I used to use 3 of these in raid 5 for blazing speed.
Sorry if already posted, first deal post and couldn't find it already existing.
Update: it was PC World / Currys in Stockport (Peel Centre). Ill remember to list location and store in title next time :)
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- krisward7955
currys pcworld in Stockport the Peel Centre one
- SamboH
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cspectre to GwanGy
11 Dec 154#17
The V300 was Kingston
WonkyDoctor
11 Dec 154#34
I wanted others to enjoy the same feelings I did.
sancheez to tonygomm5
11 Dec 153#21
Had a 500gb Samsung evo SSD dumped on my desk at work last week. To replace the current 500gb mechanical HDD. No cables. No caddy. A huge queue for the hardware cloner we have in the office.
One cable tie. One download of Macrium Reflect Free. One hour later. Cloned, installed and working perfectly.
Great deal on this one tho. If you can actually find one.....
Pluun to WonkyDoctor
11 Dec 153#33
And as you never mentioned which two stores, a waste of time reading your post. :stuck_out_tongue:
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Rich44
13 Dec 151#61
You might as well use Storage spaces or PoolHD or Drivebender rather than RAID they have a bit more control and flexibility that RAID doesn't offer I've been running 4 disks using SS sine Win 8 came out 2x2TB 1x1TB 1x500GB in an HP N40L
Much prefer SS to setting up RAID arrays also the drive pool info is written to the drives so if you install Windows on say an SSD outside the array if you wipe & reload Windows it picks up the SS pool once Windows is back up.
Quite impressed with it, no if only MS added data deduplication to it too.....
tomosmithy22
12 Dec 15#59
Why is this so hot lol
StevenMCR to tomosmithy22
12 Dec 15#60
It's quite a good deal, personally if i wasnt paranoid, 2 of these raid 0 would be significantly faster than single 240/256gb drive and slightly cheaper. I just didn't know they were such short supply.
Hence hotness.
Pluun
12 Dec 15#58
Lucky you.
There's none here. :confused:
A1RN
12 Dec 15#52
For anyone in need of cloning software I suggest you use Ubuntu-based Clonezilla on a USB stick rather than filling your PC with adware, or give data to a company for them to sell.
hifruit to A1RN
12 Dec 15#54
seconded
sancheez to A1RN
12 Dec 15#57
What are you using thats loaded with adware?
Reflect is a free DL with no signup or details required. Has never installed anything besides itself. And will work without internet access.
They're all perfectly valid methods, but Reflect does neither of things you mention.
mas_matt
12 Dec 151#51
112265 is the sku. Fulham have 1, Birmingham (wednesbury) have 2. That's it for the whole of Currys
StevenMCR to mas_matt
12 Dec 15#56
Would that cover PC World Stock ?
I don't know how the stock/stock is divided if at all, wonder if there maybe others in their inventory.
terayon00
12 Dec 15#55
Here here
JC1997
12 Dec 151#53
1 left at Sevenoaks currys hurry
sancheez
12 Dec 15#50
Used it for cloning at home + friends & family switching to SSD. Never had a problem.
I work in a dev department but we do some hardware stuff as well. So we have a hardware drive imager in the office. But just one. Takes a hour per drive (with the 500gb ones we are all cloning at the moment). Couldn't be bothered waiting so I just used Macrium. No problems. 15 minutes opening up and messing with drives (3 in there, only swapping out the boot drive). 30 minutes to create the image. 15 minutes to clone the image to the SSD. Done.
DAZZ2000
12 Dec 15#49
WonkyDoctor
11 Dec 152#30
None on the two stores I checked.
Wasted journey
Pluun to WonkyDoctor
11 Dec 153#33
And as you never mentioned which two stores, a waste of time reading your post. :stuck_out_tongue:
ezzer72 to WonkyDoctor
12 Dec 15#48
But...but...you said you were off to grab a couple? :wink:
tonygomm5
11 Dec 151#6
I've just looked at PCWorld online and they are doing an SSD mounting kit for £14.99, but the interesting bit is it includes Acronis True Image with the kit. I've been using Acronis TI for several years as both to do back-ups but also to migrate complete system software from one HDD to another. Absolutely faultless, brilliant software and worth the £15 on it's own...
roscoe2000 to tonygomm5
11 Dec 15#19
That same adaptor / software is just over £10 delivered at bt Shop (Thanks for the heads up on the software....I've just purchased)
sancheez to tonygomm5
11 Dec 153#21
Had a 500gb Samsung evo SSD dumped on my desk at work last week. To replace the current 500gb mechanical HDD. No cables. No caddy. A huge queue for the hardware cloner we have in the office.
One cable tie. One download of Macrium Reflect Free. One hour later. Cloned, installed and working perfectly.
