Not really, straight away I've found out they aren't that comparable, took me 10 seconds
http://ssd.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Samsung-850-Evo-250GB-vs-Crucial-MX300-275GB/2977vs3642

Please find me a better deal or lend me your time machine ;P

I got one free in the future where they're worthless. It's all relative of course........but for the here and now this seems like a decent price so have some heat.

bit stupid of a comment without any understanding of current prices...

I ended up cancelling my order last night but only on the provision that i could carry the £10 BIGTHANKS voucher over onto the new order that was in stock. Had to explain it slowly 6 or 7 times, so the guy cancels it and then seems to disavow all knowledge of the £10 voucher so i had to be put thru to the supervisor almost an hour later and finally got it sorted out. Never talk to them on the phone to sort out problems is my advice! Text chat is best. Anyway, the new in-stock order is saying another week until dispatch. Can't win!

wow i was really hoping to come and get some useful advice on how good this drive may be or find out if there are any viable alternatives. oh well.

Ordered on 20 January 2017. Received this email today:

"We’re writing to let you know that the following items have been unexpectedly delayed:

"Samsung 850 EVO MZ-75E250W 250GB Solid State Drive - 5 Year UK Warranty and FFP packaging"
Estimated arrival date: March 01 2017 - March 10 2017
"

If you need this in any sort of reasonable time pay the extra £15. Quite frustrating the prices of SSDs have risen so much. I'd put of buying before christmas thinking there might be a sale over the holiday period. So might have the SSD 10 weeks after I decided to buy it!

Based on where you can buy it today it is a deal. We don't care about what price it was a year ago. We can't go back there and get one.

What bit of that don't you understand?

Is that the cheapest today - yes. Has the 850 evo (regardless of model number) been cheaper - yes. Is it still value for money - no.

Nope! :smiley:

I don't get why people say they got it for £x last year. If it's cheap today from one specific retailer as compared to the price from other retailers, it's a deal. It's as simple as that.

User benchmarks. Even if this was true there would be no real world difference.

Normally it does, as the process move to bigger capacities. Three things have occurred which have caused this issue.

1. Brexit - the pound has lost 15 to 20% of its value - the component industry buys in smaller amounts and so is more prone to price rises. Regardless of your view point on Brexit, this is fact ..

2. Supply of nand chips. You can only make soo many chips from a wafer of silicon, and chip foundries have to make a decision on what type of chips they make, Sram, nand(flash), gpus, cpus etc.

Nands go into ssds, ipods, tablets, usb flash drives and phones, mostly. Many have switched to producing nand chips for phones. So you have supply constraint there and add in that the flash memory for phones is not the same as memory for SSDs you can see serious issues there if you want to switch supply.

3. flash memory prices have also increased on the commodity market. Yes ram(sram/nand) is a commodity, Which means it can make the Brexit effect better or worse than it is already..

was that a hot deal back then or just the going rate? If it was the going rate would you post it on HDUK and expect to get 200+ heat for basically rrp?

My point is that it isn't really much of a deal is it.

I'm after one of these right now, shall I wait until last year before buying?
What would you do?

Dammit, looking for the 500GB at a cheaper price.

Come on Samsung!

Eh? I got this for £72 over a year ago.

how the hell did this get so hot?

This is crazy, I paid £55 on a special offer 18 months ago. I should look in my shed and see if I have any really old hardware knocking about that is worth 25% more than it was 5 years ago.

I remember buying a pint of beer for 80p in 1988 if that's of any help to anyone.

It is disgusting and disgraceful when companies/manufacturers behave like this.

Thankfully we can also vote with our wallets and not buy their *****y replacement products!

LOL These comments. Can I remind you that Deal = money off RRP, and you can't buy these for cheaper at the moment. This website is used for more than people wanting to buy and sell things for a profit, if this price is the cheapest (and money off RRP :wink: ) then its also useful to know that in Febuary 2017 this SSD was at this price at a low point. Don't be so narrowminded.

Paid 10 pounds less 2 years ago for same kind of kit

Cold, already posted http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/samsung-850-evo-mz-75e250w-250gb-solid-state-drive-5-year-uk-warranty-amazon-74-2599764


The BX series was never high performance.

Ok but the mx300 was just an example, there should be a sticky to tell people where to search online I think.

Been waiting 3 weeks for mine to be dispatched. The 500gb version of this hit £80 last summer, a little heart breaking when you're badly in need of one.
Can't say i agree with any of this time machine stuff really. You may get the best price at the moment but there aren't many deals around on SSD's at the moment.

i bought one today , a Integral 240g ssd brand new for 45 quid. from ebay all gone now only had like 4 in stock

ha ha,
well i know which source i would believe if it was my money i was spending....

Good price (Feb 17) for a good drive...heat added!

Not really, straight away I've found a comparable drive for same price, took me 10 seconds http://www.awd-it.co.uk/crucial-mx300-275gb-sata-6gb-s-2.5-internal-ssd-solid-state-drive-ct275mx300ssd1.html?gclid=CjwKEAiAoOvEBRDD25uyu9Lg9ycSJAD0cnByuVJxAYEnkkPmknhESvRB_vKR-YfnCvqMFFE4Ysh3QhoC9o_w_wcB

Good price, but what's the difference between this link and (other than the price?)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00P736UEU/ref=pd_luc_rh_sbs_02_01_t_ttl_lh?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

or is it just amazon having multiple pages for the same product

I got one free in the future where they're worthless. It's all relative of course........but for the here and now this seems like a decent price so have some heat.

Please find me a better deal or lend me your time machine ;P

I bought one at 62 quid last year
it had been as low as 55
this is not a deal

It's been that price for weeks so not really a deal.

Although I got one April 2016 for £72

Anyone know if this model has sequential read (540MB/s) and write (520MB/s) speeds? If so then very good deal