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Sandisk 256GB SSD - £66.42 @ Amazon

£66.42 Amazon UK30 Dec 16

Source: HotUKDeals | Deals > Technology

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kidpaddyblue

30 Dec 16

Up to 28x better performance than a typical hard disk drive

No-wait boot up and shut down

Faster app load and response times

Up to 15 per cent longer battery life

nCache 2.0 technology delivers enhanced speed and endurance

240GB not 256GB
- zebrum

Top comments

brainsys

31 Dec 16 13 #16

Point is IT components are priced in dollars. 52% voted for a 20% price increase. Most corporations wanted it the other way. You. Plus the increasing demand for SSD in place of spinning rust is tightening prices in the short term. In the medium term prices will fall (in dollars).

Graham1979 to wildlotos3

31 Dec 16 9 #11

Awesome can I borrow the TARDIS after your done with it. I want to go back and put a couple of bets on who is getting an OBE/CBE in the New Years honours.

kidpaddyblue to neiiilers

31 Dec 16 7 #9

That's the Hotukdeals motto

quidstretchy to wildlotos3

31 Dec 16 6 #22

you forgot to mention how little your gran paid for her house

Latest comments (79)

pritchdingo

2 Jan 17 #79

How was this a deal? looked at my previous purchases. brought this same drive october 2015 for £55. yes a while ago now but still cheaper than this

dominickthedonkey

2 Jan 17 #78

Showing as 72.99 now... Deal is expired.

tom_gov

2 Jan 17 #77

oos

wildlotos3

1 Jan 17 #76

Relax ppl :smiley: I told before:
In short period of time is HOT price.
In long period of time is COLD price.
Why is this price like this? - this is another story.

bigup

31 Dec 16 #75

Tempted to get 2 of these in raid0 for my PC.

Would there be a noticeable difference? I understand the risk in data loss

ZainAkib

31 Dec 16 #68

God these comments are ****, 'I paid X for X two years ago hurr durr' prices change, economy changes. Then there's the annoying Tardis, time machine jokes people make in every thread. Comment something relevant.

catbeans to ZainAkib

31 Dec 16 3 #69

I'll just get in my delorean and stop people from posting posts you dont like then, never had comments like this a year ago.

spannerzone to ZainAkib

31 Dec 16 #73

There are some things that must be said, it's Hot UK folk lore: Tardis jokes, Henry the vacuum cleaner snorting coke and posting pictures of scantily clad ladies in underwear where appropriate. I don't make up these rules, they're in the *terms and conditions that we all agreed to when signing up (you did read them before agreeing I assume?)

Anyhoo, Happy New and here's looking forward to a lower cost 2014

*terms and conditions may not explicitly state these rules

sotomonkey to ZainAkib

31 Dec 16 1 #74

We're talking about flash memory though which bar a huge crisis, should be getting cheaper over time, especially two years.

Apply the same to laptops for example, which tend to follow a similar trajectory. Wonder what the response would be to a two year old laptop, that's still the same price.

Spankey22

31 Dec 16 2 #38

Good price for now, I got two of these for £39.99 each just over a year ago.

As mentioned previously, it's a shame 52% of people voted to devalue the pound.

ah_heng to Spankey22

31 Dec 16 2 #40

Actually its all started with the 67% voted in in 1975 :smiley:

treguard to Spankey22

31 Dec 16 1 #47

The way I look at is they each owe all of us remain voters the difference :smiley:

noss88 to Spankey22

31 Dec 16 1 #72

i got it too but this is ultra we got plus :smiley: from amazon i remember

AdolfHeatler

31 Dec 16 #71

This world is not getting any better anymore especially when it comes to the SSD prices and American presidents

haworthia

31 Dec 16 #70

Thanks.
Yes it has the drive you mentioned. Just looking ahead & also saw the "mini USB" drives & as I have no use for the DVD additional cheap storage would be good. I think my DVD is fixed so I assume I would be limited to SD or USB but nay just wait and see how I get on with current storage.

