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512GB Gigabyte M.2 2280 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drive

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Newegg has 512GB Gigabyte M.2 2280 PCIe NVMe 1.3 Solid State Drive (GP-GSM2NE3512GNTD) on sale for $45.99. Shipping is free.

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  • About this deal:
    • Our research indicates that this 512GB Gigabyte M.2 2280 PCIe NVMe 1.3 SSD is $16.08 lower (26% savings) than the next best available price from a reputable merchant with prices starting at $62.07 at the time of this posting.
  • About this product:
    • Comes with a 5-year limited warranty.
    • Sequential Read Speed: up to 1700 MB/s
    • Sequential Write speed: up to 1550 MB/s
    • Endurance: 800TBW
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Newegg has 512GB Gigabyte M.2 2280 PCIe NVMe 1.3 Solid State Drive (GP-GSM2NE3512GNTD) on sale for $45.99. Shipping is free.

Thanks to community member sr71 for finding this deal.

Editor's Notes

Written by oceanlake | Staff
  • About this deal:
    • Our research indicates that this 512GB Gigabyte M.2 2280 PCIe NVMe 1.3 SSD is $16.08 lower (26% savings) than the next best available price from a reputable merchant with prices starting at $62.07 at the time of this posting.
  • About this product:
    • Comes with a 5-year limited warranty.
    • Sequential Read Speed: up to 1700 MB/s
    • Sequential Write speed: up to 1550 MB/s
    • Endurance: 800TBW
  • About this store:

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Conformer101
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For those that are not aware, Newegg went public on Nasdaq, just a month ago, with Chinese investors. They were bad before, but just wait. I'm done with them. Just last month, SD was advertising Newegg's IPO on their own advertising bulletins, knowingly or not.
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apples to oranges.
if you compare dram-less nvme, their power consumption are about the same.
case in point, 980 is maxed out at 4.3W (and about twice as fast both on read and write)
SN550 is maxed out at 3.9W (and about 50% faster on read)

so if you REALLY value about battery life, you should care about performance per unit watt. 980 consumes 30% more power but performs 100% better, so for a given task, it is actually uses 40% less power, all for 10 dollar more.

honestly, given the 980's price tag and performance, i don't know why anyone would go for anything else for general home use(esp at MSRP)

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alseTrewoP
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i wonder if Amazon will Price Match

any reason not to jump on this deal
what stands out is the
Warranty: Limited 5-year or 800TBW more then double most
and it VERY LOW POWER 3.3v - 1a


many others are 3.3v - 2.8a those will get very hot and suck batteries dry
Last edited by alseTrewoP June 26, 2021 at 11:02 PM.
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how would you have them do so? over chat?
Quote from alseTrewoP :
i wonder if Amazon will Price Match

any reason not to jump on this deal
what stands out is the
Warranty: Limited 5-year or 800TBW more then double most
and it VERY LOW POWER 3.3v - 1a


many others are 3.3v - 2.8a those will get very hot and suck batteries dry
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alseTrewoP
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Quote from JollyStag697 :
how would you have them do so? over chat?
by watching this thread!!!!
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Quote from alseTrewoP :
i wonder if Amazon will Price Match

any reason not to jump on this deal
what stands out is the
Warranty: Limited 5-year or 800TBW more then double most
and it VERY LOW POWER 3.3v - 1a


many others are 3.3v - 2.8a those will get very hot and suck batteries dry
apples to oranges.
if you compare dram-less nvme, their power consumption are about the same.
case in point, 980 is maxed out at 4.3W (and about twice as fast both on read and write)
SN550 is maxed out at 3.9W (and about 50% faster on read)

so if you REALLY value about battery life, you should care about performance per unit watt. 980 consumes 30% more power but performs 100% better, so for a given task, it is actually uses 40% less power, all for 10 dollar more.

honestly, given the 980's price tag and performance, i don't know why anyone would go for anything else for general home use(esp at MSRP)
Last edited by seanleeforever June 27, 2021 at 01:07 AM.
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Quote from seanleeforever :
apples to oranges.
if you compare dram-less nvme, their power consumption are about the same.
case in point, 980 is maxed out at 4.3W (and about twice as fast both on read and write)
SN550 is maxed out at 3.9W (and about 50% faster on read)

so if you REALLY value about battery life, you should care about performance per unit watt. 980 consumes 30% more power but performs 100% better, so for a given task, it is actually uses 40% less power, all for 10 dollar more.

