That's cos Brexit hasn't happened yet

Yes, I can confirm this works.
Place in mouth, and connect cable to left ear (faster) or right ear (more capacity).

It's pretty much exactly the same, no matter if laptop or desktop, as long as you have a SATA port. Basic steps are:

Install Acronis or Reflect (Free). Make a boot disk from within the application, so install it first and make it before doing anything else.
Remove old drive
Install new drive
Boot from the clone disk you made in step 1
Clone the old drive to the new one
Done

There are slight variations, but you'll need some way to have both drives in one system (either via SATA or USB) to clone the stuff across.

thanks op, was gutted when I missed the 750gb offer the other day, but glad to get this, :smiley:

I guess you better get this whilst it's not so hot ;D

Cracking Price.

Hi does anyone know if this will fit a 2010 MacBook Pro. Do I need an adaptors or anything?

Cheers not come across a SSD first hand so not sure on the basics

Perfect going to order thanks for your help. Just need to figure out how to clone my hard drive onto this new one now

Ben

thanks op, was gutted when I missed the 750gb offer the other day, but glad to get this, :smiley:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3j3FtERGMY

Get one of these as well

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sabrent-2-5-Inch-Adapter-Optimized-EC-SSHD-x/dp/B011M8YACM/ref=pd_bxgy_147_2?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=S7Y4SKB5DZY471BASEXH

I would say order quick before they get their price up, like what happened with the 750gb version on friday.

How do they compare with Samsung Evo drives?

Feels like Brexit hasn't happened yet.

Excellent ssd for the price folks, don't hesitate.

0.1533p per gb
Pretty good deal.

Ah damn it, ordered the one from Amazon Spain the other day for £87 :disappointed:

This will get hot, great price!

Good idea, `normal` usb3 adapters to SATA don`t work properly at usb3 speeds and sometimes not even at usb2 speeds

I've almost ordered it from Spain for 87. Now I'm glad that I left it and it will be quicker/easier with warranty.

very hot but I dont need one at all? yet I still want this one .. hmm

I want one but do I also really need one? Surely a Samsung SSD will come up in the near future, this Vaio running on a 5400rpm HDD can be a bit slow at times though but my PC is blazing fast. Decisions.....

raid 0 this boys, outperformed other SSDs! with amazingly 1TB

ordered

got it this time, Thanks OP :smiley:

I'm on the fence tbh, I ordered then cancelled. My PC does the hard work which uses Samsung ssd. Also don't know if there's any reason to upgrade on parts for a 2014 laptop.

Thanks OP ... ordered and heat added

​Keep us updated mate. I've ordered 2 of these to replace the 2 drives currently in my ASUS ROG G751. It currently has a 128gb SSD and a 1tb HDD. I believe the 2 games I have and the operating system are both on the ssd and the 1tb HDD only had a few gb of data on it at the moment. Just want to drag and drop everything onto the replacements but have no idea how to.

Cloning drives is actually very simply. Connect the new one to your PC and simply clone the older one, then replace it and change boot drive :smiley:

Really good price but as all my ssd purchases need to maintain my overall capacity, I will only be buying 1tb or greater drives.

​I will check out a few YouTube videos and follow the step by step guides. I'm assuming I'll need that ssd adapter mentioned above?

Many Thanks

++Heat, good price, thank you OP!

as far as ssd are concerned, BF and CM have been a complete washout

already have a crucial, had for 3 years now with not one hiccup. couldn't resist no £80 down.

ordered. thanks op, nice spot.

Ordered :smiley:

Bought one, although I kinda hoped that a smaller sized SSD was on offer too since I think 525GB is a bit excessive for me

Anyone know if i can fit this into a Dell Inspiron 17 5000 Series Laptop?

I ordered one from Amazon Spain for €97 euros might return it and buy this

I have the same dilemma..

I also ordered one from Amazon es the other day and it will probably be delivered tomorrow. How easy would it be to return this though, surely we have to pay for the postage for the return which wont be cheap?

Simon

​Will do the same

Will this work in a MacBook Pro?

Anyone had experience of returning unwanted items to Amazon es?