Great deal on this one tho. If you can actually find one.....
CR_&_JR to tonygomm5
12 Dec 15#46
It a great piece of kit, but could get the software to work for me.
End up using Reflect Free worked the 1st time, if I had used this in the 1st place I could save best part of a day. :neutral_face:
amour3k to tonygomm5
12 Dec 15#47
Interesting heads up there?, thanx. :-)
ChampEon
12 Dec 15#45
I've always had difficulty understanding that wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff.
ddaann_99
12 Dec 15#44
What's wrong with a good ol fashioned robo copy batch file and a scheduled task to kick it off? I've used acronis for years but got fed up of it recently.
tan159
11 Dec 15#41
Is blazing speed faster than warp speed
StevenMCR to tan159
11 Dec 15#42
Without a definition of warp speed I couldn't tell you.
I'm also unfamiliar with the conversion of byte into quad, so I'm going to say 128gb is around 16 gigaquads.
dazzadirect to tan159
11 Dec 15#43
Warp drive is a hypothetical faster-than-light (FTL) propulsion system
The time barrier shouldn't be confused with time dilation which occurs when approaching very fast speeds. Warp drive technology avoids time dilation.
wiki :sunglasses::man:
dazzadirect
11 Dec 15#40
got a load of mates saying they have moved over to Macrium, im still on Easeus, am i missing out like they tell me ?
im guessing you work for an org managing lots of units as you said about wait?
dazzadirect
11 Dec 15#39
soz hit reply on wrong post, my bad :sunglasses:
StevenMCR
11 Dec 15#38
I've never heard of Macrium before, I'll take a look. I'm still on acronis 2013 myself.
as a side note scan.co.uk are doing acronis 2013 and 2014 for a few quid.
got a load of mates saying they have moved over to Macrium, im still on Easeus, am i missing out like they tell me ?
im guessing you work for an org managing lots of units as you said about wait?
StevenMCR
11 Dec 15#36
Sorry folks, I don't work for currys/pcworld, nor do I know anyone who does work for them so I cant check more details.
I am passing the store again either tomorrow or Sunday, I'll pop in and ask for more info.
As for raid 5, more of a habit and a touch paranoia.
My back ups run once per day to my NAS, then my nas incrementally backs up to an external device, my upstream isn't sufficient yet...to do a glacier back up.
If I lost 24 hours work (I make money with my machine) it would put me potentially 12 hours+ of work out, which is 12 hours I would need to do again which is potentially costing me money. Raid 5, gives me the option that the instant one drive fails, I can initiate a back up, then replace the drive and rebuild.
Maybe not the best back up schedule but so far its not failed me :smiley:
taras
11 Dec 151#35
raid 5/6 should give above single drive performance but lower than raid 0 but with added drive failure protection!! raid 1 will copy any faults to the mirror driver
WonkyDoctor
11 Dec 154#34
I wanted others to enjoy the same feelings I did.
malachi
11 Dec 15#32
Good price if you can find one.
Connors
11 Dec 15#31
Voted cold. Had a friend who works in a PC world store check for stock, there's none in the whole of Scotland and next to none anywhere else.
Didn't get specifics though, sorry.
zayf
11 Dec 15#29
do they have anymore ?
also do you have the sku code ?
gordoncrawford
11 Dec 15#28
Raid 5 offers redundancy as well as speed thats why he chose it, but it's about as much use as a fart in a space suit with ssd's
tomosmithy22
11 Dec 151#27
Wild goose chase alert!! Not in Plymouth
Hootwo
11 Dec 15#25
I'm curious ... why RAID 5 if you were after speed? SSDs MTBF is such that most people wanting more speed choose RAID 0....
Uridium to Hootwo
11 Dec 15#26
Exactly what i was thinking....the last array level you want is RAID5 if your after speed....even more so if you haven't got a dedicated controller with plenty of cache
Captain_Cretin
11 Dec 152#23
Idiots adding heat without checking (shakes head).
P_K to Captain_Cretin
11 Dec 15#24
checking what? checking whether (in their subjective opinion) it is a good deal?
The more I engage folk on the forums the more I find them to be to be lacking in class, manners and education - or devoid of all three.
StevenMCR
11 Dec 15#22
It was currys pcworld in Stockport the Peel Centre one.
It was the MX100 model. I thought the picture would be bigger. All a learning experience so far :smiley:
whw
11 Dec 15#20
This could be M500.
I use a Kingston V300 and find during the winter months it will BSOD on boot up aftet a cold night. A restart seems to fix it. Quite odd.
