Use code SSD to take the price down from £200.99 to £159.99, know it's been this price previously but it went back up & seems to be the cheapest around by quite a margin. It's their deal of the day so won't be around for long.
Up to 28 times better performance than a typical hard disk drive
No-wait boot up and shut down
Faster app load and response times
Interface: SATA Revision 3.0 (6 Gb/s)
All comments (36)
biglugs1
31 Mar 161#1
Now this is just getting annoying. No sooner do I buy a new 500GB SSD and along comes a 1TB deal :disappointed:
flamesong to biglugs1
31 Mar 16#11
It didn't just come along; as the OP said, it has been this price a few times since Christmas - I bought one myself at this price in January.
You need to keep your eyes peeled.
Chick3nMast3r
31 Mar 16#2
Still says £200.99
freestyle to Chick3nMast3r
31 Mar 16#3
Because you have to add the code in the post
bob10752000
31 Mar 16#4
The code is SSD as in the description
BazJitsu
31 Mar 161#5
I snagged one of these just before Christmas, and it's a cracking drive. I use it as an external for my Xbox One, because I'm ridiculous like that.
matt101101
31 Mar 16#6
Not a bad price at all for a 1TB SSD, heat added :smiley:.
However, I've promised myself I won't buy high capacity SSDs until I can get ~1TB drives for £100 or under. When they get to that price I'm willing to permanently say goodbye (and good riddance) to mechanical storage. I suspect I may well be waiting until Black Friday 2017, though :disappointed:.
Oneday77 to matt101101
31 Mar 16#7
Black Friday 2016, will be under £100. 500GB drives were about this price last March.
Unless something drastic reverses the price tumbles it'll happen just fine.
jokinjp
31 Mar 16#8
I'd love to upgrade my iMac with one of these, tricky old job on a Mac though :-(
afroylnt to jokinjp
31 Mar 161#9
Time to leave the dark side? :stuck_out_tongue:
flamesong to jokinjp
31 Mar 16#10
It's not really fair to say that it is a tricky job on a Mac just because of the way iMacs are made. It would take about five minutes for me to swap a drive on my MBP if I didn't spend time cleaning it etc. whilst it was open.
But having been given an iMac to repair a few years ago, I agree, modern iMacs are not designed for tinkering.
matt101101 to jokinjp
31 Mar 16#13
As someone above mentioned, it's not hard because it's a Mac, it's hard because iMacs are AIO PCs which aren't really designed for end users to fiddle around inside.
I'm sure there are plenty of Windows AIO PCs which are equally painful to get into. On the other side of the fence, Macs such as the old style Mac Pro make replacing drives really easy.
andyhstokes1 to jokinjp
31 Mar 16#19
Nah it's not, I dropped an second ssd into my 2012.. The hardest part was finding the f*****g cable to buy
khirsah to jokinjp
31 Mar 161#22
Why don't you? I run my iMac from an external ssd enclosure, runs just fine. Use my internal 1TB for
Bootcamp and time machine
Easy to install the ssd drive - just slide off the lid, slip in the disk and slide lid back on.
This has transformed my imac.
It is a nightmare to try to internally fit a ssd drive in an imac because the computer is difficult to take apart and rebuild.
An external drive is an easy solution to the apple problem - just plug it into the imac with the supplied usb cable.
It is easy to install os X onto this drive and make the mac boot from this.
I bought some velco sticky labels from amazon and used this to secure the drive to the back of the mac. It is therefore secure but easy to remove. (see photo)
This has transformed my mac. The wife and kids 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!!!!)
knack to jokinjp
1 Apr 16#25
Which iMac model? Which year?
goldmercury
31 Mar 16#12
Thanks OP ordered
matt101101
31 Mar 16#14
It looks like you're right, I had a look on CamelCamelCamel and it does seem like ~500GB SSDs were going for 150-160ish this time last year. I might finally be able to get rid of all my mechanical storage before the year is out!
EarlGrey
31 Mar 16#15
Thank you OP, been waiting for this to come back :smiley:
aLV426
31 Mar 16#16
+ £9.99 P & P............
Rumpel to aLV426
31 Mar 16#18
for me it was free on a 5 day delivery.
markc989
31 Mar 16#17
Thanks OP. Got this earlier on. Heat added!
elchery
31 Mar 16#20
Nice, it will be under 100 quid by Black Friday
treadingit
31 Mar 16#21
Great deal
Agharta
31 Mar 16#23
I doubt it is as most PCs aren't designed with Apple's obsession with making everything as small as possible.
I bought a Dell All-in-one for a family member and it was painless to swap out the RAM, HDD and even the CPU.
