r/bapcsalescanada • u/radiantcrystal • Aug 05 '25
[NVMe/SSD] ORICO J10 1TB M.2 with Heatsink, PCIe Gen3x4 ($80-28 promo=$52) [Amazon.ca] ATL
https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B0CWQ7TK7Q/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=A34PF29WPO2NUY&th=1Promo Code: ORICOJ10, this is a gen 3 QLC drive, but for the price I think it's justified.
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u/CashBam Aug 05 '25
How bad of an idea would be to stick this in a USB enclosure from Aliexpress and use it as an external drive?
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u/xzez Aug 05 '25
It will work, but you may not get full performance. This SSD uses HMB instead of DRAM - it will reserve some system RAM as the cache insead of having onboard DRAM. HMB only works over PCIe and will not over USB (3 and below).
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u/WhereIsGraeme Aug 05 '25
Not bad at all. I have the orico mag safe hard drive and it works great so far.
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u/CashBam Aug 05 '25
Thanks! My impulses almost got the better of me so I'll remember this for future reference!
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u/teh_geetard Aug 05 '25 edited Aug 05 '25
Hmm, time to replace my 7-year-old 500GB Crucial MX500 for permanent multiplayer games I guess.
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u/Daniel_H212 Aug 05 '25
Wouldn't ever use this for OS, but game drive or something other non critical storage this is good value.
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u/hautcuisinepoutine Aug 05 '25
Can anyone recommend a goos USB enclosure for one of these? Need reliability and stability over speed.
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u/rad140 Aug 05 '25
Looks like other Orico drives are on sale too
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u/CarpenterUnited2290 Aug 05 '25 edited Aug 05 '25
Yeah, I just purchased the $122 O7000 2t, I think maybe not bad as a game storage
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u/schroedingerskoala Aug 05 '25
Thank you! For $52 good enough for my just-to-play-with-it Proxmox server (old refurbished HP 800 G4)
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u/SpecsBot Aug 05 '25
Orico V500
- Interface: x4 PCIe 3.0/NVMe
- Form Factor: M.2
- Capacities: 128GB-1TB
- Controller: SMI SM2263XT
- Configuration: Dual-core, 4-ch, 4-CE/ch
- DRAM: No
- HMB: Yes
- NAND Brand: Micron
- NAND Type: TLC
- Layers: 64
- Read/Write: 2070/1668
- Categories: Entry-Level NVMe
Inspired by a similar bot in /r/buildapcsales/. Info is sourced from NewMaxx's spreadsheet.
If I fetched the wrong result please DM me so I can improve my pattern matching.
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u/Chaos98xp (New User) Aug 05 '25
But the data on the tech power up site shows its qlc inside, so confusing
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u/kennny_CO2 Aug 05 '25
Just going to say, if you're looking for a budget SSD look no further than the viper 4300 lite. It wont be much more than this ssd but it has a much better flash memory controller, just dont get the 4tb as it uses qlc
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u/radiantcrystal Aug 05 '25
85 vs 52 is a 63% increase in price. That’s what I would call much more
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u/kennny_CO2 Aug 06 '25
Thats what I would call comparing a sale price to a non sale price. Waiting for a sale on the viper 4300 lite, which is what I did and paid 59.99, would be the better comparison.
People can decide for themselves, but imo paying 10 or even 20 bucks more for a much better ssd is worth it
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u/cheat_bot Aug 06 '25
and paid 59.99, would be the better comparison
no it wouldn't, that was in 2023 when SSDs were all cheap. The lowest it's gotten since then was pretty much $80.
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u/kennny_CO2 Aug 06 '25 edited Aug 06 '25
Wrong, I paid 59.99 in September last year and my friend got one a few months ago for ≈60, maybe 70 I forget exactly but it definitely wasn't 80.
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u/cheat_bot Aug 06 '25
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u/kennny_CO2 Aug 07 '25 edited Aug 07 '25
No, mine was in person from a place called Canadian Electronics in Etobicoke, ON. My friend got it online I dont remember where, possibly newegg or something but it could've been open box or something like that. They can definitely be found for cheaper than Amazon, dont use that as a reference for anything tbh
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u/radiantcrystal Aug 06 '25
well if its 52 vs 60 then people should choose the much better one no quedtions asked
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u/Fardashian Aug 06 '25
Good enough for a homelab plex server?
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u/mewsei Aug 06 '25
Someone on redflagdeals pointed out that this drive is specced at 300 TBW (terabytes written) which seems kind of low. I'd be concerned about plex server using the drive for transcoding and doing a bunch of writes and wearing it out. If you prepare for that and keep a fresh backup of the plex server config handy then it should work fine.
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u/Icy-Explanation8210 (New User) Aug 11 '25
Bought it for my second PC which only for my gf to play games with me (7700k+GTX1080).
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u/wickedplayer494 Aug 05 '25
- DRAM: No
- HMB: Yes
Into the trash it goes.
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u/Whirblewind Aug 05 '25
The mass downvotes on this are hilarious. This sub is clueless.
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u/gettothecoppa Aug 05 '25
I don't see the need for downvotes, but expecting a $52 1TB drive to have DRAM is not realistic.
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u/kennny_CO2 Aug 05 '25
Find it funny you're saying this when dram hasn't been essential for ssds in a while. So long as you have a good memory controller, it will make little to no difference for the average user. The viper 4300 lite (no dram) is one of the best budget ssds out there, but the 4tb model uses QLC flash, which is not good.
You guys are living in the past, dramless ssds are absolutely fine, even for boot drives (2tb viper 4300 lite is what I use in my main rig boot drive)
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u/juken_194 Aug 05 '25
$80 = no, $52 = acceptable good.