Website suggest you pay return postage unless
you received an incorrect item, or
you received a damaged item, or
you received a defective item.
Not sure how much that cost? Maybe I will just keep the one from es. Is the warranty worldwide, do I have return to Spain if i have an issue? So many questions??!

I don't think return postage will be more than £5, but dealing with Amazon uk would be easier if anything happens

This ok for a desktop?

if you refuse delivery, it gets returned to sender, should get full refund

Scorching hot :sunglasses: cheers op, ordered

slower than my boot drive 840 evo, but cheap for the big size. pondering on whether to upgrade to this or not.

Yes but you will need a 2.5" to 3.5" adapter to mount it in the bay where the HDD sat

Whenever I have ordered from other Amazon sites, they send it from local distribution centres and not actually abroad. Not sure about returns though

Ordered. Thanks OP.

Been googling but can't find any good links on installing this on a Lenovo Ideapad 310 - all links are for the U310.
Any help greatly appreciated.
Thank you

​so why are the usual higher prices we've experienced recently always blamed on brexit?
it can't work both ways. :laughing:

It's pretty much exactly the same, no matter if laptop or desktop, as long as you have a SATA port. Basic steps are:

Install Acronis or Reflect (Free). Make a boot disk from within the application, so install it first and make it before doing anything else.
Remove old drive
Install new drive
Boot from the clone disk you made in step 1
Clone the old drive to the new one
Done

There are slight variations, but you'll need some way to have both drives in one system (either via SATA or USB) to clone the stuff across.

Thats great.

Thank you

That's the review for the 750gb version. Here's the 525gb review:

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/crucial-mx300-ssd-review,review-33651.html

Spoilers: none of the problems the 750gb has

Thanks OP - just ordered.

Very tempted. The 525GB for £80.49 or the 750GB for £119.98 (BT)? Not much in the price per MB, 15.3p vs 16p. Yes the 750GB at £105 was very good (14p/MB) but that's gone now. Oh which one to go for? The extra space of the 750GB would be useful, but I would still have to sort through my 1TB HDD I have at the moment to fit it all on. Probably would split OS and progs on the SSD and shift all the pictures and video files (from holidays, etc) to a second HDD.
Any arguments to sway me one way or the other?

Battlefield and Championship manager play great with SSD

bit excessive for me but I ordered one up as I need a new ssd and this is the only option.
Cheers op!

Link sends user to Amazon US

not for me Dada_fish

​So basically the 525gb one is more reliable?

Cracking price, voted hot!

if your laptop doesnt have a ssd is defo worth the upgrade

​Refuse delivery of the one from Spain, you'll get full refund

​But if you refuse delivery, wouldn't Amazon say that it was delivered to the same address on your account?

​But if you refuse delivery, wouldn't Amazon say that it was delivered to the same address on your account and you have no right for refund? Just thinking of worst case scenario

ordered been waiting for this

I just tried to cancel a different order from Amazon and they emailed saying it was too late to cancel but I should refuse delivery at the door, so it seems it should be OK.

Just try to start the return will have to pay for the return to Spain and looking at the exchange rate i would only save around £5

I already have a boot ssd of 120gb. for my data drive that is Hdd 320gb will there be any benefit aside of the additional storage to convert the Hdd to one of these ssds?

2010 Macbook doesn't have USB3 though... (for the attention of post #3)

Ordered. Thanks.

I've ordered a new Dell Inspiron laptop which has 1tb hdd 5400rpm... Could I buy this ssd and replace the drive? If so, how easy / difficult is it? I've never done anything like that before, I'm not a computer expert unfortunately :disappointed:

I've ordered a new Dell Inspiron laptop which has 1tb hdd 5400rpm... Could I buy this ssd and replace the drive? If so, how easy / difficult is it? I've never done anything like that before, I'm not a computer expert unfortunately :disappointed: any help is greatly appreciated!

Would I be mad to replace my PS4 HDD with this ? Not really in need of additional storage space but wondering would I get much of a speed boost ?

Will this work in a toaster?

Yes

Curses I grabbed the one from Amazon Spain cos the previous 750GB was sold out

​Yes, easily. Best option is to remove the disk drive, move the slow 1tb hdd there and replace this Ssd in its place so you get increased capacity as well as fast boot. If you need help give me a msg as its very easy. You will need to get a disk caddy if you follow my suggestion above rather than simply replace the hdd with the ssd.

