Online and In Store NSW are Out of Stock.
In Store VIC still available.
Cheap 2TB M.2 storage option for anyone interested.
Surcharges: 1.2% Card & PayPal, 2% AmEx
Product Specifications
Model MP33 M.2 PCIe SSD
PCIe 3.0 x4 with NVMe 1.3
Capacity: 2TB
DRAM Cache: NO
Terabyte Written: 2TB - 1000TBW[3]
Crystal Disk Mark: 2TB Read/Write: up to 1,800/1,500 MB/s
IOPS: 2TB Read/Write: 220K/200K IOPS Max[1]
MTBF: 1,500,000 hours
Warranty: 5-year limited warranty
It's $11/$16 in Sydney Metro for me.
I also could have sworn it was $159 yesterday as well. (I ended up writing a whole deal post then yeah nah'ing because it was only Centre before pressing submit yesterday arvo)
That's right. It dropped by $10 overnight. I had an alert setup on it through PC Part Picker.
$9 for Brisbane Metro
hmm might be nice for moving steam games to …..
not for ps5 before people ask but cheap 2tb ssd.
Yep, Just bulk storage. Wouldn't want to run your OS or Console off this.
Agree, the TBW is good too. But slightly faster SSD will help with DirectStorage API in the future with shorter load times.
A budget Gen 3 drive may not be all that bad. It'll still wipe the floor with HDD's, and SATA SSD's will all load similarly because they're bandwidth constrained to 6gbit.
https://youtu.be/TXKGTHifuFA?t=214
https://youtu.be/v0UGUYfYCWc?t=1396
We'll have to see with future games that have longer load times to further those leads.
End of the day, if it's reading at least 1024MiB/s, it'll take no more than a minute to load 60GiB of data, which is rather more than most people have in RAM (including graphics), and less time than than gamers had to contend with when met with load screens back in the day.
Yes, it is slower than a faster drive (duh), but no, it is not slow in objective terms.
Managed to buy one in store today and now it is OOS in NSW.
Umart and MSY (Same same) Both have this drive for $149 + $9 Shipping or you can always pickup