Just check Ebuyer on Fridays (has come up before), and use the free Sat Delivery, the only problem is Pound-Euro exchange rate fluctuations, might mean prices rises next few weeks, due to weaker £.

Ordered mine late Friday night and was here 8am sat morning :smiley: well impressed and will be using them again.

That would explain it. Shame. I've been waiting for a deal like this but was travelling on the 19th. Thanks.

How are you people getting this deal? 'SSD' does nothing for me. The original price remains.

Including the time to type your password, < 25 secs.

£0.75 Cashback too. Ebuyer's Free Saturday Delivery is very handy.
Ordered 8pm, Dispatched 12am, Depot 5am, Driver 7.30am, In hand :12 Midday.
(and probably several hundred people involved, to enable all that to happen)

Big thanks to all involved, easy for everyone to forget the hard work needed to achieve those sort of turnarounds.

Update: Should really mention the courier : Yodel.

mine was delivered this morning as well also ordered Sata to USB cable which works well

Code not working for me.

mines just hour delivered by YODEL
awesome :smile:

Super fast but not sure of the reliability. My Sandisk 120Gb from the same range went titsup after only 2 months.

tbh i dont notice any real performance increase with my core 2 duo laptop
i think lightroom even works more slowly but this could be due to a version increase and file size increase
main thing for me is the boot speed is much faster... i guess eventually it will work out i have saved a few hours of my life waiting for boot :stuck_out_tongue:
edit just timed: cold boot -> loading browser 25secs

Download: Windows 10 Pro X86 X64 v1511 en-US Feb2016 {Generation2}

Copy to USB using Rufus and then you can install and use your Windows 7 licence to activate.

Exactly the same thing was happening to me. Eventually figured out it was related to Windows 7 updates not having completed and being in some sort of 'partial' state (there seems to be a global Microsoft issue with windows 7 updates not completing at the mo, loads of people experiencing issues) - Found out how to stop the Windows update service using command line then had to delete a couple of files (which I understand remove partial downloads from the update service) - Immediately after this I tried the Windows 10 upgrade again and it worked! If you want to try this do the following....Open command prompt as an administrator (from memory I think you find this via Administrative Tools in Windows 7 then right click to open as administrator - then type 'net stop wuauserv' (without the quotes) and press enter, this stops the Windows update service. Then navigate to C drive - open Windows folder and in this locate the Software Distribution folder. Within this there is a folder called Data Store and another one called Downloads - delete the datastore.edb file and also delete the contents of the Downloads folder. WITHOUT rebooting the PC begin the Windows 10 installation. At this point is should hopefully work. (NB - If you need to restart Windows Update you simply type 'net start wuauserv' in command prompt but it should be reset anyway with the new installation of Windows)

I would recommend go with clean install,

Cheers, thought so, but I can use the caddy for the removed HDD so not wasted.

I am sure you have alread tried runing the installer for such software in the compatiblity mode - but just a thought..

I used media creation on a USB. It failed twice. Seemed to install and then finally failed with some error code.
I am back to Windows 7 and no services work. I either attempt a repair Win 7 or go install Win 8 and go 8.1 and then Win 10. A long haul to avoid a clean Win 10 install (so I can use old software).

Do these come with any sort of USB cable to do the initial clone or will it need to go in some sort of caddy?

Depends on what he struggled with, if it's installing then you press F11 on a Sony Vaio as they don't have a boot menu to choose boot device.

A reinstall might be the way to go, I'd use Microsoft media creation tool and use it to install Windows 10 from a USB drive and check if your BIOS has a UEFI boot setting which will drastically cut the boot time.

Is this drive easy to fit into ur laptop?

With an SSD? :confused:

Hi, does anyone know if this will go in an acer one RL85? I currently have 1tb hdd.
Thanks

This explains it. I use some old software which will not install on Windows 10, so had to clone a Windows 7. Windows 10 upgrade fails after 12 hours from USB and Windows update will not work

For me..
On to Bios finished = 9 seconds.
Bios to Password = 35 - 9 = 26 seconds
Password to desktop = 10 seconds + another 10 seconds to stop processing.
It's around 1 minute.

If you cloned the installation then it will be your installation that is slow and faulty. If not then you have to notice a difference, there's no way not to.

This was under £40 at Christmas, when I bought one. So whilst this is good compared to current pricing, it has been cheaper.

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/sandisk-ssd-plus-240-gb-39-99-amazon-2333991

How fast? Mine seems no faster than old HDD. Could it be faulty?

How long is it power on to Windows password, then after Windows password entered to desktop ready?

