It's not the cheapest as this deal, but if you add a second qualifying item, you'll receive a 10% discount. I added these HDMI-to-Ethernet cables at no cost with Amazon Prime.
Order Qty 2 together to receive the $227 price.
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or more expensive if you count the $55 1 TB Samsung SSD deal (supposedly price error by amazon UK)
Not a pricing error, it was a special deal originally for UK customers only. Amazon UK decided to offer to AU customers later on.
Samsung 990 PRO 1TB M.2 SSD $55.92 Delivered @ Amazon UK via AU
mine is on it's way so not a price error, it's currently in Aus with the carrier
Yeah but now what to do with 3 of these
well a lot of them did die early and a few people are still questioning if samsung's firmware patches 'actually' fixed the issue.
I'm also not 100% sure about this too… i dont trust the 990 Pro
Well, it was hard to resist $55.92. Also, if you have experience with low cost QLC SSD, then filling the SSD fully once would lower the SSD health by at least 1%. Kingston, for example, would ship SSDs with pre-marked unusable cell blocks (i.e. inferior grade QLC NAND) for low cost QLC SSD. Those pre-marked cell blocks don't contribute to SSD health.
It's annoying that Samsung doesn't explain the situation fully. Did they stuff up the cell rotation algorithm in firmware or it's something else.
SN850X owners should upgrade firmware. SK Hynix Platinum P41 isn't perfect either. I have an old SSD where the SSD health is 65% with no cell reallocation (technically no bad sector yet), the SSD health software marked it down due to the wear level. Question is, is the SSD still safe to use? HDDs getting "100%" health as long as there is no bad sector is not realistic. We don't seriously believe a HDD that's 6 years old is still 100% good. One of my 4TB HDD was 100% for years and one day, it just died without warning.
@netsurfer: We have hard drives that are still working after 25 years in our office.. some 128gb-250GB SSD's that are almost 10 years old… Its a little sad that drives are not improving in reliability but somewhat staying the same or getting worse.
@vid_ghost: I have an SSD which is almost 10 years old too. The SSD health is 65%. HDDs which are 25 years old, are you willing to put important data on them?
@netsurfer: I have an intel SSDSC2CW120A3 that is over 80k hours and 125tb writes at 89%, they don't make them like that anymore.
It's nice but at $134.10, just get something similar but cheaper such as the
https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/B0B7CKVCCV/
I guarantee you will not notice a difference in performance. Both are extremely fast but the WD is $21 cheaper.
thats a great deal
wish the 2tb were more on sale
Since posting this deal, the price dropped even further. Now it's a $25 difference.
The deal is done lol. Price is gone up now.
Can pre-order (10 - 14 BUSINESS DAYS) from PCByte for $129.95 here -
https://www.pcbyte.com.au/p/samsung-990-pro-m-2-2280-nvme-1t…
Damn these things are getting cheaper