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[Backorder] Asus ROG Strix Arion M.2 NVMe RGB SSD Enclosure, Black $55 Delivered @ Amazon AU

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[Backorder] Asus ROG Strix Arion M.2 NVMe RGB SSD Enclosure, Black $55 Delivered @ Amazon AUAffiliate
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Hi Guys, First time poster I’m sorry if I’ve made mistakes. I’ve tried to do my best. Please correct me if I’m wrong. I’m not sure if it’s the cheapest deal but it’s defiantly cheaper then the recent deals I’ve seen for this product.

Edit: looks like it’s the lowest price it’s been thanks to @shabaka for the help!

Edit: seems to be in backorder not sure how long it will last be quick!

Thank you to everyone for the kind words. I’m glad I could help a community that’s helped so many!

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  • shabaka on 18/11/2021 - 20:42
    +6

    damn! beat me to it by 20 sec

    https://au.camelcamelcamel.com/product/B07ZKB4SLK

    camels above

    • Ghosts on 18/11/2021 - 20:43
      +2

      Sorry, I was trying so hard to get it right

      • shabaka on 18/11/2021 - 20:59
        +1

        see I would have been first if my post didn't have the specs and 3xcamels link haha

        but solid first post! well done

        • Larsson on 18/11/2021 - 21:09

          I actually bought this from Amazon just yesterday for $79. It’s not even delivered yet

          So I buy another one and return on the more expensive order? Or is there some other way?

          • Diji1 on 18/11/2021 - 21:11
            +2

            @Larsson: You may be able to cancel it in your account if it hasn't started fulfillment.

            • Larsson on 18/11/2021 - 21:12

              @Diji1: Ah thanks mate! Yeah I thought that right after I wrote here with panic and checked. It’s shipped unfortunately. But it’s sold by Amazon AU and I have prime, so I guess it should be no cost return I guess.

              Thanks for the help though mate!

              • shabaka on 18/11/2021 - 21:25
                +1

                @Larsson: yeah I would order another one at this price and return the first one if it's shipped

              • Trop on 18/11/2021 - 21:25
                +3

                @Larsson: This item doesn't appear to be eligible for free returns, looking at the item page. In that case, reading the returns policy, you can either pay at your own expense or they will provide you with a prepaid label and will deduct $7.00 from your refund.

                My advice would be to try live chat and see if you can convince them to just credit you the difference or a reasonable amount as it has not arrived yet. They might decline at first, but may offer you a "one time" exception if you express how disappointed you are with the experience.

              • Trop on 18/11/2021 - 21:32
                +1

                @Larsson: To add to the above - you should still order it at this price before it sells out (maybe with a card without funds so that it doesn't start fulfillment) whilst trying to resolve what to do with your original order.

                • Larsson on 18/11/2021 - 21:45
                  +1

                  @Trop: Okay to update everyone for people who are in the same boat, ordering at $55 is the right call. Return is free with no shipping costs (I am prime member so not sure non-prime)

                  So I can bust returner the one I paid $79 and just keep the one I just bought for $55 as I understand.

          • shabaka on 18/11/2021 - 21:24
            +2

            @Larsson: I literally ordered one couple hours ago for $79 and then noticed price drop

            cancelled and reordered

        • Ghosts on 18/11/2021 - 21:14
          -1

          Well we can both say we posted it? I @ you so it must count right? Lol

  • Economic on 18/11/2021 - 20:47

    great thanks.. Bought 2

    • Ghosts on 18/11/2021 - 20:48
      +1

      I’m glad you found it useful. Thank you

      • fatbunn on 19/11/2021 - 00:05
        +1

        i think most of us dont find it useful. we just buy now and think of a use later…

  • P3aker on 18/11/2021 - 20:50
    +2

    Great post, Nice work.

    bought one also.. probably didn't need it but thanks !

    • Ghosts on 18/11/2021 - 20:53
      +2

      Thank you, I really appreciate it. It’s stressful posting for the first time.

