Looks like Mwave is matching BPC's deal
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Lexar NM790 PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2 SSD: 2TB $129, 4TB $255 + Delivery ($0 SYD C&C) @ Mwave
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integral on 30/08/2023 - 11:17 mwave.com.au (1544 clicks)
Last edited 07/09/2023 - 17:27 by 2 other users
Last edited 07/09/2023 - 17:27 by 2 other users
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Id be wary waiting too long. If you need a games drive this is the one, I don't see this quality of SSD coming down much further
@netsurfer ?
For games use, any old SSD is just fine - load times barely change between the fastest and slowest SSDs. This is a great price 👍
Prices have been going down for a while now. It feels like it should bottom out very soon but who knows for sure. In terms of this Lexar deal I think the company rep said this was a special 'market disruptive' price or something along those lines. Based on this I'm getting the 4tb.
I've read that quarter 3 would bring cheaper drives, it has.
Quarter 4 should see slightly better prices again but IMHO not significantly cheaper so i wouldn't bother waiting personally.
Many people quoted me an expert article stated that there will be a 13% price drop in Q3.
At the time I replied that's not true, production cost is going up.
I have also written in our latest Ram deal here:
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/799340Q4 price will first bump up a bit, due to exchange rate and production cost increase. (if it's high margin expensive brands, price will barely move)
Then near black friday, price will drop to where it was, and when on till christmas.
But if that brands can't compete with us in value today.
They can't do that in black friday either.Our NM790 deal will run out when we out of stock in Australia.
But good news is I prepared lots of stock, I also have heatsink version coming up soon.
Plus, Mwave is doing a Million Dollar giveaway draw, Lexar is participating. So if you buy you go buy anything you get a draw, details please go see the mwave website.
Mwave also running the 149 inc DDR5 16G x2 6400 deal as well.
thanks guys
@Chris Lexar ANZ: Thanks for the clarification.
I don't see Mwave's Million Dollar giveaway draw at the momen?
If it's coming soon, I should hold and try and buy a Lexar SSD via click and collect from MWave instead of getting it delivered from BPC tech.
4 TB can be added to a Steam Deck. I am going to give it a go…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmqwHqpIThYThis looks so dodgy. The heat this drive puts out alone would be enough to brick your device. I'd strongly recommend sticking to the 2230 size for Steam Deck.
Yep, don't do this. The 2TB WD 2230 units only cost about $70 more than this, so it's not worth the tiny saving.
Don't do it not worth it. Go down to AliExpress and get the imported 2230 WD SSDs
Next major discount sale could be Black Friday / Cyber Monday. No one knows whether there will be any unreal deals before then.
NM790 prices do factor in PCIe gen 4 and latest YMTC NAND. Thing is, with heavy component swaps, there is currently no real competition to NM790. It's just too dangerous to recommend any PCIe gen 3 SSDs (unless they are Samsung, WD, SK Hynix or Seagate). All the other ones are either dated models or pure lottery (QLC).
Note that this is best used on a PC and not as an external drive as it is DRAM less.
Does this list offer anything over PCPP?
I'm using the Silicon Power UD90 which is QLC DRAMless in an enclosure and it's perfectly fine. When the pSLC cache is exhausted the speeds are still good thanks to HMB.
I personally would avoid using DRAMless as the OS drive.
HMB does not work for USB on the vast majority of systems, if not all systems.
That is true.
@Turd: pSLC cache is on the small side at only ~150GB so if you were copying more than 150GB in one go you will experience a slow down. I know in an M.2 NVMe motherboard slot it'll drop down to 800MB/s - 1GB/s once this is exhausted and that's really good for a TLC Dramless SSD.
In an enclosure it'll be lower but I think it'll be fine.
Why look for a dram for os? I really want to buy this as my main ssd for my laptop can you please give some advice?
This is absolutely fine for a main boot drive on a laptop - boot times barely change between the fastest and slowest SSDs 👍
"I personally would avoid using DRAMless as the OS drive."
Why not? Can you elaborate?
Why not?
Ps5?
i use the 2tb for ps5, no problem, but you need to get a heatsink
Best heatsink. Any lexars ones or they all fit fine?
I just grab a cheap one on ebay, I think they should all fit fine.
I got a thermalright heatsink from eBay Aus for $11. They make really good heatsinks and couldn't pass it up for the price. Can confirm it fits as well in the PS5 👍
Can you fit a heatsink on this drive if it's going into a gaming laptop? I'm assuming there would not be enough room for one?? I guess you can get thinner heatsinks that may fit..?
Did you remove the label from the other side of the drive? I was reading comments on the BPC deal that you needed to do this otherwise the heatsink would have reduced efficiency.
However, removing the label apparently voids the warranty which I'd like to avoid. It's what stopped me from pulling the trigger on the BPC deal.
I think they changed a label because mine is thin and foil-ish and not some kind of thick fabrick like a guy reported.
I didn't remove the label, mine label seems like a different one, doesn't affect the heatsink at all. (PS: I bought $144 on june, maybe they already changed the label?)
$125 for this for PS5 vs $550 for the Seagate Expansion Card for xbox. Crazy.
