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Western Digital Red SA500 2TB M.2 2280 NAS SATA SSD $268.04 Delivered @ Amazon AU

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Western Digital Red SA500 2TB M.2 2280 NAS SATA SSD $268.04 Delivered @ Amazon AUAffiliate
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LGaAs on 15/11/2020 - 13:05 amazon.com.au (939 clicks)
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Seems to be the lowest price ever for the WD Red 2TB M.2 / NGFF SATA SSD.
* 5 Year Warranty
* Designed for 24x7 NAS workloads
* Average active power 60mW
* Endurance of 1300 TBW. (Note: 2TB WD Blue SSD is 500 TBW).
* Up to 2M hours MTBF

Cheapest price elsewhere is above $400.

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  • shiny1 on 15/11/2020 - 13:16

    Wow. Pretty good price for a m.2 storage drive. You can move 20gb of stuff onto this drive in about 40 seconds. That's quick enough for me.

    • Pigsy3 on 15/11/2020 - 13:58

      I don't know much about transfer speeds but is that the same a normal sata drive?

      • Jonski on 15/11/2020 - 14:02
        -2

        Ignore me

      • shiny1 on 15/11/2020 - 14:14

        Yes.

    • scrimshaw on 15/11/2020 - 14:03
      +1

      This is a SATA 6GB/S drive, not NVME. It is using M.2 (physical connector) but not talking to your PC via PCIE lanes.

      • shiny1 on 15/11/2020 - 14:17
        +1

        Are you sure it's 6GB/s and not 6Gb/s? That's a factor of 8 difference. Sata is generally capped at 500 megabytes/s or so. My comment was directed at people who tend to say "this is not nvme, not worth it".

        • scrimshaw on 15/11/2020 - 14:20

          typo because swiftkey on mobile. Meant to say 6Gb/s.

      • hollykryten on 15/11/2020 - 14:24
        +1

        So at full SATA 3 speed at say 500MB/s it's going to take a bit over 63 minutes to move 2TB of data onto the drive if you can sustain the full write speed. That's not bad. At least that's not into the multiple hours or even days.

  • fastnet on 15/11/2020 - 14:01
    +2

    Excellent price for a high endurance SSD and it's 2TB. Great first post OP!

  • random-guy on 15/11/2020 - 14:24

    Personally I don't get why there are M.2 SATA drives. I would rather just get a plain SATA SSD as M.2 slots are valuable

    • Aggregate3 on 15/11/2020 - 14:26
      +1

      One common use is in space constrained builds like small laptops.

      • hollykryten on 15/11/2020 - 14:27

        Most modern laptops, even those modern small laptops should be already supporting NVMe M.2 SSD. That's the best option.

        • Aggregate3 on 15/11/2020 - 14:29
          +1

          Depends what you goal is, for performance sure but for cost maybe not.

    • studentl0an on 15/11/2020 - 14:32
      +3

      For most uses including gaming, NVME currently doesn't offer any appreciable decrease in loading times than SATA SSDs. Like yeah you can watch multiple GBs per second in benchmarking software or copying files between 2x NVME drives, but in the real world the saving of money is much better than headroom I'll never use.

      I would much rather save extra cash and get 95% of the random write/read speeds. I regret going faster smaller NVME over SATA in my previous laptop.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COofLeqk_tM&

      • random-guy on 15/11/2020 - 15:26

        But why don't you just get a 2.5 inch SATA SSD tho? They are cheaper

        • studentl0an on 15/11/2020 - 15:50
          +1

          Because:
          1) Don't have a HDD bay in current laptop.
          2) If I did I'd put a 2TB HDD in there for even cheaper and still go with a SATA drive in my m.2 slot as NVME offers no real world speed increases for most people, myself included. If comparing SATA and NVME SSDs (not HDD), we are mostly limited by how fast our CPUs can allocate memory and decompress assets, not storage speed when it comes to OS/application/game loading. The video I linked to elaborates on this.
          3) By the time Nvidia or AMD decide to let their GPUs directly access pcie4.0 storage for super fast game loading and asset streaming pcie3.0 NVME drives may be expensively redundant.

          EDIT: Why downvote me without an explanation?

          • random-guy on 15/11/2020 - 16:58

            @studentl0an: I didn't downvote you, why would I?

            • studentl0an on 15/11/2020 - 17:07

              @random-guy: Someone did. Who ever it was maybe they they started to see that NVME wasn't needed and that SATA would have suited them fine, and that offended their purchase.

              • random-guy on 15/11/2020 - 17:26

                @studentl0an: I personally use both M.2 NVME (1TB 970 Evo plus) and big plain SATA SSD (2TB WD blue). I get your arguments, just still thinking M.2 SATA is weird. I build my own PC and I don't use compact cases maybe that's why

          • vid_ghost on 16/11/2020 - 06:57

            @studentl0an: Today nvme isn't needed… But in the next year or so they will be required for gaming with how consoles will want to move data from them in real time … :). Optimum gaming performance.. consoles going that way with the tech gives the average joe a use case

            • studentl0an on 17/11/2020 - 09:45

              @vid_ghost: Oh I totally get that, and I know I'll be needing a NVME drive by this time next year as games start to take advantage of new GPU storage loading directly from the HDD. It's just for the last few years SATA has been the better choice for performance per dollar by a huge margin when it comes to loading applications.

              Actually Nvidia just came out yesterday and announced some more details about their GPU DirectStorage API. It's looking like NVME pcie 3.0 will be enough for future games to use GPU direct loading assets from the drive. So when I said current NVME drives may be redundant in my previous post, the day later it's all but confirmed that's not the case and that pcie3.0 drives will be enough and people won't nee to get pcie 4.0 or some new unannounced certification for future rapid storage GPU loading.

        • shiny1 on 15/11/2020 - 15:59

          For me, I don't want to deal with sata cables. I HATE sata cables. My motherboard has 2 m2 slots and I'd rather use that.

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