Orico S500 Pro 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD $69.99 Delivered @ ORICO G.O.A.T via Amazon AU

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Another low price 2.5" SATA SSD from Orico which is a better model than the now sold out Orico Y20 and perfectly fine for use as game storage or use in a 2.5" enclosure as a portable SSD.

This one offers sequential read speeds up to 550MB/s, sequential write speeds up to 480MB/s, 400TBW endurance and pSLC cache instead of DRAM cache and an aluminum housing.

• Redeem the 30% off coupon ORICOS500PRO under the price

On the technical side I checked out Japanese/German reviews and asked Orico. From reviews as recent as last week 512GB SSDs were using Micron TLC flash and 1TB was found to have Intel TLC flash. The controllers seem to be mostly from from SMI and Yeestor with some Realtek. If these batches are the same then that's a lot better than QLC.

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  DraggyX on 08/01/2025 - 22:52

  Not sure should I wait for the bigger one….

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    Empharand on 08/01/2025 - 23:29

    +2

    That's what she said…

    • 

      Ulysses31 on 09/01/2025 - 11:18

      +1

      She said Black Friday was good.

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  seriousquokka on 08/01/2025 - 23:24

  +1

  Thanks. Bought one to upgrade the 240GB BX500 in my retro win7 gaming pc.

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  boomramada on 08/01/2025 - 23:47

  Can this used for ps4 pro?

  • 

    Ema000 on 08/01/2025 - 23:50

    Yes it can

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  Fiery11 on 09/01/2025 - 01:13

  +3

  If you are after an m.2 NVME drive.
  From the same seller:
  This one has a 35% promo and a 12% coupon which takes it to $64.99 - not sure if prime is required.

  https://www.amazon.com.au/ORICO-Gen3-0x4-Internal-Heatsink-E…

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    clartan2015 on 09/01/2025 - 10:57

    thanks! bought one :)

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  Primal-Chaos on 09/01/2025 - 01:43

  Nice! Thanks.
  Planning to use it with a Mac Mini (Late 2012).

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  TheTwo on 09/01/2025 - 03:01

  The 2TB Orico for AUD 170 or the Samsung 870 QVO 2TB for the same price (QLC though)?

  https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/aw/d/B089R1C9HV?ref=ppx_pt2_mob…

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    Vaiels on 09/01/2025 - 03:54

    +1

    QLC is yucky. Really slow after it runs out of cache. Unless you’re really really sure your workload is mostly reads - e.g a drive for games or movies, don’t do QLC.

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    glade90 on 09/01/2025 - 07:48

    +6

    You can either listen to the internet idiots dashing out advice on how "yucky" a technology is that they don't quite understand, or check the basic facts:

    • Samsung is rated to 2,880 TBW write endurance, rather impressive

    • Orico doesn't really have specs or even a decent website, but allegedly they are rated around 600 TBW (?)

    • Samsung manufactures their own stuff, controlling the quality end-to-end

    • Orico gets parts from … somewhere and assemble them

    • Samsung has 6,659 reviews on Amazon with 86% rating it at 5*

    • Orico has 47 reviews, 58% rating at 5*

    • QLC drives with some caching (either memory or SLC) are way more popular these days due to capacity and price

    • QLC technology is not the old dumb QLC tech, firmware and smart cache on the drive can conceal most of their shortcomings
    • The Samsung drive drops sustained write speed after about 78 Gb sustained write (not something you'd ever see, it's a synthetic test) https://www.guru3d.com/review/samsung-870-qvo-2tb-ssd-review…
    • By far most of a computer's workload is read (factor of 3-10), where this QLC discussion does not apply; some niche server applications can get close to 1:1 read write, but most servers are read heavy as well
    • Ask yourself, how often do you need to write more than 78Gb in one go (for reference, a 4K 1h movie is about 8-9Gb compressed)
    • If you need frequent sustained write performance, you may need to buy a reputable SLC (or maybe a TLC) drive for way more money
    • If you feel you actually need a SLC drive, you were probably not honest

    Until next time friends.

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      Orrelljet on 09/01/2025 - 08:21

      +1

      But the 2TB QVO mentioned only has 720 TBW…not exactly stellar.

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      DmytroP on 09/01/2025 - 10:24

      1TB Orico is rated for 400TBW, 2TB for 800TBW.

      870 QVO: 360 TBW for 1TB model, 720 TBW for 2TB model.

      When I copied data from HDD to 1TB QVO drive, the QVO was actually bottlenecked, not HDD. After the SLC cache was used, it becomed painfully slow, I had to wait hours for copying to finish. For me, the minor saving from getting QLC instead of TLC was not worth it.

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    DmytroP on 09/01/2025 - 10:28

    I'd pay a bit more for MX500
    https://www.amazon.com.au/Crucial-MX500-NAND-SATA-Internal/d…

    Unless Crucial switched to SLC for 2TB, it's a much better drive than QVO.

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      seriousquokka on 09/01/2025 - 10:31

      You meant QLC?

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        DmytroP on 09/01/2025 - 10:32

        Yes, sure, I meant QLC (I remember some messages regarding switching for 4TB version, I'd check for reports for 2TB MX500 before ordering).