enclosure to achieve the same thing, but one with a fast enough interface is more like $50.
is it advisable to use it without casing for long term?
@squidz: Shouldn't be a problem.
Orico's are good too otherwise. https://www.amazon.com.au/ORICO-External-Enclosure-Support-T…
Just got a cheap one from eBay under $5 years ago, they all work about the same if you take care of them
You paid a little more? More like a lot more, i bought this one and size around 2013 and think the price was about $100 more, although i will have to check. May have also purchased at $80.
Think I got one for around $68 C & C so yeah,…tripple for me, but have seen them on sale here for between $29-$49 few times.
$10.95 shipping to VIC…
group buy for vic!
10.95 delivery killed it for me, but good deal nonetheless.
Where you from? Maybe a few could group buy if close by.
I added 10 of them to cart and delivery to 3000 was a shade under $15, so that's pretty plausible.
Kinda crazy being able to buy 10 SSDs for $200 now. I remember my first SSD 10 years ago, a 60GB OCZ Vertex 2, going for that same price.
how is it crazy storage was and is incredibly scalable we haven't seen nothing yet
@toomuchdogfur: the best way to stay happy with storage is to buy only what you need, i do that and still have a cabinet full of obsolete harddrives/cds/dvds =P
@abctoz: haha, very true!
I still see shops with spindles of dusty DVD-RWs on clearance. Now that's a format that hasn't aged well.
@smartazz104: i have like 2 sd cards and they're both dead, good timing too i have no need for them now
i remember fomo'ing and buying 50 dvdr's because they were so cheap, turns out i only burned like 10 of them and don't even use them anymore… i read somewhere there is some bacteria and they don't even hold data forever too lol
be wary buying anything technology, chances are it's going to be obsolete in 10 years
my first 128mb CF card cost me $150
@BuyoTheCat: Lol I still remember buying my first hard drive, the 120GB Seagate Barracuda IDE for $138 using all my pocket money :(
That ocz was a pos
Lol someone finally posted this, I tacked it onto the 1tb deal the other day.
Hah I didn't know - I found this one by accident while browsing MWave!
Thought it deserved a deal post for anyone like me, who seems to have excess PC parts lying around but no drives.
Why didn't you just post it yourself?
Because having multiple deals from the same shop is silly.
Yes.
How much space does Windows 10 use up?
after a full windows 10 update you can use some debloater to clean it up and remove components you dont use, but over time it will bloat up again anyway
Around 30GB for a fresh install in my experience.
I just checked my bloated, patched up work laptop and it clocks in at 84GB for everything minus the user document folders. With some smarter management (e.g. removing the 12.7GB hiberfil.sys, running Disk Cleanup, uninstalling some programs) it could probably drop under 60GB.
Keep in mind that most programs will still use AppData and ProgramData hidden folders to store files it uses and that can bloat up substantially. I wouldn't really recommend a 120gb OS drive in this day and age unless someone was absolutely one hundred percent on a budget that couldn't afford to tack on an extra $10 (a common sale price) to go for a 240gb drive.
perfect choices to buy 4 and make it a raid 0 setup. 4 times the read speed! (assuming to reduce write operation in order to prevent ssd wear out coz it's now 4 times more likely to break)
Wouldn’t you be better off buying a single high quality 500GB SSD. SSDs are already really fast so raid 0 is an overkill
thought about that too, would any high quality 500gb ssd provide the similar io at 80 dollars?
Or if you can go M.2 NVMe, even a basic one will give you more sequential read/write speed at a similar price.
Honestly I thought you we're just doing it for kicks and not for a serious setup. Like say, doing Quad-SLI with GTX 980s now - not doing it for the performance, but just because it's cheap enough now and you can finally say you did a Quad-SLI.
@toomuchdogfur: This guy quad SLIs GT710 which is pretty funny. Runs like crap but at least you can say you have a quad sli setup lol
raid while feels like a nice flex, "isn't better"* than a single higher quality ssd in same capacity.
raid 1+0 itself while has data redundancy, has the fall or rebuild time should failure occurs, and that failure rate is greater than a single ssd.
if you're purely after performance and just tinkering, at $80 for raid in 4 drive array is nice.
I'd probably use it for a cost effective video rig machine. Load a project onto it, work, then offload to external backup.
overall data safety + performance
The write speed for this drive is quite slow. I've had the 480 GB version of this drive for about 7 years-ish. It definitely lasts a long time, though!