Honestly I wouldn't bother, I also ordered from .es and have no intention of faffing around with a return just to reorder this and save a few quid. If problems occur in future, Crucial have a decent support and RMA system.

​I would save almost £9 so i think its worth refusing delivery of the one from Spain

Yes, set it to medium brown and you should be fine. If you want it extra crispy pour some water in the toaster and give a stir with a metal fork.

Yes you can remove your hard drive and replace it with this. Better yet you can remove the DVD drive which you no doubt never use, and replace it with a Hard Drive caddy and put this in it. Then you'll have 2 hard drives.

Anyone received any Flubbit offers ?

​They took 5% off for me but i ordered through Amazon as you're never sure of who Flubits supplier is.

When you receive something from Flubit, isn't the invoice addressed to them and not you? Would that not effect if ever you had to RMA the SSD with Crucial, it specifically says in the Crucial Warranty Information - Any claim alleging that any product fails to conform to the foregoing warranty may be made only by the end customer who originally purchased such product and only while such customer owns such product.

Yep am not returning it either even though i started the return will just let it expire

I was interested to know this as well.
Crucial MX300 525GB and 1050GB SSD Review
The difference is nuanced, but it appears that a Samsung 850 performs better in benchmarks, but that this isn't that far behind. So in real world application you probably wouldn't notice. The 500GB 850 Evo is £150 on Amazon currently (lowest £110 in June 2016).

WTF has that got to do with this??

you dont pay postage for return ask them to setup a return if they offer royal mail or colloect plus ask if thr can assign a courier for the return

you can do that here via live chat https://www.amazon.co.uk/ap/signin?_encoding=UTF8&openid.assoc_handle=gbflex&openid.claimed_id=http%3A%2F%2Fspecs.openid.net%2Fauth%2F2.0%2Fidentifier_select&openid.identity=http%3A%2F%2Fspecs.openid.net%2Fauth%2F2.0%2Fidentifier_select&openid.mode=checkid_setup&openid.ns=http%3A%2F%2Fspecs.openid.net%2Fauth%2F2.0&openid.ns.pape=http%3A%2F%2Fspecs.openid.net%2Fextensions%2Fpape%2F1.0&openid.pape.max_auth_age=0&openid.return_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2Fgp%2Fhelp%2Fcustomer%2Fcontact-us%3Fie%3DUTF8%26nodeId%3D471044%26ref_%3Dhp_gt_comp_cu&pageId=webcs-contactus&siteState=returnAddress%3D%2Fgp%2Fhelp%2Fcustomer%2Fcontact-us%7Cmode%3D%7CtsId%3D%7CinitialIssue%3D%7CcontactReason%3D%7CorderId%3D%7CitemIds%3D%7Clanguage%3Den_GB%7CsicPlan%3D%7CnodeId%3D471044%7CstartView%3D%7CTSMetadata%3D&suppressSignInRadioButtons=0

need to login and then pick option till live chat appears

not a bad price for the size but cols from me as Crucial are very unreliable... I have seen 4 failures at work...

I also missed the 750 the other day, the £/GB is a bit worse than the 750 deal but still good.

Meh I couldn't resist this and clicked buy now.

Cheers, unfortunately it's a bit hit and miss how long it takes for a comment to be approved on here. Took about 7 hours this time. So I had to go off and do my own research. I think from what I understand the Evos perform better, whilst an average user won't notice a difference, there are certainly areas where Evo will deliver a significant improvement. However at this pricepoint if money is an issue this is a superb buy. For the record those who missed out on 750gb deal, the 525 and 1050 outperform the 750.

New line up of SSDs is expected in January so would explain the aggressive pricing from Crucial. Plus a 2TB version is on the way. Very important point is to update firmware and drivers of your SSD. As Crucial have been able to deliver considerable improvements over updates.

Great deal thanks for posting, heat added

eh........go on then.

flubit are useless right now:

Demand Created On: 28/11/2016 - 01:21 <-- no response.

don't bother with them just buy it if you want it.

also they didn't bother to order my item that i tried to use them for recently even though they had a whole day to do so. so it went out of stock and they cancelled...

just a waste of time and hassle. hope my mistakes can help you.