      • No Child Support on 18/11/2021 - 23:32
        +1

        Lol you millennials definition of stress is amusing

        Back in my boomer days, stress was when you’re just down to 10 or so pixels left in snake on a Nokia 3310 and hoping the next dot would spawn nicely for you. Now that’s stressful.

        • Ghosts on 19/11/2021 - 00:41
          +1

          Lol I love it.

  • congo on 18/11/2021 - 20:51

    Why not buy something like this instead?
    https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/664185

    • Sleepycat3 on 18/11/2021 - 20:53

      Because I want to turn my 2TB 980 Pro into a thumbdrive.

      • aoeueoa on 18/11/2021 - 21:01
        +4

        That's a big thumb

    • Economic on 18/11/2021 - 20:53
      +1

      I saw it but I have a few NVME's lying around, so I'll use it for that. The casing looks premium to many others out there.

    • Dr Fruit on 18/11/2021 - 20:53
      +1

      Because RGB is a way of life.

    • dosada on 18/11/2021 - 20:53

      Don't know in their case, i am buying just the enclosure because i have half a dozen ssd's laying around.

      • congo on 18/11/2021 - 21:09

        Guess it can work out cheaper if you can get the nvme on sale?
        I got 1tb nvme for $180, so not much cheaper after you add the enclosure

    • Larsson on 18/11/2021 - 21:15

      Future upgrade options such as thunderbolt and usb 4 because nvme’s are quite a bit more faster than even the fastest enclosure out there and most certainly much faster than T7. Infact ssd external drives that match m.2 nvme speeds are insanely expensive.

      Hot swapping for even more memory on the go too I guess.

      Also future re-purpose the drives inside the pc to remove the limitations and have super fast drive.

      But for a general purpose, mass storage end user, yeah probably not much difference and a lot simpler.

      I guess we are just tech needs here, I know I am haha.

      • DrScavenger on 18/11/2021 - 21:40

        Why would anyone need that much speed for removable storage

        • Larsson on 18/11/2021 - 21:55

          Well heavily depends just like everything.

          But advertised speeds are generally sequential and stuff like Samsung T7s random read write speeds aren’t stellar, so you actually end up getting heavily taxed, like all the way down to 3-4gbps depending on the situation. And m.2s with enclosures are much better at that, especially if you upgrade to TB3 etc.

          As to why; well I transfer a lot of photos, photo libraries and do backups. So random read write speeds are quite important for me.

          But at the core, the $50 difference between a 1tb T7 vs nvme+Fast enclosure (tb3 even better, albeit more expensive) is with for me and I can effort it.

          I have quite a lot of ptsd from slow drive backups that take hours or worse go corrupt half way through or you find out later that you just wasted and hour haha

        • Abaddon on 18/11/2021 - 22:08

          Handy for low downtime laptop upgrades, copying files to hand around at work (e.g. Large Database files, etc).

          I also use something similar (no RGB) with Steam library on it. Means I can plug in and play wherever (e.g. office, home office, sim rig in the shed).

        • bhdr on 19/11/2021 - 10:10

          Why would anyone want to own the fastest car?
          Why would anyone want to eat the most delicious food?
          Why would anyone want to date the prettiest girl?
          Why would anyone want to graduate from the most reputable school?
          …

    • shabaka on 18/11/2021 - 21:33

      bought both

  • Magical Sound Shower on 18/11/2021 - 20:53

    Congrats on the first post! Nice deal.

    • Ghosts on 18/11/2021 - 20:54
      +1

      Thank you!

  • JimmySaints on 18/11/2021 - 21:04
    +1

    bought one from wireless1 this morning and paid $70 including shipping 🥲

  • ozricoy on 18/11/2021 - 21:05
    +1

    I see RGB and FREE shipping, I buy.. Cheers OP! Everyone applauds your first post (except wireless1’s customer support). 😂

    • Ghosts on 18/11/2021 - 21:13
      +1

      My stress levels were through the roof creating the post. I’ve had a few deals I’ve wanted to post in the past but I wanted to make sure I learnt the correct way! Again thank you guys.

