My 2 cents on the matter. Is this a good deal? Yes, probably the best priced SSD you'll see in this entire sale.

Is it better than a Samsung 850 Evo? No BUT... this is better value for money at this price. What most people don't say (? don't realise), in real world applications, there isn't a huge difference between mid tier SSD's and top tier ones. Benchmarks for SSD's show read and write stuff 90% of users don't even understand. They are both very fast and unless you are transferring large files, you will not see a real world difference.

I own an NVME SM961, Samsung 950 pro, samsung 850 pro, samsung 850 evo, OCZ 400, crucial 300 etc. Yes my NVME are fractionally quicker but not enough for me to care about.

SSD vs mechanical drives is a whole new kettle of fish, you WILL notice a significant difference from snappier response times to everything just loading that must faster. Again, for the price, this is one of the best deals this Black Friday so far.

​You obviously haven't Google the issue...

700GB of garbage writes per day!

Bye then :wink:

Have you made ONE comment about the subjects you stick your moronic mush into yet ?
Or are you just like Chubby Brown's braindead hecklers - "Look at me !!! he's talking to me !!! HUH HUH HUH"
So similar. But you're a tedious turd so I'm putting you on ignore. Sometimes I can be bothered mocking dopes like you. Todays not one of them

You need a brain transplant.
To replace the turnip you're currently using

Exactly what I'm doing with it, replacing a now rather old 128GB Crucial M4. Moving the M4 down to Unraid Cache Drive duties!

Edit: Paid £158.59 for that almost exactly 5 years ago!! :confused:

Not really, I think he needs the guidance. :wink:

Thats a quality piece of self-analysis right there.

Stupidity never goes away. It just shows it's moronic face from time to time...

Damn, missed this! I'm holding out for a 1TB Samsung Evo mind, have there been any sightings yet?

Missed out.

If anyone has changed kind or has spare to sell PM please.

Got one when the sale was still active. Thanks so much for posting!

​Yes but at what cost.. it will likely be prohibitively expensive at first. There is always something new around the corner with tech.

You likely wont be getting a 750gb optane ssd for anywhere near £100 for years.

Optane is out soon, then older and current SSDs will be pointless.

I bought the 60GB OCZ Vertex II back in March 2011 (can find delivery email but no invoice) - can't remember how much but probably around the £100 mark.

Still works - great little OS drive for the time.

Bit harsh...

I'd save your money and get a life pal.

Phew, glad i ordered slightly earlier. Had a £5 extra for £100 gift voucher purchase too on my account so made it £100.99.

Doubt we will see this capacity for this price much lower if at all for a while. SSD prices are supposed to be going up next year so said the buyer at OCUK.

Ah the good old OCZ Agility 3, I bought the 120gb version in December 2011 for £130...a lot of people had issues with these drives but it has never let me down, I'm just running low on space now as I've moved Battlefield 1 across which is around 50GB!.

Looking forward to receiving the Crucial drive and having space to move other games across from my hybrid drive for that extra performance boost!

Nope

Price back up now

spot on.

Out of Stock, now £161

There must be a shed load of folk on this forum who now have old 120/240GBish drives for sale, come on folks do me a deal!!!

Fingers crossed they reappear as it was a front page all day deal supposedly.

No probs - when items go out of stock via Amazon UK, they sometimes promote up the next seller who has them instock as a temporary measure until Amazon has them back instock again, which I've seen happen on a number of items today. :smiley:

awesome thanks op - snapped up 2 last night

was waiting for a good SSD deal :smiley:

one of these babies will replace ageing OCZ 60gb from back in the day
that was recently ressurected as OS drive to dual boot W10...

but what to do with it now?

For those that wanna reminise:

Price from June 2011 (ebuyer)

Item: OCZ 60GB Agility 3 SSD - SATA-III - Read 525MB/s Write 475MB/s 50,000 IOPS
Qty: 1
Cost: 79.15 + VAT!!