NAND doesn't stay in the channel very long and is priced in dollars.

Ergo, Brexit causing the £->$ to tank means pricing of things like SSDs, RAM is first on the list of items that will shoot up in price.

I'm resisting as I'm skint...but oh I could do with three of them just now to replace a heap of older SSDs!!! :disappointed:

I'm going to be pub later to have a serious drink about it, to see where I stand...probably at the bottom of a pint glass! :laughing:

Thanks for the advice. I spoke with then and normally delivery costs are deducted from the refund. On this occasion, I had chose the wrong item and he said that if I submitted a receipt showing the postage amount I would be refunded. That's what I am doing.

Ordered, thanks OP.

You're quite right. RMA would be a pain if at all possible. I would rather not risk ending up with a dud non returnable item just for the sake of saving a few quid.

Fantastic - have been waiting for an SSD hot deal from Amazon - thanks!

So Hot... I got 2 of these a month ago for 109 each :disappointed:. So salty.

Brexit is the scapegoat for when things don't go as you'd hoped, planned, expected or wanted :wink:

I have the exact opposite view. Seen other brands fail, while crucial drives keep running.

Crucial have a tool for finding which of their hard drives and RAM fit these older Macbook Pros. I had a 2011 model with a Crucial MX100 fitted so MX300 should work too.

http://uk.crucial.com/gbr/en/apple-memory

Thanks. Have ordered.

​what problems does the 750GB have compared to the 525GB?

Just got a camelcamel price alert for the 750GB, now £119 from Amazon. Arh just ordered the 525GB. Should I cancel and go for the 750GB instead?

This is a great price. Crucial are selling it for £122. I am going to upgrade my 2012 Mac Mini with this.

My daughter asked me a similar question although hers is a newish Asus. I had a look and was surprised to find that there wasn't the traditional "little door" on the back of the laptop where the disk can easily be swapped. I had to open up the entire laptop shell only to find that the existing drive was hardwired to the motherboard. There was luckily an extra bay where the new SSD could be fitted.

This means that the original C: drive could not be cloned and swapped, she now has the same drive she already had with an additional one named D: which suited her fine.

Dell could well be the same so check it out.

Officially yes but not really. Old style desktop hard drives are quite big, heavy, and fragile therefore need proper mounting hardware. An SSD in comparison is very light and you could just secure it in place with some Velcro or blue tack.

Not sure what are these adapters for, I am using SSD drives for years now with NO adapters. You can have it hooked up to your 3.5in bay with just one screw, no moving parts, no heavy cables, 2.5 to 3.5 adapters - waste of money.

Can confirm that flubit is absolutely useless now - completely avoid is my advice.

Tried using a couple of times over the weekend, even spending 100pts to try and get demands within the hour - Instead of telling me that it's not going to happen and stopping me using my points, they just let me use the points anyway and still haven't come back to me with an offer for some stuff.

Think they need to concentrate less on trying to flog 'elite' accounts and more on doing the 'bread and butter' bare essential stuff they're meant to be doing.

I just got one for me. Perfect timing, Amazon sent me a Toshiba P300 3TB that won't start, so I had to RMA it. And as I was completing the RMA, I see this. Perfect now 2 x SSD and 750GB total capacity. More than enough to run some good games.

I also have an external 4TB drive and a 4TB NAS, I think I'm served with capacity right now :smiley:.

​You don't need an adapter. You must reuse the special screw mounts that are screwed in to the side of the existing HDD though. Very easy to change and I'd prefer to do a fresh install by inserting bootable USB and holding down ALT whilst booting to get the boot menu, then you use disk utility to format the drive and continue with the install.

Thanks OP. A great price for a 500GB SSD. Heated and ordered.

I went for the €97 Spanish deal after missing out (by minutes) on the 750GB offer, then this popped up this morning. After a couple of naughty words were said, I thought **** it and ordered this one as well - from what I've seen, SSD prices will only be going up from here on in, at least for a while, so might as well make the most of the opportunity.