daveroy

31 Dec 16 #67

But HUKD shouldn't just be a price comparison site. The cheapest current price for an item isn't always a good deal and deals are what this site is (or should be) all about.

vegalz0r

31 Dec 16 #62

Paid £70ish 2 years ago for a 256GB SSD from crucial off amazon. I don't get how this is a "hot" deal.

spannerzone to vegalz0r

31 Dec 16 1 #66

It's the cheapest price now which is what's relevant to someone looking to buy..... it's hot as most of us are unable to buy things in 2014

haworthia

31 Dec 16 #64

OK so now I have been less patient & checked the link it's an internal SATA drive so similar question does anybody know if I can remove the DVD drive and replace with this or any other drive on an HP Pavilion 15-au110na
Thanks.

spannerzone to haworthia

31 Dec 16 #65

You'd normally replace your existing hard drive with this SSD drive.,,, a simple swap in most cases. If you did need a second hard drive (use a larger non SSD for storage) then you could use an adaptor that replaces a laptop DVD drive and allows a second hard drive to be fitted : Example

EDIT: that laptop you list already has an SSD drive in it, 256 GB M.2 SSD... do you need another SSD drive?

haworthia

31 Dec 16 #63

Might be a dumb question but will this fit into a new HP laptop which has a "multi-format SD media card reader" slot fitted ?
exact model is Pavilion 15-au110na
TIA & voted HOT

tawse57

31 Dec 16 #61

The point is that the USD has risen against virtually all other currencies, save the Swiss Franc, in the past 6 months. The USD is on a tear. The price of gold, which saw a huge rally in the first 6 months of 2016 has collapsed since July when the USD began soaring against virtually every currency on the planet.

Markets are also beginning to price in the collapse of the Euro in 2017 - which will result in the USD being even stronger - so enough of this blame everything wrong in the Universe on the BREXIT vote cr*p now please.

tawse57

31 Dec 16 1 #60

neiiilers

31 Dec 16 4 #7

I don't need it so I bought 1 :smirk:

kidpaddyblue to neiiilers

31 Dec 16 7 #9

That's the Hotukdeals motto

Infrasonic to neiiilers

31 Dec 16 #59

But you will need it at some point...

I got a 120GB one of these last year as a boot drive before I'd even bought my new W7/10 i5 Lenovo box.
Clean installed W10, works great, seven second cold boot.

sotomonkey

31 Dec 16 1 #58

Agreed. About a year and a half ago I was waiting around for the price of this drive to drop to around 45 quid. I would often see it around this price and ignore it because I knew that it had gone for less than 45 quid prior.

£66.42 a year and a half on is ridiculous. It should be about 30 quid.

You can see that it was 47.99 quid on Amazon in November 2015 when I bought it. Must have been less than 45 elsewhere. The point is, look what the price has been since.

To put it into perspective a couple of days ago they wanted amost 75 quid for a drive that cost 80 quid in 2014....

http://charts.camelcamelcamel.com/uk/B00M8ABEIM/amazon.png?force=1&zero=0&w=725&h=440&desired=false&legend=1&ilt=1&tp=all&fo=0&lang=en

ah_heng

31 Dec 16 #57

To be fair, 1970s were not a good decade for many countries....

devanpankhania

31 Dec 16 #56

Is there any reason to choose this Sandisk one over similar Toshiba model on eBuyer which is a few quid cheaper?:

http://www.ebuyer.com/759034-toshiba-240gb-a100-2-5-internal-sata-iii-ssd-thn-s101z2400e8

Thanks

ashfields

31 Dec 16 #55

MacBook Pro compatible? I'm completely useless.

