Its possible that your friend might be a mere nincompoop?.. :laughing:

- I got this for £22.34 (TCB)

- This comes with 3 Year Warranty, worst case it can ever cost me is £22.34:laughing:

- £22.34 divided by the 3 years warranty = £7.44 per year (less than a box of cigarettes a year) :stuck_out_tongue:

- Data loss and drive failure is an issue on even the most expensive drives. Rule of thumb, always backup critical data in multiple locations even on the most expensive devices.

- Data failure is not an issue for me as this will be getting used as cache anyway. Now show me 128GB SSD with up to 565MB/s Read and up to 420MB/s Write for £22.34 with 3 Years warranty delivered to my door.

My mate Dave knows a man, that knows a man, who's uncle's friends nephews step son said these drives are awesome.. So if him and his neighbours mate says so it must be true (globally). FACT!

Illuminati confirmed!

Please feel free to post your URLs to all of these supposed high failure rate claims; remembering to include the actual device model numbers that were tested, along with hardware versions and firmware versions just be clear. :laughing:

Its best to do that, as the last thing you want is other HUKD members thinking you're fear mongering and trying to ruin someone's opportunity to get a deal or the OPS opportunity to get some heat.

Proof please, none of this!

What reported failure rates?
Mine is working fine. 100%.

Oh no! I hope nobody was hurt.

£25 just for today!
https://www.mymemory.co.uk/SSD-Drives/Integral/Integral-120GB-P-Series-4-SATA-III-2.5INCH-SSD-Drive

Is this TLC or MLC flash? Any reviews?

Is TRIM supported?

I think my write speeds are less than a mechanical drive...no where close to the "Write up to 420MB/s"...surely this is more important than tax issues...please someone prove me wrong...

Nothing wrong with drop shipping but that's not the issue with this kinda deal

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/notice-143-a-guide-for-international-post-users/notice-143-a-guide-for-international-post-users#postal-packages-imported-arriving-from-countries-outside-the-eu
2.3 What are the limits for customs duty and import VAT?
commercial consignments ie goods you have purchased, of £15 or less are free from Customs Duty and import VAT. Note: This does not include alcohol, tobacco products, perfume or toilet waters; these items are excluded from the relief of duty and VAT at import. In addition, commercial consignments sent to the UK from the Channel Islands do not benefit from any relief of import VAT

If this was purchased from mymemory when they were based in Jersey it would have cost more as they would have to had to charge 20% vat...... There was a loophole but as so many UK companies were moving their businesses off shore to Jersey the govt closed the loophole.
What mymemory did was shift their operation to Switzerland which as you can see above should also be charged vat if they correctly declared the value at £24.
So in reality by buying from them, we are supporting jobs going off shore cos it's cheaper when they dodge the vat by a) falsely declaring the value and b) shipping it from outside the EU. It's the same as the Chinese sellers on eBay who have UK warehouses but don't pay the vat.
The point about the value being the cost of the item is wrong as there is no way the item cost to them was the 15 they declared. Margins on this kind of equipment is so slim I wonder whether they are even making a profit on £24.
So yes I bought it, and I benefited from it but the system at the moment is rigged to stuff any UK company wanting to sell this kinda stuff cos of this use of the tax system. OK it's probably technically not dodgy, but it's not helping this country if the gov't doesn't act.

Could be wrong but I don't see how this is a tax dodge? Sounds like a drop shipping arrangement to me direct from the supplier so they can provide a keen price. The value is likely based on the cost of the item, not the retail price, which is fair as the cost is the true value of the item to the sender.

​Thanks Laura, that's somewhat reassuring.

Anyone else find theirs took a long time coming, or had carriage problems with MyMemory? "Dispatched" a week and a half ago (free option), but nothing yet and no tracking info. They say wait 21 days before reporting. I see they are based in Jersey.

Warranty is 3 years, IIRC.

Information on warranty?

What about speeds? AS SSD is producing these results. What's everyone think?

First one was without using AHCI, second one with Microsoft AHCI driver (but I still think something isn't right...especially read access time), third one is with AMD SATA driver/controller.





This was the original benchmark screenshot in an old thread. (supposedly)



I'm still researching but I'm on Windows 7 so maybe I'm losing performance. Any thoughts as to why my access read time would be so high?

Anyone tried using the Intel driver (iaStor)?

Any firmware updates or drive software from Integral?