Can't really be bothered with the faff of returning the first one anyway for the sake of a few quid (not really in keeping with the spirit of this site, admittedly.... )

Can I use this in my brain ?

still waiting on them. I've got premium membership but there's a delay. Normally means they won't give you anything

Pulled the trigger :wink:

thanks OP, very hot

Yes, I can confirm this works.
Place in mouth, and connect cable to left ear (faster) or right ear (more capacity).

Ordered one on Friday, still not here, so called amazon to cancel and reordered.

Saved me £25 , thanks OP.

​Dispatches in 1-2 months and is still worse price per GB, at least when I saw it at midday

Great, from your very quick response I can see that it might well help me, thanks

Had been looking at a new laptop, but have just purchased this (along with the Transfer / adaptor thing for £9 they offer).
My laptop is only two years old, but I find it incredibly sluggish despite its rather good specs for the time, (i5, 4th gen I think, 4gb ram) so hopefully this SSD does make the big improvement that I have been reading about.

Does this work on laptops or is it for desktops?

Missed the earlier SSD deals so got myself a 850 Evo 250gb via Flubit.
Should have waited....

SSD's aren't provided with a SATA cable correct?

Normally doesn't come with a SATA cable. I bought a mounting bracket along with this SSD, and it comes with cables: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01IEIPRB6/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

There's another orifice which offers greater up and down bandwidth. Some would have you believe it's for downstream only...

Great price! I don't need it though, I only my OS off my SSD.

Also for people wanting to put this in their PC get this https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B01IEIPRB6/ref=mp_s_a_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1480342497&sr=8-6&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=ssd+adapter&dpPl=1&dpID=41KXdFaZelL&ref=plSrch

if you have a sata connection.

Ordered. Thanks OP and voted HOT!

Either. It's the same physical size as a laptop hard-drive.

​Take it back, must be a case of yo-yo pricing, 750GB drive gone back up again.

I've recently had loads more delays and cancelled orders from Flubit than before. I suspect they're doing their best to avoid beating sale prices, as full price Amazon demands are going through normally.

I've ordered this with No Rush Delivery and if a great Flubit offer comes through I'll just cancel before despatch. I'm not holding my breath...

Trying so hard to resist buying this.. :smile:

Just ordered a couple, RAID 0 here I come! :stuck_out_tongue:

Yeh it did tank... More than 5 months ago, and the deals keep coming. Did we see massive discounts on goods when the pound was at its strongest? Probably not.

Flubit update: 2% discount, with a company i've had problems with in the past. So much for 'Elite' membership...

I find that Flubit are totally useless for anything other than beating "normal" prices which aren't likely to go up significantly or go OOS quickly.

That's before you even consider Flubit vs. Amazon for customer service and general after sales support.

After a standard Win 10 Pro Install, whats the average space left for one of these?

​16gb for 32 bit 20gb for 64 bit - That's the minimum requirements. You will still have quite a bit of space.

You'll have loads still left. I have windows 10 on a 120gb ssd and other stuff on it and got 60gb left.

Thanks OP, after a whole year of waiting for the right price finally got one :smiley:

Been waiting for a cheap ssd to upgrade my old desktop. Ordered. Thanks op

Same here :smile: ordered to for decade old box :smile:

Ordered, tired of battling with only 120gb of space on a windows 7 installation.

Thanks OP. Been after something like this for ages and had £50 Amazon credit (from 'Three' promotion) burning a hole in my virtual pocket.

So basicaly a 525GB SSD for £30.49

Any guides on how to transfer OS to SSD from (raid0 system)?

Just clean installed Windows 10 Pro Anniversary Edition 64Bits - took up 21.8GB with no apps just Firefox and some essential utilites - and I've not run CleanDisk yet. Also on SSDs - no need for any hibernation file nonsense or big page files.

Can't use points over the weekend.

£78.19 on Fubit.
Never had an issue.

3% for me. Succccckaaa

If they're so cheap, when can't they just sell laptops in the £350 price range with these as standard ... save all the hassle and wastage of removing a a big old technology hard drive and putting this in instead

​Because they aren't cheap compared to a normal HDD of similar capacity. A 1TB 2.5" HDD (which is a lot for a £350 laptop) can be had for between 40 and 50 quid. This is half the capacity and just under twice the price. Not to mention 1000GB looks better to the unaware than 525GB does. Basically it would turn your £350 laptop into a £400 one. If that is what you are getting at (I would spend £50 extra for less messing about and having to spend £80 on it anyway), then it's a good point, probably because they want to charge a high end price for something with a SSD inside.

