A 20% Coupon is available on the product page to bring the price down.
Unknown brand, good enough price to go for it though.
Also comes with a tiny screwdriver.
CamelCamelCamel.
Sorry… that was the first thing that came to mind when I saw the brand name!
No need to apologise, you are among friends here.
Ozbargain is half finding cheap crap, half talking crap.
Such a Fikwot
Great price. Would never buy or store my data on it.
This is a real brand?
Yes it is Fokwit
Didn't know my boss made SSDs
Give him the bonus tiny screwdriver and tell him to screw himself.
WOTF?
Who would even consider buying something with that brand name?
At least 3212… according to number of reviews
someone who needs a little screwdriver
Lord Farquaad
I mean, I bought a Wii.
And Masterfoods decided Creamy White Finishing Sauce was a good name for a product.
One day we might look at Fikwot as a premium brand, and laughing at it will seem childish. That day isn't today, of course.
Yeah, there was much giggling when Nintendo introduced the "Wii"
People have gotten used to it.
For the right price i'll buy anything
Having over 3000 reviews it's pretty safe to buy, I bought the slightly faster one for ~$130 with the same coupon, worth it imo.
Perfect for an OS and some big games. If things go wrong you don't loose lose much.
Sorry but regular people's reviews within ~2 weeks of using HDD/SDD aren't worth anything. People leave positive reviews as long as it's initially functional.
This is a Fanxiang rebrand. They use garbage components known and expected to fail within 12 months.
This happened to me and Fanxiang, despite having some e-mail address and contact form and pleasant promises on its website, flat out does not respond to any attempts at contact.
It was very hard to troubleshoot because SSD issues are rare and intermittent. Wasted for more of my time than the product was worth. The main symptoms were some video causing system crashes, sometimes only if you went full-screen mode. It looked a lot like virus/infected files. It didn't matter that neither the videos nor the OS were installed on Fanxiang SSDs, it messed up the whole system.
Fanxiang (nor fokwit) are not registered in Australia. Your only recourse will be against the platform you bought it from (ebay, temu, amazon).
https://goughlui.com/2023/10/10/psa-ssds-with-ymtc-flash-pro…
because online reviews, especially the ones by Abraham Lincoln, are all reliable, like banks.
Side brand of (only) Fanxiang
(can see on box at 2:57: https://cdn.shopify.com/videos/c/vp/7912950c0779477ab8088ca0…)
These cheapo SSDs are perfect for fast storage where you don't care if it dies (like a games drive).
Have used these cheapo NVMe drives as caches on HDD backed NAS' and they work great there too. Just make sure you get one with a DRAM cache and you do write validation,
DRAM isn’t that relevant anyway if you use this in a NAS with plenty of RAM as a L1 cache, such as TrueNAS.
see my above comment - no these particular cheapo SSDs are not good for anything. If it fails, as long as it's plugged in, the failure mode will mess up/corrupt your entire system. I don't know enough about SSDs to explain why, this is personal experience. You will lose more than just useless games you don't care about.
It's a fiking well know brand on ozb.
The Lexar NM790 drives were cheap as **** about a year ago.
And fast as *****.
Nothing seems to come close to their price for a Gen 4 drive.
**** = Fikwot? :)
**** = a 4 letter word in common but vulgar use.
Wish I'd bought more Lexar drives at the time.
Fokwit Pro
At this price can I really be sure this is a genuine Fikwot?
buy one. test it, find out.
just remember to report back
Wouldn’t trust this brand for a boot drive, maybe good for games or other storage that doesn’t matter
Just raid two and be happy
Better than the FUBAR drives but possibly not as good as the FIGJAM drives.
How's it compared to Dogfish?
I've found dogfish msata 128gb+ OK, use them in zfs mirrors for boot drives from my opnsense mini boxes.
The only legit msata I could find other than Dogfish was to buy the Samsung portable SSDs and remove the drive from inside the casing. Rather obscure drive form factor that never really got too popular. Some of the mini PCs from AliExpress use msata instead of m2 form factor though.
@Agret: Amazon had Kingston branded one, I just mirror the dogfish or zheino msata with a name brand (well, not shit brand :) ) sata usually
Think of it as providing a live test of your backup regimen.
As in which part?
$95 for 2tb is a great SSD deal, regardless of the speed. Nvme speeds are a bonus mate.
Random Seek Read Write (IOPS 32KQD20): 319 MBytes/Sec
This is through the floor.
Yeah fair, that’s not that much faster than a good hdd which is the whole point of an ssd. So I guess it’s not that great, but still a valid buy for some people.
Aren't all the drives listed in the first chart Gen 4 drives? This one in OP's post is just a Gen 3 so that's kind of like comparing apples to oranges
Random Seek Read Write (IOPS 32KQD20): 319 MBytes/Sec
This is through the floor. Otherwise it suggests it performs like a budget mid-tier PCIE 4.0 SSD.
Here comes the downvote brigade who cannot read data…
If I'm wrong, show working. Drives with the same controller (Maxio MAP1202) seem to be doing fine, but this one has some consistently poor results.
This SSD only has a read speed of 3,500MB/s.
In my opinion, SSDs are used for a long time. Therefore, it's worth buying a slightly better one with higher read and write speeds. Some things shouldn't be saved on too much.
Currently, you should consider the WD 850X 2TB with 7,300MB/s read and 6,600MB/s write speeds. Or you can choose the Kingston KC3000 2TB with 7,000MB/s read and 7,000MB/s write speeds.
What are the real world scenario where those higher speeds are needed?
DirectStorage v1.2.
