Crucial MX300 275GB SATA 2.5" Internal SSD - £63.59 @ Crucial discount

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Crucial MX300 275GB SATA 2.5" Internal SSD £63.59 @ Crucial

£63.59 Crucial discount12 Aug 16

Source: HotUKDeals | Deals > Technology

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wide

11 Aug 16

Funny capacity.

I read this range kinda should be bx, not mx but knowing specs and real-world gains it's not gonna make a noticeable difference

EDIT: I read it as 375GB... fool... delete delete

Top comments

BigBuds to chapchap

11 Aug 16 43 #6

Voted hot just to annoy you.

tan159

12 Aug 16 8 #8

Eat my heat ChapChap

jimunix

11 Aug 16 6 #7

Voted hot just for chapchap

K1LLER HORNET

11 Aug 16 5 #2

Weird capacity.

All comments (38)

jez794

11 Aug 16 3 #1

£63.04 on Amazon.

K1LLER HORNET

11 Aug 16 5 #2

Weird capacity.

GAVINLEWISHUKD to K1LLER HORNET

11 Aug 16 2 #4

Uses 6x48GB chips. So 288GB provisioned down to 275GB.

cptkirk96

11 Aug 16 1 #3

£59.89 on amazon with student discount

chapchap

11 Aug 16 2 #5

Why is this a deal and why are people (idiots) voting it hot?

BigBuds to chapchap

11 Aug 16 43 #6

Voted hot just to annoy you.

Spod to chapchap

15 Aug 16 #35

When comments backfire, No. 8294362
Getting hotter all the time ... :stuck_out_tongue:

jimunix

11 Aug 16 6 #7

Voted hot just for chapchap

tan159

12 Aug 16 8 #8

Eat my heat ChapChap

Cpt_Fool

12 Aug 16 4 #9

I'm a hot voting idiot too! Take that Chapchap

mwoodger

12 Aug 16 2 #10

Ditto.

petermerritt

12 Aug 16 2 #11

HOT!

Joefez

12 Aug 16 2 #12

As for the capacity, once it's been formatted you're more likely to end up with a 250GB drive, than a 250GB unformatted drive that ends up around 230GB formatted. I guess it kind of makes sense that they format down to 'standard' sizes. At least If you have 4 of them you will actually have 1tb of free space rather than 898GB or something silly like that

fishmaster to Joefez

12 Aug 16 4 #16

It's nothing to do with the actual formatting, it's the actual real storage size that you see, anyway this article explains it >

http://www.howtogeek.com/123268/windows-hard-drive-wrong-capacity/

It's the difference between the manufacturer's rating of storage versus the real storage size of the platter or NAND chips.

A Gigabyte is 1000, the real term for the actual storage is Gibibyte which is 1024. Consumers are used to Gigabytes but computer storage always works in Gibibytes.

2,4,8,16,32,64,128,256,512,1024. Computers work with the power of two because of the binary system they use, it takes the same amount of address space to save 7KB as it does 8KB.

Jinkz

12 Aug 16 2 #13

#Hot4chapchap

Spod to Jinkz

15 Aug 16 #34

:smile:

thecourteeners

12 Aug 16 #14

Hot from me, also 7% off with vouchercloud.

HappyWizard

12 Aug 16 1 #15

why is this hot?
considering that you can get the MX300 SSD with 750GB for anything arround £100-£125-£135 on ebay from various sellers.
Own 4x of these SSDs and noticed a significant performance increase if compared with standard SATA HDDs, they run much cooler too SSDs at about 38C, standard HDD at 55C before

ijwia to HappyWizard

12 Aug 16 #17

from who because the cheapest i see is £150 pm me

spannerzone to HappyWizard

12 Aug 16 1 #25

Yes people notice a huge improvement when using an SSD, which is no sheer coincidence, it's the primary reason for buying one. :stuck_out_tongue:

dave111

12 Aug 16 #18

what is the cheapest 240gb out there at the moment.
cheers

Daveh1664 to dave111

12 Aug 16 1 #20

I've been waiting for another good deal for the same size SSD for a few weeks myself. Current cheapest I can find are Hectron X1 Series £47 Amazon and Gloway Hectron £43 eBay. There have been branded ones for the same money at other times, just got to wait...

Joefez

12 Aug 16 1 #19

I'm not sure I understand your point? I was stating that when you buy a drive, you dont get the space you expect. These seemingly 'odd' sizes are more likely, after all is said and done, to yield 'normal' storage sizes to which we have become accustomed to, i.e 125, 250, 500, 750 & 1tb etc

captain frugal

12 Aug 16 #21

Would this be better than a Sandisk Ultra II 240 @ Amazon for £62 ?

Been waiting for an SSD deal for a while, but prices have been stagnant.

waxsta

12 Aug 16 1 #22

Using Flubit.com on the Amazon link I get this down to £55 inc. Delivery!...If only I needed one of these :smiley:

fishmaster

12 Aug 16 #23

No you mentioned formatting. I'll quote you "As for the capacity, once it's been formatted you're more likely to end up with a 250GB drive, than a 250GB unformatted drive that ends up around 230GB formatted."

That sentence is nonsense to me or you've not explained what you mean by it properly. I'm specifically saying it's nothing to do with formatting which you imply it is in your sentence. Anyway I think I've explained in detail why the storage size differs.

BigPro

12 Aug 16 2 #24

I was going to vote this cold as it is not really cheap, but then I saw Chap Chaps comment so I voted hot

GAVINLEWISHUKD

12 Aug 16 #26

While it probably isn't worded that well. It is pretty easy to understand what he is getting at.

akersj

12 Aug 16 1 #27

That's not strictly true, formatting DOES make a difference. You get more disk space out of it if you format it exFAT or ext3 than if you format it NTFS as you have to account for the space taken by the relatively large on-disk structures that NTFS uses for things like file-level security and file/folder metadata.

mysticus

12 Aug 16 1 #28

I did the same :smiley:

BigBuds

12 Aug 16 1 #29

I did the same :smiley:[/quote]
I believe everyone has. This in reality shouldn't have got so hot but an idiot calling people an idiot for voting hot has caused everyone to vote it hot.:smiley:

fishmaster

12 Aug 16 #30

In terms of the % difference it's irrelevant as a comparison with the difference between Gigabyte (manufacturer) and Gibibyte (real storage size). As the drive size increases so does the decrement in realised storage amount versus the manufacturer quotation. However if you wish to be pendantic about it, you got me there son.

greenandwhite

12 Aug 16 #31

Nothing hot about this. I bought a Crucial 480Gb SSD for 72.99 during an Amazon flash sale a few months ago. Right now this particular deal is £63.04 on Amazon UK, its usual everyday price. Save yourself 55p and buy that scorcher instead or just wait it out. I guarantee Amazon will eventually put this on a flash sale for about £40.

MrHot

13 Aug 16 #32

Whilst that is true, different formats will yield different free space due to the partition table.

Stim

13 Aug 16 #33

What he said.

magicone

17 Aug 16 #36

Voted hot, managed to get it for £53.88 via Flubit.

praevalens

20 Sep 16 #37

This or Samsung 750 EVO?

wide to praevalens

25 Sep 16 #38

What's the price diff?

Expect most would say Evo. I think Samsung are being too clever... I'd rather have a simpler controller so I'm more likely to get Windows to run RAID properly... Having said that, as boot-drive, Evo prolly...

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