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PNY CS1030 M.2 2280 NVMe 2TB $209 + $9.90 Delivery (Free Pickup from Auburn NSW) @ PCByte

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Last deal from Photech Computers: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/681424
It was $199 but 3% surcharge for Paypal + Delievery

Spec

  • Capacity: 2TB
  • Form Factor : M.2 (2280)
  • Read : 2100 MB/s
  • Write : 1900 MB/s
  • Driver Interface: PCIe Gen3

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  • +1

    Not sure about performance compared to other well known brands? nice for a storage drivve on my second m.2 slot if these are designed for that?,. though I'm sure the important question is to use this as a boot drive?, I'm sure people want to know like me?

    Edit: like important questions as below 👍😁

  • Is this actually tlc as suggested in the other deal. Apparently pny downgraded the tbw on their better drives so likely switched to qlc
    https://www.tomshardware.com/news/pny-xlr8-cs-3030-ssd-endur…

    Anyone who bought the other can share?

    Is the bpc Corsair mf 600 a better choice?

  • As a Steam Game drive? thoughts? my boot SSD is full up so figured this might suit for game storage?

    • Shouldn't be issue for steam game drive

  • would this one work on PS5?

  • Looks like the sustained write speed drops to 70 mb/s on this once the cache is exhausted.

  • It is a DRAM-less SSD, if you need sustained write, go for the DRAM one

  • I received a CS1030 from the previous ozbargain deal for this drive. I can confirm the behaviour seen by others. I managed to copy about 500GB at ~450MB/s, until write speed cratered to under 85MB/s — dipping as low as 30MB/s. It does recover at times, up to 1.7GB/s, but mostly remains at 60-80MB/s. I suspect this would point to QLC not TLC, but havent peeled the label off yet.

    So beware as a boot drive, likely perfectly fine as a game drive. I'm just filling the drive now to do some further tests of performance when mostly filled with uncompressible data.

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