Nope. Don't even see the option.

STILL AVAILABLE folks at £105.99p...on back order and due back instock on December 2nd:smile:

Curses, I had 2 in basket and tried to save a little more via Flubit. But now this is OOS...:disappointed: and prices just jumped.

Yup. Missed it. Expletive! Expletive!
Still shows as £105.99 in the little chooser boxes below the item, but the main price is now £161.13

I just bought the Lenovo Ideapad 310 with Intel i3-6100u w/ 8gb of RAM from John Lewis.
Do you guys reckon that if I got this drive it would be transformative as far as speed & performance goes?
Thanks.

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/lenovo-ideapad-310-laptop-intel-core-i3-6100u-8gb-ram-1tb-15-6-silver-249-95-john-2556742

Yup deal gone.

Looks like this deal has just ended chaps :disappointed:

The price is now back to £161.13

ok, you got me. I bought one!

I gotta get something but 750gb is unnecessary. I can just afford a 250gb so hoping i can get a great deal today. Maybe someone will sell me their old 250gb?
message me if you have a good 250ish to sell

Bought one to stick in my 27" same year. You will need a sensor cable if replacing the mechanical hard drive otherwise the fans will run full pelt as the hard drive contains the firmware that helps control the fan speed.

https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/DIDIMACHDD11/

Google OWCDIDIMACHDD11 for the cheapest price in the UK. As a stopgap, you can try using MacsFan Control or similar software to manually control the speed of the fans. I don't know of any other parts manufacturer apart from OWC that makes this sensor, so there are no great savings to be made, unfortunately.

I got the 960GB Sandisk Ultra II last year for £142.99, so about 0.15p/GB, and it's been 'totes amazeballs' as a games drive. This is 0.14p/GB, which is kinda bargalicious and makes it a prime contender to replace my ageing 128GB Crucial m4 (by the way, £1.02/GB!!) - it's almost five years old, and a bit small by now. Stop making me want to buy stuff...

This will do the job:

Damn I paid £146 for this on the 31st October, knew I should of waited.

I'm skint, I don't need it, I'm skint, I don't need it, I'm skint, I don't need it, I'm skint, I don't need it, I'm skint, I don't need it, I'm skint, I don't need it, I'm skint, I don't need it, I'm skint, I don't need it...I NEED A BEER!!!! :laughing:

Crucial's website shows it as being 7mm in size, so your covered.


I don't see why not, it would just be the case of getting an external USB enclosure for them to get them set-up - saying that though I honestly can't remember if Trim is supported over USB (god I'm having a senior moment again!) but should be alright.

Really??? I honestely didn't realise that games were getting that big in size...hell the only one I play these days is Urban Terror as it's free and a great de-stressing tool for me! :smile:

Ive got a 500 in my desktop, a 250gb in my back up desktop and a 250gb in my MacBook pro. I really DON'T need it.........but still tempted !

Anyone know?

Literally what I have been saying to myself since seeing this deal. Already have a 120GB SSD + a larger mechanical for data, which works fine.... but this would be so nice

I recently built my first gaming PC with this drive. It's been perfectly fine for me. I've just ordered another as a backup. I didn't want a noisy mechanical drive. I installed the OS on a M.2 drive though and that's allowed me to use the hard drive purely for saving data.

I DON'T need it, I DON'T need it, I DON'T need it, I DON'T need it, I DON'T need it, I DON'T need it, I DON'T need it, I DON'T need it, I DON'T need it, I DON'T need it, I DON'T need it, I DON'T need it,...................:confused::laughing:

Seems the initial release's firmware wasn't that great, but the update to version M0CR040 seems to have made a big difference to just about every benchmark.