Have a 2014 iMac with a 3TB fusion drive but at one point the HDD failed so when they put it back together the left me with a 120GB SDD and a 3TB HDD so I just have OSX on my SDD and it runs fast except I am running out of space on that. How easy is it to install on an iMac? Presume have to 'pull' the screen off and get in that way?

Great drive for the price, don't need another! I just want the 480/500 drives to come down bit more like everybody does hehe

I dream of the day I can pick up a 1tb 850 EVO for about £150 :smiley:

ordered; tks for posting Op.

Hi, does anyone know if this will go in an acer one RL85? I currently have 1tb hdd.
Thanks

Just ordered one delivery Monday

grabbed one .. the old one is clicking away i hope its faster on the 6gbs sata

:wink:

Nabbed 2 of these last time, just bought a third....brilliant drives, last 2 cloned perfectly and have given the machines a new lease of life.

the ocz trion is £45.99 £1 in it ? which is the better drive ?

Shows as £55.98 on Ebuyer from the link?

wow it really is a good price, thanks op!

Back in stock. Same price, same code : SSD

Bought some stick on velco - pads from amazon and put my ssd on the back of my imac. The velcro makes it easy to attach/detach the drive.

This has transformed my imac - The wife and kides were moaning about how slow the imac was. It now boots very quickly, programs open instantly and for me, the really big bonus, is how well parallels now runs.My windows virtual machine boots up in seconds and is very fast indeed. (no more waiting 5 seconds for a right click to open!!!!)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00OB2R2LS?ref_=cm_rdp_product
This is the caddy that I am using - £14.99 amazon

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0017GKK5G?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o06_s01
velcro stick on squares

Expired chaps

I think the promotion might have ended?

Maybe if you'd read post #42 you would have seen that this has already been said :stuck_out_tongue:

Right. I'm guessing this one isn't as good then. Though yes I'm prepared to pay the little extra just for the best. The Samsung one came today so I won't return it, but I'm looking forward to installing it!

Plus 20%vat makes it £53.99.

Thanks for heads up Buzz. ..ordered. .see how goes ..

Things fail occasionally, get over it. Nothing man made is perfect. There is more to life than 1s and 0s lol

Whatever you say is not going to change my opinion. We can just agree to disagree.

I had very bad experience with it. I think it is very bad. I will never touch it consider what happened.

You have a good experience with it. Then good for you. You can vouch for it. You do not see me disagree with you all the time.

One time failure or bad performance (I do not know which it was) when it was brand new out of box is one time too many already given there are so many good choices of SSD out there.

Offer expired as at 9.53 am
If this comes back please post
Thanks

"Sorry, this offer has expired"

would it be possible to transfer my OS to this hard drive from my hybrid drive?

uhm actually have to agree, upgraded from 128gb ssd to this sandisk and it's pretty crap for ssd, also the build quality was pretty cheap for it as well.

I had a Ford Mondeo hire car once, it broke down. Therefore all Ford Mondeo's are rubbish. Worst cars ever made.

In all seriousness you had one bad drive, it happens. Move on.

I've had a couple of these running in my Servers for a while, 24/7 with Virtual machines running from them. Still as fas as the day they went in and not a hiccup. Nothing wrong with them at all. I've just replaced them with a couple of crucial BX200's as I needed higher capacity and the Crucial's were cheaper on the day, I'd have happily used the Sandisk Plus's again if they were cheaper on the day.

Great drive. Although I bought it in a lightening deal on Amazon for 40.99 so not that hot for me, but heat given as its still good for this price.

urgh my samsung 850 evo was just despatched by novatech for £61.98. shall i cancel that or get this? might just keep the samsung though, as i've heard it's the best ssd make?

Personal experience. Ridiculous speed brand new out of box on flash newly installed windows 7, slower than HDD, cannot even finish test on AS SSD Benchmark, stuck forever on the test. I had AHCI enabled, SATA 3, 4K aligned, and the PC had other SSD before. The slowness was caused by Sandisk Plus, no other reason. Change to BX100 everything becomes fine.

Returned back to amazon straight away.

Why shall I give the same model a 2nd chance? I have used many models, have never experienced any problem. Plextor M5S/M6S, Samsung Evo 840/850, Crucial MX100/BX100, Sandisk Ultra.

I would stay away from this model.

Thanks for the link and the advice.

The original vertex was fantastic at the time. My 240gb vertex is still going strong.

Crucial memory config tool suggests 4Gb is max but fine. Only 2 slots which is normal on plenty of laptops though so you'll need to ebay the 2x1gb you have and buy 2x 2gb
http://uk.crucial.com/gbr/en/compatible-upgrade-for/Dell/inspiron-1525

you have a valid source of reference for that pearl or you've just had one fail so they must all be bad?

