This is the cheapest price I've seen for this drive.. One of if not the fastest nvme drive on the market at the moment.
7000/5300MB/s (1TB model)
Ships from Amazon UK
Extra $10 off for first time purchaser on Amazon AU App
Original Coupon Deal
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price for the 530 is not bad also at $278.91 from amazon UK va AU
Yeah the 2TB is still a bit crazy, although at $528 it's starting to get reasonable. I'm interested to see what it comes down to over the next week, might slap a couple into a server for VMs if they get low enough.
what about buy 2 x evo plus 2tb for a few more $ and raid0 them. Similar speed double capacity
@barg99: Evo plus has nothing like the same random access performance, which is what I need, nor the reliability, which is essential - I will need two as a mirrored Storage Space on ReFS; to get anything approaching that performance and redundancy I'd need four Evo's, they would still underperform, and mirrored striped drives is actually much more likely to fail, not to mention the fact I would need a whole new set of PCIe dual-drive caddies, and I'd have to rely on cheap hardware RAID 0 in the caddies… I understand you're trying to be helpful, which is great, and for a PC where you either don't care that much about reliability or you regularly backup the array that might be fine, but for what I'm using it for single drive random access is key (without spending the ridiculous amounts required for enterprise SSD or Optane - it's still my home lab server after all).
That, and my personal experience with Samsung drives has been less than stellar - we used a lot of pro drives in workstations for many years, we've had to replace an unacceptable number under warranty, frankly it's been really disappointing.
@barg99: When you have lots of VMs active at the same time it can start to hammer random access, which may not be an issue 95% of the time but when it bottlenecks everything can just freeze up and response can get 'stuttery'. You can overcome that by either spreading the load out across a larger storage array or having high random access performance. My Hyper-V server has limited physical space for drives so the easiest way to improve performance is to replace what's there with drives that give it legroom where it bottlenecks. There's 256GB of RAM with only half currently allocated and the VMs have their own vCPU space (and the CPU cores run at 4GHz), random IO is the only issue I ever hit with it.
This or Samsung 980 Pro?
is the samsung 980 pro cheaper?
If it's your boot drive, definitely the WD.
I grabbed the 500gb as a boot drive for my new build a few months ago. Might grab this as my game drive. Thanks
Do I need a heatsink? If so, what's a decent one to get?
Would like to know as well, for PS5
Yes, heatsink pretty much a requirement for this one as it heats up and throttles very quickly under load. Can't recommend one though, sorry. I would try to use the one included with my MB.
Second fastest - the Seagate Firecuda 530 takes top spot, but the SN850 is still spectacular. And no, for PC or PS5 use you won't notice the difference, but for applications that really push them (particularly random IO workloads) the difference is tangible. Not usually twice-the-price-tangible, though 😉