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
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BigBuds to chapchap
11 Aug 1643#6
Voted hot just to annoy you.
tan159
12 Aug 168#8
Eat my heat ChapChap
jimunix
11 Aug 166#7
Voted hot just for chapchap
K1LLER HORNET
11 Aug 165#2
Weird capacity.
Latest comments (38)
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...
magicone
17 Aug 16#36
Voted hot, managed to get it for £53.88 via Flubit.
chapchap
11 Aug 162#5
Why is this a deal and why are people (idiots) voting it hot?
BigBuds to chapchap
11 Aug 1643#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:
Jinkz
12 Aug 162#13
#Hot4chapchap
Spod to Jinkz
15 Aug 16#34
:smile:
Stim
13 Aug 16#33
What he said.
MrHot
13 Aug 16#32
Whilst that is true, different formats will yield different free space due to the partition table.
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.
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.
BigBuds
12 Aug 161#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:
mysticus
12 Aug 161#28
I did the same :smiley:
akersj
12 Aug 161#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.
GAVINLEWISHUKD
12 Aug 16#26
While it probably isn't worded that well. It is pretty easy to understand what he is getting at.
HappyWizard
12 Aug 161#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 161#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:
BigPro
12 Aug 162#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
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.
waxsta
12 Aug 161#22
Using Flubit.com on the Amazon link I get this down to £55 inc. Delivery!...If only I needed one of these :smiley:
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.
dave111
12 Aug 16#18
what is the cheapest 240gb out there at the moment.
cheers
Daveh1664 to dave111
12 Aug 161#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 161#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
Joefez
12 Aug 162#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 164#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 >
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.
thecourteeners
12 Aug 16#14
Hot from me, also 7% off with vouchercloud.
petermerritt
12 Aug 162#11
HOT!
mwoodger
12 Aug 162#10
Ditto.
Cpt_Fool
12 Aug 164#9
I'm a hot voting idiot too! Take that Chapchap
tan159
12 Aug 168#8
Eat my heat ChapChap
jimunix
11 Aug 166#7
Voted hot just for chapchap
K1LLER HORNET
11 Aug 165#2
Weird capacity.
GAVINLEWISHUKD to K1LLER HORNET
11 Aug 162#4
Uses 6x48GB chips. So 288GB provisioned down to 275GB.
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Opening post
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
Latest comments (38)
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...
Getting hotter all the time ... :stuck_out_tongue:
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:
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
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.
Been waiting for an SSD deal for a while, but prices have been stagnant.
cheers
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.