Is the Sandisk ultra II for £35 from Currys a better deal??

It depends what you use the pc for. Most users will not notice any difference between ssd's no matter the cost

Lots of good options at this price point now. As above, most wouldn't notice any real world difference between the different brands.

Tosihba Q300 120GB at £32.98 Amazon

Patriot Torch 120GB at £29.99 Amazon

All of these will revive ageing laptops/desktops for a lot of peoples usage and save them becoming landfill.

+ £2.98 cheapest delivery for total £32.97.

Please amend OP

As stated before, surely the 250Gb options at £10odd now are the better choice?

Have a couple of these - bought a while back when they were considerably more expensive. Very happy performance wise.

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Not when Currys put it up to £42.99...

Still £34.99 on Amazon http://www.amazon.co.uk/SanDisk-Ultra-Sata-2-5-inch-Internal/dp/B00M8ABCZM?ie=UTF8&keywords=ssd%20ultra&qid=1458829851&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1

Actually I would prefer to buy from Amazon, once I receive my £15 Amazon voucher for buying 2 Dunlop tyres at Halfrauds Autocentres.

Also I have noticed that PC World (part of Currys) still have it at £34.99 so my previous post might be misleading, apologies for that.

Dont be ****, you know as well as the rest of us do that 250 at 40quid regularly pops up.

Here's a past deal:
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/crucial-bx200-240gb-2-5-inch-solid-state-drive-ct240bx200ssd1-39-99-delivered-amazon-2384541

But even right now, they're £44.99 for the vast majority.

I think he's asking where he can get one for a tenner because you forgot the word more in your first post.

in that case :-), apologies

Now that we are seeing deals for 240Gb drives around £45, it makes this kind of price for a 120Gb a rather poor deal.

29.99 for 120gb or 39.99 for a 240gb.

Hard to recommend at this price point.

Yeah, the 240Gb for £39 is a much better deal, sorry OP. :P

can these be converted into an external drive I have a tv with twin tuners that I can connect an external drive to and record but a litte confused as to what is the best way to go, HD, SSD, even high capacity SD Card. These SSD cards seem to have good read and write speeds.

There are frequent sales, I am not certain if there is one right now.

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/sandisk-ssd-plus-240-gb-sata-iii-2-5-inch-internal-ssd-up-520-mb-s-40-99-amazon-2361536

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/sandisk-ssd-plus-240-gb-39-99-amazon-2333991
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/sandisk-ssd-plus-sata-3-240gb-39-99-amazon-2333879
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/ocz-trion-100-240gb-sataiii-2-5-inch-ssd-black-friday-deal-39-99-ebuyer-2334411

But here are recent deals that match.

And here's the 480 for equal price per GB.

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/sandisk-ssd-plus-480-gb-sata-iii-2-5-inch-internal-ssd-up-480-mb-s-79-99-delivered-2404587

If you don't like expired deals and want to say "That's great I don't have a time machine" then you are missing the point and the trend on HotUKDeals with SSDs.

Every single day there is a good SSD deal. Unless you are absolutely compelled to purchase today, you should wait.

But if you can't wait even a week...

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/sandisk-240gb-ssd-plus-sata-6gb-s-2-5-solid-state-drive-now-45-98-delivered-using-2417448

That's a good price per GB. You pay 16 quid more for double the capacity. You will be able to actually put programs and games on that drive rather than just the OS and perhaps one game or application. You will absolutely find 120GB insufficient.

Not everyone.

If all someone wants to do is revive an old laptop or desktop, use it for basic internet, office tasks etc, then 120GB is more than sufficient. An SSD is one of the best ways to get extra life out of a slow PC. And if that's all you want to do, then it's pretty stupid to spend more than you have to.

Just remember, not everyone uses a PC the way you do.

Sure, they don't.

But even my 'browsing only' laptop struggles with the 120gb SSD in it.

Using it the same way? I'm pretty sure how that laptop is used is exactly how you described.

Struggles in which sense? How could a browsing only Desktop/Laptop/Netbook etc struggle with 120GB of storage.

A Windows installation and a few apps should never fill a 120GB drive to make it struggle if all you're doing is browsing etc. You probably need more RAM rather than storage space.

