Seems to be a decent price. Use discount code 'SSD' at checkout for this price.
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Helpful567
5 Feb 167#20
Apple imac - I have an apple imac (late 2013) and the family were moaning that it was slow.
It is a nightmare to open and replace the drive on modern imacs because they are a sealed unit.
Bought one of these (previous posting on hotukdeals from Dabs for the same price) and bought a £15 caddy from amazon. This connects using a usb 3 cable. - so it is an external drive
I didnt think this would work but thought that if it didn't, I could sell it on ebay and get my money back
WOW - it has totally transformed my imac. It boots quickly, programs open quickly. I need to use windows and have parallels which used to be really really slow. (waiting 30 seconds to respond to a right click). With this, parallels works immediately. (As fast as my laptop which already has a ssd installed)
I bought some velco pads from amazon and used these to put the caddy on the back of the imac. - if I need to remove it, it quickly lifts off.
Performance is great with all ssds, differences are minimal to negligible.
cspectre to Absed
5 Feb 164#6
The Ultra has 3 layer NAND which is extremely slow, so it operates some of it in SLC mode to act as a write buffer. Once this buffer fills, you get write speeds of ~100mb/s. This buffer is sold as a positive thing, although in reality its a neccesity to allow 3 layer drives to compete in the market. The Plus has 2 layer NAND, although it's probably low end, its still faster than 3 layer at writes as far as I'm aware. I have a 240Gb plus and its been pretty good so far. I prefer consistency, so wouldn't personally get the Ultra.
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dossdes
5 Feb 161#1
Bought one of these for my sons PC just before xmas at the same price. Terrific value at this price. Ok it's not the fastest ssd in the world but a good compromise of cost v performance
e2rdo
5 Feb 16#2
Thanks mate! Was waiting for an offer like this!
Absed
5 Feb 16#3
How much of a difference is there between this Plus version compared to the Ultra ii? The ultra ii has been available quite often for £89 and I'm not sure it's worth saving a tenner to get the lesser plus version
dossdes to Absed
5 Feb 16#4
good point.... the one i bought was the Ultra II model
cspectre to Absed
5 Feb 164#6
The Ultra has 3 layer NAND which is extremely slow, so it operates some of it in SLC mode to act as a write buffer. Once this buffer fills, you get write speeds of ~100mb/s. This buffer is sold as a positive thing, although in reality its a neccesity to allow 3 layer drives to compete in the market. The Plus has 2 layer NAND, although it's probably low end, its still faster than 3 layer at writes as far as I'm aware. I have a 240Gb plus and its been pretty good so far. I prefer consistency, so wouldn't personally get the Ultra.
impydave
5 Feb 162#5
I've bought 3 of these in the last 2 weeks!! and now this comes along....this site costs me a fortune :smiley:
FTCom
5 Feb 16#7
Blimey my nose has started bleeding! What a stonking price! Hotter than Satans....
Optimus_Toaster
5 Feb 164#8
Great price. Heat added.
Performance is great with all ssds, differences are minimal to negligible.
stanlenin to Optimus_Toaster
5 Feb 16#11
Some new SSD's have a write speed of 70MB/s after buffer fills up. So that is not negligible. That is ****.
Meathotukdeals
5 Feb 161#9
The fall in price in these is so beautiful!
Absed
5 Feb 16#10
Are there any proper reviews of this drive online? I only seem to be finding reviews for the ultra models
MacPhisto
5 Feb 16#12
Well just ordered, got fed up waiting on Amazon dropping the Ultra II to Black Friday price of £80. Also free Saturday delivery on this with Ebuyer, so will give me something to do on my Sun/Mon days off :smile:
xenononon
5 Feb 16#13
I have this and put in my new build at 83.50 quid in the BT shop deal, works very well, very quick, going to order a 2nd now since 480gb storage isn't enough for moi. Hopefully I can get an m2 NVME to add to my machine for boot and I'd say I've hit the sweet spot for speed and storage.
Absed
5 Feb 16#14
Seems like the write speeds on this are quite a bit slower than for instance than the Samsung 850 EVO. Not sure if that matters that much but has made me not the pull trigger on this yet
geeko
5 Feb 16#15
Free Saturday delivery too! Cheers OP :smiley:
Rhythmeister
5 Feb 161#16
Another hot GB deal from ebuyer!
Slizzle
5 Feb 16#17
Oh my god I wish I had not bought a new SSD last month!