For anybody interested, I had a call from the head of R&D today and he told me that they were working on a utility that can be used to adjust SMART settings and perform TRIM manually, and that they are considering a monitoring utility that will indicate life remaining although he noted that such tools from other manufatcurers are generally pretty inaccurate. He also repeated that this model should easily last 5+ years in a desktop or laptop (as opposed to in a server doing fairly intensive I/O, I guess). A very nice guy as well, I have to say.

Cool! What are you having for dinner?

Just ordered one of these to give some life to an older laptop.

Anyone know about the warranty? Do we need to register? Our proof of purchase is the home printed looking invoice that came with drive?

Superb price to upgrade a cheapo laptop... :wink:

Ordered on 28th, dispatched 29th.

Arrived today. Plain packaging as mentioned before, you get just the bare drive and hard drive spacer

I'm just pretty stoked that a 2-year old core i5 laptop can run for nearly 6 hours on battery using one of these drives 8-)

Don't waste your time and effort. SSD's are superior in almost every way! Just make sure you back up as a failure will likely be all or nothing.

I wouldn't worry too much about the packaging there's no moving parts. Not ideal, but memory sticks and the like are often sent this way.

Can report the drive is pretty solid, outperforming my 840 PRO on an older controller.

Oh no! I hope nobody was hurt.

Yes, I'm hoping to do a comparison with a standard HDD set up similarly to gauge the benefits.

Also, had a further response from Integral today about the possibility of some sort of health monitoring utility for this drive and clarification on TRIM functionality - might be of interest to some:

Hey guys! I received mine today too through normal letter packaging, very dangerous.

Yes, delivered by the postman and no signature required. It would go through a normal letterbox.

ditto

Dispatch on 26th and still no drive.

I'm assuming it's just delivered by the postman as opposed to a van, can anyone confirm?

Rage building.

To be honest mate, that tells us pretty much nothing. I think it's fair to assume a hard disk will draw more power as it's mechanical, and high spec drives get hot.. but there are just too many random variables and unknowns there to draw any conclusions.

Mine arrived today, dispatched 26th.

I've not had many Integral components, but the USB sticks I've had were really good quality. Hope this is too.

To give some idea of the benefits of using an SSD, I have put one of these drives into a second-hand Toshiba L50t-A-145 laptop (4th gen Core i5-4200M CPU), and with base Win XP SP3, device drivers, Avast anti-virus and Zone Alarm firewall installed, the battery lasted ~5hr 50mins with the laptop left running idle (wi-fi disconnected, screen blanked), whereas the spec states: "maximum life : up to 4h00min (Mobile Mark™ 2012)". That would appear to be ~50% improvement on battery life over a brand new battery. I haven't tried it with a standard HDD to compare the performance.

Thanks, might take a look at that if I get a chance. Have put in a request with Integral for them to offer some sort of technical/monitoring software for their drives - still waiting to hear back...

That isn't the drive.

Also, for you information Integral like Crucial, Kingston, Sony and everyone else uses a Phison NAND controller in their SSD's.

Also note, the model that you've suggested supports AES, whereas the integral doesn't.

Fire up some screen shots of the internals of that model and I will compare it to the actual Integral circuit.

I think so (I had it delivered to work reception) but it comes via airmail from Switzerland.

by the way, this is a drive made by Phison who also make medion microSD cards seen recently in Aldi
http://www.phison.com/edit55big5/uploadfile/PS3110%202%205%20SATA%20SSD%20simplified%20datasheet%200126%202016.pdf

So did I. Still haven't got it.

Thanks for your reply. Mine was dispatched on 26th but hasn't arrived yet. Is the item delivered by royal mail?

I'm wondering if the Sony SSD Toolkit will recognise it, they are very similar drives, except Sony don't do a 120GB :wink:
http://www.sony.net/Products/memorycard/en_as/ssd_internal/index.html?j-short=/ssd_internal/

I ordered on 26th April and I got my dispatch notification on 27th April.

Hey, when was your item dispatched? I don't think I will be receiving mine today either considering the time is 14:29 now... :disappointed:

Got mine today, it will be a while until I make use of it though

For anybody interested, I have been in touch with Integral about a TRIM utility (still awaiting clarification on that), but I have been informed of the following:


Sounds very reassuring to me.

Mine did, yes.

I read the previous threads on this, may arrive by Tuesday, but expect it to take UP to two weeks.

