A good discount
CamelCamelCamel.
I also doubt it. But thats what Amazon says. May be thats the price it originally got added to the store.
Might not be, but still a damn good price.
Let the downvotes roll but can I suggest it's not: a number of motherboards only give you one NVMe slot. Even for those that offer two M.2 ports, you may find that the second port can't support PCIe 3.0x4 (this seems to happen more with the AMD-supporting boards). So, unlike SATA3 where you can support multiple drives, many people only get one shot at NVMe.
For those people, most will probably want to go as big as they can. 500GB NVMes are pretty cheap and 1TB NVMes are pretty reasonable too. The problem with smaller drives is twofold: transferring to a bigger drive afterwards is a hassle and, even if you do with only one M.2 port, what do you do with the other drive afterwards?
P2 beyond 500gb was reported as QLC so it might have speed drop issue
Is 500GB QLC?
Yes. I think there are some discussion on Reddit about it. 1tb version is with both tlc and qlc so it depends on luck lol
if this is true…smh
@Aarent: I think crucial is trying to hide about what the cell is. You can search for it on their website. They seem not confident on showing whether it's qlc or tlc. Kogan/DickSmith and some other Australian retailers even specify the 1tb one to be qlc..
@johangules: This may be of relevance to the P2's lack of clear TLC/QLC specs.
Surprisingly, the write speed quoted by Crucial is significantly lower than what I experienced during testing. In AS SSD, I jotted down a sequential write speed of 1,670MB/s, and that feels like a rather significant underselling of the P2's potential by Crucial itself. There may be an explanation for this, however.
Crucial tells me that it wishes to retain the ability to step the P2 down to QLC NAND flash, potentially offering a split manufacturing run of both TLC and QLC flash. That would help explain why Crucial's write speeds are much lower than those we're experiencing: they're set to near-enough match those of the QLC P1 500GB.
"You may notice an endurance variance between your results and our published specs, as our specs are set to allow for potential product transitions in the future," a Crucial statement says. "The Crucial P2 SSD currently relies on Micron TLC 3D NAND technology, but over time may include a mix of Micron’s TLC and QLC NAND technologies. By mixing types of NAND with different capacities, we’re able to make product adjustments and decisions based on emerging and changing technology, preferred capacities, and flexibility to match movement of the overall market."
From the PCGamer review of the P2 500GB
That aside, not a bad price…
Great discount indeed, very tempting.
Cant believe you paid $379 for that. For Plex, the Celeron-based NUCs work just as well, and have the benefit of an IR transmitter so you can use a TV remote.
The Celeron NUC was $167.20 delivered https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/587590 and also stacked with all the shopback promos, so I got mine for $137.12.
it works perfectly as my home media centre hooked up to my hisense TV :)
Luckily I didn't otherwise I wouldn't be able to use this NVME and would be stuck with slower Sata SSD.
Also I wouldn't and never wanted to connect this to my TV.
Yours is good for a budget option I guess, I prefer to spend a little more of something not so outdated.
Thanks OP. Got 1. I don’t need it but just want to fill up the second M.2 slot.
Very fair enough… I got one
Wasn't there a cheaper 250gb in the past.
Im in no hurry so not sure if better to wait a year
If you don’t need it now and are happy to wait, then it’s likely that a better deal will come along over the next 12 months.
For those of us who can use one now, this is a good price. Thanks for sharing OP!
A pretty pointless outlook though. With a few exceptions, almost everything tech is going to come up cheaper 'in the next twelve months'.
Except RAM. That stuff is heading upwards due to manufacturing constraints. It usually goes up and down in like 2-3 year cycles I think?
dont think there's ever been a cheaper m2 NVMe. esp delivered (if you have prime, or just buy two).
Too good to pass up. Bought 2. Used my $5 gift card promotional credit too.
I don't even have any free NVMe slots.
real ozbargainer
Buy enclosures so you can use them
By the time you buy an enclosure isn't it easier to buy T5 on sale for very similar price?
But he has bought them already. Why would he get a T5? So he can leave the m2s lying around
Same haha nice
So I need one for my old man who does some light video editing. Would these be any good for it?