Guys, for a laptop lenovo yoga c940 currently running a wd black sn770 1tb ssd as a main os but want a larger capacity. Would this be better? I'm gonna use it as my main os, basic work stuff, light gaming, etc.
Yes, if you need more capacity you won't get anything as good at this price point
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/792769
Still here, same price, with free delivery for Metro Areas.
Yes, as I have mentioned in the description people in Sydney who prefer to pick up can do so at Mwave
Is this something you'll use for home sever to increase storage? Like server created on an old dell i5 8th gen 7060 optiplex. Or should I get a NAS drive like wd red or seagate ironwolf?
Thanks !
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Good as an OS drive for a lappy?
These drives were slightly cheaper in another recent ozbargin deal btw.
Yes, good for laptop OS drive. Fast and efficient, runs cool.
I use a 2TB in a USB enclosure for game storage with my Xbox Series X to move games to and from internal storage, works great.
Which code are you using ? I see it slightly more expensive with code PLUSAUGSNS
It comes to $133 with plusaugsns but im in SA so if i order from mwave they charge $129 + delivery so i save a few $
Samsung announced the 990 will be coming in 4tb capacities, will wait out till then. Prefer one ecosystem
Got 3x sammies and 1x Crucial
does it matter? tho i think there were only 3 manufacturers for flash memory, samsung, crucial and something else?
Just reduce the number of applications for each vendor lol
The crucial mx500 doesnt need any or have one i think
Samsung announced the 990 will be coming in 4tb capacities,
This drive is a great drive for the $255 price - the Samsung 990 will almost certainly cost a lot more.
I purchased the 4TB one last deal and it’s a beast love it. My WD Blue 500gb was bottleknecking my steam downloads couldnt get more then 70MB/s download now all downloads 110mb/s. The WD Blue has 500 read and 500 write but I think that was on paper. Big improvement in video editing also with the lexar
110mb/s is usual speed for a good HDD. I doubt your old SSD was a problem there.
That device is for SATA M.2 not NVMe M.2 so they won't work with these Lexar drives.
I purchased the 4TB version in the other deal just recently. I removed the sticker as others recommended; doing so may void the warranty but it came off cleanly if I need to put it back and it definitely doesn't look like the kind of sticker that's designed for thermal conductivity, just designed to look good. CrystalDiskMark NVMe test results on PCIe 4x on an AM4 X570 running an OC-ed 5950x:
[Read]
SEQ 1MiB (Q= 8, T= 1): 6571.940 MB/s [ 6267.5 IOPS] < 1272.94 us>
SEQ 128KiB (Q= 32, T= 1): 6569.992 MB/s [ 50125.1 IOPS] < 636.72 us>
RND 4KiB (Q= 32, T=16): 1825.090 MB/s [ 445578.6 IOPS] < 1105.86 us>
RND 4KiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 68.595 MB/s [ 16746.8 IOPS] < 58.78 us>[Write]
SEQ 1MiB (Q= 8, T= 1): 6153.162 MB/s [ 5868.1 IOPS] < 1360.44 us>
SEQ 128KiB (Q= 32, T= 1): 6179.590 MB/s [ 47146.5 IOPS] < 677.15 us>
RND 4KiB (Q= 32, T=16): 1792.530 MB/s [ 437629.4 IOPS] < 1137.25 us>
RND 4KiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 148.979 MB/s [ 36371.8 IOPS] < 26.56 us>Thanks - did you notice the temperature of the drive?
Best/highest I saw was 60 deg C.Is NM790 running the OS? Below is my result (but with NM790 1TB, B550, Ryzen 5600). I would expect X570 should be on par, if not better than B550. Did you connect the SSD to the m.2 slot wired to the CPU? The slot wired to the chipset is known to be slower.
[Read]
SEQ 1MiB (Q= 8, T= 1): 7439.393 MB/s [ 7094.8 IOPS] < 1126.95 us>
RND 4KiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 79.333 MB/s [ 19368.4 IOPS] < 51.51 us>[Write]
SEQ 1MiB (Q= 8, T= 1): 6269.300 MB/s [ 5978.9 IOPS] < 1333.86 us>
RND 4KiB (Q= 1, T= 1): 215.780 MB/s [ 52680.7 IOPS] < 18.87 us>You're right; I should've mentioned that it's installed in my secondary-but-still-PCIe-4x slot so it's not as fast as it would be in a primary slot! My OS is running off the other/primary M.2 SSD, a WD SN850. The benchmarks were also after I'd added 300GB to the drive and left it to sit for half an hour to self-flush the SLC cache, to be a bit more real-world than completely empty.
What is a more suitable drive for OS? Or will this be fine
I’m running windows 10 on my 4TB one just perfect, why would it be a problem?
I have a GA-Z270X-Gaming K5 motherboard. Can I use this ssd?
Yes, but you'll be limited to PCIe Gen 3 x4 which has a max bandwidth of about 4GB/s
not recommended for anything with n OS like the PS5 ? guess next storage would be a better option … shooting at 4tbs
This drive is absolutely fine for booting an OS 👍
I've used it in a new build for my os. Runs great.
SSD deals are coming in hard and fast. Buy or HoLD?