Will it take 4 or more gigs of RAM? ive never opened it. Im planning on putting Win 7 on the SSD anyway so not bothered about the Vista. Thanks for the reply.

Would this breathe some life into my old dell inspirion 1525 core 2 duo? Sons laptop (lenovo z507) packed in yesterday and we dont want, and cant afford, to buy a new one until September when he goes to Uni.
The Inspirions HDD packed in a while ago, but if this could bring it back to life for 9 months i would go for it.
I know its a 7 year old laptop but it was absolutely top spec when it was new, and could still be useful as a short term machine. I have never had a SSD before.

OK. you caught me. Have not used OCZ Vertex before, but heard bad things about it.

Sandisk Plus is one of the worst SSD. Buy something else.

Sandisk Plus is the worse SSD ever.

Do not buy. Most of SSD are very good.

Maybe if you read the previous page you'll find the answer :smirk:

I have a 480gb ssd (bought from dabs after a recent hotukdeals post) and conntected to my mac via the usb connector using one of these caddies.
I cant believe the difference it has made to my machine - really really impressed.
To keep the desk tidy, I bought some velco stickers from amazon and used them to stick the external drive caddy to the back of the monitor stand. (This makes it easy to remove it necessary)
Very easy to install OS el capitain on the external drive (lots of guides online)

nice one just bought it!

Great! Thanks for replying.

Post #28 in this very thread.

I find you can even (usually) get away with cloning the drive you've booted from in windows.

So would you need to reinstall windows on this or is there a way or moving it over?

are all drives backwards compatible with sata 2

If you are going to use SSD - you will get the biggest benefit from having your O/S on it. I have done this a couple of times and it works.
Download Macrium Reflect - freeware. Create an image of your existing disk - onto a spare disk or large USB stick. It will tell you how big you need.
Create a boot DVD for Macrium
Swop the HDD for the SSD
Boot from Macruim Boot DVD
Restore image to SDD.
Dependent on your machine or O/S you may want to go into the bios and select AHCI rather than IDE under the SATA settings.
Lots of info on the net

Get yourself a Virtual machine running from SSD and just wait till you see how fast they boot :smirk:
My Win10 VM running on my server (on an SSD as well) is that quick I rarely even bother booting the physical i5 machine i have anymore

Great deal ordered

I just ordered 2 of Amazon yesterday! pfft me

Great price. 120gb drives were that much 12month ago

Would this fit OK in a Lenovo X201?

Sounds perfect then, I have an enclosure that I bought in readiness for this, so I'll use the software you stated and fingers crossed it should be as simple as you say. Many thanks :smiley:

As I had a Sata to USB adaptor, I connected the SSD as a USB device and used EaseUS ToDo Backup Free 9.0 - after it cloned, swapped the HDD for the SSD and laptop booted as if nothing had changed. Windows 10 did a few driver updates, and recognises the SSD (by disabling defrag and so on). Very easy, only took an hour - but like I said - relied on being able to have both drives connected at once.

When you look at the prices 12 months ago, there's a big difference.

Unbelievable how cheap SSDs have become now.

I've been considering upgrading memory on my desktop - is it a straight forward process to move from HDD to SSD?

Ie, from what I understand is - buy the SSD, plug it in, copy the data over, replace the HDD with SSD.

Any compatibility issues etc to be aware of?

good price,ordered+hp4502 printer because as well good price
thanks

looking for 240gb or more for a lenovo yoga laptop, I think it needs to be 5mm thick, anyone seen any?

I will prepare to be amazed then! As my HP laptop is only a few weeks old I am going down the clone route....does this come with software to do that? and stupid question time....is it easy to do?

Better wait for ultra II to come down in price.

I have the 480gb version of this from the previous deal from BT shop. Serving me very well, very quick drive. Tempted to get this...

£53.99 inc. vat then SSD code takes it down to £44.99 , I am reading reviews at present , but it looks like a good item alright ...

Good deal but I need to get myself a 500gb version. Still anxiously waiting for a good deal

Yep, I agree, my jaw dropped when I saw how fast my Win 8 PC started up after the upgrade.

Its a life changer, believe the hype, HDD are dead as OS drives!

Gone for this....first time changing from HDD to SSD in my HP Envy laptop!! should be fun :smiley: thanks OP

thanks op!

Really decent price for a 240GB. Heat :sunglasses:

Fantastic! Another 240GB SSD deal for 45/50 quid! Just what this site needs!

Heat- as they are now at a new low and that's nice to know.

it will display as 220gb