Pretty good price for one of the top tier 1TB nvme PCIe 4.0 SSD drives on the market. Use coupon for 50% off shipping
Shipping to Sydney after coupon applied:
- standard: $2.48
- AusPost express: $5.48
Also same model 2TB version $295 pickup (low stock) https://www.jw.com.au/kingston-kc3000-2048gb-pcie-4-0-nvme-m…
It depends on the drive, with the digital chip with a capacity around powers of 2, you'd expect TiB to be more common, but a part of the drive may be reserved for housekeeping/cache/replacement for defective cells, 1TB may mean 1024GB or 1000GB or even less.
Same price at Centrecom too.
This has been the market price for at least the last 2 months though.
Apparently it's not a good idea to buy this SSD at 1TB or less.
Can you elaborate why it is not a good idea?
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/kingston-kc3000-m2-ssd-…
Our 1TB KC3000 sample absorbed 369GB of data at a rate of 6,050 MBps before degrading to roughly 1,015 MBps for the remainder of the test. Unfortunately, the KC3000 did not recover any of its SLC cache during the idle recovery rounds, but its write speed measured roughly 1.9 GBps instead of 1 GBps.
Useless comment unless you back it up with some information. All the reviews I've read are extremely positive and don't mention such an issue.
Relax, it was late at night and I figured some would've known this from checking reviews.
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/kingston-kc3000-m2-ssd-…
Our 1TB KC3000 sample absorbed 369GB of data at a rate of 6,050 MBps before degrading to roughly 1,015 MBps for the remainder of the test. Unfortunately, the KC3000 did not recover any of its SLC cache during the idle recovery rounds, but its write speed measured roughly 1.9 GBps instead of 1 GBps.
So for sustained sequential write which is pretty niche use case and the results were on par with a lot of other drives. Most people are only going to care about read speed. Thanks for posting the link.
on sale for $139 now at CPL/Scorpy/PCCG
1TB = 1024 GB!
Have the storage manufacturers switched back to TiB, GiB, MiB, kiB from their old marketing trick of calculating capacity like 1 TB = 1000 GB = 1000 MB = 1000 kB = 1000 B?
A tebibyte, like in this deal, is 10% more than a terabyte. When you buy a phone of 1 TB capacity, it's actually ~10% less than this SSD here.