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There's a bunch of new ones showing up on Newegg's ebay site. Looks like some competition in the performance M.2 PCI-E 3.0 x4 space.
Saw some 600p 128GB units, sold by a private seller, supposedly new, on ebay for $45. Almost went for them. Newegg doesn't seem to carry the 128GB 600p units any more, at least on their ebay site. Maybe they weren't big sellers.
On sale, you can get the 256GB 600p units for $80 or slightly less, which would seem to be a better deal overall.
Anyways, my use case, is in an ASRock DeskMini, which is a mini-PC with a PCI-E 3.0 x4 M.2 slot (PCI-E only, for the M.2 slot), and two 2.5" SATA6G ports, one of which requires removing the entire mobo from the chassis in order to screw in the drive. Such a hassle, so I'm only using the other 2.5" bay. I've got a PNY 240GB CS1111 drive (BX100 clone) in it, with Win10 Pro on there.
Was looking to maybe get a M.2 PCI-E drive, to use for a Linux dual-boot. (Prefer using separate drives, for Linux dual-boots, when possible. It just makes things cleaner, somewhat. Getting the BIOS to boot one or the other, in UEFI mode, is tricky.)
I could just get the cheapo 600p-series drives, and call it a day. Though, I would like something with maybe a little bit more performance, or MLC NAND, but *only* if it doesn't carry a huge price premium on it.
Edit: Here's a front-page article on a PNY MLC M.2 PCI-E SSD, with a Phison controller:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/10943/pny-launches-cs2030-ssds-phison-ps5007e7-mlc-nand-28-gbs
Saw some 600p 128GB units, sold by a private seller, supposedly new, on ebay for $45. Almost went for them. Newegg doesn't seem to carry the 128GB 600p units any more, at least on their ebay site. Maybe they weren't big sellers.
On sale, you can get the 256GB 600p units for $80 or slightly less, which would seem to be a better deal overall.
Anyways, my use case, is in an ASRock DeskMini, which is a mini-PC with a PCI-E 3.0 x4 M.2 slot (PCI-E only, for the M.2 slot), and two 2.5" SATA6G ports, one of which requires removing the entire mobo from the chassis in order to screw in the drive. Such a hassle, so I'm only using the other 2.5" bay. I've got a PNY 240GB CS1111 drive (BX100 clone) in it, with Win10 Pro on there.
Was looking to maybe get a M.2 PCI-E drive, to use for a Linux dual-boot. (Prefer using separate drives, for Linux dual-boots, when possible. It just makes things cleaner, somewhat. Getting the BIOS to boot one or the other, in UEFI mode, is tricky.)
I could just get the cheapo 600p-series drives, and call it a day. Though, I would like something with maybe a little bit more performance, or MLC NAND, but *only* if it doesn't carry a huge price premium on it.
Edit: Here's a front-page article on a PNY MLC M.2 PCI-E SSD, with a Phison controller:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/10943/pny-launches-cs2030-ssds-phison-ps5007e7-mlc-nand-28-gbs
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