Optimus_Toaster
5 Feb 162#18
After the buffer fills up. Which is a very rare situation for consumers. Maybe when copying games onto the drive but you probably only do that once, especially with 480GB to play with.
jamiesmith85
5 Feb 16#19
+1
Helpful567
5 Feb 167#20
Apple imac - I have an apple imac (late 2013) and the family were moaning that it was slow.
It is a nightmare to open and replace the drive on modern imacs because they are a sealed unit.
Bought one of these (previous posting on hotukdeals from Dabs for the same price) and bought a £15 caddy from amazon. This connects using a usb 3 cable. - so it is an external drive
I didnt think this would work but thought that if it didn't, I could sell it on ebay and get my money back
WOW - it has totally transformed my imac. It boots quickly, programs open quickly. I need to use windows and have parallels which used to be really really slow. (waiting 30 seconds to respond to a right click). With this, parallels works immediately. (As fast as my laptop which already has a ssd installed)
I bought some velco pads from amazon and used these to put the caddy on the back of the imac. - if I need to remove it, it quickly lifts off.
I guess I will use this to replace the hard disk of my PS4. My current SSD is 240 gb and it barely can hold the games I want to play
70s_kid
5 Feb 16#23
Ordered and heated
Cackles
5 Feb 16#24
Heat, but still not buying.
I predicted this and it can only get better. I bought a 240GB mSATA and then case etc. this time last year. Can't remember which one but it's top of the benchmarks. Just remember it was from SCAN.
If you don't have an SSD go for it, if you do have one alreasy and it's 240GB or bigger I recommend waiting another 6 months. I'm using 12TB of platters in my server. I will still use 12TB of platters once I upgrade but will put all the VM OS's on SSD.
Unless there is a tsunami the TB SSD's should be this price at end of summerish.
BlackAle to Cackles
6 Feb 16#25
No chance! Maybe summer 2017.
mercutio98uk to Cackles
10 Feb 16#37
The 3D nand will just drive prices down as it's cheaper to reach the same capacity. There's no(/not really any) performance benefit. SSD's are already running as fast as the sata ports on PC's will let them.
The performance increase is coming in the shape of PCIe (the "main road" in your PC) ssds (look like a computer graphics/sound/network card) or the NVMe m.2 drives (look kinda like a console memory card without the case but longer) which also plug directly into the PCIe bus. The performance increase of these WILL drive down the price of sata SSD's but only because the sata ones won't be the enthusiast/high end part any more. They'll become more mainstream.
Sata SSD's are capped around 560MB/sec. The PCIe/NVMe ones can keep going to 2000MB/sec+ but you'll be paying a lot for them.
The PCIe/NVMe drives are the reason folks are speculating about big price reductions over the summer. It depends how well the market continues, if folks start saving for a big/fast drive there will be some price reductions as manufacturers get a little worried about sales. More likely is folks keep buying, we see some better deals than we're used to (but not uber crazy deals/differences some are suggesting) and black friday see's 1TB hit around £120-150.
jamadaia
6 Feb 16#26
Just tried getting one and when entered the code it said the code is now expired
229mel
6 Feb 16#27
Big chance actually with the new 3d technology coming in..
BlackAle
6 Feb 16#28
Hardly new, Samsung are onto their 3rd generation of v-nand. I'm sure this year other manufacturers will enter the 3D-nand space, but I doubt we'll see huge price drops, it'll be the usual 30-40% annual drop.
Brian089
6 Feb 16#29
Expired code
Cackles
6 Feb 16#30
You do realise you just contradicted yourself, right?
A 40% price drop would bring a TB down to 'around' this price and then there will be your usual specials which will bring it down to this price, if not cheaper.
Gratz on dissing me and making my argument :wink:
titchyyyyy
6 Feb 161#31
Love how people are complaining that it isn't the fastest ssd in the world, what do you expect from this price? Also, I'm still running one of the first ever 120gb ssd's which runs about 1/2 the speed of this SSD and it's still fast enough for anything thrown at it.
sally09
6 Feb 16#32
Code expired now
krismcewan
6 Feb 16#33
Expired
BlackAle
6 Feb 16#34
No I didn't, I said 30-40% over the period of a year, which is about the average. So no, I don't see a chance that 1TB drives will be this price in 6 months.
mickael28
6 Feb 16#35
What is that 3d technology achieving compared to other SSD drives? ie, is it worth paying up something extra for whatever they're offering?