Derek_Duval

31 Dec 16 #50

Flubit offered me £64.47. Saves £2 but will most likely be longer delivery time.

daveroy to Derek_Duval

31 Dec 16 1 #54

Bit of cashback available with Flubit too. The stated 1.1% seems to be tracking at the higher 5.5% rate with Quidco. Not sure if they'll end up paying the higher rate though.

slayermatt

31 Dec 16 #53

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/ssd-hdd-shortage-nand-market,news-54328.html
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/240531-ssd-pricewatch-ssd-prices-expected-jump-quarter-thanks-limited-nand-supply-surging-demand

I feel its a mix between shortages and the referendum. But as someone who voted to stay - it is becoming a bore to hear over and over the exit is the source of all our problems. They'll come back down in a few months once supply catches up I'm sure.

Honestly there are very few games that benefit from an SSD. The only one I've come across is Sims 3 which can turn a 20 minute load into a 5 minute one. However that is very extreme. I find just having your OS on a different drive to the one you store data on sees the biggest benefit. Specifically for me Payday 2 would often crash and black screen - once i moved it to a different spinner it didn't happen once.

Of course SSD's are beneficial, but 960gb is overkill unless you have specific needs, such as silence for a small media PC or video editing.

Spankey22

31 Dec 16 1 #52

Not wanting to totally derail the thread, but I think you'll find that we weren't doing too well before we joined the EU.

We joined what was then the EEC in 1973.

There are plenty of graphs around to support my point if you're interested. :smirk:

spannerzone

31 Dec 16 #51

Hot, this is a decent price.

If it helps, wagon wheels are officially not smaller than they were when you were a kid in the 1970's

Sheepiestar

31 Dec 16 #48

Thanks for that. Think I'll order one. Do you know if I'll need any connecting cables or housing for putting the drive in ?

HertzVanRental to Sheepiestar

31 Dec 16 #49

No as it just fits into the same connections that your old drive fitted in; assuming it is the same physical size drive. You will need an disk drive enclosure though to enable you to connect the SSD to the laptop and clone the old hard drive. They're only a few £ on Amazon and can be then used to give you an external HDD that you can use with your old drive in.

Hope that helps.

kemeys

31 Dec 16 #46

hahahahaah

wildlotos3

31 Dec 16 2 #10

Year ago i have bought 260 GB for less then 50£ - good model.All prices now just more expensive - so COLD>
And this model looks like 240 GB not 256!

Graham1979 to wildlotos3

31 Dec 16 9 #11

Awesome can I borrow the TARDIS after your done with it. I want to go back and put a couple of bets on who is getting an OBE/CBE in the New Years honours.

quidstretchy to wildlotos3

31 Dec 16 6 #22

you forgot to mention how little your gran paid for her house

algloster to wildlotos3

31 Dec 16 4 #24

I perfectly understand where your coming from and again as people who have replied to you have said we have to consider the currency valuation correction following the referendum. We were always told that based upon Moore's Laws stuff should get faster and hence cheaper.

In regards to your price comment I think you are correct it should be cheaper but as somebody else posted supply issues could be effecting the market. I attach below a graph of an 850 EVO 250GB, something definitely happened to supply around a year ago before the referendum effect kicked in.

I wouldn't vote the deal cold its probably a good price for the market, just not a bargain historically.

Stimpington to wildlotos3

31 Dec 16 #45

HUKD users: 'I am currently in need of X product, what's the best deal available?'
Your advice: 'It was cheaper last year.'

Your COLD vote reasoning is the answer to a question no one asked.

twigletfingers

31 Dec 16 #44

Can I put one of these into a PS4?

Stimpington

31 Dec 16 1 #43

HUKD users: 'I am currently in need of X product, what's the best deal available?'
You: 'It was cheaper last year.'

Your COLD vote reasoning is a useless answer to a question no one asked.

Sheepiestar

31 Dec 16 #39

Would this be suitable to replace a hard drive in a mid 2009 intel core duo MacBook Pro ?

HertzVanRental to Sheepiestar

31 Dec 16 1 #42

Yes. I upgraded my 2009 Macbook Pro a number of years ago with a 128GB SSD and it's so much faster than my iMac which was one of the last ones with an HDD; it's quite a difficult mod on an iMac, but easy on the Macbook Pro version you've got.