They were coming from Switzerland but are this batch. Recipients - did you have an import sticker on your packaging?

Thanks for the expected date, will look forward to Tuesday. :smiley:

You are lucky, you received yours in 3 days. After experiencing brilliant delivery service from other retailers like amazon, of course I am disappointed when item does not arrive on the 3rd day.

I think mine took 5 business days to arrive. And don't forget Monday is a Bank Holiday so you won't be getting it before Tuesday now.

What are you disappointed for, yours said dispatched on Tuesday 26th April, their terms say 3-5 business days; its what you agreed too. :laughing:

Business days:
Day 1 (Wed 27th), Day 2 (Thur 28th), Day 3 (Fri 29th) = 3 DAYS LOL

Weekend:
Sat 30th, Sun 1st May

Bank Holiday:
Mon 2nd (doesn't count)

Business days:
Day 4 (Tue 3rd), Day 5 (Wed 4th) <----- Your not meant to complain until then mate LOL

Hi Laura, MyMemory drop ships this drive directly from Switzerland, so I imagine its on route. I ordered mine on Monday and received it on Thursday.

Regarding performance, I haven't actually installed it yet but if you scroll through previously posted deals you will see that pretty much everyone that has bought one and installed it have been pretty happy with its performance.

I did actually see someone post some screenshots of benchmarks on another deal which looked rather promising too. :wink:

I've seen someone have a moan, reporting how they got slower read and write speeds than advertised, but some people don't understand how computer hardware works and they were trying to run a SATAIII SSD drive capable of 565MB/s Read and 420MB/s Write speeds on older gen SATA I/II ports which simply aren't capable of achieving that sort of speed or throughput.

The rage queen was effectively complaining about the SSD all because his old hat motherboard was inadequate for the type of performance that's achievable from the improved technology found in newer drives.. :laughing:

- I got this for £22.34 delivered (TCB) :smile:
- I inadvertently supported a UK business (Integral) :laughing:
- Plus it ships with a 3 year warranty. :wink:

Havent received mine yet either. Dispatched on 26th. I feel very disappointed by their delivery service. I wonder if what they said about dispatch is even true.

Purchased about 50 of these used 35 over 3 months no failures yet

any good ? When did you order ??

Got it Thursday..

Has anyone who ordered this received it yet? I ordered Tuesday and nothing yet despite shipping confirmation on Wednesday.

Ordered one to go in an ICYBOX USB enclosure, to put music and video content to play off a BluRay player.

Not the end of the world if it fails.

We have different needs, I take the view than ANY SSD needs backing up.

And I'll pay a premium for important data, so I use a Samsung 840 Pro for my OS.

But I back that up too.

As tempting as it is I won't be.

Yes, that was my poor use of quoting the wrong comment - it wasn't aimed at your 'dont buy if in doubt' comment which is fair enough, moreso the other comments citing poor reliability without evidencing it. Anyway, I think the point's been made, we just need to see if anyone does have any first-hand bad exeriences/reports to come back with..

I never said the SSD is rubbish. I simply said don't buy the drive if you don't feel confident with it. I bought one today because someone had taken the drive apart and gave a list of the components used.

Furthermore, if it's more garbage than garbage collection then it goes back.

Thanks ordered. Paid £23.27. TCB £0.97 pending.

I only have 0.71 pending omg!! I lodged missing cashback claim and if successful i would be getting 0.93. How much did your final order cost? I paid 23.27.

It will probably die in transit. You'll probably just receive a jiffy bag full of dust.

Well I've ordered one simply so I can test it and see how it stacks up against my other SSDs. I'll post the results when it arrives... unless it dies as soon as I install it. These are ridiculously unreliable of course.

But what is fuelling the doubt? If someone knows something about these drives being unreliable then please share the info. If not, then it's really not helping people to just say 'they are probably crap'.

From previous deals seems like these are shipped from abroad..

Mine was shipped this morning does anyone know the typical waiting time..?

If in doubt don't buy.

Once again, where are the reports of unreliability? Not much point in saying this stuff with nothing to back it up.

try this free copier.
I use it and its simple and foolproof,has to be fro me to use it :-)
So long as the disc you want to clone has less than 120gb of date on including the O/S you wont have a problem
https://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html

Well, if you're happy for it to die then so be it but I would rather have something reliable.

Excellent, I wanted a cheap and small drive for my arcade cabinet.

