Historic low, as always amazon stock numbers for it is wrong, definitely more than 3 left in stock.
CamelCamelCamel.
Would you look at that, an actual book I can give away (to a kid I guess) instead of the usual innuendo "In You" book!
These SSD deals make me want to buy them all so badly but I don't necessarily need any more (after my recent OzB SSD purchases) and I know they are going to drop in price more.
More ddr4 ram?
Wish I could buy it, but I already have 4, 2TB SSDs, I am the problem.
Great deal
You could always blame the low prices, but it’s good you are taking ownership.
Good for main bootable drive ?
No. Budget drive, good for storage.
lol somebody's standards are wayyy too high
It's a budget drive, not good for boot drive due to lower performance and durability.
It will work for a OS drive but it's not good.
It would be much smarter to get a smaller high-quality drive for boot drive and use this as a secondary
@FireRunner: Boot times are barely affected by SSD performance between the fastest and slowest drives, and durability is way more than enough for "normal" use.
This is absolutely fine as an OS drive.
Bit of an apples to oranges comparison here but this could also have some niche use cases apart from just archival/storage:
This is 800TBW. For comparison Samsung 970 Evo 2TB is 1,200 TBW. But then again it depends on the usage pattern. If you over provision 1TB-2TB and only use 2TB of (and maybe occasionally 3TB) of this drive. This might perform better and last longer than a 2TB drive that's always 85%+ full.
No DRAM?
No DRAM and QLC. It's great capacity per $ but not high quality so I would avoid for OS drive
Gonna buck the trend here and say yes. I've got a 'crappy' Kingston NV1 and it is perfectly fine for general use as a boot drive.
These QLC drives have pretty big SLC caches where frequently used data resides, so the only time you run into performance problems is when you do big file writes. No big deal if you just write once and read many, but if you do big files writes frequently then you will want something better.
Absolutely fine for main bootable drive - you won't notice any performance boost from a faster a drive, and that faster drive will cost you a lot more.
So tempting. Must hold. I set my barrier at 4tb for $300 or less as next upgrade.
$8.08 fair enough
Considering the trend for NVMes right now, this is most likely going to happen within the next month or so
I hope so. Running with a 1tb and 512gb at moment and constantly shuffling content to NAS and uninstalling games not in immediate use.
I had a single 512GB NVMe in my Zephyrus G14 and was struggling. Recently upgraded to a 1TB NVMe and that's working perfectly for me even though I have my one device for both games/work.
@Zackeroo: 1tb just doesnt cut it for me sadly. Been tempted for 2tb drive but i think 4tb is sweet spot for me and happy to wait a few more months to get my price.
My barrier for 4TB is $200 or less.
Heh, considering the $109 for 2TB PNY deal, that isn't all that impossible :)
That PNY model is not available in 4TB.
me too.
Now it is $334.36 :(
Yeah so no deal
Add a paperback to bring the price down to $308.08.