I always have had the best experience from DPD. They deliver on time and i always get a text to say what time frame they are going to call. Yodel, Hermes on the other hand deliver eventually mostly at night times but i would prefer DPD anyday over all the others.

Dont talk rubbish. Just because you had a bad experience doesn't mean they scam everyone else.

How much if I can't be bothered to spam their site?

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DPD = Don't Pi**ing Deliver

Could be worse , could be delivered by Yodel or Myhermes!

true, but i had no issues in the past 5yrs from any company, only 1 issue about 6 yrs ago, that was when my house built in this area and postcode was on off depending on systems used by delivery drivers, it was fedex, and was delivered to wrong place, it was signed for by a neighbor about 150mt away from my house, but came knocking my door 1 month later and even though fedex had the address of an apartment but didnt know which flat they delivered... Well long story short,with yodel i had 2days in row, delivery missed w/o any papers at one time, and 2-3 times at least my boxes thrown down from 2m high garden door as it was deemed safe by them! I waited for a few deliveries all day for them to be delivered by 9pm! or very close!

just other day, a driver missed delivery and left a card on an address unknown to me despite post code is on every system now, and house number cant be missed as it is large! again i was checking all day for tracking status, until 8 am and suddenly it went to missed delivery status while i was 2-3 m away from door...

quite a mickey mouse of a company...dpd on the other hand gives u 1 hr notice in advance for a 1 hr delivery window, and most of the times they are on the earlier window...

it is true that what you say could be issue, but it is hard to be a coincidence when this is happening with YODEL a lot more often than others... if you search for yodel reviews/feedbacks online for experiences of other, you will see YODEL is one of the worst... I think one of the reason is probably they hire any people with a van and driver's license a little like UBER model just much worse as literally nothing is tracked, and if the driver run away with val loads of stuff, though luck...

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/hynix-sl301-250gb-2-5-sata-6gb-s-ssd-oem-45-98-novatech-2345015
Rather pay the extra for 250gb.

Good drive for my Gen8 Microserver? I can't seem to get the USB install to work for Ubuntu so would I be better putting this in the CD rom space and having this as my real boot drive???

My boss at work is looking to change which courier we use because the current one lost a parcel.
They all lose parcels. We go round and round it's a waste of our time.

DPD and interlink both have great tracking. Yodel not so much.

Lot of discontent with DPD on this thread. All parcel companies will lose/mishandle parcels at some stage. A 100% delivery rate is just not possible. And, all the recruitment processes in the world won't necessarily stop a thieving/fraudulent driver.

But...in my experience, they are the parcel company, certainly out of the major ones, I would review as being the best. 1 hour slots. SMS on day of delivery. Easily changeable delivery day. Collection from depot available. Trackable map of delivery driver. The delivery driver's name.

If I was going to get into the delivery business, I know which business model I'd try and emulate...

I guess it depends on the area, and the driver, because I never have trouble receiving with Yodel deliveries, though I rarely use them myself.

I've got dispute going with Dpd saying they never received a parcel for delivery

Hot deal. DPD also leagues ahead of Yodel.

DPD just turned up with my dell poweredge T20 server no probs at all. Due 1.26-2.26pm, he arrived 1.27pm.

Never had a problem with them.

But on the SSD front - can one of these be put into a server or a waste of time?

well said, people need to stop talking out of their a**

My local MK DPD driver is very good but I actually never had any problem with items sent with them. One hour delivery slot is ace as you don't need to sulk all day waiting for a parcel.

dont bank of getting this, dpd will steal your package and scan wash their hands of you

How much if I can't be bothered to spam their site?

Because not every DPD driver is a saint so probably theirs wasn't.
Mine is great and love the email and text I get giving me a one hour delivery window.

Looks like we’re in for some colder weather over the following few days. I haven’t even bothered looking for my gloves lately, but I might need them soon. Do you think it might snow down in the London area in the next few weeks?

I always have had the best experience from DPD. They deliver on time and i always get a text to say what time frame they are going to call. Yodel, Hermes on the other hand deliver eventually mostly at night times but i would prefer DPD anyday over all the others.

Why are people complaining over DPD they are by far the best they will leave in a safe place, deliver on time, leave a card and let you know when its coming.

Yodel, Hermes and UK Mail are just pains to work with.

Got 64GB ssd in my laptop and it's less than half full. 2006 Dell running Win 10.


Agree, years back I posted a deal 64GB for around £35, that was my budget, I was told £45 for 128GB was better, not if £35 is your budget.
Sometimes folk get hung up on ££/GB and don't seem to understand the word budget. :smiley:

is this not better ? - http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/harddrives-internal/ssdsolidstate/120gbto200gb/Sandisk/SD8SBAT-128G-1122.html?#utm_source=tradedoubler&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=1018132_HotUKDeals

Got one of these.

If you're looking for one, i would recommend it.

I'm getting . . .

Max. Read: 560MB/s
Max. Write: 500MB/s

cracking price.. Don't know too much about Patriot but this would serve great as an OS drive or the odd game or two

In my shopping basket it comes up as:-

"Net Total £26.12
Carriage £4.57
VAT £6.14

Total (inc VAT) £36.83"

20 posts on a forum is too much hard work to get free shipping.

/sarc.

And just like you, I was only pointing out the obvious.

In fact you were indeed not advocating spending another £100, but in relative terms you were asking another 50% spend that some might not need to.

Anyway, yep, on a single drive capable machine, the bigger the capacity, generally it's better, but not everyone has a single drive setup and a 120GB low costing SSD is plenty to give your system a cheap speed boost.

I'm referring to the fact that some people might think £29.99 is a good deal but not realising that a fraction more (especially if you don't have access to free postage) would get you double the storage - and 240GB is generally regarded as being the current sweet spot for value on SSDs as you get the speed benefits and 120GB is easily consumed if you are on a single drive device (e.g. laptop). And finally, it's £10 or so, it's not like I'm advocating spending £150-200 for a 1TB drive and making wild claims.

Well if you don't want to spend £40-£50 then no. Better vfm? Well yes if you're prepared to spend £40-£50.

Aren't we currently paying about £40-50 for a good 240GB SSD, wouldn't that be a much better deal?

Nice to see a lower price than £33 (Toshiba Amazon), but for the faff of posting some spammage on their forum, I'd rather pay a few £'s extra and pay for the next better deal..

Is this a deal for an SSD or a delivery company?

I've never heard it called that :stuck_out_tongue:

My regular DPD driver is great, never late and always polite. In fact I gave him some Whisky for his Christmas.

£36.83 including shipping, for those who don't want to do the forum posts thing.

Any idea where I can get a dang SSD too.
I'd love to install dang and blast in my PC.

Failing that is take a Boom or Bang drive.

anyway. is it a decent ssd? was looking for one for installing my games to.

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