Lightning deal on WD_BLACK SN850x 2TB NVMe SSD.
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Doesn't have heatsink does it?
Yeah but that changes the price.
@PleasureMe: Yes, it does. At $202, it’s still a great deal compared to the prices over the past year. The lowest I’ve seen this SSD was $198, and that was over a year ago.
@Maverick1002: Yep I've had my eye on it for a year or so, checking everyday. Picked it up with heatsink a couple weeks back for $207 as that was the lowest it had gotten. There wasn't enough stock to post here.
Waiting for the Samsung 990 Pro 2TB sale
Is it that much better?
Nooe. People have complained about 990 pro a lot.
I wanted a 990 but after much reviews I think 850x is much more reliable.
IS THIS TRUE?? I thought 990 Pro is gold standard
@freelife: 990 Pro had a reported issue earlier on, requiring a firmware upgrade. It's best to upgrade firmware right away once you receive your 990 Pro (most likely the current batches would already have a new enough firmware, but probably still best to check and do a firmware upgrade). For more info:
@netsurfer: Thanks I've decided to go with this deal and save $100+ given I probably won't tell the difference anyway with the 990 Pro speed (for LLM AI work)
@freelife: The wear was excessive due to a firmware issue. Some claim it’s just an incorrect estimate, but Samsung’s updated firmware didn’t reverse the wear percentage. I still have a 1TB 990 Pro with 60% estimated life remaining, despite less-than-average use.
@freelife: No spare drive. I thought about getting one to switch and try the warranty, but it didn’t happen. :)
Never snapped purchased faster thanks OP
Thanks for helping validate my 3AM purchase. I’m sure I won’t regret it now.
There is a heatsink variation, anyone know if it's worth getting?
I would say its worth it. Its just $15 more and also if you are going to use it for PS5 then heatsink is the way to go. Even for PC setups, a heatsink provides better thermal management.
I don’t think the include one is anything special, for the price difference you have a few choices via Amazon at $15 or less. Or you could look at it as a $15 discount on a more premium heat sink option if cooling is a concern for your setup and usage.
I bought without the heatsink and purchased a Thermaright one from AliExpress for $7. This was the last time this deal was posted.
It has fantastic performance, super good combo.
Was desperately looking for this but just found out it is double sided and cannot be used in laptop.
Can anyone please confirm.this.
I got the 4TB version which was double-sided and at the time I thought my research revealed the 2TB version was one-sided but I might be misremembering.
Thank you.
I bought and installed one into my son's Dell laptop, works a treat.
The 2TB version is definitely single sided.
risky getting it shipped from germany to au?
not at all from Amazon :)
Have one about to be delivered from Amazon de. Turning up 7 days ahead of advertised date fwiw.
Previously had another "delivered " around 16 December (Black Friday sale) from Amazon de however it was completely different from what I ordered ( a jigsaw puzzle!) . Called Amazon locally who immediately apologised; instant refund to my cc and offered to honour original price (bf sale price) if I re-ordered. So overall I think extremely low risk…..
I bought two from Amazon (one with heatsink and one without), one shipped from Germany, the other shipped from the US. I've never had an issue (touch wood) purchasing from o/s through Amazon.
Any reason why over the KC3000?
No
$179 locally for the KC3000 after the $10 eGift card is a better deal
SN850X is well overdue for an upgrade - even the $155 MSI M482 uses WD's own latest BiCS6 NAND which is why even without DRAM, that drive matches the SN850X in real world speeds
Runs cooler than Kingston My WD SN850X 4tb in enclosure runs much cooler than my Kingston Fury Renegade 4TB
Is it with a heatsink or without?
Both non HS versions, but using enclosure supplied thermal pads 2 x Wavlink USB4 ST-401C enclosures
Thanks OP, been for waiting for a decent 2TB SSD for use with my PS5 to drop sub-200.
prob worth spending the extra $15 to get the heatsink version as someone above mentioned…
Is the best SSD value wise to shove into a PS5?
Yes
Cheers. Have been wanting an SSD upgrade - haven't been able to download any games for a while now. Jumped on this.
