it isn't meaningless at all.

This or the Integral SSD that keeps popping up?

Got the integral one for under £24 and been fine so far, not sure if this is better for read/write speeds ?

Nice and the 3 year warranty is good.

Toshiba developed the initial technology in the base level so I'd go for that...based on nothing else

Warranty is meaningless - if this is worth £30 now what do you think it'll cost in 3 years time? Good deal all the same

Granted that you are more likely to see people post bad reviews on Amazon. Nevertheless, the reviews don't look good on Amazon UK and USA. Very high percentage of 1 star reviews when compared to other SSDs sold by Amazon.

link to Amazon UK reviews

link to Amazon US reviews

Integral SSD looks like a better buy imho.

does not make sense, 240crucial and sandisk at less than £40 from time to time

It £6.24 cheaper at £23.74 if you use promo code at mymemory (MM5FB).

I love a bit of history, when you are buying other brands...you are really buying Toshiba :wink:

Tried to sell a brand new boxed 480GB Q300 for £50 to someone in the wanted section yesterday, they turned me down.
I hate rejection :disappointed: .

Not sure about those Amazon reviews, I've installed a lot of Q300's over the last couple of Months and none have been reported faulty yet.
Maybe just a bad batch from Amazon?

the q300 are basement bucket ssds..

The warranty is totally relevant.

You increase your chances of ending up with something better, or even newer if your device becomes faulty 2.5 years down the road and you've got a 3 year warranty, more so than you do with a one. As the manufacture will probably no longer stock the current version and will more than likely offer you a newer replacement if you're lucky. So you could effectively end up with the latest gen hardware further down the road for no additional cost. :laughing:

I've had newer replacement parts in the past from Samsung, Logitech and Microsoft.

If your thinking, well who's going to be using a 120GB SSD 3 years down the road, you will be surprised. People are still booting tiny operating systems like Xpenology, Slax, Puppy Linux, Freenas, pFsense and other small software using old Sata, IDE, USB and CF cards or whatever spares they've got lol.

Just because something becomes old it doesn't necessarily become redundant, just look at the fact that they still offer serial, parallel, PCI and PS2 ports on 2016 thin-itx motherboards and look how old those things are. :laughing:

Save your money, spend another 15 or so quid and get an m.2 SSD, something like the Samsung 850 EVO, 120gb is around 50 quid and the speed is like 6gb/s, much better imo

Not sure in what context your were replying to me in.

The point of my reply was to ask what relevance does the warranty have to 'what do you think it will cost in 3 years time'. None whatsoever. Neither did I mention that people won't be using 120gb SSDs in 3 years time. But its likely this particular drive won't be available in 3 years time, making the above earlier quoted comment irrelevant.

But yes, a long warranty is a good thing, and yes, if it fails close to the end of warranty, it's likely it will be replaced by a newer model.

only really on iops which mechanical drives can't match and never will do.

The short answer: No.
The long answer: Noooooo.

Not much reason to spend the extra money then 8-)

Speed is speed man, an m.2 will be much faster than a HDD or SSD, just as a better SSD will be too. Theres a reason an Evo costs slightly more, its a top seller cos its super fast, super reliable, with a warranty from a global brand with excellent customer service

Ah yes, the same reason I see loads of people pottering around town on their £10,000 carbon fibre racing bikes...