      • ozricoy on 18/11/2021 - 21:45
        +1

        Your contribution has been appreciated. To more post to come @Ghosts

        • Ghosts on 18/11/2021 - 22:54

          ♥️

      • BargainBuddy on 19/11/2021 - 00:56
        +1

        Don't stress too much. Share anything that you think it's a deal. If it's not, the worst that can happen is downvotes.

  • Clear on 18/11/2021 - 21:05
    +2

    Musttttt resist.

  • ethanhawkeman on 18/11/2021 - 21:06

    Damn… I bought this off Amazon over a week ago at $79. How unfortunate.

    • Larsson on 18/11/2021 - 21:16

      I actually just ordered it last night and it’s coming tomorrow.

      Buy this and free return the first one you get? At least that’s what I am going to try haha.

  • Weefoo on 18/11/2021 - 21:07
    +1

    Oo bought one! Was hoping this would happen following the Wireless1 deal - now I get free postage !

  • tatasauce on 18/11/2021 - 21:21

    Apart from it being RGB, what are the other benefits of getting this over other enclosures that are around the $20-30 mark?

    • NonSense on 18/11/2021 - 21:23
      +2

      RGB

    • BlitzR on 18/11/2021 - 21:30
      -1

      It's ROG

    • netsurfer on 18/11/2021 - 22:58
      +6

      $20-$30 mark is likely SATA3 based enclosure. You might get an NVMe enclosure for ~$35 but then you are likely to get JMS583. The thing with JMS583 is that you want a later firmware revision as earlier revision does have known issue. Even with the latest firmware, JMS583 is generally regarded as the weakest of the 3 chipsets. Also, are you game enough to upgrade the firmware?

      ASM2362 is likely to be the one used by this. ASM = ASMedia. Asus owns ASMedia. One of the common issues with other ASM2362 based enclosures is that they tend to not have good thermal design. This one doesn't suffer that issue.

      Most people feel RTL9210 is the best out of the 3. Problem is RTL9210 based enclosure tends to be most expensive. Obviously, Intel chipset is not an option since Intel doesn't have one designed for enclosures (only for motherboards).

      If you have new Prime membership, there is a chance Amazon offers you $10 voucher for purchasing it via mobile app, lowering the price of this even further.

      • tatasauce on 18/11/2021 - 23:12

        Great, thanks for the explanation.

        • netsurfer on 18/11/2021 - 23:15

          Samsung T7 uses ASM2362. None of the 3 chipsets is perfect and ASMedia ASM 2362 is PCIe Gen3 x2. The other two are likely the same so don't expect full PCIe gen 3 x4 performance (not that 10Gbps is sufficient to achieve that anyway).

      • dfg555 on 19/11/2021 - 08:03

        asm2362 most stable one from my experience.

      • twjr on 19/11/2021 - 10:50

        Cheers for that info. The most popular Sabrent one on Amazon apparently comes with the RTL9210 and is only $40. I think that's worth rolling the dice with.

      • zztrader on 19/11/2021 - 18:26

        I just made a forum post in the Computer section regarding a potential compatibility issue with a Volans with JMS583 chip and Crucial drives.

        Do you think mine may have an earlier firmware as you mentioned?

        link here: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/664424

        Really dont know what to buy now as I need compatibility to be essential a reasonable speed would be a bonus along with Tool-less design for speed of insertion and removal.

        ps: is there a comparison page anywhere with what brands use what chipset?

  • Godric on 18/11/2021 - 21:31
    +1

    What use case people use this for out of curiosity?

    • Thesinc on 18/11/2021 - 21:45
      +2

      to give Laptops extra hard drive space usually.

    • ozricoy on 18/11/2021 - 21:45

      Bling Bling..

