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ASRock AMD B450M Steel Legend Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard $99, WD Blue SN550 1TB $129 + Delivery (Free Pickup) @ PC Byte

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ASRock AMD B450M Steel Legend Micro ATX AM4 Motherboard $99, WD Blue SN550 1TB $129 + Delivery (Free Pickup) @ PC Byte
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Ldutchman on 29/12/2020 - 00:21 pcbyte.com.au (706 clicks)
Last edited 29/12/2020 - 00:29 by 1 other user

Decent deal for sub $100 mobo with two M.2 slots that's also decent looking with lots of RBG. Some reports that VRM's aren't great so not one to choose if you want to do heavy OC.

Shipping is $9.95. No idea when the sale ends but I'd assume soon!

Still on my L plates so please be gentle.

Western Digital WD Blue SN550 M.2 2280 NVMe 1TB PCIe Internal SSD 2400MB/s WDS100T2B0C - $129 + Delivery (Free Pickup)

Decent price and better that other previous deals IF you can pick it up.

Shipping is $9.95 which still makes it good but not great.

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  • fufufu on 29/12/2020 - 00:32

    The sn550 Vs Kingston A1000?

    • dutchman on 29/12/2020 - 00:39
      +1

      I presume you mean A2000. From everything I have read - you probably aren't going to notice a difference.

      The SN550 is DRAM-less but from my research that is really only an issue when you are transferring load and loads of data at once for long periods.

      EDIT: There are some actual arguments against DRAM-less SSDs: if your workload requires huge amount of writes, or consistent write performance, you certainly don't want to use DRAM-less. But for 99% of home users this does not apply.

      https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/b1a3nc/are_dramle…

      • Simoneee on 29/12/2020 - 00:56

        Pretty much the same more or less. I would go with the cheapest option

      • p1 ama on 29/12/2020 - 04:22
        +1

        The SN550 is DRAM-less but from my research that is really only an issue when you are transferring load and loads of data at once for long periods.

        You've got this the complete wrong way around. If you're transferring loads and loads of data, then DRAM cache doesn't matter, what matters more is the density of the flash and any potential SLC provisioning. For example, a QLC drive (which all of these are) will be very slow once it exhausts its SLC cache, whereas a TLC drive (e.g. a Samsung 970 EVO) will still remain much faster, not to mention the larger SLC provisioning will allow it to remain at "full" (if you will) write speed for much longer.

        In other words, a DRAM cache is completely irrelevant for sustained writes. What it's important for is burst writes, i.e. small files, low QD instead of large files, high QD. Hence, as a boot drive, DRAM cache is very useful as your OS will be constantly writing small files with low QD which is where NAND flash really struggles, DRAM cache masks this weakness pretty well as DRAM is very good with burst writes as opposed to NAND (something like Optane is between NAND and DRAM).

        TL;DR, you're probably right in that most people won't notice a difference for daily use, but your reasoning (about huge amounts of writes or consistent writes) is incorrect. In fact, you will want an SSD with a DRAM cache for your boot drive, whereas an SSD without a DRAM cache will be good for mass storage where the primary objective is reads (e.g. a Steam library, media storage,…etc.).

  • Merlict on 29/12/2020 - 00:56

    If you want to do serious overclocking buy something spend more than $100 hah, seems solid for the price

    • krisspy on 29/12/2020 - 13:00

      How about serious undervolting?

      • Merlict on 29/12/2020 - 18:41

        Hmm, I have no idea if better VRMs / chokes etc would give better control and reliability when undervolting but it's possible.

  • HairyChickens on 29/12/2020 - 00:56

    WD Blues both m.2 and sata have dram caches right?

  • moe086 on 29/12/2020 - 14:14

    Not sure if it's legit but SN550 1TB is $104.99 on Lenovo website with free shipping. I don't think anyone mentioned it in any post so you guys might want to check it out :)

    • moe086 on 29/12/2020 - 14:17
      +2

      Oh nvm that was the US site :(

    • hollykryten on 29/12/2020 - 17:33

      Converted to $AUD that's $138.25. And the free shipping i doubt also applies to international shipping. Not a good deal at all.

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