Probably a stupid question, but;
If i currently have a system with a 750gb HDD, can i create an image (macramim? [spelling/invented name?!]) so long as i'm using under 120gb of storage, and mirror the image onto this drive (so i don't have to reinstall)?
thanks

Code not working for me.

Usually up to four weeks with TCB.

How long did it take to show pending?

​You got £1 from TCB? I have 96p pending. :/

I can't find anything about failure rates. Scaremongering perhaps?

Thanks, purchased one to replace a slow HD in a PC that doesn't do anything important.

This is perfect.

I'm Dave. I know a man, that knows a man, who's uncle's friends nephews step son said these drives are awesome.. So if he and my neighbours mate says so it must be true (globally). DOUBLE FACT! :man:

May use this on my smart TV for recording, does anyone know of a good case that would do this drive justice?

Just ordered. Very nice deal. Thanks for posting!

Anyone know if there is an Integral utility for checking firmware, upgrading firmware and performing TRIM operations?

Not a bad deal for a 120GB SSD. Heat added.

Like with any Raid configuration, regular backing up is always wise.

These drives have a few years warranty so if they hold up that long, they will have been worth the low cost. At this price, I might get a few more to play around with. Not really risking much at this price.

Please feel free to post your URLs to all of these supposed high failure rate claims; remembering to include the actual device model numbers that were tested, along with hardware versions and firmware versions just be clear. :laughing:

Its best to do that, as the last thing you want is other HUKD members thinking you're fear mongering and trying to ruin someone's opportunity to get a deal or the OPS opportunity to get some heat.

Proof please, none of this!

​I've been using two 120GB OCZ Vertex IIIs in RAID0 for over for years with same read speed 1GB/s+ in Windows and linux (dual boot). I know the failure rate of OCZs and concede I'm probably an exception to the rule, but I would hope that like me everyone else with such a setup will be storing and backing up precious files onto slower, higher capacity HDDs. booting an OS in 5 seconds, for me, outweighs the inevitable (but replaceable) failure of lowly rated SSDs.

What reported failure rates?
Mine is working fine. 100%.

I bought two of these to try in Raid 0, on my spare 4790K system. Getting over 1000 MB/s read and write speeds. Very impressive for under £47 and 240GB capacity.

You just blew my mind.

Great price - heat added!

could I stick this in a case, add a Y cable and plug it in to a Wii U?

Use these little drives in an external enclosure for MySQL scratch. No problems with this so far (ordered mine off of the last deal)...

I have bought loads of these for clients laptops and pcs and everyone has been spot on....(touch wood). How can you moan about a drive for that price and that warranty. always use a backup anyway.

Its possible that your friend might be a mere nincompoop?.. :laughing:

- I got this for £22.34 (TCB)

- This comes with 3 Year Warranty, worst case it can ever cost me is £22.34:laughing:

- £22.34 divided by the 3 years warranty = £7.44 per year (less than a box of cigarettes a year) :stuck_out_tongue:

- Data loss and drive failure is an issue on even the most expensive drives. Rule of thumb, always backup critical data in multiple locations even on the most expensive devices.

- Data failure is not an issue for me as this will be getting used as cache anyway. Now show me 128GB SSD with up to 565MB/s Read and up to 420MB/s Write for £22.34 with 3 Years warranty delivered to my door.

My mate Dave knows a man, that knows a man, who's uncle's friends nephews step son said these drives are awesome.. So if him and his neighbours mate says so it must be true (globally). FACT!

Illuminati confirmed!

Bought one of these from Amazon, partially paid for using the £15 Amazon voucher from Halfrauds Autocentre (for buying Dunlop Sport BluResponse tyres). Boot time of my PC is now significantly faster than before. Previously I was using a standard hard drive.

How easy is it to claim warranty from Integral?

Installed one of these yesterday which I got from the deal a few weeks ago. Getting the speeds quoted in the specs.

Throw away price for a first SSD for those who want to see the speed improvements.

got mine didn't realise it was coming from Switzerland came really fast very pleased put into a lenovo x220 for my daughter that I took the ssd out of but then didn't realise it needed a 7mm drive so could only refit an ssd seems a good drive

Installed three of these, no problems so far. They are super quick, when compared to a conventional hard drive.

placed an order last time it was posted, stil have to receive it. Mymemory says to wait 17 days :neutral_face:

failure rate on these is quite high, a friend bought 4, 3 failed.