Quality, value AND fast SSD. About on par with the prior Amazon price, and if you've got an M.2 slot available it's significantly faster than a SATA SSD.
Might be cheaper from JW directly if you C&C, but I had a Kogan gift card to utilise so this was more useful for myself.
That'd be worthy of it's own post, nice!
RL just came in with a kill shot
Nice find! Just ordered and showing 3 left
obligatory comment about how this doesn't have a dram cache
obligatory comment about how this will work on a ps5, but it is below the recommended spec
Or you could simply leave that to someone else
saving that someone the trouble. im feeling charitable today.
Bless you
so no dram cache doesnt affect its performance?
it does for write performance, particularly sustained writes. it makes a pretty big difference. if you're just using this as a games drive or similar tho you'll have no worries.
“particularly sustained writes”
Surely once you have used up the cache you are back to DRAM less performance in long writes.
If only this was P5
😂 😂 Thank you for the advice never thought of that. Problem solved
QLC SSD… and lucky fans of YMTC NAND based SSDs have not posted any comment yet.
QLC SSDs have their uses, but prices on QLC SSDs really should be lowered. After the $56 for 990 Pro 1TB deal, it is hard to get excited on QLC SSDs. SN850X 2TB was discounted around Amazon Prime day ($147).
Definitely a pricing error, hard to expect that ever to come back
People got them, also, cheapest 2TB TLC NVMe is $109 before discount code applied. That's before looking at YMTC NAND based SSDs.
$/GB, at this price, it is still subpar for QLC. Also, no matter how well you want to spin this, QLC + Phison E21 is still the worst combination for E21 based SSDs. Once the dynamic SLC cache runs out, the write speed drops to 100MBps max. Even the cheapest TLC 2TB NVMe SSD is better than that.
The $56 deal came after the $147 deal so is it really safe to assume similar deals won't be available later on? We know SSD prices still trending downwards.
IMHO even TLC SATA SSD is better than QLC + Phison E21, at least the sustained write speed would be around 4x faster and the read speed is not as noticiable.
BOOM $0.45 cheaper - code JAU17