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One of the best PCIe Gen4 NVMe SSDs (can be the best in my opinion). Not an excellent price, but good enough with regard to the general rising price of SSDs.
The code ZIPPRIMEDAY can be used on this deal for $10 more off.
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Agree. NM790 is a better choice for PC gaming and PS5. However, NM790 has no DRAM cache which makes it perform worse as a system boot disk (or other circumstances require SSD DRAM) than those SSD with DRAM do (like P41).
Another thing worths mention is that NM790 uses MAP1602+YMTC 232L TLC NAND which is also a flagship. There are lots of other Chinese made SSDs using the same combination. They contributed a lot to the large price drop of SSDs one year ago. But now is the time to pay back.
This versus the Crucial T500 that seems to go on sale at ~$160 for someone that will be primarily for gaming?
Crucial T500 has DRAM cache, 1GB per TB of storage. I can mostly only find some early reports that suggest the cache was a bit spotty with early firmware and is likely fixed
Also for reference it seems that SSD prices hit all time lows mid-late last year and at best early 2024, so I don't think $160 is likely any time soon.
@freedomj: Gotcha, value for money wise between the 990 Pro, Hynix Platinum P41, and the Crucial T500 would you say the T500 wins?
As predominantly a gamer, I don't think i'd be able to notice the difference between the 3 but would rather an expert confirm as I'd rather buy this once and properly
THIS
This is 100 percent homemade NVME
everything is made by crucial (SK HYNIX IS CRUCIAL) the firmware,the NAND,the controller it's all their latest shit,about 12 months ahead of the stuff they give to their suppliers
The t500 apparantly still has firmware bugs,and get's really hot
Honestly,if it's just PC gaming anyway,save 40 bucks
Buy the Gen 3 p31 it's still 3700/3500 mbit more than enough and u get 2Tb for 188 and has Dram
@reader64: Since when was SK Hynix Crucial?
No, not everything is made by Crucial.
SK Hynix are one of the very few who make their own stuff incl nand flash, ram, controllers, etc.
SK Hynix are "100% home made" nvme, unlike Corsair/Kingston/Team/etc who have the likes of Crucial/Samsung/SKHynix/YTMV/Phison/etc make their stuff for them.
And I'd take SK Hynix over Crucial every day of the week.
how do you get it for $299? its $319 for me.
They just raised the price of no heatsink one. It was $299 hours ago.
pretty sure theres a $80 vouncher to buy it for this price. Now its prime only, what the hell.
What does voucher mean?
Against the tide of general rising price of SSDs, is this analysis decent?
Read a benchmark review that showed the T500 beat out the Samsung 980 Pro for speed
Crucial T500 1TB PCIe Gen4 NVMe M.2 SSD(amazon.com.au) with $10 ZIP pay discount, price comes down to 114.37 delivered
This is the best deal for DRAM and >5000MB/s read & write I've seen, only downside is UK import which means waiting for arrival.
Edit: I can't get the zip pay to accept me, i must be so dodgy lol. I also couldn't verify this deal was eligible despite being sure I saw it last night.
That ZIP code needs $150+ to be applied. Then price you can get on not AU Amazon is not much cheaper than local hardware stores. It will be a better choice to buy it from a local store. I've just checked the price. Scorptec and Umart offer $132 for Crucial T500 1TB. The price rised by another few dollars, but I believe if you can get in-store to bargain, they will offer a better price. CentreCom offers $129 and a 5% more off coupon.
Great SSD, but I paid $165 one year ago.
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$299 gets you a 4TB Lexar NM790 from BPC. So, depending on your specific requirements that could be better value.