Integral P Series 2.5 inch 120GB SATA III Solid State Drive - £23.74

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Will there be any noticeable difference between the SanDisk and the Integral? Looking to upgrade the laptops hard drive and wondered if the extra few quid for the SanDisk was worth it?

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Ebuyer Price for Sandisk 120GB SSD is £30.97 including delivery. Needs editing.
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Thanks for the epic reply. I have two laptops, one is really really old, like were talking nearly 10 years old (Dell 1720) and I upgraded the RAM to 4GB and put one of those 120GB Integrals in it in order to give it to the in-laws as a computer they can do basic word processing on. It seems to have sped it up quite well and even got Win10 running on it haha!

My other laptop is my current one day to day and I have a few games on it and use it for various things.....so wondered if that was enough justification for going for the SanDisk (or even a Samsung as you mentioned) but I reckon based on your reply the Integral would be sufficient. It has two bays so can always use the old HDD as a 2nd drive in the laptop. That being said...I have an 480gb 850 EVO in my desktop and its very very fast...but as you say, cant justify the cost of putting it in my laptop really. Based on this I might go for the SanDisk and then its only about £27 on the Crucial website to upgrade my laptops RAM to 8GB and then I can sell the 6GB that's currently in there for about £16 on eBay. Jobs a goodun, nice speed increases for about £38.

Considering the price, the Integral benchmarks very well against the 850 Evo. Until you hit the cache of course. Still, for less than £24 I'm very impressed with the performance. The sequential read speeds are very high, and are actually consistently higher than all four of my 850 Evos (without RAPID of course).

I don't have any first-hand experience with the SanDisk SSDs, but I honestly can't see them being better than the Integral.

Also worth noting that delivery typically takes 5 business days, for anybody wanting one in a rush.

Is this a Sandisk deal at ebuyer or a Integral P Series 2.5 inch 120GB - £23.74 @ MyMemory?
The My memory deals for the integral that have already been posted are still live at the moment.

Integral 120GB P Series 4 SATA III 2.5" SSD Drive | £23.27 with code @ MyMemory

Integral P Series 2.5 inch 120GB SATA III Solid State Drive £24.99 Dispatched from and sold by MyMemory @ Amazon:laughing:

For almost everyone either will be fine. If windows takes 0.5 seconds longer to boot or word 0.2 seconds more to launch you won't notice.

Both are faster than almost everyone will ever need.

Could I use the integral on a PS3?

Already did, I bought the integral two weeks ago for £22.34 (TCB), bargain. :stuck_out_tongue:

Thanks both! I was worried with the size that might not fit :sunglasses: have a great weekend and thanks to the op too

Mine took a couple of days longer than I expected, but it's also significantly better than I expected. Worth the wait in my opinion.

I got mine in a few days to be fair.

They're probably back logged due to the large amount of people that would have placed their orders at the time when the deal was first posted, plus the bank holiday weekend wouldn't have helped.

ordered one, thanks

If anyone is concerned about the durability of these..... it's very good.

We use them at work. They go into touch screen devices we produce. They then deal with high volume user traffic in always on devices and the failure rate (as far as I'm aware, I don't have anything directly to do with hardware returns) is very low.

are these SanDisk drives encrypted like the Samsung?

Thanks!

Im quite confused, why is this deal being linked to another deal?

Agree - you end up with comments like and you have to assume they apply to the SanDisk - but maybe they apply to the Integral?

Regarding Integral, the reason it is so cheap is because it uses Phison S10 controller with 15nm TLC NAND - so performance and potentially durability would be quite poor compared to better SSDs. MLC-based Sandisk is generally be a more sensible choice. Still, great price for a 120GB SSD.

The head of R&D at Integral rang me earlier in the week and inter alia told me that the Integral SSD should easily last for 5 years in normal use in a PC or laptop. Your "performance and potentially durability would be quite poor" statement seems eminently vague - any hard facts and figures to back up either? On the Integral thread, others have posted performance stats for the drive which suggest it actually has pretty decent performance.

Waiting. For the integral drive from my memory 26 days so far dispatched another after 21 dreadful won't use them again I'll probably get a refund when the 2nd doesn't turn up after 10 days.

It's coming from Switzerland so you may just have been unlucky with the postal service.

Can these be used a external usb drive? Ta

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So this statement is not right if they are coming from Switzerland what a shambles.
Thanks for the reply I think I saw ou state that in the post I ordered it from.