I said real world for a reason. v1.2 has been out for years and how many games are actually using it? I can think of Rachet & Clank Rift Apart, but here we are in 2024 and the game still performs better if DirectStorage is disabled.
@Clear: It should begin appearing within the next 6 months, and is part of a number of critical improvements to the GPU pipe that are also slowly getting dotted in.
You're not buying an SSD now with such a short view.
@jasswolf: Should is a strong word. They've had a long time to implement it. I'll check in after 6 months and we'll see :)
@Clear: 1.2 has been around for about 15 months, and usually such features lag around 2 years because it needs to go from build to test to live environments, and that's assuming there's a game that's in the right window for going gold (or is a live service).
Fortnite might be a good candidate, depending on how expansive they want to be.
If I don't know what that is, is it worth a 200% price premium? WD seems to go for around $280.
@Thrifty McGifty: Do you mean the SN850X? They go on sale for $160-$200 for 2 TB. Prices will correct, and it's very much worth it on the lower end (or perhaps lower).
PCIE 5.0 is about to go mainstream, so prices should crash a bit.
There isn't any, hur dur faster speeds better
Real world even in DirectStorage games are like a few secs max compared to a 3gbps drive to a 7gbps.
DirectStorage 1.2 isn't even in play yet, so you have no real world examples of note.
@jasswolf: This comment contradicts with the comment just above where YOU gave Direct storage 1.2 as a real world example?
@Larsson: The API isn't imaginary, but I did overlook that part. It should be coming into action in early 2025, and it's possible a game like Fortnite takes advantage even sooner.
@Larsson: Because he's talking out his ass, he just sees higher number = better, which yes it is, but real world you don't notice a difference.
Even if 1.2 was out, there might be like 2 games that use it.
Not to mention, there's a 4tb 7gbps version for ~$280 in the other post. And the 2tb 5gbps version for ~$130.
@SuBw00FeR: Your common sense logic was correct until this sort of technology, and people aren't buying an SSD to use for 1-2 years.
More to the point, there's clear evidence these drives are hollowed-out crap. Best to look into those other models, but these brands seem to be a way to sell extremely low-quality NAND flash memory that falls to bits (pardon the pun) with heavy use and/or extremely limited use.
If you've ever heard warnings about not leaving SSDs to park for 6 months without power, this would be the one.
@jasswolf: DirectStorage is never going to be a big deal on a PC where you can just add more RAM.
Unlike a console with fixed specs, the game engine doesn't need to stream things in from the drive when everything just fits into RAM anyway…
This is why it's never taken off, and is unlikely to.
@Nom: I think you might want to look into how modern texture and asset streaming works before you fire off that response to anyone else.
Or even just the economics of having more than 64GB of system RAM (later 128GB over time with DDR5 and DDR6), and what advantages and disadvantages that actually provides for graphics performance compared to streaming assets from local drives.
Buying more RAM does not really solve for the massive shift in latency if you're having to constantly pull new assets from a drive and then push them to the GPU, and then constantly swap back and forth between RAM and VRAM.
Perhaps there's scope for streaming some of this directly from the drive? Perhaps there's scope for having the GPU handling some of its own scheduling and execution ordering? Radical ideas, I know.
Wild that you just want people to load up on RAM and VRAM as drives double in speed every 3 years, instead of making a more flexible series of pipelines to create entirely new possibilities.
@jasswolf: Cool story Bro - perhaps you should tell it again if DirectStorage ever manages to escape it's ultra niche.
You are aware that just about every game is managing just fine without it ?
@Nom: It's almost like game developers are aware of the limitations of current game hardware and spend enormous amounts of time balancing for this while trying to preserve image quality, or at least use a game engine that is designed with that in mind.
Please, do one vaguely coherent google search, I beg you.
I guess “F$&KWIT” was taken ?
it's reserved for more premium models
the 4tb with 7400mbps speeds with heatsink is pretty cheap too at 359 its compatible with the ps5 too.
Not $359, only $288 : https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/872600
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PK241Kcu7Bg - a review of that drive, seems to be among the top end drives
That deal is no longer available
These Fukwits are just renamed Fanxiang drives
FN501 Pro = S500 Pro
Review: Fanxiang S501 1TB 3D NAND PCIe 3.0×4 NVMe SSD (ft. Glotrends PA09-HS Adapter)
PSA: SSDs with YMTC Flash Prone to Failure? Check Your SSDs!
Once the returns start piling up for this brand, they will just do a rug pull on Amazon and relaunch as Famsung
Hence why no Australian retailer or wholesaler sells or distributes this garbage
flik wot??
not sure I'd want to stick it where they suggest, Pro or not lol
So a while ago I picked up a 4TB FS810 for US$75 and contrary to what some others may say it's using Intel QLC flash instead of the dodgy YMTC 128l flash, as well as a Realtek controller.
Had it been YTMC 128l flash I'd be using it purely for game storage, due to the issues Look Up has linked above.
Will this Fokwit work in a PS5?
this or sn580? ik this is 2tb but worth? for games and recordings etc
Wait for Nov/Dec sales if you can: mainstream PCIe 5.0 drives will hit, and the mainstream PCIe 4.0 pricing will be very good.
Not sure why you got voted down for this. Black friday is only 5 weeks away. Singles day is only 2 weeks away.
Some want a name brand drive, and should wait a few weeks. Others might be happy to gamble on drive quality to save a few bucks and buy this deal.
Is PCIE version important to note of? Like do some mobos only support PCIE 4 or 5 only? Does that mean if I get a PCIE 5 drive it won't work on a mobo that supports PCIE 3?
PCIE is backwards compatible, it'll work but just be limited by PCIE 3 speed.
Cool, thanks
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