  • Big Lez on 18/11/2021 - 21:39
    +4

    Damnn, you know the OZB can be toxic when the OP has to be so careful hahahah

    • Big Lez on 18/11/2021 - 21:39
      +1

      Very good deal tho

    • BargainBuddy on 19/11/2021 - 00:58
      +2

      Absolutely. I wonder how many good deals we miss out due to this toxicity.

  • thevietjesus on 18/11/2021 - 21:55

    Good deal! Also available for $55+delivery at Mwave

    • Richardc on 18/11/2021 - 23:23
      +1

      Likely Amazon matching mwave.

  • Smokey010 on 18/11/2021 - 21:56
    +1

    Congrats OP on your first post. Didn’t need it but bought it anyway 😬
    Cheers

    • Ghosts on 18/11/2021 - 22:56
      +1

      ♥️

  • overlook on 18/11/2021 - 21:59

    T7 2tb could be below 299. Where can we get a 2tb ssd for 240?

    • justtoreply on 18/11/2021 - 23:12
      +2

      Here.

      https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/662646

      Boom, headshot.

    • netsurfer on 18/11/2021 - 23:33
      +1

      T7, while Samsung put in a NVMe SSD in there, Samsung opted for a DRAMless design and after the cache is exhausted, its write performance is basically at SATA3 TLC SSD level.

      T7 uses ASM2362 USB-C 3.1 gen 2 chipset. Same as this enclosure. Samsung took a pragmatic approach to this. Given that the chipset is PCIe gen 3 x2 based, there is no real point to include a true PCIe gen 3 x4 SSD in there. Question is, if one were to get this enclosure, would they do the overkill and put in a true PCIe gen 3 x4 SSD in there to run at x2 mode? If so, is that wise? Obviously, one could argue you'll probably get better sustained write than T7.

      The reality is probably sufficient OZBers over purchased NVMe SSDs so they need decent enclosure(s) to stop those SSDs collecting dust.

  • KingOfHearts on 18/11/2021 - 22:07
    -2

    What do you mean by defiantly cheaper?

    Do you mean it is so cheap it defies logic?

    • maverickjohn on 18/11/2021 - 22:11
      +2

      Common misspelling of definitely.

  • M8TY on 18/11/2021 - 22:13

    Yeh , nice nearly pulled trigger the other day @$79.
    Now see what SSD I can snag black friday sales.
    Thanks OP 😊

  • aussie1986 on 18/11/2021 - 22:13

    Remember that free Amazon Prime deal that we all spammed fake credit card numbers on? As part of that, I uninstalled and re-installed the app on my phone and somehow it spat a $10 off voucher at me. So I got this for $45 posted. I was looking at a solution like this to boost storage space on a NUC, so thanks op!

    • Larsson on 18/11/2021 - 22:49

      Wait, curios what that fake credit card Amazon prime deal was now?

    • HairyChickens on 18/11/2021 - 23:16

      Why the uninstall and reinstall?

      • aussie1986 on 19/11/2021 - 05:35
        +1

        Because it said if I installed the app they'd send me a $10 voucher. I couldn't see any other way to get around it verifying that I had just freshly installed the app

  • BL1TZKRE1G on 18/11/2021 - 22:19

    Guys is this for a Mobo or external use only?

    • scrimshaw on 18/11/2021 - 22:40
      +2

      It's an external drive enclosure and connects via USB-C cable

      • BL1TZKRE1G on 18/11/2021 - 23:56

        Thanks bud 👍

  • LocalTG on 18/11/2021 - 22:35

    Nice find
    Rip me just spent $14 more for slower shipping lol

  • vodamerc on 18/11/2021 - 22:48

    What’s the max read write speed I could get while using this with my 3500/3000mbps drive?

    • aussie1986 on 18/11/2021 - 22:52

      10 Gbps allegedly, either way, STUPIDLY quick if you have USB 3.2 Gen 2

    • Larsson on 18/11/2021 - 22:53
      +2

      Well honestly that seems super hard to predict with USB being and absolute mess, and bridge chip implementations seem to make a difference, including the driver type like nvme gen3, gen4 or sata.