Computerbase re-tested with that:
https://www.computerbase.de/2016-11/crucial-mx300-test-firmware-m0cr040/4/
Translated (although the benches speak for themselves):
https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=https://www.computerbase.de/2016-11/crucial-mx300-test-firmware-m0cr040/&prev=search

Sooooo tempted but have a 480SSD which I am going to remove from my Dell before I sell it to put in my MAC Mini. Cant really justify buying this right now. But then again....... AAAARRRRGGGHHHHHHH

Bought a San disc ultra II 480gb ssd a year ago on lightning deal for £79.99 broke at 11 months with no sign of life or warning. Seems same has happened to plethora of us. Sandisc customer services refused to give details of percentage of these ultra II failures. Do I Wait for cyber Monday in hope Evo will reduce - fingers burnt with Sandisc . Tempted to take advise from you lot and buy this and return if Evo reduces? Going to read all your helpful links by which time this will have sold out - don't have money to gamble....

Awesome deal. A colleague sent me the link here. Purchased to replace the HDD in an Acer laptop, the owner will be very pleased with the speed increase.

Thanks OP

based on Terrahearts post, ORDERED!

Just purchased this was looking for a SSD for my gf laptop this is perfect for me and i give her one of my 250 Samsung

Good spot. Just checked mine and it is running the version that has fixed the bug, but pretty poor of Spotify to ignore it for so long

​You obviously haven't Google the issue...

700GB of garbage writes per day!

Depends on the laptop.Which model do you have?

How easy it it to swap out my current lappy's hard drive with this one (and get all the files across and operating system working)?

Nabbed 2 cheers op

eBay is flooded with fakes. Would never buy an SSD or SD card from them

Even if you had that going all day no chance do the sums

Bought 1. For average home use and gaming there is no meaningful difference in speed between this and the higher end SSD's and this you can fit a lot more on it.

Exactly what I wanted, thanks op!

Any good for a iMAC 21.5 inch Mid2011? Ran crucial scanner and the model numbers are different.

heat added :sunglasses:
I've been waiting to get an SSD for a really long time now, I was really hoping I won't spend anything this month (apart form getting Pokémon Moon) but I can't say no to this deal.

​listen to this person people. don't get hung up on benchmarking either. I've got evo 850, sandisk ultra 2, mx300 and hyperx. real world feels pretty much the same performance, benchmarking is the only time I can see the difference.

Maybe not quite a good a deal as suggested by the price chart above as these have been selling quite regaularly on ebay for £120. Obviously not the same as buying on Amazon. Still a great deal though if you are after one of these. Hope to see a deal on a 500GB soon.

Can this be used as an external SSD?

If not, any recommendations on the cheapest external SSD, as close to 1GB as possible?

Thanks!

I was really hoping the 1tb drive would be on offer today having not seen ot on offer for ages.

Looking at drives yesterday @ around the 170 mark..

Cheers ! purchased to replace the drive in my PS4

​Spotify... cough...

Is this 7mm does anyone know?

It says comes with 9.5mm adapter so I assume so?

Hey all, how will I know if this is compatible with my MSI GE70 2PL Apache 473uk laptop?

Can someone people suggest a few cheaper laptops that this would pair nicely with?

Hmmm, now do I want to RAID two of these for a games drive...

Update: It was far too tempting to resist :stuck_out_tongue:

Thanks for posting, I've held out for a better deal and it was worth the wait, 750gb for the price of the 525gb.

Thanks again.

Amazon Cyber Monday last year. I doubt they'll be that price this year.

Funny thing this..

I had feeling Amazon were going to sell the MX300 for this configuration/price and I've been holding off buying the 500 MB version all week on that basis.

BTW If you'd looked at the CCC graph earlier today it would have shown you that this was actually available at around the same price in March 2016 but now that the graph has been updated with todays price thats not now shown for some reason. It seems to have fallen off then end of the graph!?

I do love it when a plan comes together.

when and where from?

Great price, though I'm waiting for a good 2TB SSD deal ...might have to wait a year. (bought a 1TB 850 EVO last year for £185)

Sequential read/write speeds mean little, unless you're transferring to another SSD.

Scorching deal, purchased. Heat from me.

don't forget to go through on of these :smiley:

http://shop.macmillan.org.uk/amazon.html

This one's down at the moment https://rnli.org/

i just copied that chart to post it, you beat me to it :smirk:

For typical users performance isn't the issue with SSDs - it's size, easy to fill them up given how small they often are compared to a typical HD. On that basis this size, for this price, seems a good deal.

£120 at BT shop if amazon runs out.

I was just waiting for that deal. I don't mind the benchmark tests as I'm planning to use as a secondary drive. Already have a sammy pro on boot :smiley:

My 2 cents on the matter. Is this a good deal? Yes, probably the best priced SSD you'll see in this entire sale.

Is it better than a Samsung 850 Evo? No BUT... this is better value for money at this price. What most people don't say (? don't realise), in real world applications, there isn't a huge difference between mid tier SSD's and top tier ones. Benchmarks for SSD's show read and write stuff 90% of users don't even understand. They are both very fast and unless you are transferring large files, you will not see a real world difference.

I own an NVME SM961, Samsung 950 pro, samsung 850 pro, samsung 850 evo, OCZ 400, crucial 300 etc. Yes my NVME are fractionally quicker but not enough for me to care about.

SSD vs mechanical drives is a whole new kettle of fish, you WILL notice a significant difference from snappier response times to everything just loading that must faster. Again, for the price, this is one of the best deals this Black Friday so far.

Will go well with XBOX ONE
Also anyone looking for an enclosure with UASP support, I just bought this one =>Salcar 2.5" Aluminum USB 3.0 Hard Drive Enclosure

Nice

Nicest deal I've seen on an ssd for a while. Heat added.

Thanks OP been waiting for a good SSD deal. 250gb is no longer enough!

Lmao fan boy right there in reality very little difference if at all

em... just got myself a 500gb Samsung 850 EVO for £111 on the amazon warehouse.

Do i send it back and get this?

Thanks Op, what i was waiting for :smiley:

You could never write enough onto it everyday to render it useless before the warranty is up this is there latest edition research this then comment

GTA 5 With mods already takes 140gb....

super hot - thanks op

Hey folks,
Planning on building by first gaming pc was actually looking at the 275GB version of this SSD and adding on a 1TB HDD. I don't feel I would need much space. Anyone that knows more about this stuff know if I could make do with just this 750GB SSD on it's own? Would there be any significant draw backs?
Cheers!

I have the older MX200 250GB version and never had any issues with it. So when I saw this, it went straight in my basket.

just bought it. hot.

if there is a better deal later on I can always send this back. :smiley:

Just bought to replace my 256gb SSD, thanks

Thanks OP, ordered one.

The samsung 850 is not much different to this get your facts right this is a bargin buy this and if any better do come up buy them and send this back

Thanks! Purchased in the hope it'll save my macbook pro from death by spinning beachball.

thanks OP, ordered

Samsung evo 850 is far better

Nice

If it's any help, although I love my Evo, 500gb is already looking like it wasn't enough. This looks like a steal for 750gb at that price. So tempted to buy one for my Dell Vostro laptop for the boost in speed.

Went for it, but if anything pops up between now and then, ill just cancel it.

Im soo tempted but also have hope for a 1tb one for £100!!! Should I go for this??

I was really hoping to get the Samsung 850 EVO 500GB but this is very very tempting, would anyone say the difference is enough to hold off and drop 250gb of storage?

I only need 120GB, wish a decent priced one would hurry up

Literally went on Amazon at 12 and bought this straight away. Been wanting to replace my 250GB SSD for ages now to fit all my games on and a 750GB one for just over £100 isn't bad at all :smiley:

IS it worth buying this SSD? or hold out till others with faster sequential read/write speeds?

just bought one and wanted to post on HUKD ;] good deal :]

perfect

OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ps4 pro and ssd : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs7RNzEqOe4