Sometimes the search function don't work mate, give him a break and there is free delivery on it.

6Gb/s means six gigabits per second and refers to it being SATA III capable. This means a theoretical speed of

6 x 1024 = 6144Mb/s which is megabits not megabytes, to convert to megabytes we need to divide by 8 this gives us a theoretical maximum of 768MB/s megabytes per second on this bus.

This drive has a theoretical max read of 540MB/s and write of 478MB/s. 4K random write will be massively below this and this is the figure that really matters. however it's better than a conventional hard drive, much better.

I'll vote HOT on this, but the deal description is poor, it needs the drive manufacturer and 6gb/s should be Gb/s as that's the correct notation to indicate gigabits and is less relevant as it relates to the theoretical SATA bus limit and not to the actual capability of the drive. You could just state SATA III.

TL;DR

Revise the title of this deal. Also understanding the item you're posting will help the deal.

ED: See Bogglesmith2 post below where he corrects some of the data I've posted here. I was working on SATA III being measured in Gigabits not Gibibits.

"Third-generation SATA interfaces run with a native transfer rate of 6.0 Gbit/s; taking 8b/10b encoding into account, the maximum uncoded transfer rate is 4.8 Gbit/s (600 MB/s). The theoretical burst throughput of SATA 6.0 Gbit/s is double that of SATA revision 2.0. It is backward compatible with SATA 3 Gbit/s"

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA#SATA_revision_3.0_.286_Gbit.2Fs.2C_600_MB.2Fs.29

You can be as pedantic as you like I certainly am :smiley: We're both correct and you supplemented further information to give greater meaning.

For example I can say Gb is the correct notation for Gigabits, now if I supplied GB is the correction notation for Gigabytes, it is therefore obvious which letter indicates the difference, since I only included Gb it wasn't obvious unless someone was aware of GB.

So I consider your reply to me to in fact not be pedantic but give clarifying information, vis a vis Gigabytes versus Gigabits. Therefore I should politely like your post which I have done :smiley:

I've just started programming Python, just getting my head around Modulus which I've never done before, and at first I really didn't get it, then after an hour or so I actually did get it, and from further experimentation I could see patterns in the Modulus as I decremented the divisor, I also noticed that incrementing the divisor positively over the dividend would not give me any number greater than the dividend. So why am I saying this? Well language gives us many variations of understanding and presentation of language, when I looked on stack exchange for answers, some people had left out important information that helped understanding of the material, I then kept looking and hunting for some one that could explain it and break it down fully so I could visualise what was happening.

Attention to detail is important, and my post whilst correct was lacking in detail that could help some one of little to no knowledge of the subject matter understand it correctly/fully.

To be a bit pedantic, it's the case of the B that denotes whether it's bits or bytes, not the G. Agree with the rest though.

You have not listed a retailer in title, plus delivery charge on top of that, and that model has now been posted 5 times already if you search for it for!

Seems ok but remember to add £2.39 for economy postage unless you can collect from Novatech.

forgot to say,yes,
free delivery on orders over £49.99
I got the 3.5" -2.5" 2slot drive bay converter to get the free delivery.

http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/harddrives-internal/ssdsolidstate/ssdaccessories/ak-hda-03.html


-although today the price has reduced so no longer would qualify the free delivery

I can't really say I know much about Hynix drives, but at this price, you are approaching Samsung Evo 850...

You can save more with the San Disk drive (44.99) or pop the extra for the Samsung, seems a bit meh.

6Gb/s means six gigabits per second and refers to it being SATA III capable. This means a theoretical speed of

6 x 1024 = 6144Mb/s which is megabits not megabytes, to convert to megabytes we need to divide by 8 this gives us a theoretical maximum of 768MB/s megabytes per second on this bus.

This drive has a theoretical max read of 540MB/s and write of 478MB/s. 4K random write will be massively below this and this is the figure that really matters. however it's better than a conventional hard drive, much better.

I'll vote HOT on this, but the deal description is poor, it needs the drive manufacturer and 6gb/s should be Gb/s as that's the correct notation to indicate gigabits and is less relevant as it relates to the theoretical SATA bus limit and not to the actual capability of the drive. You could just state SATA III.

TL;DR

Revise the title of this deal. Also understanding the item you're posting will help the deal.

ED: See Bogglesmith2 post below where he corrects some of the data I've posted here. I was working on SATA III being measured in Gigabits not Gibibits.

"Third-generation SATA interfaces run with a native transfer rate of 6.0 Gbit/s; taking 8b/10b encoding into account, the maximum uncoded transfer rate is 4.8 Gbit/s (600 MB/s). The theoretical burst throughput of SATA 6.0 Gbit/s is double that of SATA revision 2.0. It is backward compatible with SATA 3 Gbit/s"

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA#SATA_revision_3.0_.286_Gbit.2Fs.2C_600_MB.2Fs.29

Ordered a Samsung SSD from them three weeks ago. It never appeared. Had to wait 7 working days beyond expected delivery date, then fill in a claim form. Was only refunded item price and not delivery. Was told it was policy not to refund P&P. Had to argue the case with them. They even tried to wriggle out saying I had returned the non-faulty item and the package was damaged, despite having told them twice it hadn't been delivered and must have been returned by their courier. Eventually coughed up the carriage as well. Very poor. Will not be using them again.

Its been this price for months

Tempted to pull the trigger on this, if only novatech had a reasonable priced hdd enclosure though as i need one in order to transfer the drives. Cheapest they have seems to be around £10