With respect if you are browsing only 120GB is ample. My desktop machine has a 120GB SSD as the main drive running Windows 7 and providing I delete stuff from the downloads folder from time to time I've always got at least 30GB free and I use it for much more than browsing.

If you're putting together a machine on a certain budget, 120GB SSD can be the way to go. Particularly if you are looking to store a lot of data as then 250 GB won't be enough anyway so you will be buying a second drive.

Can I ask what is using all the space in your browsing only laptop?

Actually the write speeds on the 120GB are much slower than larger capacity for the plus drives:



You can get the 480GB drive for £84.98 with free delivery and cashback here which is a much better deal per gb and won't be worrying as much about filling it up:

http://www.hotukdeals.com/visit?t=2418996&hukdm=353&d=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hotukdeals.com%2Fdeals%2Fsandisk-ssd-plus-sata-iii-2-5-480gb-for-84-98-novatech-free-delivery-2419758

Absolutely.

PDFs, images, updates, multiple browsers. IE, FF, and Chrome.

Plug ins.

Windows updates.

PDF viewers (Acrobat and Foxit)

Windows base install.

Random downloads while browsing.

The point is, as you said it perfectly here...


Sure, if you want to be forced to keep your laptop tidy, then you can go right ahead and use a 120GB HD. But you're on a tipping point, you know you have to keep it clean, you have to delete old windows update caches, driver caches, and whatever else happens as part of your automatic portion.

Also, upgrading windows leaves an old windows folder.

It all adds up fast. And why buy an SSD that was supposed to stop you worrying about your browsing only laptop when you may have to actually think about it more?

But as topss said, not everyone uses their laptop the same way. I haven't upgraded my Windows installation. A quick google of typical file sizes for the windows.old folder is between 10 and 20GB. Also when I said about deleting from the downloads folder that's like every few months and I'm downloading all sorts including movies.

Seriously, after a fresh install of Windows 7 having installed all the updates I'd have probably 70GB free, 60GB bare minimum. To suggest a pure internet browsing machine will struggle with this is a little far fetched. I perfectly understand where you are coming from with the 240GB being best for value but a 120GB drive is manageable for many users.

Can you not just delete the windows.old folder?

​Yeah I was, but thanks for the pleasantries.

Your idea of a 'browsing' laptop, seems to be very different from mine. Astonishingly on some days I somehow manage perfectly with a Lenovo Miix which only has 32GB of storage. That's browsing, Office, emails……works no differently in that context from my MacBook that has 2 x 512GB SSDs.

Now £38.99

So, that's fine, you may actually be the unicorn that has a computer that *literally* reads only webpages.

But from my experience building, maintaining, and supporting around 200+ people...

When someone says a computer is "just for browsing" it never means *just browsing*. Space gets used.

You can absolutely delete the windows old folder.

But my point is more that if you have to delete things that aren't obvious to make sure you don't run out of space, that's hassle. Many users won't bother with that and either call in to tech support (my laptop stopped working, says it's out of space!). Or they will micro manage word docs they've created, deleting 5 kb of space.

I just feel that low amounts of HD space can be one of the most frustrating situations a user can have, and for a small price, you can avoid it.

Whatever, if you can get by with 40GB of free space, go for it.

Yeah you mean me and millions of other 'unicorns' happily using PCs with 120GB or less all day/every day/most days/some days. Windows, Mac, Linux, Netbooks, lets not start on Mobile phones, tablets blah blah.

Your whole argument seems to be based on that a larger capacity storage device is better value £/GBs. Well yes, thanks for pointing out the obvious, it's generally been that way since day one. Not everyone (you and your 200 may well do) has a need for bigger capacity drives though and therefore spending more than you need to is plain stupidity, especially if all you're doing is trying to revive an old PC - which was my main point to begin with.

I still find it interesting though. Someone in this thread summed it up perfectly.


That's really /thread. 120GB is manageable. Key word, manageable. Some/many users will run out of disk space and need to readjust. How much is that manageable requirement worth?

That's for you to decide. I'm just suggesting that 120GB is reached more than you are leading on, as people in this very thread mention their requirement to manage their HD space! That's all.

So for some people it will be sufficient. Glad you agree.

Take it out of context all you want. Some people don't need an SSD either.

And I qualified some/most as I will absolutely say I do not know every single user's use case.

I'm just offering a very valid suggestion that people skip this SSD as it isn't that great of value.