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Kingston KC3000 1TB PCIe Gen 4 NVMe M.2 2280 SSD $99 + Delivery ($0 SYD C&C/ $0 with mVIP) @ Mwave

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Kingston KC3000 1TB PCIe Gen 4 NVMe M.2 2280 SSD $99 + Delivery ($0 SYD C&C/ $0 with mVIP) @ Mwave
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Look Up on 14/04/2023 - 22:46 mwave.com.au (1511 clicks)
Last edited 14/04/2023 - 22:47 by 1 other user

Very nice, $20 better than Scorptec
Good boot / OS drive
PS5 compatible

SKC3000S/1024G

Controller: Phison E18
Memory: Micron 176L TLC
DRAM Cache: DDR4
Sequential Read: 7000 MB/s
Sequential Write: 6000 MB/s
Random Read: 900,000 IOPS
Random Write: 1,000,000 IOPS
Endurance (TBW): 800 TB
Warranty: 5 Years

Computing 1TB Computer Component Kingston M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD

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  • maverickjohn on 14/04/2023 - 22:53

    Not behd

  • George Washington on 14/04/2023 - 23:10

    Put into an enclosure?

    • freefall101 on 14/04/2023 - 23:21
      +6

      USB enclosure? No point, might as well pick up one of the 2TB gen 3 drives for a few bucks more and it'll be the same speed.

      • MelBorn on 15/04/2023 - 10:21

        Which 2tb gen 3 drives do you recommend?

      • whats up skip on 15/04/2023 - 11:20

        Depends on purpose. Most of those 2TB Gen 3 drives have no DRAM so are slow at large transfers. Indeed a SATA SSD with DRAM will outperform a SSD with no DRAM even on relatively small transfers.

        • freefall101 on 15/04/2023 - 13:44

          DRAM helps for when drives are near full because they can't use their own space to work as a cache, along with having higher burst speeds. But generally it's not an issue anymore, it was more a thing a few year ago. Plenty of DRAMless drives work fine for sustained read/writes these days, look at the link above for a 100GB transfer, manages a sustained 600MB/s. And it's a bottom of the barrel in terms of speeds for drives these days, it's only rated to 1,500MB/s

          • whats up skip on 15/04/2023 - 14:20
            -1

            @freefall101: With a recent SATA SSD 500GB non-DRAM it will drop to 90MB/s when copying a 160GB file to an empty drive. It will start off faster, but then drops in speed. This is no better than a good HDD and similar to a fast microSD card.

            I would consider 600MB/s to unimpressive for a NVMe drive.

            • freefall101 on 15/04/2023 - 14:48
              -1

              @whats up skip:

              With a recent SATA SSD 500GB non-DRAM it will drop to 90MB/s when copying a 160GB file to an empty drive. It will start off faster, but then drops in speed. This is no better than a good HDD and similar to a fast microSD card.

              Why are you comparing to some drive I've never heard of and never mentioned? I'm sure you're right, but it's totally irrelevant, no one was talking about dramless sata drives. The drive I suggested sustains 600MB/s writes and higher reads and is a perfect fit for a USB enclosure.

              I would consider 600MB/s to unimpressive for a NVMe drive.

              It is unimpressive, it's the cheapest of the cheap NVMe drives. What you're forgetting is the use case though. 99% of the time the drive won't be limited by the NVMe, it'll be limited by USB. Unless you're spending $100+ just on the enclosure you're going to be limited to 1,000MB/s anyway, which is slower than the burst speed of the drive and not a whole lot higher than the sustained. Unless someone spends a whole lot of time copying 100GB files then it's completely pointless.

              Stop giving advice, it's not helpful to anyone.

              • whats up skip on 15/04/2023 - 18:22
                +1

                @freefall101: Many people copy large files to and from external storage. Video media and virtual machines are two of the most common examples.

                The cost difference is about $20 for a drive with DRAM, yet they provide a far better experience even when copying large files.

                • freefall101 on 15/04/2023 - 20:37
                  +1

                  @whats up skip: If you have a source for a $140 2TB drive with dram you should post it. I'd buy one in a heartbeat.

