Down down prices are down. Good for a cheap games drive that doesn't contain important files. If you can find the WD Blue SN570 1TB for $10-15, would recommend that instead of this drive. Choose your pick of store.
MSY - https://www.msy.com.au/product/kingston-1tb-nv2-2280-nvme-ss…
Umart - https://www.umart.com.au/product/kingston-1tb-nv2-2280-nvme-…
believe SN570 would be a better option, thinking to have one for the second storage
My Deal has had it at this price for a couple of days
Can anyone reccomend good cheap heatsink to fit ps5??
Although technically it'll work on ps5 I think your better off with a higher speed gen4 nvme.
Thank you Ill hold off for a faster unit cheers
I doubt you'll see a meaningful difference tbh
this heatsink fits but i wouldnt use this ssd for ps5 though.
https://www.amazon.com.au/BOOC-Heatsink-Double-Sided-Silicon…
Thanks I'll hold off for a faster one cheers!
I dont even know why but i want this lol.
Does anyone use one of these as like a portable ssdfor their tablets and stuff to store content while travelling?
Yeah I bought an external case that is Thunderbolt 3 and put a drive in, crazy freaking fast. Works really well.
I have a 1TB NVMe drive - not Kingston - in a shell that can also take SATA. The shell came with USB-A and USB-C cables. Good for backups and moving data.
even pcie4 drives are dropping in price
can't wait for the $/per TB to drop more
here you go, $76 to pick up at scorptec
https://www.scorptec.com.au/product/hard-drives-&-ssds/solid-state-drives-(ssd)/93952-wds100t3b0c?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIqdiN15vQ_gIVgwVyCh2W-wCDEAQYASABEgImVvD_BwE
Woosh
Can I ask if this is good and reliable enough as the main OS drive? Thanks.
I recently bought a cheap ultrabook with this WD Blue SN570 1TB installed. It works fine, seems fast, but yeah, I'm also worried it may not be a good choice as the main drive.
Broden save some for the rest of us
I actually thought I missed an incredible deal with the way op wrote that.. the word extra after 10-15 would have been all that was needed.
Anyway good to know I didn't miss out on an incredible deal.
I have the 2tb version of this drive, using it as my boot drive. Even if it's far from the fastest on the market, everything is very snappy. It's a lot faster than my old mx500 and I still load into online games (CSGO mostly) first.
anyone had any experience using this SSD (or similar cheapy ) SSD for Synology SSD Cache? thinking ot grab 2x of this and RAID 1 as read/write cache (around 250GB needed ) for my DS918+ and remaining 750GB around as a partition to storage small but often used files (word, excel, PDF etc.)
You can't use NVMe SSDs in a mixed way like that on the DS918+. It can only use the SSD bay drives for cache, nothing else, and cache maxes out at 500GB per volume. Any cheapy works, and overprovisioning makes sense as the controller will use the SLC tech in the drive. I have a couple of cheap 1TB Kingston A2000s (pre-NV1 DRAMless) and they seem to do the job just fine. But, honestly the whole system is so horribly bottlenecked by the LAN port, it makes it irrelevant.
I only really bought the SSDs as someone I lived with was complaining about drive noise during backup operations, and It didn't reduce noise or even speed up the backup operations for some reason. I didn't see much practical impact day-to-day of read-write caching. Read caching makes sense… and a lot of forum posts suggest that read/write caching can cause data integrity issues. Anyway, I wound up filling the other 2 bays with 4TB QVOs, as the write noises were (obviously) still occurring. I'd suggest you might be much happier just with large SATA SSDs in the spare bays, although it can be tricky to move core system files and packages between volumes.
Thanks for sharing! Very useful details, I guess I will just pass on the SSD cache thing :)
would this be okay as a cheap secondary 1tb drive without a heatsink?
Would be perfect for that!
Just saw this price on Amazon as well…
https://www.amazon.com.au/Kingston-PCIe-Solid-State-Drive/dp…