Nightmare paid £55 for one 2 days ago - heat added

I don't know what to make of this drive. According to the Amazon reviews there seems to be a lot of people complaining of failures.

Did anyone get the 480gb one on eBay for 18.99 yesterday?

I use the 120gb version as my boot drive but don't trust it for storage - it's never let me down though

I have been using two of these for 8 months in a desktop.
So far they are fast and reliable and only 1% Lifetime used with the monitoring utility.

The scam one, a user with low feedback and 100 of them to sell. I guess people will be protected by Paypal if they bought one.

Thanks for that. I was surprised by after picking up a few really cheap things recently though it could be true. However unlikely

The price has been lower many times. Buy and sell at £50. There is always someone who will pay £50 for this!

you can save 1% more on here http:/****/1UA292s

My son has one of these in his laptop, it works blazingly fast. It has turned what was a decent spec Sony Vaio, into an absolute speed demon. Turn the laptop on and the desktop is ready to go within two seconds, click a program to load and it's instant, no waiting, no spinning loading signs or anything. If you have the cash spare buy one, revive any existing machine that has the SATA interface. (it is backwards compatible and will work on earlier versions of the SATA standard, just not as "blazingly" fast I assume) although they have gone back up in price to £54.99. Not as much of a bargain, but still a fantastic piece of kit for any suitable machine.

Just noticed that using Code SSD changes Price down to £43.99 (apparently for today)

The price is showing up as 54.99 on the link provided by OP.

I have this SSD installed in my OC'd 6700K running at 4.59GHz for the past seven months. Very happy with it.
Mine boots up faster than the two second claim above ^ (It takes 15 seconds from the time I press the Power SW). Click a program and it loads yesterday. No spinning here...

Yep welcome to the world off SSD drives! - I've not looked back since 2012 when I first moved over to them.

If you cant afford it this week then it'l be back on offer on Ebuyer next week. And again the week after that...

Nice price though. I paid £40 for a 120GB last year!

One more thing it doesn't come with upgrade kit!

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I want to install this in a new PC so have bought a 3.5" to 2.5" mounting bracket with it.

I plan to put a fresh install of Win7 on it and then upgrade to Win10.

Other than the mounting bracket, do I need anything else?

I got it in west London impacked 40 quid

If it's replacing an existing drive then nothing else needed but if adding in addition then you'll need another SATA data cable.

Have you already upgrade to Win10 from your existing Win7 hard drive? if yes then you won't need to install W7 onto the SSD to upgrade, you can install W10 direct to SSD as the machine's ID & licence will already be known as a legitimate W10 install.

Some additional information. You can do a fresh install regardless as long as you have the licence key, since Windows 10 build 1511 you can enter the Windows7/8 licence key on installation. If the licence is stored in the MSDM table in the BIOS then it won't ask for the licence to be entered and will automatically activate.

Good info there fishmaster.

Thanks for the reply chaps.

So, I could create a Win10 ISO disc, run the install and then input my Win7 license key?

When you use the SSD code it changes what you are ordering from New to Used.
'SanDisk 240GB SSD
1 used in your cart'

Had to send one of the 120GB ones back last week as it died without warning! Fast, but don't trust your data with it!

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is this a good deal for a 240gb ssd? and is it reliable enough for a new build? plan to build it next week.

Will there be much of a perceivable difference? I'm torn between the Sandisk and Samsung

I bought a graphics card from ebuyer once, it was new but when it arrived it was clearly used and thick with dust. They refused to accept it back and so from that day forth I refuse to buy from them ever again.

That's against the Sale of Goods Act 1979. You had a right to reject the goods for failure to conform to description.

Yes, download the tool, follow the "Using media creation tool" > "Perform a clean installation using USB or DVD" then install using this guide

No problem, you'd be protected if you paid by Paypal so I guess it could be worth a punt, but they've not dropped that much in price yet, especially not from a person with less than 20 feedback on eBay :smiley:


There won't be much of a difference for most people. The main difference will be going from a HDD -> SSD. There are some SSD drives which aren't that great (I think it's the Crucial BX200 but I'm not 100% sure) where there may be slight performance dips but in your day to day use you won't notice it unless you test through a benchmark program. Even upgrading from a 500MB/s normal SATA SSD to a 1000MB/s+ NVME SSD won't give you enough gains for the price difference (usually twice as expensive per GB and requires higher end hardware) and you won't perceive your system to be any faster.

Hot. Bought one to fill in an empty space in the case. Free Saturday delivery too

They didn't care about laws at the time, it was about 10 years ago. They accused me of trying to fob them off with my old card which wasn't even the same make/model anyway!

Expired.

I think it is reliability. Samsung also offer 5 years on the Evo 850. Reviews seem to rate the Samsung drive.
Sandisk and Crucial appear to have more complaints.
My Crucial had an error after 2 weeks. They replaced it and I sold it. Time is money!

If you value your data, the extra may be worth it. If you don't care eg save important things in the "cloud" then it is a different situation.

[quote=ICTHUS]I have been using two of these for 8 months in a desktop.



What happens when it hits 100%?, does your SSD Drive become dead then? (& need replacing, etc?), or ..... thanx.

Mine just arrived today, 223 gb as a drive just for games. Happy days.