Because every penny counts when you're selling £350 laptops, I would imagine.

There's just not the budget to have a 500GB SSD rather than a 1TB HDD without pushing the price of the end product up.

Yup you've kind of got my drift ... there just seem a lack of good deals out there for cheaper windows laptops with big SSD drives like this one, which surprises me when the price difference is only £30-£40. Just load it onto the end price.

The return label is addressed to Madrid and Amazon won't refund more than 5.50eur postage. Good luck sending it to Spain for that much.


I'm just going to keep mine, too much hassle.

Cheapest to send it back to Amazon ES would be to use parcel2go.com and choose a Asendia as a courier: drop off service for £7.37 including VAT all with tracking, have used it before when my LG G3 broke and no problems sending it back to Amazon ES near Madrid

Would this make the likes of Lightroom and photoshop faster?

I am finding a SSD case caddy to replace the HDD in the new dell laptop with this 520 SSD in ebay.

Does anyone know is the caddy for HDD the same as the one that fits the SSD given that the caddy case is 2.5'' SATA with a USB 3.0? Thanks

Great price. Thanks OP.

Thank you for your response, i will check it out.

I wonder if the new firmware has sorted out the 750GB model...

https://www.computerbase.de/2016-11/crucial-mx300-test-firmware-m0cr040/4/

750GB version got almost ice cold and this gets hot?
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/crucial-750gb-mx300-2-5-7mm-sata-6gb-s-ssd-119-98-bt-shop-2558148

I bought this on friday thinking it was a good price :disappointed:

I voted this one hot because I got the 250GB one for around this price ... not so long ago. :disappointed:

​youre after the crucial poptarts, different deal :wink:

Can I put this in my PS4? 

I really like your picture, how funny.

Flubit got back to me finally, around 71 quid

​that must have been one of the duplicates. the original thread was hot

Bought this very one myself earlier, then posted it here (you beat me to it and I got SPAM lol)

​Good find, thanks for sharing. So basically total cost of sending back is less than £3 considering refund of ~£5.

​Off the top of my head I'd say not as fast, but still, it's sn SSD so will be as fast as you like anyway!
I have a Samsung evo850 and have just purchased this myself as it's such a bargain until the price of 1tb and up comes down.
No more moving games from HD to SSD for competitive play!

just got one of these, great upgrade from my 256GB SSD

got one for wife's laptop, cheers!

bought one why don't know but now I just need to buy the rest of the computer!

When i chatted to them they did mention any postage limit. I will check with them again.

They'd load up faster but otherwise they rely more on your GPU/CPU.

Any excuses for companies to up their prices

'Oh its brexit' hasn't happened yet and wont for months
'oh its the price of oil' the biggest rise in petrol prices came when oil was going down, not up (altho now it is up)

Business as usual :')

Good price, would buy if I wasnt broke ^^ heat

Really can't be ar***d registering with courier websites and driving 20 minutes to drop off the parcel for £5..

Well sold 750gb as sealed (on the price, instead returning) and decided to get 525GB model due to mixed reviews about 750gb variant. Heat added.

Well, I'm sure you are reading news. Brexit as in the exit from the EU hasn't happened yet and we haven't even triggered the negotiation process. The Brexit vote however did happen and the anticipation of Brexit is priced in the exchange rate (fact) which affects imports or British products that rely on imports. (The anticipation of Brexit may also affect the mood to invest (plausible assumption))

As far as I know SSDs don't tend to be made in the UK. Hence the SSD prices are not as low as they would have been otherwise (which may also be affected by other factors but any significant exchange rate change will affect the price).

Does anyone know how to update the driver and firmware on this model to make sure it's upto date?

Thanks in advance

It wouldn't fit in my dell inspiron 7000 right as I have an empty ssd slot but I think it's for M.2 ssds

It wouldn't fit in my dell inspiron 7000 right as I have an empty ssd slot but I think it's for M.2 ssds

Just ordered 2 of these

I just this afternoon installed the PCIe (M.2) version of this in a Dell XPS and it seems just as fast as the Samsung 850 evo I have in another laptop.

