Had to find a cheap, but half decent SSD for a build, and at £114.99 delivered from Amazon this is about the best you are going to find.
Lets clear a few things up first before the comments start.
1.) Yes we know you bought a 500GB Samsung Evo on Black Friday for £79, but that can't happen now due to NAND price increases.
2.) Nope it is not going to break just because you once bought an OCZ Vertex 2 drive, and got stung by it failing, this is a Toshiba drive through and through.
3.) It's SATA III 6Gbps, it's not an M.2 NVMe drive, that runs at 3200 MB/s so if that's what you are looking for then this is not it.
I've probably missed something, and no doubt someone will still mention that this seems expensive, and why not just wait for the prices to come down.
If you need a decent drive, and you need one now this is a good deal. If you don't need one now, then wait until next year when the prices may or may not reduce.
Anyway, hope this help someone.
Manufacturers specification and marketing page can be found HERE! and HERE is one of many positive reviews about the drive/range, and another one just for good measure.
Sequential Read/Write
480GB: Up to 550/520 MB/s
Random Read/Write2 (4KiB, QD32)
480GB: Up to 86,000/83,0000 IOPS
Lets clear a few things up first before the comments start.
1.) Yes we know you bought a 500GB Samsung Evo on Black Friday for £79, but that can't happen now due to NAND price increases.
2.) Nope it is not going to break just because you once bought an OCZ Vertex 2 drive, and got stung by it failing, this is a Toshiba drive through and through.
3.) It's SATA III 6Gbps, it's not an M.2 NVMe drive, that runs at 3200 MB/s so if that's what you are looking for then this is not it.
I've probably missed something, and no doubt someone will still mention that this seems expensive, and why not just wait for the prices to come down.
If you need a decent drive, and you need one now this is a good deal. If you don't need one now, then wait until next year when the prices may or may not reduce.
Anyway, hope this help someone.
Manufacturers specification and marketing page can be found HERE! and HERE is one of many positive reviews about the drive/range, and another one just for good measure.
Sequential Read/Write
480GB: Up to 550/520 MB/s
Random Read/Write2 (4KiB, QD32)
480GB: Up to 86,000/83,0000 IOPS
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But for the price it's actually a good deal, 512GB (presumably 480 GB formatted) SSd are difficult come by at this sort of price
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Obviously, but I didn't realise that actually made them as this size unformatted, I assumed they meant formatted. Rather annoying!
I had to say...Well done old bean
Is it 1Gb = 1000Mb or 1Gb =1024Mb?
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I am in my phone but wouldn't this be £96?
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This would be the one from amazon warehouse but there's some signs of use from the description. amazon.co.uk/gp/…8-1
It's alright if they quote unformatted space or formatted space, but if it appears to be near the value of formatted space, then I assume it is formatted space!
Your 128 GB disk (unformatted) should have had a formatted space of 119GB.
But it appears that manufacturers are now quoting values which lead you to assume its formatted eg 238GB, 477GB and 954GB, naughty!
Yes, of course, but to me the standard sizes have always been shown as
256GB = 238GB
512GB = 477GB
1024GB = 954GB
but now it appears that they are actually making them as 238GB
=221GB etc
SSDs come in 60, 120, 240, 480 etc. (as well as the usual 128, 256 etc.) it's not a new thing, it's been like that for a number of years now.
Ok, but I've always assumed they were talking about formatted size
That seems to be the same in my link. Less than 90 quid makes it a bit of a bargain with current prices.
They are talking about formatted size. It's just that a GB isn't the same thing as a Gb. This is 480GB, which is still ~480GB of useable space when formatted - we're just used to using Gb.
Still frustrating, but the problem isn't formatted vs not formatted space - it's different people using different units.
Yes, ok badly expressed by me, it's binary space
Sorry can't see as I'm on my laptop, just make sure you get on to Amazon's customer service and ask them to remove the 20% if it doesn't come off at checkout.
Gb is Gigabits, drives are always in GB - Gigabytes.
Formatting means something different. A formatted drive does lose some capacity compared to an unformatted one but it's a minute amount, far less than even a single gigabyte. The noticeable difference comes solely from the differing definitions of a gigabyte.
SSDs have always been sold in capacities that are both multiples of ten and powers of two depending on the manufacturer. Popular early SSDs like Intel's X25-M were available in 80GB, 120GB and 160GB capacities for example.
"Hard drive and SSD manufacturers use "GB" to mean 1000000000 bytes. So, the capacity of a "128 GB" SSD will be 128000000000 bytes. Expressed in GiB this would be about 119.2 GiB (128000000000 divided by 1073741824). Many operating systems, including Microsoft Windows, will display such a drive's capacity as "119 GB", using the SI prefix "G" but in the "binary" sense. No space is "lost" or "missing". The size is simply being expressed in a different unit, even though the "G" prefix is used in both cases."
They do, sort of. (((128 / 1000) / 1000) / 1000) x 1024 x 1024 x 1024 = approx 119. Just different units to what your computer shows.
All ssd's with normal (non-stacked) nand start off at the same relative size in GiB because nand chips are powers of 2 Gib in size, so all 120GB drives will be 128GiB and so on. Generally manufacturers use multiple chips of sizes between 8-32GiB as it gives the best price/performance ratio.
V-/3D stacked nand drives are different because the chips are not powers of 2.
This drive has 16 x 32GiB chips, giving 512GiB of space. A portion of this is set aside for the spare area as well as the SLC cache. This looks to be about 11% for the spare area as it's generally bigger on tlc drives as they are more prone to wear than MLC and SLC drives, there's also 1.5% reserved for the SLC cache.
This leaves about 447GiB of usable space, which when you convert it to GB gives 480GB.
Actually that gives 137 ;). Effectively it's (128/1024^3) x 1000^3, but you can also do 128 x 0.931 which is 99% accurate.
LMAO i have this drive, it died after a few weeks, i chucked it aside for a few days, plugged it back in and it came back alive and still works fine to this day in my bedroom pc lol must be almost 6 years old!
Also heat added, good price for a decent drive. Personally using a 240Gb Trion 100 and can't fault it, think it cost me £46 when prices were at rock bottom.
Can you link your product?.
150 for what you said seems a bit wrong, it's nearly half price for a m.2..
uk.camelcamelcamel.com/Cru…rch
Arrived today, packaging showed signs of use but SSD looks brand new!
Crazy discount that.
I hope they work well, if so you got a great deal!
Yea I just need to put it all together now. You should keep a lookout for the stuff on warehouse, there are some great deals there.