Been waiting for this one to restock.
Use the 15% coupon to bring the price down from $128.50 to $109.22
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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
Same boat. I used it as a data storage, no gaming and died in 6th month. I could get a replacement with paying international postage to Taiwan but it took 2 months and I lost all my data.
I bought the same SSD when it went on sale last year and it's had no issues in a PC that's on 24/7. I suppose it's a bit more of a gamble with this brand.
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)
Do you still trust Crucial, now? And yes, I need SATA.
I’ll quantify that. Yeah I need SATA but only until I can find an alternative for my cameras connected to a UniFi Cloud Key Gen 2 +.
Do you still trust Crucial, now?
Yes
BX500 2TB, 720TB endurance, 3 year warranty
MX500 2TB, 700TB endurance, 5 year warranty
Basically you're 1-2 years late on SATA "deals" - no one is spending R&D on new models and the remaining quality stock is going up in price (including M.2 SATA) as manufacturers know the hold outs like you have no choice
If you're lucky, you might see one of these models go for a flash sale:
Seagate FireCuda 120 2.5" SATA SSD 2TB $243.87 Delivered @ Amazon AU
Kingston DC500R 3.84TB 2.5" SATA Data Centre SSD $314.95 Delivered @ Amazon UK via AU
Samsung 870 EVO 4TB 2.5" SATA Internal SSD $284.10 Delivered @ Amazon UK via AU
bx500 is crap too, part swap to QLC at some stage, and DRAM-less, not very durable either.
back when I was working in a computer store, have had multiple customers suffer from random OS slow downs using bx500. IMO MX500 or nothing.
@OMGJL: BX500 2TB actually has higher warrantied endurance than the MX500 2TB
Like the P3/P3 Plus drives, the BX500 is not going to set the world on fire with speed
But unlike these SP drives, they will work and not suddenly die
@Look Up: with TBW rating, yes BX500 does have a higher TBW specified on Crucial's website, doesn't mean it is definitely more reliable.
since most customer will not exceed the TBW number, manufacturer can risk it and put a higher number without losing too much money on warranty. Generally speaking most other manufacturer would keep "TBW per TB" at less than 600 (like for a 1TB drive, they offer 600TBW for warranty)
if you don't want to listen to my word that's perfectly fine, search online and see how many horror story on bx500.
I never commented about SP drive's quality and quality assurance, I don't know how good/bad they are, they may suck, I don't know, but IMO BX500 sucks.
that said, I am just commenting, and I won't stop anyone who want to buy a bx500 and find out himself.
I get negged a lot on ozB when I comment on how certain RAMs are really subpar (usually because they are x16 bitwidth not standard x8 bit width), well I am cool if they can't accept that because they never heard what x16 is vs x8 so it must not exist. They like to get subpar stuff so be it, I am not paying nor it'll slow my computer down, same applies here.
Still almost double the price but not a ridiculous option. Thanks.
The 4TB has been around that price on special
Crucial 2TB for $168 on Amazon
But Crucial has been proven to be quite sketchy of late.
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!
Will likely be fine. Just make sure you have a backup strategy which you should have anyway even with a better drive.
$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
So far so good with these. Upgraded 30 computers for my classroom with these (smaller 240gb) and they seem to be going fine after a few months.
That's with teenage kids thinking the power switch is the easiest way to turn off computers.
These are fantastic at testing your data backup strategy.
(profanity) shit - 2x 2TB versions kicked the can - now showing up as RAW data unallocated meaning that they are now corrupt
Bribe them with more money
I too have had an SP ssd give up the ghost. Granted this was a few years back, I think 256gb or so attached to a raspberry pi, but it wasn't a high load or anything and it just died. Stayed away from SP from then on
Think deal back. Didn't buy one though.
I have this for ps4 games storage which is connected to my PS5, Still working fine going on around 2 years.
my nvme silicon power working great since april last year.
The deal is still on FYI but for anyone looking to use this in a UniFi Cloud Key Gen 2 Plus (like I was), don’t bother. The device doesn’t see it at all and I’ve tried everything. Humbug.
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.