Reddit rabbit hole took me to a WD SN550 . 500gb for $75.
Any advice?
You won’t fit much source files on a 250GB. Buy the 500GB version.
Cheers. Bought the WD 500
My Crucial P1 500GB NVME experienced significantly reduced performance after a bit over a year, the machine started crawling instead of it’s usual blistering speeds. It was installed as a boot drive, is this typical of NVME drives?
Performance drops as the drive gets filled up.
Even after a format and reinstall of windows it’s still cajiggered.
A defragmentation might help.
Also if you had added more SSD recently try moving it furthest away from the NVMe port so it doesn’t share with the NVMe.
You don't defrag solid state drives. You shouldn't even try to, if the software would allow it.
As long as you don't defrag it often it wouldn't hurt. This is just once in a year so there is no wear and tear to the SSD to worry about.
you're the first person i've seen online to suggest defragging SSDs, it is widely encouraged to NEVER defrag SSDs
If after a reformat and reinstall of Windows, the drive still performs poorly, check TRIM is enabled:
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-ensure-trim-enabled-windo…
If TRIM is enabled, drive is not heavily filled, then something is wrong with the SSD. The P1 does degrade in writes once the drive starts to fill up. However, reads shouldn't be super slow.
$2 discount! Awesome, gonna bite the bullet on this one.
If u buying 2, wouldnt WD sn550 500gb be better?
https://www.amazon.com.au/Blue-SN550-500GB-Nvme-Internal/dp/…
Yes, a bit of a gamble if the particular P2 you receive is TLC-based or just another QLC nightmare once you run out of SLC cache.
While the SN550 is guaranteed to be TLC and even after its SLC cache runs out, the lowest sustained speed it achieves is 800+mb/s.
I nominate the NVMe M.2 SSD as the Ozbargain product of the year.
How do I check if my 4 year old hp pavilion can use this? Lol it currently has a 1TB HDD
I’d have a guess at no. Otherwise you need your model number and check for m2 slot and nvme support.
Spoke to hp support they said I can replace with SATA HDD. Not sure if it's worth it tho
SATA SSD is definitely worth it over regular hdd - especially for boot and loading times. You most likely have at least two SATA ports so you can put a 250 or 500GB SSD in and keep your other 1TB for storage.
You’ll need to muck around cloning your existing hdd to the new ssd and setting the default boot drive. If you’ve got a savvy friend they’d prob do it for a six pack lol.
Will M.2 MVMe fit into a mini-PCIe slot?
Pretty sure they’re different. You can get pci-e add-on cards that have one or two m2 slots
just picked one up
Good find!
$30 promotional credit from the PS5 order made this $8. Don't mind if I do!
Bought two, apply thought later.
I will use these in the Synology 920+ NAS in our office.
1TB = $100 or bust.
Looking for a boot drive to complement my 1TB 970 EVO in a multi-boot system (W10, Linux). Is this an optimal choice? It would be occupying my one remaining NVMe slot
Is this worth putting in my Synology 918?
See response below, doubt it.
Opane SSDs perhaps.
Now I got something that I may not need at all.
Question: If I already have a bigger and faster NVMe SSD, will I gain any performance by moving my apps to this second one?
The apps currently are on the faster SSD, where windows is too. So moving them to a slower one may not make sense.
However when I use the app (most of the time photoshop), there will be tasks required for the SSD to serve both windows and photoshop, since a harddisk can only do one thing at one time, would it be faster if the app is on a separated, even slightly slower drive from a different controller?
I have since discovered these consumer grade low end SSDs are NOT suitable for use as SSD Cache in Synology NAS.
The detail escapes me but the analysis I have read is that the read-write action will degrade the SSDs quickly, that they might contribute to system errors (!) and they will not make much any difference to the speediness of your NAS
In the 24 hours these were running in my 920+ I had cache errors and no discernible speed difference.
Got rid of them and all is good. 60,000 images and 300GB of SME documents all running happily in their shares and the backups are running and tested. Hyper Backup is rather good.
As many ozbargainers will attest, I bought first and checked later.
Original price $99? Nah…..