      So if I had to guess, you are looking at 970 evo plus? Or sn750? I’d say around 800MB/s tops, which is decent and as good as it gets for USB 3.2 Gen2 enclosure. (Curse You USB naming and all its ridiculously messy standarts!!$

      • vodamerc on 18/11/2021 - 23:05

        I do have 3.2 gen 2 ports, my drive is an Adata 2TB SX8200

    • netsurfer on 18/11/2021 - 23:40
      +1

      10Gbps and once you account for the overhead, you are looking at ~1000MB read/1000MB write.

      Your SSD is 3500MB/s read 3000MB/s write. If your SSD is 3500Mbps (megabits) than it would be worse than SATA3. If all you care about is benchmark result, then you are simply buying into the marketing hype. The reality is that your SSD's SLC cache is capable of 3500MB/s sequential read. Once that runs out, the speed will drop.

      When running an SSD in this enclosure, it operates in PCIe gen 3 x2 mode. How well your SSD controller manages that mode would determine its actual performance.

      • vodamerc on 19/11/2021 - 00:07

        Thanks, much appreciated.

  • Fuzor on 18/11/2021 - 22:53

    This enclosure may have issues with newer gen 4 ssd. Gen 5 is also coming out soon.

  • Danny N on 18/11/2021 - 23:08

    Super tempting but someone please give me a use case for a regular guy who's not a video editor.

    • Smigit on 18/11/2021 - 23:15

      I’m using an external NVMe to run games off. Might be a tad overkill, but works nicely. This is a MacBook Pro using Bootcamp so adding an internal ssd isn’t an option and some of the games are quite large.

    • netsurfer on 18/11/2021 - 23:50
      +1

      It's a nice toy. Will give you some fake excuses to get one:

      • You have device(s) with USB 3.1 gen 2 ports but you currently have no SSD enclosure to test it.
      • You have Series X|S or PS5 and you want to play XB1 or PS4 games on an SSD, but you want to save the internal SSD for PS5 or Series X|S games.
      • You over purchased NVMe SSDs and have at least 1 currently not in used and collecting dust.
      • You have device(s) which Thunderbolt 3/4 support. However, Thunderbolt 3/4 enclosures are too expensive. (This covers MBPs and Intel NUCs).
      • FOMO on this deal.

      I am happy to run bootcamp on a $9 USB3 enclosure with an el cheapo SATA SSD. If I really need high speed Windows, I would use a PC or a Windows laptop. If I were to use bootcamp, it is probably I am travelling and just needed to quickly run a few Windows apps (too lazy to carry 2 laptops).

      • Danny N on 19/11/2021 - 01:11

        FOMO for sure haha

  • hate on 18/11/2021 - 23:15

    thanks OP, time to add some RGB to my portable ssd now

    • Ghosts on 19/11/2021 - 00:29

      Your welcome, I only ask one favour. Make it light up like a rainbow lol

  • AnKu on 19/11/2021 - 00:23

    AH I want to buy it but I am about to move out from my current rent.. :(

    • winsonian on 19/11/2021 - 07:03
      +1

      Could use a parcel locker or get it delivered to the post office directly!

  • plal on 19/11/2021 - 01:31

    Will this enclosure suit better for this WD SSD?

    • Larsson on 19/11/2021 - 09:42

      They are two very different products and can’t be used together.

      • plal on 19/11/2021 - 09:45

        shucking the M.2 from WD & placing it in this Asus enclosure won't work?

        • Larsson on 19/11/2021 - 10:31
          +1

          Oh wow, I would have said most likely not shuckable, but someone in the comments does say they have and got better speeds.

          Sounds like you can according to thah perosn and this enclosure just takes anything m.2 so probably yes. Give it a try and let everyone know maybe

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