Dang! What a price.

The only difficult decision here is do I buy one or two? :confused:

If you go to Crucial Support you can download 'Crucial Storage Executive Client' which will prompt you to update to the latest firmware if its out of date.

​Install their "Storage Executive" software

I flagged this 275GB M.2 version up the the day for £71.48 if that any use. It has quick delivery and easy returns. Not sure why it was vored cold TBH as it at least £20 cheaper that the 850 evo, but there you go. http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/crucial-ct275mx300ssd4-275-gb-m-2-3d-tlc-nand-internal-solid-state-drive-green-71-2560218

Except his entire point is that we *SHOULD* be experiencing the problems/depression we were told we would be BY NOW but instead essential food and fuel prices are at record lows in historical terms (essentials that are far better prices than a any time in the last few years) and even electricals (much of which are NON essentials and cheaper offerings offer the same or similar performance) are still priced similarly.

The comment that "Brexit hasn't happened yet" that get's 70+ likes doesn't really explain why we are STILL doing better than countries in the EU who are not going to leave.

Like the man says you cant have it both ways.

Tempting, yes, very, but I not need having two 2 240GB SSD's already.

Its been a while since I read this much stupidity...

Thank you

Crucial Storage Executive Client

Download link for those who need it

Ordered thanks. has anyone had any luck with HP Pavilion 15 i think

Ordered and heated.Nice find scerstt.

Can a anyone please tell me., i have a lenovo ideapad 510 which come with a 1tbhard drive and no ssd drive, i am wanting to buy this ssd drive to run my OS on, but i also want to keep my 1tb hard drive, is there a free slot on this laptop for an SSD drive without having to take the DVDRW out and use a caddy? id also like to keep the dvdrw you see, can anyone advise before time runs out on the deal?
I havnt opened my laptop yet as its a present to me for xmas but if the windows 10 is preinstalled without the disks will it be hard to get the OS on the ssd while running the 1tb drive alongside?
I am a bit new to adding SSD's :disappointed:

Thanks OP, ordered and heat added!

Can you use this in a NAS drive?

Price gone up

yeh price gone up, i didnt get an answer to my question just above either, so i didnt buy it, feel annoyed now if i could have had one and it would have been fine :disappointed:

I had a Flubit offer of £78.68 which I accepted after the price went up, so pretty unlikely to get that one.

Without looking at your particular model there aren't many laptops than can have two HDD's running next to each other's so I would hazard a guess at "no, you couldn't" which may or may not be true - but at least it might make you feel like you haven't missed out too much...

Like everyone else on this thread I have bought one, but didn't really need it - going to replace the 120gb SSD I have in my iMac at work, which now means I have a 750gb SSD in my 2012 MacBook, a 1tb SSD in my home windows desktop, a 240gb SSD in a 2012 Mac Mini and I can put the 120gb in my sons laptop...

Any other cheap SSD?

Oh
Poor Macbook 2010 owners :wink:

Got one before the price gone up. MacBook Pro will be happy.

Yes if you really wanted to, however it'd be a waste really.

Give it a month or two & the price will probably come down to £80 permanently

Flubit cancelled with their 'out of stock' email. Why don't they just be honest and say Amazon put the price up?

i have a 4gb HP laptop. Any good memory tgat can go with it? Have an empty slot and max is 16GB so still have space for 12GB. Can I use the old 4GB with say 8GB or something?

Yes, you can. The only issue, which isn't really an issue at all for most people, is that the RAM won't run in dual channel. However, that's no different to your current single 4GB SODIMM, so you won't be losing anything.

Good luck with that. Prices are up on last year already.

Were you really making this query about a laptop that you haven't even received yet?

Just plugged into my second drive bay on my Dell 15 Inspiron Gaming and not getting anything....anyone got any ideas? TIA

You probably need to go into disk management and set the new drive up. It's really easy to do and takes no time at all. :smiley:

Anybody interested in this SSD I have one extra from Amazon.es, willing to sell for £95 with postage?

Cheers - I thought it would recognise it automatically for some reason a la USB drivers - I'll have a look tonight...

