hey this is just to update people about tricksters post last week on the integral 120gb ssd, it sold out quickly but mymemory have reposted it as a new listing. All credit to trickster for the original find. hopefully if you missed it last week or like me wondered if I needed it for too long then it was sold out, you'll be able to pick one up.
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Dodge62
30 Mar 168#20
Did it come with a container or did you have to provide your own?
mcormack to Haak
30 Mar 166#19
Yeh I bought a pint of milk this morning and it came without the cow.
What are people's opinions on the reliability of this drive? I am tempted by the price, but can't afford to spend time repairing my pc if it fails.
AndyRoyd to Reaper_Man
30 Mar 161#9
Manufacturer has faith to provide 3 year warranty. TBH, it's only 120GB so would take only a few mins if you had to restore the entire drive from a backup.
voodooboard to Reaper_Man
30 Mar 16#13
Any drive can fail. Even one which everyone says is reliable.
If you can't afford downtime then use RAID 1 and take regular backups and/or system images.
The Ghostbuster
30 Mar 16#2
Purchased for my recently salvaged Acer laptop not worried too much about reliability as I'll be keeping my dell laptop for running window 7 and iTunes (syncing my large collection of songs) onto to my iPod until I can afford a decent gaming pc
Haak
30 Mar 16#3
I bought one on mymemory when it was still £25. Haven't used it yet but fyi this doesn't come with data and power cables.
ando to Haak
30 Mar 162#5
Internal drives never ever come with cables.
JoeyJoeC to Haak
30 Mar 162#7
Do they ever? Power cables are a part of your PSU and won't come with any device really. Not known Sata cables to come with harddrives either!
mcormack to Haak
30 Mar 166#19
Yeh I bought a pint of milk this morning and it came without the cow.
Insider9
30 Mar 16#4
Not the fastest but I will be running this at sata II speed so hot for me.
Ordered, thanks OP :smiley:
Apteryx
30 Mar 16#6
Bought when last recently posted. I had no spare SATA and power in the PC so just did a straight swap of Win10 (free upgrade from Win7) HDD with the SSD and a clean Win10 install. Digital Entitlement kicked in and activated the new installation. My Plex media server now flies like ****-of-a-shovel. Very happy. Reliabality remains to be proven.
JoeyJoeC
30 Mar 162#8
According to their scrambled description:
120GB = READ 565MB/s, WRITE 420MB/s
the_bart123 to JoeyJoeC
31 Mar 16#42
BE CAREFUL WITH THEM - I'VE GOT MINE AND WRITE SPEEDS JUST ABOUT 70MB/s!!!!!!! Read speeds fine - about 400MB/s
I maybe bang windows 10 on this and free up my 250gb Intel.
Windows 10 decent yet?
Torchwood to seanmorris100
30 Mar 16#14
I love it. Smooth even on an old PC. Use Classic Shell to get the Win 7 look if you prefer that.
*Vincent*
30 Mar 16#15
Agreed every drive can fail. I've had various drives fail over recent years, some from reputed good brand names. I have two back-ups of important data and deal with it when it happens. Had a 120 SSD fail after 6 months, but not from this brand.
bought one, didnt need it but hey for that price.....if i buy a couple more and with a bit of 'A-Team' magic with a blow torch and dremel, *pow* a beautiful expensive casing for my raspberry pi 2 that i've never used either....
Reaper_Man
30 Mar 16#25
Restore time isn't really the problem. Getting a new drive is the thing that will take time.
Haak
30 Mar 16#26
Be nice to me. It's going to be my first build and I haven't gotten round to it yet. XP
randomandy
30 Mar 16#27
Can't find any reviews for this drive...even new drives are sent out to reviewers so that makes me extremely wary of its claimed performance.
Sandisk Plus 120GB is 180MB/s write speed from spec sheet so this blows that out the water... if you believe them... which I don't.
Someone who has one want to be super nice and benchmark one?
Any of these benchmarks would be good....
Atto Disk Benchmark
CrystalMark 3.0.3
AS SSD
IOMeter
Wolf0x to randomandy
30 Mar 16#29
Some folk in the previous thread from last week have posted some benchmarks, page 6 of the comment is what you're looking for.
yeah I need to load an OS, preferably remix or chromium then replace the HDD in my old lappy, (my only lappy at the moment so want to write the image thru a data to usb
randomandy
30 Mar 161#31
Thanks Wolf0x.
These are supposedly the benchmarks for this drive...