REAL_DEAL
11 Dec 152#18
wild goose chase, why do these deal get hot, when the OP doesnt even tell us which store
GwanGy
11 Dec 15#10
not scorchio if its the V300 .. but no details on which model?
cspectre to GwanGy
11 Dec 154#17
The V300 was Kingston
SamboH
11 Dec 15#16
What store is it?
slybunda
11 Dec 15#15
is is not national but limited to the op's store only.
WonkyDoctor
11 Dec 15#11
Off to grab a couple.
ezzer72 to WonkyDoctor
11 Dec 15#14
Haha, I hope the store isn't too far away, petrol is quite expensive.
*Vincent*
11 Dec 152#13
As it ends in .91 is this a manager special in a specific store?
c00kiemonster72
11 Dec 15#12
Looks to be instore only, as no crucial SSD's showing online
SamboH
11 Dec 151#7
Is this in store only?
krisward7955 to SamboH
11 Dec 15#9
PC world online Don't sell Crucial SSD, so it must only be in store
mrew42
11 Dec 15#8
Not hot
Bloody Scorching!!
worthinger
11 Dec 15#5
Which PC world?
whw
11 Dec 15#4
Blimey thats cheap! Closest price I got to that was from an Amazon Black Friday deal about 2 years ago... Had to wrangle their misprice coupled with vouchers via Bespoke.
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Opening post
I used to use 3 of these in raid 5 for blazing speed.
Sorry if already posted, first deal post and couldn't find it already existing.
Update: it was PC World / Currys in Stockport (Peel Centre). Ill remember to list location and store in title next time :)
Store Only
- krisward7955
currys pcworld in Stockport the Peel Centre one
- SamboH
Top comments
One cable tie. One download of Macrium Reflect Free. One hour later. Cloned, installed and working perfectly.
Great deal on this one tho. If you can actually find one.....
Latest comments (61)
Much prefer SS to setting up RAID arrays also the drive pool info is written to the drives so if you install Windows on say an SSD outside the array if you wipe & reload Windows it picks up the SS pool once Windows is back up.
Quite impressed with it, no if only MS added data deduplication to it too.....
Hence hotness.
There's none here. :confused:
Reflect is a free DL with no signup or details required. Has never installed anything besides itself. And will work without internet access.
They're all perfectly valid methods, but Reflect does neither of things you mention.
I don't know how the stock/stock is divided if at all, wonder if there maybe others in their inventory.
I work in a dev department but we do some hardware stuff as well. So we have a hardware drive imager in the office. But just one. Takes a hour per drive (with the 500gb ones we are all cloning at the moment). Couldn't be bothered waiting so I just used Macrium. No problems. 15 minutes opening up and messing with drives (3 in there, only swapping out the boot drive). 30 minutes to create the image. 15 minutes to clone the image to the SSD. Done.
Wasted journey
One cable tie. One download of Macrium Reflect Free. One hour later. Cloned, installed and working perfectly.
Great deal on this one tho. If you can actually find one.....
End up using Reflect Free worked the 1st time, if I had used this in the 1st place I could save best part of a day. :neutral_face:
I'm also unfamiliar with the conversion of byte into quad, so I'm going to say 128gb is around 16 gigaquads.
The time barrier shouldn't be confused with time dilation which occurs when approaching very fast speeds. Warp drive technology avoids time dilation.
wiki
:sunglasses::man:
im guessing you work for an org managing lots of units as you said about wait?
:sunglasses:
as a side note scan.co.uk are doing acronis 2013 and 2014 for a few quid.
2013 £2.40 http://www.scan.co.uk/products/acronis-true-image-2013-pc-backup-and-recovery-software-digital-download-licence-key
2014 £1.80 http://www.scan.co.uk/products/acronis-true-image-2014-personal-backup-restore-sync-key
Anyway going to check out macrium later.
im guessing you work for an org managing lots of units as you said about wait?
I am passing the store again either tomorrow or Sunday, I'll pop in and ask for more info.
As for raid 5, more of a habit and a touch paranoia.
My back ups run once per day to my NAS, then my nas incrementally backs up to an external device, my upstream isn't sufficient yet...to do a glacier back up.
If I lost 24 hours work (I make money with my machine) it would put me potentially 12 hours+ of work out, which is 12 hours I would need to do again which is potentially costing me money. Raid 5, gives me the option that the instant one drive fails, I can initiate a back up, then replace the drive and rebuild.
Maybe not the best back up schedule but so far its not failed me :smiley:
Didn't get specifics though, sorry.
also do you have the sku code ?
The more I engage folk on the forums the more I find them to be to be lacking in class, manners and education - or devoid of all three.
It was the MX100 model. I thought the picture would be bigger. All a learning experience so far :smiley:
I use a Kingston V300 and find during the winter months it will BSOD on boot up aftet a cold night. A restart seems to fix it. Quite odd.
Bloody Scorching!!
(add the seller to title :wink:)