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​great, thanks for letting me know

I think having Amazon's customer service with worth paying the extra £10 for though :smiley:

Looks like the best price so far:

I have been thinking of getting a new SSD for a while now. I was comparing the 840 EVO that I currently have, to this SanDisk and the 850 EVO I might have bought.

I have been reading plenty of reviews and discovered that budget range SSDs fall down in several areas when it comes to performance - but it's very confusing because so many of the benchmarks are suited for different use cases. I randomly clicked on one and it said 'This benchmark result is ideal for servers'. That doesn't help me. I also don't do video editing / large file writing. My use case is for games - I have no idea what 'IOPS' or '4K RANDOM READ' etc benchmarks apply to the quick loading of games, but seeing that the benchmarks vary so greatly between different brands and ranges, I didn't want to be unlucky and end up getting an SSD that, as it turns out, is nowhere near as fast as another model for loading games, because it happens to be much faster elsewhere, like for server operation.

I specifically didn't ask about M.2 etc drives because I'm pretty sure my motherboard doesn't have the slot for it.

So yes, while the average person will see improved performance no matter which SSD they purchase, that's a generalisation. I was asking if anybody knew whether this SSD was specifically good for the type of usage scenario I described. I know that the ADATA budget range sometimes falls to 0 when writing large files, which is the sort of poor performance I want to avoid in my usage scenario which is reading (small? or large?) game files.

You're right about one thing, though, I have learnt a lesson about deals. Though I cannot help myself but point out that I did not at all think the deal lasted 'forever'. In fact, I thought it lasted for about 5 more hours. per the countdown on Amazon's website. Hardly 'forever'.

Indeed.. So sad :disappointed:

so sad that no deals for Pro versions with such capacities

£6 difference to the previous sale price. Hardly "nowhere near".

Good, I'm sure you would have starved delaying your dinner by the 5 mins it would have taken you to purchase it. It doesn't matter how long the deal was up, the longer you wait the higher the chance it will have expired. Maybe you'll have learned a lesson from it.

If you have knowledge of other types of SSD, what's so hard about knowing about a standard SATA one? Maybe if you didn't need to wait for some form of validation from other HUKD'ers to tell you how to use it with your existing SSD, you'd have one by now.

Oh and as for not answering your question, I don't understand how I can make it clearer to you. If a faster NVME/M.2 SSD drive doesn't make a noticeable difference compared to a normal SSD, comparing your normal EVO SSD to this one is negligible in terms of responsiveness and speeds. All that extra crap where it may beat it in benchmarks amount to zero real world performance. You're not going to notice that extra 100ms you saved booting up into your system.

So if you still don't get it I'll spell it out clearly for you.

IT DOES NOT MATTER

Asking about the 'Best plan of action for its use'. It's an SSD, just use it how you like. One would think you've never seen one in your life before with phrases like that. I can see why you missed the deal if you were pondering about how you're going to use it. You make it sound like you're making a lifelong commitment to it.

There's nothing more annoying than someone who'll sit and not act on a deal, yet then whine about it because they missed out. You've only got yourself to blame, not Amazon.

So now I'm going to do like everyone else and not bother to reply to your posts. Maybe next time you'll remember you missed out on this deal and not make the same mistake of thinking every deal lasts forever.

Well excuse me for getting a bit hungry and wanting to eat dinner first!

The deal had been up for 18 hours and was still up when I first saw the deal. So actually, there was nothing immediately 'urgent' to me, I had just thought that it would be available until the end of the daily deal timer, which was at 6 hours before I had dinner.

Also, you didn't really answer my question. I was asking about its suitability as a drive for games and also what the best plan of action for its use would be, considering my existing SSD. I am aware of the other types of faster SSD... but that's simply not what I asked.

First off, I'm not flaming you but you are moaning/getting upset about the deal ending when you had plenty of time to get one. You don't have to be on every day looking at the same SSD go on a deal, you were here whilst it was still on offer for that price and you didn't grab your chance.

No one owes you a reply to your query, and if you do wait for a reply the deal can expire like most do.
If you want to know, there are faster drives out there but they're more expensive and have faster writes and reads (NVME drives, PCI-E/M.2 drives that aren't SATA based).

However, they make very little difference in terms of making your system faster (than a normal SATA 3 SSD) except in certain workload scenarios that most people won't ever run into. I'd buy a drive and use it in my system just to get rid of the traditional hard drive.

So buying a faster SSD with 1000+ MB/s read and write speeds won't make your system boot noticeably faster than it does with a normal SSD, you'll just be able to copy and write at faster speeds.

Nowhere near as good a price as today.

Alright mate, I know this is *hot* UK Deals but can you turn the flame down a bit? Yes I did post in the thread earlier - nice to note that nobody bothered replying to my queries there, yet you're all too happy to flame me now?

Point is the deal had been up for ages and yet went down in the half an hour gap when I had dinner. Bit miffed at that. Also I am sorry I am not on HUKD every day looking at the same SSD go on a deal.

