Might be worth holding off for Amazon Prime Day on 12th July as SSD's are bound to feature (?)

You can get a 500GB Sandisk Ultra II for £80, which means that for £160 you could get two and set up a speedy 1TB RAID-0 array.

What makes you think this is worth the extra £55?

I don't think this is a "cold" deal, but it certainly should be ~£200 as a "normal" price by now.

Not a decent price imo

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Might be worth holding off for Amazon Prime Day on 12th July as SSD's are bound to feature (?)

Not a decent price imo

You can get a 500GB Sandisk Ultra II for £80, which means that for £160 you could get two and set up a speedy 1TB RAID-0 array.

What makes you think this is worth the extra £55?

I don't think this is a "cold" deal, but it certainly should be ~£200 as a "normal" price by now.

Not losing all of your data when the RAID-0 array fails?

Two drives in RAID-0 are twice as likely to fail compared to a single drive. Why bother with RAID-0 at all, especially since most people don't need double the sequential read/write speeds?

Right.... those high SSD drive failure rates are common knowledge, and definitely more prone to failure than mechanical hard disks spinning their platters thousands of times every second.

Given that the prevalent reliability factor in SSDs is block data loss, and a RAID-0 array of two striped 500GB drives would have the same number of blocks as a single 1TB drive, surely you would agree that the block reliability would be identical between the two?

Having said that, for mission-critical data-storage, you wouldn't be using any consumer data solutions, anyway - you'd be buying enterprise-level storage - so, again, your comment is equally relevant to the 850 EVO as it is to the Ultra II, and therefore not a counter-point.

But, imagining for a second that everything you said was both relevant and technically accurate, then I'll just point out that the 1TB Ultra II has been £150 before - so then the question becomes, what makes the 1TB 850 EVO worth the extra £65? :man:

you should be a politician....quoted my question and never actually answered it
as per my original reply to Linhang90 "and you can find it cheaper where???"

also...a pair of 500Gb drives in a striped array aren't going to be a a lot of use in a laptop with a single drive bay..

Relevance, m'lud? At the risk of stating the blindingly, overwhelmingly obvious, the cheapest price for any given product today doesn't automatically make it a good deal. Otherwise every single product in every single category available on the market would have to be posted at HUKD every day for it happening to be the cheapest price of that particular day, from wherever it happens to be.

That's what aggregate search engines are for, not deal sites.

Funnily enough, you also quoted my question and never actually answered it! You....should be....a....politician.


At the risk of repeating myself... "then I'll just point out that the 1TB Ultra II has been £150 before - so then the question becomes, what makes the 1TB 850 EVO worth the extra £65? :man:"