Would be a big improvement over any clunking mechanical hdd…
Been using ssd's in many units for over 5 years. All still perfect.Surely these aren’t the same as yours from 7 years ago. I suspect it’s gone through some revisions even if they still use the same name
What revisions? It's flash memory on a SATA3 Bus. I don't see a difference between this one and the one released in 2014.
Anyone having second thoughts regarding the postage. You can buy from ebay and price match. If you have 28 degrees. You can price match ebay and 28 degress to get for free.
I’m pretty sure eBay takes into account postage when price beating
Nope just did mine
You must have gotten lucky or the retailer you were matching had free post. From eBay Best Price Guarantee Pages
Are shipping costs included in the eBay Best Price Guarantee?
Yes. We compare the full transaction cost including shipping on eBay.com.au and the online retail website in order to determine if a Best Price Guarantee is warranted.
Yeah postage is the deal breaker for me here in VIC. I'd have to buy a lot of them to see much savings (that whole spend to save chestnut)
Thanks OP bought 46
Why not buy 50% more?
I ran out of money
Good price, but as others have said, postage is a killer.
Get one of those ORICO enclosures and you're good to go.
It's a great price but personally I'd go for a 240G version as:-
a) write speeds are often faster - might be of zero relevance to many in reality
b) by the time you've got a typical config up and running you might only have 60G for data - that gets eaten quite quickly with photos/videos etcAs an aside the only SSDS I've had fail have been 2 x 120G ones from Sandisk although in fairness the age has been 4 and 5 years of 24/7 use at customers. IN both cases it was total failure without warning. I'm gradually pulling the remainder out now (120G drives in general), mainly due to lack of space and will use for in-house testing etc.
Performance-wise, in the real world it's never really been an issue to me and all SSDs have been massively faster subjectively than hard disks. I've probably installed over 50 by now and generally just get the cheapest known-brand e.g. Samsung, Crucial, WD and Sandisk
I had a 240gb Sandisk die too. I think firefox and chrome were writing constantly and killed it.
Same for my 120GB Sandisk. Total failure without warning!
Looks like it has sold out Scotty bought them all.
120GB is going to cause you more trouble than 19 dollars.
You would think you are doing people a favour, but the kind of people needing this favour is usually running very old machines and have little knowledge about PC maintenance.
Before you know it, they will call you about a message they have not seen before: running out of disk space.
And you will be frequently going back to help them free up disk space.
Ask me how I know.
I have 30GB msata on my notebook + hdd :D
manage to move windows 10 update download folder to hdd. and works perfectlyIt's possible at the expense of time. Or you can just get a higher capacity drive and not having to clean up files all the time.
Some major updates require a lot of disk space to download and run, hours will be wasted to them to work.
Linux FTW
bah no stock
How did you buy 12? Its sold out.
Didn't, sent the request for 12 to procurement dept at my work, then saw sold out, so withdrew the request before they can process it. No cheap SSDs for me
No stock left :(
I bought a 120GB Sandisk SSD, about 7 years ago. I bought it because it was cheap. NEVER AGAIN.
For those that buy this, don't put anything important on it, & make sure you back things up regularly onto another drive.
Sandisk SSD, always a bargain…until it dies. Then how much of a bargain was it!
was gonna use it for playing with Pi :D
that should be fine, wouldnt itYeh, probably. Mine was windows boot drive. I guess I put it through too much. Also, I had a lot of computer crashes, & (in my area), power outs. Maybe these were contributors.
How do people live with 32GB EMMC running Windows 10? :)
it's loaded with windows 10S. windows 10 home and pro can be run on 32Gb but need continues maintenance (clean up windows junks/disk)
An old work bought us a number of machines for Windows 10 with 2gb ram and 32gb hdd. I kid you not. You'd run out of space on an update and it'd get into a update reboot loop. Most people refused to use them. I used to get angry every time I open the cupboard and see the space they take up on the shelf.
What's worse… when one died. I let the boss know, hoping they'd throw them out. They got it repaired. I cried myself to sleep that night.
That's so sad :(
What ended up happening? Did they buy new laptops after realising the issue?
aaah yeah… no.
We were doing video editing at the time. I asked for more machines that could handle it. They made it sounds like I owed them one when they handed over their pride and joy. A single i3 with 4gb ram… for the whole office.
It was at that point, I knew what a child felt like to get a lump of coal in their xmas stocking.
A further to the story, I figured out how to use work time (within the confines of what we were allowed to do, so long as we didn't actually ask the boss) to buy and sell second hand hardware at work to build up a fund to pick up some better machines. I rekon I wasted $20k in my wages trying to cobble together 3 or 4 grands worth of usable desktops and laptops. Usable mind you, not great.
