Been waiting for this one to restock.
Use the 15% coupon to bring the price down from $128.50 to $109.22
CamelCamelCamel.
Local warranty and price are my main concern. I was looking at the WD Red of the same size but 5 years of warranty is pointless if you can’t make a claim. I know the WD Red isn’t cheap but there are so few options out there I looked at everything.
There has been a bunch of the online comparisons when people buy 1extra drives and shuck them as a 'hot spare' it tends to come out in the wash vs having and using the 5 year warranty. Commonly physical drives die early on or very late (Bath tub warranty curve) unless you are after the red shucking with some spare seems to be the best value for money as long as you have some level of redundancy to cover it in the system if you lose one.
It would be nice if they came with a 10 yr warranty making it find to just fork out but 5 yr just seems to not be long enough in my experience for the value
I've had 3 SP drives-
Have a read of old posts for SP SSDs. There's some indication that these drives are not reliable. I wouldn't be putting anything critical on one of these.
I have 2 x SP drives (both XS70) and they’ve been pretty good so far. This drive is obviously at the cheaper end of their spectrum but at least I have 3 years of local warranty and can handle data loss, should it occur.
Avoid
SP drives are garbage
SATA models are Fikwot/Fanxiang level and NVMe models are a part swap lottery as they switch to poorer components after sampling decent parts for reviews
So what’s the alternative for a 2TB SATA drive? The near $300 Samsung EVO 870? Genuine question though, what else do we buy?
I guess not much of an alternative, at this point is nvme not an option?
So what’s the alternative for a 2TB SATA drive?
Do you absolutely need to run SATA or can you use an NVMe drive in a USB enclosure or adapter?
One of these for $27 plus a 2TB SN580 is a fast and reliable combo
If you absolutely must use native SATA, the only reasonably priced 2TB options of decent quality are the Crucial BX500 ($165) and MX500 ($195)
The 4TB has been around that price on special
Had 1 TB drive, failed within months, was using it on secondary pc, turned on 3 times , 4th time it stopped booting and took me ages to realise the drive failed.
Garbage even for non-critical storage.
Not particularly related since it's a thumb drive, but flash memory nonetheless.
I got a freebie SP branded thumb drive from some promo or another, and it's basically trash.
Read/Writes were a trickle or timed out 90% of the time. Not a port issue either as I tried a variety of ports and computers…
Won't even bother with rma since it's a smol one capacity wise. (16gb)
Sounds a lot like the Lexar drives a lot of us bought a while back.
1TB A55 failed on me after a few weeks. Avoid.
Had two drives fail within half a year. Nope.
Reads overwhelmingly negative OzBargain comments, has a bad feeling in gut, checks Amazon link.
"You last purchased this item on 29 Apr 2023"
Oh dear god what have i done to my poor MacBook.
Does he know? He KNOWS!
$50/tb, something fishy is going on…
Funny as i've put these tho the smaller satas, 128gb and 240gb in multiple refurbished desktops and laptops and never had problems… easily 30 or 40 of them… Perhaps it's the larger sized ones that fail more?
My silicon power is well and alive after many years.
My SP has been going strong for 5+ year. I my replaces a few months ago as I needed more space
Bought one of these brand drives and it died within a month.
Got it warrantied and its surviving so far.. but the SMART report appears to have it aging a lot quicker than the crucial i have it accompanied with.