​Yes, you could either get a USB caddy or just a SATA to USB cable to connect it to your computer. In both cases USB 3 would be the best option.

Good to see people thinking about encryption.

No, Sandisk Plus/Ultra does not support hardware encryption (as posted earlier) you need a Intel SSD or a Samsung SSD drive for the best/easiest way of doing encryption-hardware based encryption. Phison S10 controller supports hardware encryption, but its not implemented by Integral. The temperature sensor in the Integral is also not implemented, it gives a false static reading of 30 degrees.

The Samsung SSD self encrypts if the laptop's firmware harddisk password is enabled (in theory, its flawed though on some older Samsung - you need to set both bios admin and harddisk passwords, to prevent someone putting this SSD in an identical machine and using their own admin password to reset the harddisk password, then being able to access your data, as an admin password can override a harddisk password), i.e. you have to enter a bios admin password to boot the machine/enter the bios. The encryption keys gets hardcoded in some SSDs too, stored openly in SSD, so someone determined, could get it that way too.
If you have very sensitive stuff - Intellectual IP. etc, more research / Enterprise SSDs/850 Evos are probably the best route, as they meet international standards.

Its now what you are really paying the extra for with Samsung, support and utilities/encryption. Certainly for business use, most people should choose Intel or Samsung and activate the encryption. Its helpful, but on some SSDs seems designed not to be completely fullproof. (In the UK, Courts can force you to give up your encryption keys)

Oddly, even the Sandisk Extreme Pro doesn't support encryption (aimed at gamers instead). The Integral has no support software (as yet).

Integral doesn't have encryption. (i.e. via Power On bios password activated encryption like Samsung)

(I installed Windows 10 to an Integral SSD. On a HP machine I set the Bios Admin Password + Power On Password, i then removed the Win10 install Integral SSD, I then placed it in an identical HP machine without/clear bios admin password + Power on Password, the Integral SSD was fully bootable/accessible)

Royal Mail are responsible for delivery once in the UK, I believe.

Yes you can I bought one the other day and it's running nicely as far as I can tell so far. If you have the 12gb version it's even easier to do, and it ports over files automatically, but I'd back then up to usb first just in case

Many thanks! Item says dispached so next week should be here!

You can get a caddy from Amazon or eBay for under £2. Can find you a link to the one i bought if you like that fitted just fine if you have the 12gb super slim, don't know about other models.

Sorry pressed report instead of reply :disappointed: I have the old slim so I would probably need to fiddle around with clonezilla or backup with USB like suggested :smiley:

Had one of these for around three months. About a week ago it started going to second boot priority and I had to keep moving it back. Yesterday it disappeared altogether. Tried everything got it showing up a few times but PC wouldn't boot seems the Windows was corrupt. Tried to reset Windows 10 which went to 100% but then it wouldn't show up after reboot, which continued the cycle.

Anybody any ideas?

I'd check the cable - I've known the cables/cable connectors to go wrong

I'm a long way from an SSD expert, but your drive mught be ****ed. Apparentl;y, SSDs have a maximum read/write cycle...

They do but so do conventional HDDs. You'd have to be really really really thrashing to wear it out in 3 months.

I barely used the PC. Still haven't got around to buying a graphics card, it's simply been used for browsing and my son watching CBeebies with breakfast.

I bought it in February. Contacted Amazon and they're sending a replacement. Didn't even have to go into detail or go back and forward with emails, it was too quality customer service to be honest.

Whilst I was waiting I took the whole PC apart to see if I could get it working. I'm now getting bloody USB current overload your computer will shut down in 15 seconds. Tried everything, took all USB device out, took USB jumpers out, USB cables, restarted and same issue. Reset CMOS. Nothing works.

These bloody SSD's are great when they work but it seems to me from my short experience and reading others, they're more trouble than they're worth. Perhaps it's better to invest in a more expensive more stable drive?

You'll see I mentioned the cables can be a problem. With everything else you've got going on, it doesn't sound like it's your drive to me, at least I'm not sure I'd start there.

With everything else maybe even your mother board?

Possibly. I've currently got my motherboard assembled on its box with only essential cables and I'm still getting USB DEVICE CURRENT OVERLOAD

That doesn't sound like your SSD could be blamed. I had a laptop booting up with that message the other day after upgrading to W10, but it seems to be behaving itself again I think.

I can't seen to solve the issue. I guess I'm gonna have to return the motherboard.

Did you clone your original hdd to the ssd or carry out a fresh install.