Pretty good price for a 2TB SSD. Yes it's 2.5" SATA but it's quality TLC with DRAM
Not the cheapest it's been but possibly cheapest for local stock (?)
$245 from Harris Technology (fulfill by Amazon) or an extra $0.74 if you prefer from Amazon AU directly
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Local stock too, usually is an import from Amazon US or UK at this price
local stock means?
Shipped from Australia so quicker delivery times and Australian warranty and consumer guarantees
@HD9990 What part of the phrase are you struggling with exactly?
Tough choice, how's the NV1 stand up to the A2000? If you've got a spare M.2 slot I'd probably go this over the MX500
Depends if you want sata or m.2 as they are very different :)
Get both and give me the one you don't want.
That one's NVMe, you need to make sure your laptop/desktop has a slot for that
It's also dram-less so less durable and will suffer severe slowdowns during large file writes
NVMe over an SSD anyday, but it depends on your usecase. 2100mb/s compared to 500mb/s.
An NVMe doesn't always win against SATA drive.
Yes it's got a much higher theoretically read/write speed and in practice the read speed is generally higher too.
Write speed is another story, in this particular case the dramless NVMe will come out ahead in a smaller sequential write but a larger write we'll see the NVMe drop to abysmal speeds and the SATA's slower but more consistent write will be the winner.
Durability, I would expect the MX500 to outlast the NV1, again due to the lack dram cache.
Not sure on the particular random read/write speeds of each drive but it's another consideration.
Only for specific tasks. The average user is better off with a cheaper/larger SATA SSD.
This is completely incorrect. Once SLC cache runs out on the nv1 after a few GB, it becomes slower than a hard drive (<100mb/s) - the mx500 will keep it's speed up, as it has TLC (and the cache is bigger, and it has dram in addition to a cache pool for random burst i/o). I would take this any day over a cheap Nvme - HDD speeds are not very enjoyable.
So it's not possible to get a 2TB SATA under $250?
I was going to get a Kogan with two pair of trainers before the stupid Klarna system refuse to the order.
Thanks, bought one and used up my $5 Amazon promo credit.
What's the difference between bx and MX?
The 2TB MX500 has a 2GB SLC cache, hardware based encryption (BX has none), a better memory controller (SMI SM2258 vs SMI SM2258/59XT) and maybe about 2 or 3 times the write endurance (700 TBW vs 240 TBW). Longer warranty period as well (5 yr v 3 yr)
MX500 is basically the best 2.5" SATA SSD, apart from Samsung.
BX500 is the budget lower spec lower endurance one.
Hit buy on that shopping express deal yesterday! Damn!
This vs Samsung 870 Evo 2TB?
They're both high quality SATA drives, I guess if they were the same price I'd choose Samsung
Otherwise, I'd go for whichever is cheaper
Showing $269 for me
Looks like Harris Technology ran out of stock and Amazon no longer needed to price match so killed the deal.
And missed it again T_T
Good drive, I use it as my boot drive for my daily system.
Hard to complain getting a quality 2tb SATA SSD under $250. Good deal!