It was at that point, I knew what a child felt like to get a lump of coal in their xmas stocking
Ahhh man that sounds horrible, do you by any chance know what generation the i3 was?
Tbh anything over 6th gen i3 wouldn't be too bad, but the 4GB RAM tho :(
@Zackeroo: I don't remember what generation it was, but I'd assume it was 3 or maybe 4. It took forever to boot and was slow for even web browsing.
I still have keys for the office. Next time I'm down that way, if I remember, I'll take a look.
I never ended up using it personally.
took forever to boot and was slow for even web browsing.
Honestly, an SSD would fix that pretty well… I'm almost certain it was using an old HDD, seriously slowing it down
Recently, I was feeling quite curious about the real capabilities of an SSD, so I found two laptops at home which were both made in the same year (2009). One was a 2009 13" MacBook Pro and the other was a Dell XPS 1640. Both had old Core 2 Duo's which were almost equivalent in performance. I put a Samsung EVO 860 in both of them and got them running amazingly. You wouldn't even be able to tell that this laptop was 11 years old.
Compared to an i3 4th gen, the Core 2 Duo manufactured in 2008 is significantly less powerful, and would have benefitted even more from this SSD implementation
I still have keys for the office. Next time I'm down that way, if I remember, I'll take a look.
Thanks for your concern, however I was solely asking incase you knew… Don't bother checking just for me haha, but thanks for the offer anyway
Have a nice day :)
@Zackeroo: Without a doubt you're correct, we also found SSD's (and extra ram) put in lease of life into otherwise slower machines. It's one of those things that you don't get how good they are until you just try it.
All the machines I organised either had an SSD or ended up with one installed shortly after.
We had one of those old Pentiums given to us. I think it was one of the first 64bit machines. I threw in the first SSD I ever bought. It sped up the responsiveness considerably. It was still a gutless machine, but enough to do simple web work.
When we were doing web and web design work, we used whatever machines we could get our hands on. When we moved more into video and programming projects, trying to force these machines to fit our needs just didn't work. Nothing that a real budget wouldn't have fixed ;(
It was still a gutless machine, but enough to do simple web work.
That's exactly right… The CPU, RAM and GPU will still be major bottlenecks, however, the overall responsiveness will be seriously improvedtrying to force these machines to fit our needs just didn't work.
This is a perfect example of what I often try and explain to people… While an SSD will significantly increase performance with any tasks requiring high amounts of data to be retrieved, the CPU and GPU will still majorly limit the ability of the laptop to complete tasks such as video and programming projects. In this situation, the SSD will try it's hardest to help, retrieving the data instantaneously, however, the additional components will ultimately limit the ability to manage these projects :(@Zackeroo: To whoever reading this later… Sorry for this text issue ahaha, I don't know why everything was posted as a quote lol
Sounds like the person who was involved in the purchase of the small SSDs was not an IT professional, and just bought the lowest price option. The RAM is also very low as the typical RAM minimum was 4GB for many years and is more like 8GB now.
What was the reason for buying such a small SSD? SSDs can be used to speed up a computer by caching and 32GB would be suitable as a cache to make a huge difference in speed.
What was the reason for buying such a small SSD?
Oh man, you're making me cry remembering this. Not SSD :( They were mechanical, adding to the issue. They were old crappy Lenovos which, when windows updated, the keyboard and mousepad would stop working. If I remember right, some driver thing.
I bit the bullet and upgraded my home computer and my wife's home computers and we took the old machines into work so I had some decent machines to use.
I did a short term contact of media work at another non-profit (before I shifted over) and they didn't cobble my computer together until my last week there.
It's both frustrating and interesting work at the same time. You kind of get to pick what kind of work you want to do within particular guidelines, but requires many levels of approval. It can have a lot of variety. In the three years I've been there I've got to work on music festivals, recycling technology, made a really boring documentary, programmed a game (which never was finished), done trainer videos, made driver safety materials and so on.
Downside, the pay is really, really sad, but it lets me do something with variety while I figure out what I really want to do next and I do get to meet some really cool people.
An old work bought
Seems Like you moved on from the cheapskates
Covid happened ;(
Don't get me wrong, they're nice people and they mean well. They love to help people, but they're as close to luddites are you get. They just don't get that you need to spend a fair bit to get a machine that can do media. Most of the time what I tell them goes in one ear and out the other. They don't understand half of what I say so they struggle to remember the details. Occasionally they listen but there's also sometimes a lack of resources in this non-profit.
there's no reason for any computer or laptop to not have a ssd.
get one for your mum, get one for your dad, get one for your dog.
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