    • Cheap Rich Guy on 15/04/2023 - 16:27

      You'd need a 60Gb/s enclosure to get the most out of the speed this drive offers. The fastest enclosure out there at present is a USB4 40Gb/s enclosure and those are over $100.

  • Geekomatic on 14/04/2023 - 23:16

    To avoid bit rot, must SSD's be installed immediately?

    • Look Up on 14/04/2023 - 23:30
      +7

      If no data has been written to the drive, there is nothing to rot

      • xmagic on 15/04/2023 - 00:05

        Well, firmware zone may still be affected. Game over.

        Though modern NAND controllers are really good at detect and recover from bit rots on the raw NANDs.

        • Sleepycat3 on 15/04/2023 - 16:21

          Firmware is written in more persistent flash nand, since it only needs a very small amount. It might even be SLC type flash inside the controller itself.

  • tim9800 on 14/04/2023 - 23:20
    +3

    Waiting for OzBers to make completely reasonable arguments for why a sub $100/TB high end drive is bad

    • [Deactivated] on 15/04/2023 - 00:54
      +9

      Not 2TB

      • Darkvolcos on 15/04/2023 - 01:04

        This, need 2tb plz for my ps5

        • CodeExplode on 15/04/2023 - 04:40
          +1

          Need 2tb because 2 of my 3 nvme drives already have 1tb and want to need to get bang for buck on the last one in terms of space…

    • Sinnerator on 15/04/2023 - 07:52
      +2

      It's not white

    • TRRR on 15/04/2023 - 08:34
      +1

      want free shipping!

    • djkelly69 on 15/04/2023 - 08:48
      +4

      No band 28

    • [Deactivated] on 15/04/2023 - 11:27
      +2

      No RGB

  • GrimCheaper on 14/04/2023 - 23:42
    +1

    I literally bought this yesterday from mwave for 128 and I'm still waiting for them to let me know I can pick it up. Wondering if I can ask for the $29 back…

    • ning on 14/04/2023 - 23:44
      +2

      Worth a shot. Or maybe you have cc price protection (I think that's what it's called)

      • GrimCheaper on 14/04/2023 - 23:46

        was actually 123, but still going to email them. i dont have any price protection.

        • ning on 14/04/2023 - 23:47
          +2

          If you don't ask, you don't get. Good luck

  • sween64 on 14/04/2023 - 23:56

    $9.95 for delivery. Still a good price. Now to find a cheap heat sink and pop it in my PS5.

    • puppetmaster on 15/04/2023 - 03:24

      Doesn't it already come with a heatsink?
      Description says "Low Profile Graphene Aluminium Heat Spreader". That should be good enough for PS5 use without having to resort to extra $$$ for a heatsink

      • ReaperX22 on 15/04/2023 - 05:44

        Have this model in the ps5 with a heatsink. The built in spreader is not enough, no.

        • bemybubble on 15/04/2023 - 09:06

          What heat sink you get??

          • ReaperX22 on 15/04/2023 - 10:14

            @bemybubble: Was a be quiet model. Like 15-20 bucks or so.

            Looked it up think it's the MC1

  • sethr0 on 15/04/2023 - 01:25

    I'd like to add another drive for my Legion 5i pro. Would this be good for a 2nd drive to store games/ photoshop and other design software?
    Or would it be better to make this as my OS drive?

    Thanks in advance everyone.

    • BargainHunterJohnnyB on 15/04/2023 - 08:16

      Is your current drive gen 3 or 4?

      • sethr0 on 15/04/2023 - 10:00

        Hey, I checked my device manager and it says Samsung PM9A1 NVMe M.2 SSD PCIe 4.0

        Sequential read/write up to (MB/s): 7000/5100
        Random read/write up to (IOPS): 1000K/850K
        Form factor, Interface: M.2 2280, NVMe PCIe 4.0 (backward compatible with Gen3 x4)
        Compatibility: all systems with M.2 2280 NVMe PCIe slot

        So would that mean the Kingston one be a better OS drive? Or are they somewhat close enough to not bother cloning/migrating the OS?

        Thanks mate.

        • ReaperX22 on 15/04/2023 - 14:54

          I wouldn't bother migrating. But it'd work if you've got the spare slot either way!