honestly, given the 980's price tag and performance, i don't know why anyone would go for anything else for general home use(esp at MSRP)
Link to the 980 please TIA
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Quote from seanleeforever :
apples to oranges.
if you compare dram-less nvme, their power consumption are about the same.
case in point, 980 is maxed out at 4.3W (and about twice as fast both on read and write)
SN550 is maxed out at 3.9W (and about 50% faster on read)

so if you REALLY value about battery life, you should care about performance per unit watt. 980 consumes 30% more power but performs 100% better, so for a given task, it is actually uses 40% less power, all for 10 dollar more.

honestly, given the 980's price tag and performance, i don't know why anyone would go for anything else for general home use(esp at MSRP)
thank you for the info
i looked at the Specs
980 FOR THE 500gb
Power Draw:
4.3 W (Active) 5.9 W (Max) 5.0 mW (Standby) [B]~1.8amps
Endurance TBW: 300 TB

the Gigabyte 512gb
Power Draw:
Avg. Read : 3.3W ; Write : 2.8W (Idle) 1.8mw ~1amp
Warranty: Limited 5-year or 800TBW

so the Gigabyte is $14 less
the Gigabyte is slower but still faster then any Sata SSD
uses ~1/2 the power and is Guaranteed to last more the 2 times longer
Last edited by alseTrewoP June 27, 2021 at 05:10 AM.
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Being single core and dram less and offering 800TBW i am sure is not going to last long either way they just wanna sell it, if it breaks down sure then there is warranty but still is your data.
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How does one tell whether an SSD has DRAM or not?
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how to tell if my laptop m.2 slot accept NVMe or not? it comes originally with a B+M SSD
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redeyedog
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I'm replacing a smaller module which is rated at 2.8A. Would this module work on my motherboard at 1.0A?
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alseTrewoP
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Quote from redeyedog :
I'm replacing a smaller module which is rated at 2.8A. Would this module work on my motherboard at 1.0A?
for sure
BUT this is a gem for in a laptop with 1/2 the drain and very cool
in a desktop it would not typically matter EXCEPT LASTING 2x longer
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Quote from Stevenxx :
How does one tell whether an SSD has DRAM or not?
Google reviews. Pretty much ignore marketing BS.
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Good for a Nas? 920+
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Quote from seanleeforever :
apples to oranges.
if you compare dram-less nvme, their power consumption are about the same.
case in point, 980 is maxed out at 4.3W (and about twice as fast both on read and write)
SN550 is maxed out at 3.9W (and about 50% faster on read)

so if you REALLY value about battery life, you should care about performance per unit watt. 980 consumes 30% more power but performs 100% better, so for a given task, it is actually uses 40% less power, all for 10 dollar more.

honestly, given the 980's price tag and performance, i don't know why anyone would go for anything else for general home use(esp at MSRP)
Where did you get this info that 980 performs 100% better?

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Quote from alseTrewoP :
thank you for the info
i looked at the Specs
980 FOR THE 500gb
Power Draw:
4.3 W (Active) 5.9 W (Max) 5.0 mW (Standby) [B]~1.8amps
Endurance TBW: 300 TB

the Gigabyte 512gb
Power Draw:
Avg. Read : 3.3W ; Write : 2.8W (Idle) 1.8mw ~1amp
Warranty: Limited 5-year or 800TBW

so the Gigabyte is $14 less
the Gigabyte is slower but still faster then any Sata SSD
uses ~1/2 the power and is Guaranteed to last more the 2 times longer
"uses ~1/2 the power and is Guaranteed to last more the 2 times longer"

No. Your storage device in normal usage won't go full power for more than 30secs. It's both very unlikely for your laptop to do something that requires full power, and it's unlikely any super high load task would last for longer. The max power rating on SSD is most likely thinned out to less than 10%. That makes the difference in number much smaller.

This is not yet considering that your CPU is going to be fully tolled when your SSD is doing heavy work. That is easily more than 15W, and some times all the way to 65W. So even if your SSD on full power uses 10W, compared to something uses 0W (magical SSD!) you are getting 66.7% longer battery life by the most optimal condition. Real world number will be somewhere around 5% mostly.

The more important factor for battery life would be sleep state power consumption, but it is not on the spec sheet that I can find.

It is recommended to read benchmarks like what Tom's Hardware is doing, which includes efficiency tests. Do not rely on spec number as they are defining only the envelope and sometimes just lies.

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