Need a decent 4TB for my PC
Ok
I've had a bit of a dig around but a bit of conflicting information - is anyone able to advise if these can be run with a Synology NAS?
You can it if only the NAS supports NVMe support for caching and has an M.2 NVMe slot specifically for cache drives. Pretty uncommon for a NAS to support NVMe for storage. I could be wrong.
Have a plus vote back. Pretty much the best reply to be given considering no model number supplied. Also if it’s cache you would need 2x drives and 2TB would be overkill.
Thank you for your replies - these answer my question. To clarify I was referring to the DS423+.
@Quarth: Looks like it can on these newer models ( my old gen while similar is a cache use only for those slots) - you have 2x NVME bays - and they can be a dedicated storage pool.
Given the purpose of a NAS you will need two drives to get the physical redundancy.
https://www.synology.com/en-global/products/DS423+#specs
Google "DS423+ NvME as storage Pool"
Finds this discussion on the value proposition.
https://www.reddit.com/r/synology/comments/1ajlxdp/ds_423_nv…
I don't have the option but running a container on these might be a interesting thing to do, but you would be on the very high end of the experienced home user to go into that.
Just an FYI. In my use case as a cache it reports a hit rate of 80% on a pair of 128GB of drives ( currently using 3GB in the cache) I don't think bigger caches will improve my admittedly low utilisation ( mainly backup use, some media streaming).
@Quarth: You can create volumes on it with Synology_enable_M2_volume.
I have 2 x SN580 in a RAID setup on my DS923+ running all my VMs and Docker containers. It works great.
12% claimed - looks like there’s plenty
This in an enclosure would be perfect for a Panasonic S5 IIX camera.
Thanks, purchased with heatsink for PS5. If it ends up not being used much it'll live in my PC as an upgrade to the slow SSD there!
I need one for the PS5 - but I might be getting an Amazon voucher for Christmas!
i dont have a ps5 but ive been looking around for a solid cheap fast relaible small storage device that can work directly on iphone and pc.. hmmmmmm
Thank you for contributing to my horrible financial decisions
I don't know what to do. This or hodl for 990 pro or t500…
T500 had issues with sequencial write when cache is full. 990 Pro is $100+ more
WD SN850X is apparently better than 990 Pro in real world usage:
https://ssd.userbenchmark.com/Compare/WD-Black-SN850X-M2-2TB…
Still have my heart set on an 8tb, but too much of a tight arse to achieve my dream LOL.
Legit - I have 4x 2TB drives and have called it on buying anything less than 4TB.
Thanks. Even though it might be overkill for a gaming PC it's not that much more expensive than an inferior 2TB drive so why not.
dang, just bought it for $224 last week :(
wish the 1T is on sale, perfect for my boot drive.
Arrived today. Did anyone else find the little bit of sticky-tape wasn't attached to the lid correctly. No biggy, but I'm surprised it wasn't sealed in some way.
Mine arrived too and sealed properly
Just sad about the lack of Thunderbolt 5 enclosures. Thunderbolt 4 with 40gps throttles the speed, and worse if getting a 10gps hub.
Crystal mark says the hour count is right. So if it was opened and returned, it wasn't used.
Yeah mine was the same, the sticky tape wasn’t sealed from the top I immediately wondered if it’s a returned product lol but yeah crystal mark gave 0 hours
Can ppl tamper with something to fool crystal mark? You should still ask the Seller why it wasn't sealed
I don’t think so, also amazon has good warranty and customer service also so I’m not that concerned tbh ..
But when I opened the package you know when the lid gets wrinkled, it didn’t have this problem, maybe the sticker tape was bad . Doesn’t look like it’s been opened before
I watched an unboxing video. The folded piece of paper explaining the 5 year warranty was missing. When you put the serial number in to WD, the warranty is only valid in Germany (of the countries I tried). I have a feeling it was amazon opening the box to remove the warranty information.
Do you have the folded paper? Because I do
Thanks OP. Good deal for SSD with heatsink. ATL for the past year.