Received an update today from the shop - they have received the replacement unit from the supplier. pending courier.

that's about 1 month of waiting. pretty standard for RMA i guess?

update: received the replacement ssd today. new, unopened. same model & size.

This post has been edited by overfloe: May 14 2024, 03:18 PM

Do try a CDInfo read just to be sure its brand new (low hour power on).

What is the cheapest M.2 with DRAM nowadays?
Looking for 2TB or bigger if possible for my PS5

Try this list from Reddit

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1B27...2gT4/edit#gid=0

https://www.techspot.com/news/103229-dell-e...itional-20.html

This has been hinted, now here is the warning

This post has been edited by babylon52281: Jun 4 2024, 05:25 PM

Market play by manufacturer, last time over produce price went low, now lower production jack price up. Who say oil is cartel, semicon also cartel style just they no openly say 😂

Those people continues to wait instead of buying even at lowest levels. They got themselves to blame. I even helped advertise really cheap ones here too.

You think there were no cartels before? During Covid there was GPU cartel to sell to miners. Way way back there was DRAM cartel which kena fine, then there was a HDD cartel. SSD cartel is just the latest only bro

may not be SSD related but this is cartel in the works lol

TSMC Thinking to Raise Prices, NVIDIA's Jensen Fully Supports the Idea

last year was a good whole year to get pc hardware in general. this year is the recovery period of manufactureres and sellers.

with increased costs, new taxes and all, price increase is imminent. it's not a year for serious upgrades.

This post has been edited by horns: Jun 6 2024, 06:05 PM

last year beli 4TB for ~rm1.1k, samseng 990 pro some more.
4TB SN850X, one of the top-end PCIe 4 SSDs, sold for 230 USD, about rm270 per GB. that was during black friday and december sales last year (I posted about these)

this year KC3000, a used-to-be affordable PCIe 4 SSD, sells for ~RM460 per GB

huat ah

Black Friday? You bought from Amazon US?

from techspot. Not the most recent data.. but more or less showing the price trend (in MYR will be a bit diff).

990 pro, sn850x bought from amazon. u risk the warranty for cheaper pricetag

Indeed for something this expensive and no warranty is a big risk... then again for storage, hardware loss is the least of your problems as whats inside is more precious

My old PC with i5 6402P, 8gb, gtx 1605

Still using SATA hdd

Try to run windows 11 and slow like hell

Will changing to SSD going to improve anything?

Plan to use it for normal surfing webpage and occasionally football manager games

If yes, any recommendations for 500gb SSD

Really thanks to all sifus here who tell tales of cheap SSD pricing.

Manage to score 4x2tb gen 4 for rm 349 last year September.

If SSD is DRAMless, thats probably the cause.

Increasing RAM to 16GB or 32GB will reduce load times too. Make sure you buy the same brand and model if you plan to add 8GB.

If your still on HDD as primary drive then defo YES IT WILL BE A HUGE DIFFERENCE! Boot time can reduce by 50 - 70%
Doesnt matter even Sata SSD will see big improvements, whatmore if going NVME.

For SATA SSD get those with DRAM cache ie Crucial MX500, or Samsung 860/870 Evo, or Kingston KC600 (just becareful that Kingston has a number of sata SSD series but mostly are DRAMless crap or QLC NAND except KC)

This post has been edited by babylon52281: Jun 18 2024, 09:16 AM

What is your laptop brand and model?


This post has been edited by TristanX: Jun 18 2024, 08:25 AM