1TB Samsung 860 QVO 2.5” SSD, very cheap, what's the catch?

[Penelope Stopit]

Don't understand how a Samsung 1Tb SSD can be bought for £100.79 inc. VAT

Surely there's a catch, must be missing something

Opinions please

Thank you in advance

[vaud]

From where?

[Penelope Stopit]

Found it here https://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Storage/SSDs/2.5+I...

Thank you for checking

[Penelope Stopit]

Also 1Tb Samsung 860 EVO - 2.5” SSD @ £122.39 inc. VAT

[nyt]

Penelope Stopit said:

Also 1Tb Samsung 860 EVO - 2.5” SSD @ £122.39 inc. VAT

About the going rate: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-MZ-76E1T0B-EU-Sol...

Edited by nyt on Tuesday 12th November 18:25

[Dave.]

They're not the quickest, for a few quid move the 1tb Evo is slightly better.

https://ssd.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Samsung-860-...

[Deep Thought]

Yup thats about the going rate for them now.

Big price drops over the last 6 months.

[Penelope Stopit]

Appreciate all the input

What's it going to be then? I'm pretty clueless when it comes to different SSD technology

Running 2 small EVO's and they're very good

Didn't know how much the prices had dropped

Is it worth considering a different make that might be cheaper?

[Dave.]

Things have moved on, M.2 is 3 to 4 times quicker, and not much more expensive.

If your MB supports it, go for that instead.

(I didn't, as much MB doesn't support it - sad face)


ETA - https://ssd.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Adata-XPG-SX...

Edited by Dave. on Tuesday 12th November 19:42

[Deep Thought]

Penelope Stopit said:

Appreciate all the input

What's it going to be then? I'm pretty clueless when it comes to different SSD technology

Running 2 small EVO's and they're very good

Didn't know how much the prices had dropped

Is it worth considering a different make that might be cheaper?

For the sake of saving a tenner of so, i'd stick with a Samsung EVO

[Zad]

This past weekend, Ebuyer were doing an Intel 660p series 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD (1800r/1800w) for £89:98

[Penelope Stopit]

Dave. said:

Things have moved on, M.2 is 3 to 4 times quicker, and not much more expensive.

If your MB supports it, go for that instead.

(I didn't, as much MB doesn't support it - sad face)


ETA - https://ssd.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Adata-XPG-SX...

Edited by Dave. on Tuesday 12th November 19:42

Good idea, don't know if motherboard supports NVMe and don't want to chance it

[Penelope Stopit]

Zad said:

This past weekend, Ebuyer were doing an Intel 660p series 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD (1800r/1800w) for £89:98

Second post suggesting NVMe, might delve deeper into this in the future, thanks for the link

[Penelope Stopit]

Deep Thought said:

Penelope Stopit said:

Appreciate all the input

What's it going to be then? I'm pretty clueless when it comes to different SSD technology

Running 2 small EVO's and they're very good

Didn't know how much the prices had dropped

Is it worth considering a different make that might be cheaper?

For the sake of saving a tenner of so, i'd stick with a Samsung EVO

You've convinced me

Was never going to run big SSD's but, recently been struggling setting up Linux to install OS on SSD and "Home" on a spinner which reduces writes to the SSD, get there in the end but often don't know how plus it takes up too much time

Using a 1Tb SSD, everything can be installed to it and no problems with lots of writes

Will stick with EVO

Thank you

[Dave.]

Penelope Stopit said:

Good idea, don't know if motherboard supports NVMe and don't want to chance it

A quick Google would fix that snag though....

[Penelope Stopit]

Dave. said:

Penelope Stopit said:

Good idea, don't know if motherboard supports NVMe and don't want to chance it

A quick Google would fix that snag though....

Wish it was that easy

Installed "hardinfo" to obtain Motherboard model number (not easy to get to motherboard)

ASUS website doesn't mention NVMe

No problem, could have been good though

Thanks

[maffski]

The QVO is quad level nand and the EVO triple level.

For read this doesn't make a whole lot of difference but for writing, if you fill the write buffer, performance drops much more on the QVO.
In addition if you get the drive almost full then write performance will drop more on the QVO.

For £20/25 I'd have the EVO. Although I actually went for a 2TB QVO rather than 1TB EVO.

[Dave.]

Penelope Stopit said:

Wish it was that easy

Installed "hardinfo" to obtain Motherboard model number (not easy to get to motherboard)

ASUS website doesn't mention NVMe

No problem, could have been good though

Thanks

Try...

Go to Search, type cmd, and open Command Prompt
In the Command Prompt, enter the following command and press Enter:
wmic baseboard get product,Manufacturer,version,serialnumber

Apologies if I'm teaching you to suck eggs etc....

[Penelope Stopit]

Dave. said:

Penelope Stopit said:

Wish it was that easy

Installed "hardinfo" to obtain Motherboard model number (not easy to get to motherboard)

ASUS website doesn't mention NVMe

No problem, could have been good though

Thanks

Try...

Go to Search, type cmd, and open Command Prompt
In the Command Prompt, enter the following command and press Enter:
wmic baseboard get product,Manufacturer,version,serialnumber

Apologies if I'm teaching you to suck eggs etc....

Appreciate your efforts, OS is Debian, hence installed "hardinfo" as it's got a GUI

[Dave.]

I did wonder why I didn't recognise the software you used...

You should be able to find it via terminal though.

Edited by Dave. on Wednesday 13th November 20:33