          • sethr0 on 15/04/2023 - 18:51

            @ReaperX22: Awesome. I preferred not to do anything with the stock SSD. thanks.

        • BargainHunterJohnnyB on 15/04/2023 - 15:26

          Mate, i don't think you'll notice a difference between the one you have and this Kingston.

          I have a Crucial P5 plus as a gen 4 drive for the OS, etc - and I recently added a 2tb cheap PNY C1031 for mass storage…

          It would be a cool to put another p5 up in there, but I think that the 2tb one will be sufficient enough for video games and storage…

          • sethr0 on 15/04/2023 - 18:48

            @BargainHunterJohnnyB: Argh thanks for telling me this, now I have reconsidered and might look for a good affordable 2TB 3rd gen ssd.

            • BargainHunterJohnnyB on 15/04/2023 - 19:07

              @sethr0: It's just my opinion that the non-primary slot of a m2 slot works perfectly fine with one of these… of course if you're mr. money bags then you'd just opt for a samsung or something along the lines of that, but of you're just looking for mass storage for photos, videos, and games, this will suffice.

              • sethr0 on 15/04/2023 - 20:36

                @BargainHunterJohnnyB: All good. Your take on it seems to agree with the stuff I just read on the internet today. And most of them say getting an affordable 3rd gen with decent speeds, and preferably 2TB, is perfectly fine for your normal daily stuff.

                • BargainHunterJohnnyB on 15/04/2023 - 20:38

                  @sethr0: Well yeah, but I wouldn't cheap out on the boot drive… I'd get one with the whole shabang (and I did)… gen 4, QLC, SDRAM, good controller, etc.

                  That's where you keep the important stuff - the general bulk storage like movies and video games can even be like a HDD with 150-160mb/sec read times, let alone a m.2 nvme that goes up to 1.5-2.5gb/sec

  • YasimKudomi Pape on 15/04/2023 - 02:50

    I would make this as the primary OS drive unless your existing one is faster and better. I wouldn't make this as an external drive as someone has already explained earlier.

    • Zodinn on 15/04/2023 - 04:08
      +1

      Wdym?
      I have 2x 1tb ones in my current pc.
      Want a third for Lightroom.
      Any reasons why not?

      • BargainHunterJohnnyB on 15/04/2023 - 08:18

        Do you intend to install it in your PC or in an M.2 ssd USB adaptor.

        • Zodinn on 15/04/2023 - 10:43

          I have 3-4 open m.2 slots on my mobo

          • BargainHunterJohnnyB on 15/04/2023 - 15:18

            @Zodinn: Yeah true - my laptop has one gen 4, which i filled using a Crucial P5 Plus 2tb and the other slot, a gen 3 is filled using some cheapo 2tb PNY 1031 that was $119 delivered on here a while back…

            TBH the cheapo m.2 is perfectly fine for mass storage storage anyway - the gen 4 speeds are only usable if you're doing some heavy duty work

            I.e., something like this - https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/768917

      • tim9800 on 15/04/2023 - 09:13

        If cash isn't a limiting factor, then no.

  • corgi-runner on 15/04/2023 - 12:54

    Good for a NAS cache drive or overkill?

  • Lucretia on 15/04/2023 - 14:55
    +1

    thanks was able to price match on ebay and get free shipping.

  • Jammar on 16/04/2023 - 14:02

    2tb pls

  • puppetmaster on 17/04/2023 - 18:00
    +1

    Has anyone had their order ship yet?

    For all my previous mwave orders, for an instock item, the order was processed within a couple of hours and ready for pickup.

    But this one is still in "processing" stage.

    • tim9800 on 17/04/2023 - 21:10

      Same, and I selected C/C. I got the 'Your order has been verified' email on Friday, but nothing since

    • sween64 on 21/04/2023 - 17:40

      Ordered last Friday, email received.
      Posted on Tuesday, email received.
      Arrived yesterday, email from AusPost confirmed delivery.

  • sween64 on 26/04/2023 - 14:39
    +1

    Installed in my PS5 today. Got a test read speed of 6525 MB/s. Very happy.

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