Some cases, like mine (Thermaltake Core X31, I have an Intel SSD and happen to like the skull), have mounts on the power supply shroud under the motherboard. The Phanteks Evolv Shift I'm eyeing also does, from memory, it's SFF with a less conventional layout, SSD mounts around the motherboard tray.
There are a tonne of cases from lots of manufacturers(Coolermaster, Nzxt, Phanteks, Fractal, etc..) which allow for the ssd to be shown off. Generally there are ssd mounting points near now removed 5.25in drive bay or on Psu shroud.
Deepcool BARONKASE is perfect for this! Two SSD display mount and one of those is right above an RGB water flow meter wich would look awesome! I just did a build in this case with Kingston A400 ssds and they looked very dull :/
Say this SSD has the best performance/dollar, I might get one but I’ll have to tear it apart and take out those stupid LEDs before installing it. However, it’s not worth the troubles. So to hell with the LED lightning trend.
i could care less about LED lighting and in fact for me, its a negative for anything that's got it, not a positive. What I care about is Price/performance. Given that, if looking for a SATA drive I see no reason to even consider anything other than the Samsung 860 Evo or the Crucial MX500. Personally I just went with the 1TB 860 Evo in M.2 format. That leaves me with my 512 GB 960 Evo as my OS drive and the 1 TB 860 EVO as a capacity drive
Well, at least the LEDs don't kill the performance, so I guess that's a positive, at least compared to the HyperX. Now they just wreck the price/performance ratio. Again, I must just be an old fogey because I'd much rather chose the best performing piece of hardware at a given price point, instead of the fanciest looking. Should they correspond (not likely) then I guess I'd get the one with all the fancy lights and just not hook them up.
I think the problem is, is that it's more likely that they will eventually correspond. Not due to the price or anything being cheaper to produce, they just stop making the non-RGB version, cause higher profit margin.
They'll make the best performance item, lace it with RGBs, call it Gamer something, then charge a higher price. Then they make lower performance/lower feature versions. I'm already seeing that with motherboards. My last mobo was a Gigabyte and to get the chipset and features I wanted, it ended up being an RGB mobo. My new Gigabyte mobo, same thing, but no RGBs in the mobo, just RGB headers.
Thanks for the review, Billy. Why do you think the Delta SSD has a quarter of the endurance of the SU800? Smaller SLC cache buffer? ADATAs more strenuous NAND binning process?
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crimson117 - Wednesday, September 26, 2018 - link
What are some cases that would prominently display this SSD?Most I've seen hide the SSDs behind the motherboard tray...
rev3rsor - Wednesday, September 26, 2018 - link
Some cases, like mine (Thermaltake Core X31, I have an Intel SSD and happen to like the skull), have mounts on the power supply shroud under the motherboard. The Phanteks Evolv Shift I'm eyeing also does, from memory, it's SFF with a less conventional layout, SSD mounts around the motherboard tray.Chaitanya - Wednesday, September 26, 2018 - link
There are a tonne of cases from lots of manufacturers(Coolermaster, Nzxt, Phanteks, Fractal, etc..) which allow for the ssd to be shown off. Generally there are ssd mounting points near now removed 5.25in drive bay or on Psu shroud.The Chill Blueberry - Wednesday, September 26, 2018 - link
Deepcool BARONKASE is perfect for this! Two SSD display mount and one of those is right above an RGB water flow meter wich would look awesome! I just did a build in this case with Kingston A400 ssds and they looked very dull :/usernametaken76 - Thursday, September 27, 2018 - link
Cooler Master MasterCase H500M would be one.sonny73n - Wednesday, September 26, 2018 - link
Say this SSD has the best performance/dollar, I might get one but I’ll have to tear it apart and take out those stupid LEDs before installing it. However, it’s not worth the troubles. So to hell with the LED lightning trend.leexgx - Wednesday, September 26, 2018 - link
You could just turn them off?Ratman6161 - Wednesday, September 26, 2018 - link
i could care less about LED lighting and in fact for me, its a negative for anything that's got it, not a positive. What I care about is Price/performance. Given that, if looking for a SATA drive I see no reason to even consider anything other than the Samsung 860 Evo or the Crucial MX500. Personally I just went with the 1TB 860 Evo in M.2 format. That leaves me with my 512 GB 960 Evo as my OS drive and the 1 TB 860 EVO as a capacity driveeddman - Thursday, September 27, 2018 - link
"I do not care about LEDs, therefore I could NOT care less."milkod2001 - Wednesday, September 26, 2018 - link
When you think you saw it everywhere they put RGB on SSD drives now. Omg.rrinker - Wednesday, September 26, 2018 - link
Well, at least the LEDs don't kill the performance, so I guess that's a positive, at least compared to the HyperX. Now they just wreck the price/performance ratio. Again, I must just be an old fogey because I'd much rather chose the best performing piece of hardware at a given price point, instead of the fanciest looking. Should they correspond (not likely) then I guess I'd get the one with all the fancy lights and just not hook them up.khanikun - Thursday, September 27, 2018 - link
I think the problem is, is that it's more likely that they will eventually correspond. Not due to the price or anything being cheaper to produce, they just stop making the non-RGB version, cause higher profit margin.They'll make the best performance item, lace it with RGBs, call it Gamer something, then charge a higher price. Then they make lower performance/lower feature versions. I'm already seeing that with motherboards. My last mobo was a Gigabyte and to get the chipset and features I wanted, it ended up being an RGB mobo. My new Gigabyte mobo, same thing, but no RGBs in the mobo, just RGB headers.
xrror - Wednesday, September 26, 2018 - link
What would be fun is if Team Group sold just the shells and RGB LED part of this, and you put your own SSD inside it =)DyneCorp - Thursday, April 25, 2019 - link
Thanks for the review, Billy. Why do you think the Delta SSD has a quarter of the endurance of the SU800? Smaller SLC cache buffer? ADATAs more strenuous NAND binning process?