Still £23.74 using promo code RanChen from mymemory.co.uk
FTOdude170
31 Mar 16#40
m.2?
the_bart123
31 Mar 161#41
BE CAREFUL WITH THEM - I'VE GOT MINE AND WRITE SPEEDS JUST ABOUT 70MB/s!!!!!!! Read speeds fine - about 400MB/s
davej1710
31 Mar 162#43
I think you're safe with most of these. :wink:
tightar5e
31 Mar 16#44
A bit of an overreaction-Bold and CAPS, and duplicated posts.
Its a £25 SSD, 120GB drives are often slower than their bigger siblings, 240GB+, even Samsung.
I'd be looking for real world usage for this drive, any pauses, boot errors/delays, compatibility problems (not read any yet). I'd be hestitant to use it for critical data, but as a way of speeding up older laptops, its about as cheap as it will get.
120GB will disappear soon too, so the first entry price point (for a 240GB+) will be higher, i.e. nearer £50.
Always have a backup.
the_bart123
31 Mar 16#45
The thing is - even ancient HDD is quicker than that SSD :disappointed:
frownbreaker
31 Mar 16#46
For sustained writes that might be true however any HD can only perform a single operation at a time.
SSDs can perform thousands of IO Ops per second.
So in real terms SSD will always boot faster (the computer is reading files in so the SSD will be much faster than any HD) sure for wring large files an HD may be faster in some edge cases. for most home users boot time will be massively reduced, so will shutdown, program loading, task switching etc..
JoeyJoeC
1 Apr 162#47
I'll test this properly today. Normal HDD's get around 80MB/s
ticket1
3 Apr 16#48
Bought one of these from mymemory.co.uk today and its on its way, cheers
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http://www.mymemory.co.uk/SSD-Drives/Integral/Integral-120GB-P-Series-4-SATA-III-2.5INCH-SSD-Drive
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If you can't afford downtime then use RAID 1 and take regular backups and/or system images.
Ordered, thanks OP :smiley:
120GB = READ 565MB/s, WRITE 420MB/s
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Integral-120GB-Solid-State-Drive/dp/B00GWKYD9G
Windows 10 decent yet?
http://www.mymemory.co.uk/SSD-Drives/Integral/Integral-120GB-P-Series-4-SATA-III-2.5INCH-SSD-Drive
Any SATA cable will do, as long as you are not buying a 50p piece of crap from China.
You need to check the length you want and whether you want a straight connector or a left/right angled.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gigabyte-Quality-Original-Light-Cable/dp/B00BBYOD3E
Sandisk Plus 120GB is 180MB/s write speed from spec sheet so this blows that out the water... if you believe them... which I don't.
Someone who has one want to be super nice and benchmark one?
Any of these benchmarks would be good....
Atto Disk Benchmark
CrystalMark 3.0.3
AS SSD
IOMeter
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/integral-120gb-p-series-4-sata-iii-2-5-ssd-drive-24-99-delivered-mymemory-2414403?p=27587687
http://www.amazon.com/Intel-Solid-State-Drive-Retail/dp/B00F0RD5H8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gutMXsrykG8
These are supposedly the benchmarks for this drive...
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NOT on eBay !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ....... its in store
http://www.mymemory.co.uk/SSD-Drives/Integral/Integral-120GB-P-Series-4-SATA-III-2.5INCH-SSD-Drive
Integral 120GB P Series 4 SATA III vs Sandisk Plus 240GB (twice the write speed of Sandisk Plus 120GB)
Integral 120GB appears to beat it on most so I guess it comes down to how reliable it is.
http://www.classicshell.net/
Works just as well on Win 10.
I think you're safe with most of these. :wink:
Its a £25 SSD, 120GB drives are often slower than their bigger siblings, 240GB+, even Samsung.
I'd be looking for real world usage for this drive, any pauses, boot errors/delays, compatibility problems (not read any yet). I'd be hestitant to use it for critical data, but as a way of speeding up older laptops, its about as cheap as it will get.
120GB will disappear soon too, so the first entry price point (for a 240GB+) will be higher, i.e. nearer £50.
Always have a backup.
SSDs can perform thousands of IO Ops per second.
So in real terms SSD will always boot faster (the computer is reading files in so the SSD will be much faster than any HD) sure for wring large files an HD may be faster in some edge cases. for most home users boot time will be massively reduced, so will shutdown, program loading, task switching etc..
http://uk.hardware.info/reviews/4583/how-to-copy-hdd-to-ssd-with-correct-4k-alignment
and explain why read speeds were fine?
Quite happy with speed.