I also took out the optical drive and replaced it with a cheap 1TB HDD and the SSD runs the operating software and the HDD is just used for data storage/music/photos - I got the necessary enclosure case for the HDD from eBay and use the optical drive, placed in another case from eBay, now as an external unit. Well worthwhile upgrade and can't see me changing it for some time to come.

makkan00

31 Dec 16 #41

Thanks OP. Ordered 480GB version.

alex_ray

31 Dec 16 #30

If i replace my current HDD with win10 with SSD, do i need new win10 key? Cuz system will treat it as new laptop! Any help will be appreciated

daveroy to alex_ray

31 Dec 16 #36

You'll be fine upgrading your HDD. No need for a new key.

HertzVanRental to alex_ray

31 Dec 16 #37

I upgraded my laptop from an HDD to an SSD the other day and it was easy. I didn't need the Windows 10 key. I just bought a cheap hard drive enclosure and then used free cloning software Macrium Reflect - very simple to use.

I did a very approximate performance comparison as follows:

Time taken to open a word document from start-up with HDD: 1 minute 24 secs.
Time taken to open a word document from start-up with SSD: 26 secs.

Performance difference is incredible and feels like a new machine that won't now go into the bin!

Kulaak

31 Dec 16 #35

Given that it was at it's lowest for only a month or so (£60), were'll ignore the little blip, & then shot back up I'd say this was a good deal.

Kulaak

31 Dec 16 #34

I think the De-Lorean is free right now I don't think they are making a BTTF IV, however if they are just hitch a ride.

b_p4tel

31 Dec 16 #33

How does this rate against this one....

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/kingdian-s280-240gb-2-5-sata-iii-ssd-with-128mb-cache-prime-same-day-delivery-free-2551389

brainsys

31 Dec 16 1 #32

A good reason to retain your HDD either in a second bay - or failing that bunging it an external enclosure. I keep a copy of the SSD in a partition on it - so in the event of failure I can still boot the machine. Also HDDs tend to die slowly giving warning signs so you can swop ahead of the catastrophe. SSD can die without warning and forensically recovering lost data is much more difficult.

But then oldies will remember when HDDs ran on a wing and a prayer. Its now a mature product as good as it will ever be. SSDs are still improving in leaps and bounds.

dfunked

31 Dec 16 #31

I've just sent back a 480GB Sandisk drive that died after 9 months of light use, whereas my 3 1/2 year old Samsung one is still going strong... That's just one person's experience of course, but my faith in Sandisk has taken a bit of a blow.

Graham1979

31 Dec 16 #29

Also, you've posted NO DEALS AT ALL in your 18 months of membership. Go on post one for new year!

Graham1979

31 Dec 16 2 #28

No my little buttercup you seem confused. You have not considered the supply/demand trends, strength of the pound comparative to the US dollar, emerging markets, faults in production leading to recalls, natural hazards affecting production, availability of raw materials used in production, increase demand over holiday season. The idea that ALL products get cheaper over time and stay cheap is at best KeyStage Three Geography. You have also failed to take into account what the consumer is willing to spend, how the prices compare to other vendors and finally by having a quick peak at the heat at the top of the screen will show what people think of the price. The price could go higher in the next few months because of the factors above, who knows.

Shut the door on the way out, there's a good chap.

ianjones32

31 Dec 16 1 #27

thank you, this is my pc spec. i5 3570k @ 4.2Ghz--MSI z77--Alpenföhn K2 Mount Doom
Kingston HyperX Genesis Grey 16gb
Zotac 1070 Amp Extreme --Ocz zs 750
Bitfenix raider custom--WD Black 1TB x 2
windows 10

Common Sense

31 Dec 16 1 #26

"Moore's law" was officially destined to the bin years ago.

brainsys

31 Dec 16 1 #25

SSDs are great for speeding up the OS and apps. Less so for data. If your HDD is fast enough to deliver video than the SDD will only be called on to deliver data at the same speed. Hence if its a desktop it is sensible to retain the old spinning iron for data (for free!) and use a small SSD for the OS/Apps. Actually for most people a 120Gb SSD is sufficient for that.