Really annoyed i missed this :disappointed:

Then buy it next time instead of faffing about... You seem to have had plenty of time to see the deal and post in the thread did you not?

This deal ended prematurely which I am incredibly upset about...

Who isww
Who is Shawsenegger ? Anyway no self respecting Brit should do anything to support the bombers.

Good drive to replace a 120GB 840 EVO and enable me to run ALL my programs and games off?

Or should I stick with the 840 EVO for OS and run games off the Sandisk

Or should I get an 850 EVO for games?

people wake up do not ever buy sandisk, worst company and products ever. these only last a few months and die. its like buying marshmellow tyre for your car , nice and sweet cheap tyre but burn out after first trip.

Arghhhh. Paid £150 two weeks ago. :sunglasses:

50% more performance for 50% more money - so get what you pay for!

Still several hundred percent better than a 5.2k spindle....

http://ssd.userbenchmark.com/Compare/SanDisk-Ultra-II-240GB-vs-Samsung-850-Evo-250GB/2548vs2977

The Evo is SO. MUCH. BETTER. Heat for the low price and space, but honestly if you're looking for speed the Evo is the one, makes this look like a HDD not an SSD!

EDIT: if you look at the 1TB Evo vs this 960GB specifically the difference is even bigger!

http://ssd.userbenchmark.com/Compare/SanDisk-Ultra-II-960GB-vs-Samsung-850-Evo-1TB/3582vs3576

wow so tempting at this price

If it's a non-retina (these models still have a DVD drive), yes.

Will this be OK to put in my Dell Vostro 3900?

Lx

I'm boring saying this but M.2 NVMe SSDs are technically a lot better, but many people won't have the M.2 connection, also you'd need the workload to tax an M.2. The sequential read/write and IOPS are a lot faster. I notice the speed difference, but it depends on your workload, you won't get 960GB for £139.99 yet on M.2.

Ordered this on Amazon last week for £174, so gutted!

Would this fit in a 2013 Macbook Pro?

That's a very bold statement, and a cool story, bro.

Have been looking for a large size SSD for a while, Thanks OP heat added.

The enclosure would fit but the speeds would be poor due to having no UASP.

thanks been looking for one of these at as good price!

My pleasure.

​great, thanks for letting me know

this will be my new game drive. OS runs on a separate drive.

Top drive much faster than the lower capacity SSDs.
Excellent Heat+

I ordered this a few weeks ago at £145...great buy at that so this is a top deal.
Currently have Samsung 850 PROs in my desktop and there is no massive real world difference between them and the Sandisk...it's a great SSD especially for the price.
People that pick over benchmark scores need to chill and understand that most SSDs perform well enough for the average punter these days.
I run a photography business and using SSDs allow me to use all of my memory heavy programs with ease.
Buy this with confindence:-))

adam laless ? he is a Legend ... Truly , a man with no name, who rights wrongs. If you combined Edwood Woodward, Steven Seagal and Shawsenegger you would nt even come close to the deal-making capacity this man has

aDAM laless is doing it for £129 inc postage (from Ireland) .... but this is a good price ....

Great price. Ordered.

Can confirm that its the lowest price ever.

with 5% off amazon prime/nus discount price is £132.99.

This is a brilliant price. I have the 240gb version from about a year or two years ago works well. Absolutely brilliant deal as this price. Heat added.

Does anyone know how this compares the Samsung 850 EVO? I was going to get the 500GB Evo for £111 but the extra capacity from this is tempting. Is this the better buy?

had mine for over 6months no problems. bought this to replace a raid 5 setup with Samsung 840pro. slight performance drop but this is definitely more stable.

I already do regular backups, but a drive crapping out would still be massively inconvenient even if it is covered by warranty. Especially as it'll be the boot drive so the PC would be useless until a replacement arrived. That said I also know no model is immune to failure. I've personally seen one of the Sansungs die too.

Make sure you backup important files.
Also 3 year warranty when you register product on the SanDisk website.

Thanks, I was leaning towards this one given the price and capacity. I wont be doing a lot of file copying anyway other than the initial OS and then game installs. So max speeds aren't the be all and end all anyway so much as the read speed/random access, which seems more or less comparable across any but the oldest SSD's.

Although after reading through some of the Amazon reviews it looks like these may suffer from reliability problems. A lot of reviews reports drives DOA or dieing after a couple of months use.

Don't get that enclosure, it's slow for SSDs. Inatek FE2005 is the way to go, got me 100+ more MB/s that the Orico.

This is a scorcherino!

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I can't see why it wouldn't, any 7-9.5mm 2.5“ drive should fit.

Only after a 480GB, am going to put it into this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/External-Enclosure-Tool-free-Installation-Compatible/dp/B00BH83LYG/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1465947467&sr=8-4&keywords=Ssd+enclosure

But contemplating getting this larger version, but would the enclosure fit?

hot

Looks like the best price so far: