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480GB Crucial BX200 SSD @ Amazon for £92.99

£92.99 Amazon UK31 Dec 16

Source: HotUKDeals | Deals > Technology

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A1M

31 Dec 16

500GB drives have been cheaper but possibly the cheapest half Terabyte drive at the moment at 19p per GB. There's 11 in stock at time of posting.

The drive also comes with Acronis True Image so you can copy your OS over to the new drive if you don't want to re-install everything.

Box Contains:

1 x Crucial box

2.5-inch (7mm) SSD

9.5mm adapter bracket

Acronis True Image HD software certificate for free data transfer

Top comments

furbars to Dan__

31 Dec 16 23 #4

voted hot just because you voted cold :stuck_out_tongue:

A1M to Dan__

31 Dec 16 9 #5

I bought the same drive as you on Cyber Monday. But can you find a similar drive for cheaper than this now?

Destard to Dan__

1 Jan 17 7 #12

Another person with a time machine, who misses the point of this site.
Added to ignore list.

Dan__

31 Dec 16 5 #3

525gb crucial mx300 bought few weeks back for £80

voted COLD

Latest comments (62)

beebeebee

2 Jan 17 #62

NOT WORTH IT ! BETTER TO PAY A LITTLE MORE N GET QUALITY -
HyperX FURY 480 GB - very good TBW NR. or
Crucial MX300 525 GB - looks good review wise

anyway got to HyperX Savage 960 GB for £200 a few months ago - v lucky...lol8)

djolltax

2 Jan 17 #61

Also voted hot for the same reason :wink: . That and it's a good deal...

dunc360

1 Jan 17 #26

Hmm, seriously considering swapping my gaming laptop's 500 gb storage to ssd (I already have 128gb m2 ssd for the os and a handful of games which is fast filling up)

Would this just be plug and play assuming it fits in the case? I upgraded the RAM myself and getting access to the internals took an age being an hp pavilion, with what felt like a hundred screws and panel popping for an amateur!

liveinabin to dunc360

1 Jan 17 1 #28

It pretty much is that easy, yeah. You'll need to format the drive but any recent Windows will do that itself. As for fitting it, these SSDs have the same screw holes as standard 2.5" hard drives. If the drive you're replacing is a larger 3.5", then you'll new one of the many enclosures that can be found cheaply on eBay.

bouttime2 to dunc360

2 Jan 17 #60

I swapped out my 1TB 7200rpm HDD for a 480 GB SSD.
The SSDs are a little thinner but they normally come with a little stick on spacer to make up the difference. I too have a 128GB M.2 NVME SSD for the OS.

ftbf444

2 Jan 17 #59

expired please price has increased

Ultima2876

2 Jan 17 #58

Sold out

Destard

1 Jan 17 #57

Do you know what the purpose of this site is?

jono8

1 Jan 17 1 #56

This. It is why I posted about the MX300 750gb at £105 as well a month ago. It is worth letting people know that it isn't a great deal and that odds are there will be a better deal in another flash sale at some point.

Dan__

1 Jan 17 #55

Thanks for the support. I was getting bashed for my comment lol I mean its not like that price was a year old or something. It was very recent. So it made sense to mention it.

If I were you then I would just wait, there's bound to be something else that will pop up.

Ashan85

1 Jan 17 2 #54

I really wish people would not post this not so good deals in SSD. I mean come on, time machine joke aside, we all know that this is not a real price and not the best price. This is BX which is not better than MX also.
This is not a good deal just because SSD prices are up now. A good deal will be at 80 for 480 and 40-45 at 250.

Dan__

31 Dec 16 5 #3

525gb crucial mx300 bought few weeks back for £80

voted COLD

furbars to Dan__

31 Dec 16 23 #4

voted hot just because you voted cold :stuck_out_tongue:

A1M to Dan__

31 Dec 16 9 #5

I bought the same drive as you on Cyber Monday. But can you find a similar drive for cheaper than this now?

ragingsilver to Dan__

1 Jan 17 #11

This was a much better deal back then in Cyber Monday. I got one myself and it's running well.

Destard to Dan__

1 Jan 17 7 #12

Another person with a time machine, who misses the point of this site.
Added to ignore list.

BuzzDuraband to Dan__

1 Jan 17 4 #14

I assume with the confidence of that comment, you bought us all one?

nickann1 to Dan__

1 Jan 17 #34

Same but got a £15 voucher from Audible and got it for £65

indyjukebox to Dan__

1 Jan 17 1 #37

Well done, gold star for you. What do folk who need one now do? Got any real advice instead of the cold vote?

xavierseb1 to Dan__

1 Jan 17 2 #53

thanks for that useful info, I'm surprised at the angry responses to your comment, it can be very useful to know whether a particular item or similar was previously available cheaper...

kidrock123

1 Jan 17 #52

good price

Jediben

1 Jan 17 1 #51

For reduction in noise, heat, weight, reduced running cost and reduce fragility. If I can fit the same storage into 1/20 of the size, make my machine quieter and cooler and more portable I will.

alpagot

1 Jan 17 #50

Hmmm this plus a £14 Anker USB3 - SATA enclosure is mighty tempting for Xbox one games without much added bulk.

fishmaster

1 Jan 17 #49

SSD drive prices have stagnated for ages, wake me up when SSD prices actually change for the better. Meh.

woolerland

1 Jan 17 1 #48

Apparently these drives are rated quite bad even in comparison to the popular bx100. Seriously read a review on this drive before you buy.

Radec

1 Jan 17 #47

Just for anyone wondering about the quality of this brand of drives.
I bought a 224gb crucial about 3 years ago now for my OS.
Has been used close to everyday, and hasn't given me a single problem, yet.

As others have said: It's not the fastest. But you wouldn't notice.

YodaIsBae

1 Jan 17 #46

very good price!

ZainAkib

1 Jan 17 1 #45

PLEASE DON'T FALL FOR THIS
Isn't anyone wondering why it's so cheap? The model is garbage. Do some research. This is basically a hard drive, that's how slow the BX200 is.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9756/the-crucial-bx200-480gb-960gb-ssd-review-crucials-first-tlc-nand-ssd
http://www.pcworld.com/article/3000913/storage/crucial-bx200-ssd-review-good-for-casual-users-but-not-for-slinging-extra-large-files.html

jono8

1 Jan 17 1 #43

Surprised this is so hot when Amazon were selling the 750gb MX ssd for £105 a little over a month ago. I think there are better deals to hold out for than this.

A1M to jono8

1 Jan 17 #44

That was Black Friday. It was only available for one day. Since then SSD prices have gone up. 120GB is now £40+, 250GB is approaching £70. This is 480GB for under £100 from a major retailer and it's in stock.

Moss87

1 Jan 17 #40

cant find a good deal for a 128 or 256 as a boot drive

i hate how the ssd prices has gone up for no reason over the last year

pgilc1 to Moss87

1 Jan 17 #42

There are reasons why - as stated above, but as you say its very annoying.

9 months ago you could buy a 120GB SSD off Amazon for £24.99, now there £40....

captainbeaky

1 Jan 17 #41

If you have a Seagate hard drive (internal or external USB) - you can download Seagate Disk Wizard for free which is a basic no frills version of Acronis True Image. To use you need to have a Seagate or Maxtor hard drive connected to your PC but it doesn't have to be the source or destination drive.

pgilc1

1 Jan 17 #39

We'll let Samsung and Crucial know. :rolleyes:

Why would consider moving off HDD at all if its only for storage?

elphantasmo

1 Jan 17 #38

I've just had to replace one of these after about 18 months due to repeated file corruption.
Every test I ran on the drive came back clear, even Crucial's own tools said that the drive was in good health and had used 1% of its life. Then it failed terminally.
It has a 3 year warranty, but I can't find my original receipt... :-(

plath

1 Jan 17 #15

don't use acronis, macrium reflect free is way better. my acronis clone didn't work when i tried to clone before.

carl01869 to plath

1 Jan 17 #20

Have cloned 100s of machines not had problems with acronis. Adding heat, if you are running a hdd any ssd is a massive upgrade

SFconvert to plath

1 Jan 17 1 #21

Not sure if it's still the case but the free macrium couldn't resize the original partition. So for example if your HDD was 500gb and you had a 240gb Ssd, you have to resize the HDD partition first, I used partition wizard.
I have a feeling acronis does the whole thing for you, as long as your HDD has enough free space.

spamcan61 to plath

1 Jan 17 #36

For 'cloning' from a large HDD to a smaller SSD then I've found Acronis much easier to use than Macrium, the former will even let you select individual folders on the source drive to 'clone'. I download Acronis True Image HD 2015 from their website and buy a cheap key from this eBay seller (usual disclaimers):-

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Acronis-True-Image-HD-2015-Backup-Software-Activation-License-Key-/122272681720?hash=item1c78050ef8

visitor22

1 Jan 17 #30

How do you work out which crucial SSD model is older or current or better spec? Ive seen M, MX, BX with a range of numbers etc ... cant seem to find info on their site (without having to get bogged down-my brain cells cant cope :-( )With Samsung SSD its pretty straightforward model numbers. Thanks in advance tech guys :-)

gowf to visitor22

1 Jan 17 #35

In order chronologically

Bx 100
Bx 200
Mx300

300 is based on 3D TLC NAND

spannerzone

1 Jan 17 2 #22

Hot deal - I wish people would stop complaining about the increases in prices as though it had never happened before, we've had the same sort of price rises with ram and consumer electronics for years and years..... tech price increases is not a new phenomena, it's happened numerous times but as things usually go down and down it tends to be a shock when it goes up for a change.

Javz to spannerzone

1 Jan 17 #33

True, however RAMs have gone up in price mostly due to newer versions - DDR, DDR2, 3, 4 etc and since this is old stock and not 3D NAND the complaints seem justifiable. But with storage, demand and production has always affected value, like the flood a few years back.

If you don't like it, don't buy it. But people are entitled to their opinions too

Xevan

1 Jan 17 #32

Only just brought my gaming PC back up to spec with a 250gb SSD for OS and certain games.

This would be perfect to run alongside it as my secondary drive instead of my 1TB HDD...temptations

stevep94

1 Jan 17 1 #31

http://www.custompcguide.net/the-differences-between-crucial-mx100-vs-m500-and-m550-ssd/

Jediben

1 Jan 17 #29

The price of 2TB ssd needs to come down before I consider purchasing more. I have 12gb of storage on HDDs and can't consider moving to solid state while capacity would be lost.

Ripperoo

1 Jan 17 #27

Could you not just resize the system drive to say 50-100GB (for OS + programs) prior to cloning?

furi0n

1 Jan 17 1 #24

For those that don't have access to cloning software and wish to transfer the whole system from an old drive to new - windows 7 and 10 allows you to create a system image.

In Windows 7 you'll find this feature under Windows Backup. Bizarrely in Windows 10 its somewhat obscure, but you'll find the feature under File History.

From my experience it works as expected with a minor annoyance, the restored image on the new drive creates a partition equal to the size of the original drive, leaving free space an unallocated. This can be amended using freeware partitioning software. I used AOMEI Partition Assistant, fast and simple.

Goes without saying the software mentioned in earlier posts is just as affective if not better, thought it's still worth mentioning an alternative that is in-built with Windows.

malachi to furi0n

1 Jan 17 #25

Macrium Reflect doesn't leave unallocated space like Windows Backup tool. Better off using Macrium straight away instead of using Windows Backup tool then using a 3rd party tool anyway.

spannerzone

1 Jan 17 #23

Yes Acronis easily allows you to clone to a different size drive which is great for SSD cloning which are usually smaller than the drive you're cloning.

Windows 10 may not work with earlier versions of Acronis, I found 2013 tempermental on Win10 and updated to Acronis 2017 when it was being sold cheap recently.

CharlieBravo

1 Jan 17 3 #19

I was fortunate and managed to get the cyber Monday deal mentioned above, but that doesn't stop this being a decent capacity ssd from a reputable brand, at a very good price right now. Hot.

TypicalAsianFindingDeals

1 Jan 17 #16

How are SSD prices on the rise? I haven't really been following.

malachi to TypicalAsianFindingDeals

1 Jan 17 #17

Ram and SSD have been rising for a few months if you check the history on camelcamelcamel.com

gowf to TypicalAsianFindingDeals

1 Jan 17 1 #18

SSD is based on flash NAND which is produced in ... NAND factories. NAND is used in things like flash drives and often in things like mobile phone storage and so on. There is currently a massive demand for NAND particularly in the Far East due to massive growth in mobile phone use. This is apparently the reason.

Incidentally this is crucial's older generation of ssd and they are moving purely into newer 3D NAND (MX300 series). As someone suggested earlier, this is essentially stock clearance. BX200 is based on old 2D planar NAND which may be less reliable. Speed differences are negligible for most users.

To put it in context, the difference between 3D and 2d is outlined by samsungs 850 Evo and 750 Evo series. 850 is industry leading.

Voted hot because there isn't anything better for now but in the grand scheme of things it's not a great deal.

JC2MULTIPLAYER000

1 Jan 17 #13

"This item’s packaging will indicate what is inside and cannot be hidden."

matt101101

1 Jan 17 3 #10

I agree wholeheartedly with this.

Unless you have a specific application which benefits massively from as much drive performance as you can give it (most people don't have this requirement and if you do, you'll almost certainly know about it), which model of SSD you buy really doesn't matter from a performance perspective.

Pence per GB and reliability are far greater concerns for the average SSD buyer than outright performance. The majority of the performance advantage is in simply having your OS and programs on an SSD, not which model of SSD you have them on.

EDIT: Heat added, OP. This is a good price for a 480GB drive considering the current SSD climate. :smiley:

xyhz123456

1 Jan 17 #9

I think these BX200 drives are going to be shifted cheap.
Does anyone think it will see the same price cut that the BX200 960 had a week or so ago?... Right after that "Sale" Amazon stopped stocking the BX200 960's. A similar per GB price would be around £80... Even at the price you see now its not bad. I also agree with Stuellis, the act of moving to a SSD is huge, while this might not be their high-end drive it is more than ample (and probably too ample!) for any user to spot the difference when buying something much better.

minicale

1 Jan 17 #6

These are the low end crucial drives hence the low price.

stuellis to minicale

1 Jan 17 1 #7

And the difference to an average home user is negligible, 1-2 seconds slower on boot?

ollie87 to minicale

1 Jan 17 1 #8

I'd take the larger capacity over the tiny difference in speed.

ianjones32

31 Dec 16 #2

the 960gb one keeps popping up at £159.99, just pot luck when

hamzahuk

31 Dec 16 #1

Nice find op, really good deal considering the prices of ssd's are ment to be on a rise. In advance to those who are gonna say its speeds are much slower than 'modern ssd's', do take into account that this is just £93 unlike a modern ssd at 480gb.

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