External SSD 512GB for £76. Same thing is £115 on amazon UK.
The link does not take you straight to the item which dispatches to the UK. You need to select the "Amazon" option from the right of the page.
- akzy1
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SaltyCDogg to krisward7955
17 Jan 166#6
read (450MB/s) and write (245MB/s) hardly 'very slow' is it?? Just because you can buy faster internal drives this is still very fast. It's a USB drive...
No matter the content of this deal, it is a shame that you can't seem to post anything on here without receiving negative feedback.
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Nexusfifth
17 Jan 16#1
The price is actually 72.01£ if you use an euro card, (or no currency exchange fee card such as that Halifax).
This is a really good price for a 512GB SSD's, especially considering the internal standard ones have only recently started going for under a 100£ (and are very good deals at 80£ today).
I am curious what someone would use one of these for? As far as I can tell they are fast and still relatively low capacity drives. I would really like to know if anyone is using one of these and for what?
All in all a very good find and heat given.
tomwatts to Nexusfifth
17 Jan 16#5
Exactly what the title suggests - programs that have a data intensive workflow (video editing/sound production) when out and about. I have a workflow drive but its only a 2.5 drive. Quick enough for the 1080p video work I do, and the church I work for don't need more or have use for more than that, but I'll invest in something like this when I get a newer, even more beastly laptop that could do justice for 4k.
Tl;dr - not many uses unless you are doing workflow based stuff on the go. Cheap for what it is though
startimeash to Nexusfifth
18 Jan 162#18
Personally, I'm using them for virtual machines. Have to spin up test boxes regularly that are only of the order of a couple of GB in size. Have a 120GB SSD in an external USB3 enclosure so they all sit on that. Difference is incredible - some MySQL benchmark queries that use temp tables on disk went from 30 minutes to 40 seconds...
krisward7955
17 Jan 16#2
Slow speeds. 245mb write speed.
krisward7955
17 Jan 16#3
Slow speeds. 245mb write speed.
krisward7955
17 Jan 16#4
I don't think it has a 2.5" SATA SSD inside. I think it's made up from Crucial memory, same found in USB flash drives. I can't find any full specs on it, but the speeds are very slow
SaltyCDogg to krisward7955
17 Jan 166#6
read (450MB/s) and write (245MB/s) hardly 'very slow' is it?? Just because you can buy faster internal drives this is still very fast. It's a USB drive...
"Nous sommes désolés, ce vendeur ne livre pas au Royaume-Uni – Ile principale"
(translation) "Sorry, the seller does not deliver to the UK - Main Island"
jaju123 to wonkypops
17 Jan 16#11
You have to select amazon fr from 'other sellers' where the right price is displayed (88 euros).
krisward7955
17 Jan 16#8
Still slow. Post all the charts you want. Won't Change anything
mattmorge
17 Jan 165#9
No matter the content of this deal, it is a shame that you can't seem to post anything on here without receiving negative feedback.
sej7278
17 Jan 16#10
i can't think of anything more pointless than a usb (crippled) ssd! why not esata?
that apart, does anyone know the drive inside, if its a decent model (seems its crucial brand) this could be a pretty good price if it can be removed from the external enclosure.
MacPhisto to sej7278
17 Jan 161#13
Looking at the teardown on this REVIEW it doesn't look like you can, unless your comfortable de-soldering a USB controller and soldering on a Sata controller :disappointed:
Opening post
The link does not take you straight to the item which dispatches to the UK. You need to select the "Amazon" option from the right of the page.
- akzy1
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http://www.hardwareslave.com/reviews/hardware-reviews/storage/lexar-professional-workflow-dd512-review/3/
All comments (24)
This is a really good price for a 512GB SSD's, especially considering the internal standard ones have only recently started going for under a 100£ (and are very good deals at 80£ today).
I am curious what someone would use one of these for? As far as I can tell they are fast and still relatively low capacity drives. I would really like to know if anyone is using one of these and for what?
All in all a very good find and heat given.
Tl;dr - not many uses unless you are doing workflow based stuff on the go. Cheap for what it is though
http://www.hardwareslave.com/reviews/hardware-reviews/storage/lexar-professional-workflow-dd512-review/3/
(translation) "Sorry, the seller does not deliver to the UK - Main Island"
that apart, does anyone know the drive inside, if its a decent model (seems its crucial brand) this could be a pretty good price if it can be removed from the external enclosure.