I'm almost positive that's all it'll need, the Crucial M500 I installed a couple of weeks ago needed the exact same thing doing. Afterwards, everything worked perfectly. :smiley:

Thanks - I chose NTFS and ended up with 488GB, should I have chosen exFAT? I'm a bit out of touch on formats!

NTFS is what I'd use and recommend for an internal drive (mechanical or solid state) in a Windows machine.

488GB sounds about right for a single drive, my RAID 0 set up of two 525GB MX300s came to 978GB, half of which is 489GB. I would assume the extra 1GB is just a result of Windows rounding up to the nearest GB.

That's quite a big chunk of capacity isn't it - 37 "lost" GB. Seems like it ought to be an advertising/trading standards issue.... It's a whole SD card (or my new G4 Plus) worth!

It's always been this way, at least as far as I'm aware. The one good thing is that it's not a random amount of space that you "lose", how much usable space you end up with for any given advertised capacity can be calculated.

Calculator: http://www.endmemo.com/data/diskcapacity.php

Finally got and installed my drive last night as a test in my old laptop and boy, what a night and day difference!! Tried it by loading Win 7 from scratch and it was up and booting inside 10 minutes. Updates installed fast and went up through the service packs with out a hitch. Took it out and reformatted and installed in my desktop and this time cloned the drive with the Acronis software using in built SATA connections (Took less than 10 minutes for about 100+gb's) and that went surprisingly easy too. My only query now is, I'm considering getting another on of these for my laptop in the future. Once I clone my laptop drive with Win10, will it's "digital keys" be transferred over for if I, say, want to reset the OS?

just got the drive. doesnt seem to be a 9.5mm adapter in the box.Or is it that black plastic spacer/gasket thing?
Do I need to buy a cable to clone my old drive with acronis?
A USB to SATA cable? I just left mine in thailand!

It comes with a 9.5mm adaptor in the box, kind of a rectangular frame thingy

I was wondering that. There's a small black plastic ring type thing in the box. As for cloning, I disconnected my DVD drive which has SATA connections and used that.

i didnt think of trying the dvd cable! I better check it

It does state on the back of the box that 1GB equals 1 billion bytes. You're not really losing any space, it's just your OS calculates it differently.

But 1GB doesn't actually equal 1bn bytes though does it? I'm happy enough with it, but given the controversy around advertising broadband speeds and other marketing ploys, I'm surprised this gap between marketing and reality hasn't been picked up on (yet)

Yep, it does. Technically it's Windows etc that is wrong because what they represent as a gigabyte is actually a gibibyte.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibibyte

Either way, you're still storing the same actual amount of information regardless of how it's represented.

replaced my 120gb samsung 840 evo and i have to say the difference in performance feels quite noticeable when moving big files or changing multiple files. almost like ssd vs hdd sometimes. where my samsung used to be instantaneous like opening folders on startup, it takes a few seconds to read folders now.

it was still a good deal for a bigger ssd, but if other people are thinking about upgrading to this they might be surprised.

Good to know.

Sad if this is so. But I hope it is still faster than SSHD?

tbh i doubt it will affect people most of the time. my pc still boots just as fast as it used to like within 3-5 seconds and i doubt i will notice any difference gaming, streaming or surfing. which will probably be 90% of the time on my pc.

and maybe i was so surprised because i'm spoilt due to samsung making great ssds. but those were my first impressions after the switch. anyway, i don't regret my purchase at all and won't be returning it.

I returned the Crucial M500 960GB as there was ZERO real world difference with a Fusion drive setup. Using a 120GB 840 EVO and Scorpio Black WD3200BEKT.

ELI5: Why is it that downloads seem to be quicker now using an/this SSD over my previous HDD?

People were saying it will be reduced again but it's boxing day and still its £115.

I might set a reminder or something or wait untill next black Friday

who and when was that said?

I must have taken it wrong from another thread regarding sales about items might be better price boxing day etc.

In anyway it's wrong to assume item will be same price or less in future as time wasted waiting for a good price is not worth it.

I will instantly buy it at the next decent reduction instead of making assumptions.

I will book time off or something next year for black Friday, I wanted two of these as well. It was my decision to wait and I have no one to blame, sometimes it pays off other times it doesn't.