And do you know of any SSD drive already offering that and not too costly?
SignMeUp
6 Feb 16#36
Put one of these in my laptop before Christmas. Amazing difference. Heat from me.
mickael28
10 Feb 16#38
Thanks for the info!!, I've currently got a 500GB standard one and it's packed already, so I'll wait a little bit to see if 1TB ones go down in price a little...
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Top comments
It is a nightmare to open and replace the drive on modern imacs because they are a sealed unit.
Bought one of these (previous posting on hotukdeals from Dabs for the same price) and bought a £15 caddy from amazon. This connects using a usb 3 cable. - so it is an external drive
http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/B00OB2R2LS/ref=cm_cr_dp_synop?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=0&sortBy=recent#RCIVZ3OEYO8T4
I didnt think this would work but thought that if it didn't, I could sell it on ebay and get my money back
WOW - it has totally transformed my imac. It boots quickly, programs open quickly. I need to use windows and have parallels which used to be really really slow. (waiting 30 seconds to respond to a right click). With this, parallels works immediately. (As fast as my laptop which already has a ssd installed)
I bought some velco pads from amazon and used these to put the caddy on the back of the imac. - if I need to remove it, it quickly lifts off.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0017GKK5G?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o06_s01
It looks really neat.
Installing OS X on an external drive is really easy, even for someone who doesnt know much about computers.
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT202796
Performance is great with all ssds, differences are minimal to negligible.
All comments (38)
Performance is great with all ssds, differences are minimal to negligible.
After the buffer fills up. Which is a very rare situation for consumers. Maybe when copying games onto the drive but you probably only do that once, especially with 480GB to play with.
It is a nightmare to open and replace the drive on modern imacs because they are a sealed unit.
Bought one of these (previous posting on hotukdeals from Dabs for the same price) and bought a £15 caddy from amazon. This connects using a usb 3 cable. - so it is an external drive
http://www.amazon.co.uk/product-reviews/B00OB2R2LS/ref=cm_cr_dp_synop?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=0&sortBy=recent#RCIVZ3OEYO8T4
I didnt think this would work but thought that if it didn't, I could sell it on ebay and get my money back
WOW - it has totally transformed my imac. It boots quickly, programs open quickly. I need to use windows and have parallels which used to be really really slow. (waiting 30 seconds to respond to a right click). With this, parallels works immediately. (As fast as my laptop which already has a ssd installed)
I bought some velco pads from amazon and used these to put the caddy on the back of the imac. - if I need to remove it, it quickly lifts off.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0017GKK5G?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o06_s01
It looks really neat.
Installing OS X on an external drive is really easy, even for someone who doesnt know much about computers.
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT202796
I predicted this and it can only get better. I bought a 240GB mSATA and then case etc. this time last year. Can't remember which one but it's top of the benchmarks. Just remember it was from SCAN.
If you don't have an SSD go for it, if you do have one alreasy and it's 240GB or bigger I recommend waiting another 6 months. I'm using 12TB of platters in my server. I will still use 12TB of platters once I upgrade but will put all the VM OS's on SSD.
Unless there is a tsunami the TB SSD's should be this price at end of summerish.
The 3D nand will just drive prices down as it's cheaper to reach the same capacity. There's no(/not really any) performance benefit. SSD's are already running as fast as the sata ports on PC's will let them.
The performance increase is coming in the shape of PCIe (the "main road" in your PC) ssds (look like a computer graphics/sound/network card) or the NVMe m.2 drives (look kinda like a console memory card without the case but longer) which also plug directly into the PCIe bus. The performance increase of these WILL drive down the price of sata SSD's but only because the sata ones won't be the enthusiast/high end part any more. They'll become more mainstream.
Sata SSD's are capped around 560MB/sec. The PCIe/NVMe ones can keep going to 2000MB/sec+ but you'll be paying a lot for them.
The PCIe/NVMe drives are the reason folks are speculating about big price reductions over the summer. It depends how well the market continues, if folks start saving for a big/fast drive there will be some price reductions as manufacturers get a little worried about sales. More likely is folks keep buying, we see some better deals than we're used to (but not uber crazy deals/differences some are suggesting) and black friday see's 1TB hit around £120-150.
A 40% price drop would bring a TB down to 'around' this price and then there will be your usual specials which will bring it down to this price, if not cheaper.
Gratz on dissing me and making my argument :wink:
And do you know of any SSD drive already offering that and not too costly?
Cheers!