If its a laptop with only one drive bay then you have to decide where to keep your data. Cloud, SDHC, NAS ... there are many off-device options especially for data that is accessed only occasionally. Just think through how you use your storage. Everybody's needs are different.

ianjones32

31 Dec 16 #23

is it worth having the 960gb over this one? I have never had a sdd before.

I ordered this one at the sale price of £159.99, but wonder if it is to much gb for me?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B016JREG6Q/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

and how does it compare to this sandisk please?

thanks ian

ah_heng

31 Dec 16 #21

Is the 480gb at £110 worth the money as well? Looking for one for my desktop build...

c-traxx

31 Dec 16 #20

Im still using 2x128gb ultra II in raid0 in my desktop. Very fast drives. No problems so far. This is very tempting as a need one drive for my gf laptop. HOT

taras

31 Dec 16 #19

You forgot that nvme ssds have typically 3x faster iops

The difference between this drive and a 850 evo will be the iops and the cache which is pretty large on the 850 evo (12gb) - other drives typically have smaller caches and degrade more so when its full.

slayermatt

31 Dec 16 1 #18

Honestly, i feel most of the increase is tied with flash shortages due to the various disasters faced over in Asia recently, in addition to vastly increased demand by businesses for flash storage, rather than politically. It does apply somewhat - but in this case I don't feel thats the main factor.

MrKillChill

30 Dec 16 #2

Nice find OP!Heat added. Should I go for this or an 850 evo?

SaleChaser to MrKillChill

30 Dec 16 1 #3

At the end of the day the difference between this and a 850 evo is minimal. The only time there is a major difference is between a traditional Sata SSD with the average 500MB/s read and write speeds against a NVME SSD where speeds can exceed up to 3GB/s read and 2GB/ write.

kidpaddyblue to MrKillChill

30 Dec 16 #4

I think the Samsung has a better warranty but I trust Sandisk as a brand and wanted the best price.

steve_bezerker to MrKillChill

31 Dec 16 #17

The Samsung 850 evo is the fastest SSD I've ever owned. My PC literally takes less than 6 seconds to be ready to perform tasks from the exact second I hit the power button on my PC. Having said that £66 for a 256GB SSD is an absolute steal. I would get both.

brainsys

31 Dec 16 13 #16

waikit83

31 Dec 16 #15

Great deal thanks for posting, heat added

wildlotos3

31 Dec 16 3 #14

Point was.That 1 year passed,but price just go up not down,like it should be,e
especially with computer technology.So maybe this offer is super HOT compare to the shops next corner,but generally is super COLD.

Corporations just taking your money and crowd is happy - so if you will continue be happy and say ,that this is hot - for what make real discounts for you?Continue to pay extra...

whw

31 Dec 16 #13

OP, time for a visit to Specsavers. Clicking through the description clearly states 240gb!

Immensity

31 Dec 16 #12

Hahaha

slayermatt

31 Dec 16 #8

Ugh looking for something to replace a dead drive... paid £40 for a 240gb last year! Looks like I'm just going to have to suck it up and put down the extra cash. Either that or go through the painstaking RMA process and hope it doesn't take too long.

Great find though, ~240gb drives seem like fairy dust at the moment.

oneladyowner

31 Dec 16 1 #6

This is the Ultra II. Hot!.

spannerzone

30 Dec 16 4 #5

I have the Samsung Evo 850 and have bought about 5 of the Sandisks and can't really say I notice any difference in day to day performance. I don't run benchmarks or 3d games so maybe for me it makes no odds but I'd be more than happy having another Sandisk SSD.

kidpaddyblue

30 Dec 16 1 #1

Just ordered. Got a new HP laptop and did a clean install of Windows 10 to remove all the bloatware which helped but will stick this in and install Windows 10 straight onto it. Old laptop had a 128gb SSD makes such a difference

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