One of the top benchmarked SATA SSDs which has gone hot every week at higher prices than this!
A lot of good SSD deals this weekend (see the 960GB Sandisk deal) but you'll have a hard time finding better performance at this £/GB and with a 5 year warranty.
Controller: Samsung MGX Controller
DRAM Cache Memory: 512MB
Sequential Read: 540Mbps
Sequential Write: 520Mbps
4KB Random Read (QD1): Max 10,000 IOPS
4KB Random Write (QD1): Max 40,000 IOPS
4KB Random Read (QD32): Max 98,000 IOPS
4KB Random Read (QD32): Max 90,000 IOPS
Reliability: MTBF: 1.5 million hours
Warranty: 5 Years
TBW: 150TBW
Data Security: AES 256-bit Full Disk Encryption (FDE) / TCG/Opal V2.0 Encrypted Drive (IEEE1667)
Real world? All SATA SSDs "feel" roughly around as quick as each other in normal use - depends if you're a slave to benchmarking or like to move a lot of data around all the time.
Unfortunately most of the other decent SSD deals expired at midnight so if you're after bang per buck then personally I'd hold out for another deal over this bank holiday weekend (NB that Kingston has been hovering around that price for 3 months so should still be there if nothing else pops up).
DealJourno
28 May 16#12
Getting closer to the £90 I paid in November. I wish Amazon would do another lightning deal at that price.
williampriv
28 May 162#13
Very good price. I regret buying a 120gb version for £45, I can barely install one game on it after putting the operating system and a few programs on it.
taras
28 May 16#14
Can be as low as a 3gb directory copy for some ssds to degrade :disappointed:
Undisclosed2
28 May 16#15
Absolutely cracking SSD - thoroughly recommend. I paid £145 in June last year, and don't regret it at all :smiley:
carterma
28 May 16#16
500Gb?
cavannix
28 May 16#17
And from were? Do you got the link plz?
beejan
28 May 16#18
1 tb for 149 from same place posted earlier was deal killer which i missed though
adsthompson
28 May 16#19
Hi all is this MacBook Pro compatible as looking to upgrade to upgrade to ssd
beejan
28 May 16#20
it wont fit internally but will work as a usb hdd
Cameron583
28 May 16#21
It will fit a Mac book pro, just not the retina series. I've fitted and SSD into my father's 2010 Mac book :-)
Tino_G
28 May 16#22
Fitted this in my 2011 Macbook Pro and it's absolutely transformed it. My macbook feels like a new laptop, boot times are insanely quick and it's not crashed once. Got this on a black friday deal from amazon, think I paid £87.
If you have an old macbook and still have the stock hard drive get this now it's superb! :smile:
benfin
28 May 16#23
good find
Schmutz
28 May 16#24
I bought this back when it came out and paid so much e.g. £300 or so.
My brother wants one, and this seems like a good deal but I found it on eBay for about £103 and with the 10x nectar points...
what do you think?
montblanc
28 May 16#25
If only the 250GB one could be £53 :P
adsthompson
28 May 16#26
Does it need any adapters
adsthompson
28 May 16#27
Any issues with El Capitan at all
Schmutz
28 May 16#28
This is on eBay for cheaper right now and with 10x Nectar Points. Would you still recommend Amazon? If yes, why?
nomnomnomnom
29 May 16#29
Cheaper by how much?
The biggest reason to go with Amazon is their returns process. You don't say who the company on Ebay is though, so difficult to compare.
Schmutz
29 May 16#30
Any seller on eBay who are advertising as "new" and showing it comes with the standard warranty, which for this I believe is 5 years. eBay buyer protection is extremely reliable so I do have a lot of confidence when buying from sellers with high feedback ratings. Should anything go wrong (barring DOA) it would be a case of contacting Samsung to deal with a replacement.
What do you think?
benfisher1991
29 May 16#31
Cheers, ordered!
Replacing my old 120GB Corsair Force 3.
benfisher1991
29 May 161#32
£3 for amazon returns is worth it IMO.
jamesakabob
29 May 161#33
Full 5 years, I emailed Samsung customer service and received the below response:
"This is to acknowledge that I have received your email about the warranty of the SSD purchased from Amazon. I just want to confirm that the warranty still stands and is determined by the serial number attached to the product. For more details and information about the warranty of all Samsung products, you may also refer to the link below:
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Opening post
A lot of good SSD deals this weekend (see the 960GB Sandisk deal) but you'll have a hard time finding better performance at this £/GB and with a 5 year warranty.
http://ssd.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Samsung-850-Evo-500GB-vs-SanDisk-Ultra-II-960GB/3477vs3582
Specifications:
Controller: Samsung MGX Controller
DRAM Cache Memory: 512MB
Sequential Read: 540Mbps
Sequential Write: 520Mbps
4KB Random Read (QD1): Max 10,000 IOPS
4KB Random Write (QD1): Max 40,000 IOPS
4KB Random Read (QD32): Max 98,000 IOPS
4KB Random Read (QD32): Max 90,000 IOPS
Reliability: MTBF: 1.5 million hours
Warranty: 5 Years
TBW: 150TBW
Data Security: AES 256-bit Full Disk Encryption (FDE) / TCG/Opal V2.0 Encrypted Drive (IEEE1667)
*lowest regular price, excluding lightning deals (thanks roycom :p)
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Fair play though, you win!
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kingston-Technology-480GB-Solid-State/dp/B00FXJWO5C/ref=sr_1_1?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1464394759&sr=1-1&keywords=480GB+SSD
Real world? All SATA SSDs "feel" roughly around as quick as each other in normal use - depends if you're a slave to benchmarking or like to move a lot of data around all the time.
Unfortunately most of the other decent SSD deals expired at midnight so if you're after bang per buck then personally I'd hold out for another deal over this bank holiday weekend (NB that Kingston has been hovering around that price for 3 months so should still be there if nothing else pops up).
If you have an old macbook and still have the stock hard drive get this now it's superb! :smile:
My brother wants one, and this seems like a good deal but I found it on eBay for about £103 and with the 10x nectar points...
what do you think?
The biggest reason to go with Amazon is their returns process. You don't say who the company on Ebay is though, so difficult to compare.
What do you think?
Replacing my old 120GB Corsair Force 3.
"This is to acknowledge that I have received your email about the warranty of the SSD purchased from Amazon. I just want to confirm that the warranty still stands and is determined by the serial number attached to the product. For more details and information about the warranty of all Samsung products, you may also refer to the link below:
http://www.samsung.com/uk/support/warranty/"