Apple prioritise form factor to the point of it being counter productive in many cases and that is something you need to consider when choosing the exact spec for an Apple product.
madmaxl2
1 Apr 16#26
just to let you know. having pure ssd drives is good for system. as in it will give you lighting boot up and shutdown speeds. but. i have 10 hard disks in my pc all 7200 rpm sata 3. like 3TB each. and i have 2 ssd in raid as my OS disks. and boot time is only a fraction of a second faster than having my OS on standard disks. because the system needs to load all 10 hdds as well while booting. so having an ssd as primary boot and a bunch of normal hdds is not gonna give you faster boot speeds. but once its booted apps and opening and closing stuff and copying to the main ssd is alot faster yes.
just take that into consideration before expecting lighting fast boot speeds if you gonna have some hhds along with your ssd.
but the size of this ssd for this price is awesome. if i can still get this deal im ordering a few
BenOo
1 Apr 16#27
Ahhhhhh Offer Expired!!!! been waiting for one of these for ages 8O(
weiran
1 Apr 16#28
If you do buy a caddy for the iMac make sure it's a Thunderbolt one to get the full performance
Helpful567 to weiran
3 Apr 16#36
I have a usb3 caddy - my machine is really quick and I am really pleased with it.
jokinjp
1 Apr 16#29
2011, I like the idea of having external but over USB do you see any compromise in speed? I'm guessing not with USB 3.0.
I can take the Mac apart and try it out but my eyes are not as good as they used to be.
GazMc99
1 Apr 16#30
expired :disappointed:
dryden11
1 Apr 16#31
Missed out!
matt101101
1 Apr 16#32
Theoretically you shouldn't see any performance bottleneck using USB 3.0; it has a maximum bandwidth of 5Gbps, which is greater than the 550MBps maximum speed of this drive. However, SATAIII has a maximum bandwidth of 6Gbps and people generally say that modern (and lots of not so modern) SATA SSDs saturate SATAIII. So, in the real world, you might see a slight performance hit with USB 3.0, but likely not much.
hero9989
1 Apr 161#33
Bare in mind that if your caddy doesn't support UASP then you won't get anywhere near the speed you should.
Also - If your caddy doesn't support this your PC won't send the trim command meaning performance will take a huge hit over time.
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Up to 28 times better performance than a typical hard disk drive
No-wait boot up and shut down
Faster app load and response times
Interface: SATA Revision 3.0 (6 Gb/s)
All comments (36)
You need to keep your eyes peeled.
However, I've promised myself I won't buy high capacity SSDs until I can get ~1TB drives for £100 or under. When they get to that price I'm willing to permanently say goodbye (and good riddance) to mechanical storage. I suspect I may well be waiting until Black Friday 2017, though :disappointed:.
Unless something drastic reverses the price tumbles it'll happen just fine.
But having been given an iMac to repair a few years ago, I agree, modern iMacs are not designed for tinkering.
I'm sure there are plenty of Windows AIO PCs which are equally painful to get into. On the other side of the fence, Macs such as the old style Mac Pro make replacing drives really easy.
Bootcamp and time machine
I have a 480gb sd drive attached to my imac via a usb cable in ca ddy
Click here for link to caddy
Easy to install the ssd drive - just slide off the lid, slip in the disk and slide lid back on.
This has transformed my imac.
It is a nightmare to try to internally fit a ssd drive in an imac because the computer is difficult to take apart and rebuild.
An external drive is an easy solution to the apple problem - just plug it into the imac with the supplied usb cable.
It is easy to install os X onto this drive and make the mac boot from this.
I bought some velco sticky labels from amazon and used this to secure the drive to the back of the mac. It is therefore secure but easy to remove. (see photo)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0017GKK5G?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o06_s01
This has transformed my mac. The wife and kids 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!!!!)
I bought a Dell All-in-one for a family member and it was painless to swap out the RAM, HDD and even the CPU.
Apple prioritise form factor to the point of it being counter productive in many cases and that is something you need to consider when choosing the exact spec for an Apple product.
just take that into consideration before expecting lighting fast boot speeds if you gonna have some hhds along with your ssd.
but the size of this ssd for this price is awesome. if i can still get this deal im ordering a few
I can take the Mac apart and try it out but my eyes are not as good as they used to be.
Also - If your caddy doesn't support this your PC won't send the trim command meaning performance will take a huge hit over time.
Anyone wants smaller size from Intel here it is
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/intel-535-series-120gb-2-5-sata-6gb-s-7mm-solid-state-hard-drive-oem-35-38-delivered-2424263