wrong, v300, get it right :stuck_out_tongue:

edit: first versions of v300 were fine, comparable with the rest of the market, then they decided to swap out the flash chips with Kellog's Frosties and hence the speed was greatly reduced.

After what Kingston did with the V300's I'm probably never going to buy a Kingston SSD again, it also makes me doubt the quality of all of their other products.

Think about that for a moment. Even if it was just once in their history - they were caught downgrading SSD's and selling them to people who were under the belief that they were getting the same SSD that the reviewers had gotten when in fact they were getting a shoddy cheaper version that didn't perform as well, how can you trust that the company isn't doing it elsewhere but hasn't been found out yet?.

That one mistake has lost them someone who would otherwise have bought this product and I won't be the only one that feels the same about what they did.

Worth a punt.

Kingston, though. Don't trust that the product you receive will match the product they describe it as being. They're a dodgy company.

Ordered.
Still waiting for my WD black 4TB that was cheap, ordered that 8 weeks ago.

Ordered. Very good price and I'm in no rush for it

£119.99, retail boxed version, 5yr warranty, still on order had a couple of emails saying they are trying to source stock.

Nice find. Worth the wait if you get it.

wrong, v300, get it right :stuck_out_tongue:

edit: first versions of v300 were fine, comparable with the rest of the market, then they decided to swap out the flash chips with Kellog's Frosties and hence the speed was greatly reduced.

this was the deal post:
http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/western-digital-black-4tb-3-5-internal-hard-drive-119-99-amazon-2614164

No this is the business class KC400 they were shady with the V300 iirc

Good price and well worth a punt, yes they might have been deceptive scumbags and switched the innards on their V300 SSD drives but I imagine they'd have learnt their lesson :smile:

Woops my bad!

I have a few of these disks, they are actually very good.

See the review HERE! for more details, easily as good as a Samsung etc. :smiley:

That's a good price; comparable to when SSDs weren't crazily expensive.

Heat added, OP. :smiley:

"Once" implies that it isn't a continuing issue with the company's products.

:laughing:

Ordered, hope it goes through. It says:
Estimated delivery:
4 April 2017 - 4 May 2017

And unless you have compelling evidence to the contrary then it's a valid implication and your assertions are hearsay at best.

I've had two of their 128gb SSDs quite a few years ago (looks same as picture), both died on me; first two hard drives I've ever had fail in my life! Although there's a good chance they have refined their parts I don't think I'd ever give them the benefit of doubt again!

Well then, the burden of proof lies with you. Enlighten us.

Its nice work if you can get it ...

very tempting. however the reviews don't seem very promising

swapped the nand, don't buy.

After what Kingston did with the V300's I'm probably never going to buy a Kingston SSD again, it also makes me doubt the quality of all of their other products.

Think about that for a moment. Even if it was just once in their history - they were caught downgrading SSD's and selling them to people who were under the belief that they were getting the same SSD that the reviewers had gotten when in fact they were getting a shoddy cheaper version that didn't perform as well, how can you trust that the company isn't doing it elsewhere but hasn't been found out yet?.

That one mistake has lost them someone who would otherwise have bought this product and I won't be the only one that feels the same about what they did.

Great price, cyber Monday day territory. Shame about the long wait but if you're planning a new build, this is a no brainer

Price increased to £87.05 as of 7:36am

Have some heat my friend :smile: Bargain!

Looking to get 8 ssds acting as raid 10 in a database server ( will have heavy use during office hours only) enterprise drives seem overly expensive and from test sites offer no extra reliability over consumer class. Had been looking at the 850 pro but are these a decent option too?

What are the benefits of solid state ?

The chances of this ever arriving are extremely slim.

This. They also enjoy greater reliability as no moving parts so it cant mechanically fail in the same way a normal hdd can. On the negative though there is a limit to how many times data can be rewritten, which was an issue on early ssds, though i doubt it is something people would run into during the normal lifespan of a modern ssd...

Looks good although I'm still looking out for a good priced sub £100 1TB SSD for a iMAC 2011.
The Superdrive got screwed up when one of the kids put a sd card in and tried to fish it out. Want one to replace the superdrive and speed up my Mac.

My 1TB HDD just did a number on me and died. Already have a 128GB Kingston in my PC that came free with my mobo. Zero problems so far (a year). So I would recommend anyone pick one up for that price.

They don't take the pennies until shipped right? Doesn't matter, just forgot.

Went off to make a cup of coffee, came back, "Add to Basket" - its now £186 :disappointed:

I bet they even had the audacity to say "They're great!"

No longer for sale via Amazon directly.

It's vaporware anyway.

That's one expensive cup of coffee :neutral_face:

It hurts a little bit more in the toilet.

I'd avoid the nonsense of RAID'ing SSD's, if you need high IOPS performance, choose a suitable NVME M.2 drive.

Those drives are still on sale, aren't they?

Its mainly for reliability and uptime rather than outright speed (databases are fairly well tuned), have a raid 10 SSD setup (v expensive enterprise drives) with hot spares at the moment on a server thats a couple of years old and been happy with it. Does take a bit of hammering, 10+gb a day read/write so looking to offload some databases to another server.

Write is the only thing that matters, 10GB/day is absolutely nothing, the enterprise drives will probably last for many decades.

Reading that again... I hope you're backing up those databases.

Of course.

Enterprise drives are just rated for greater endurance & reliability (at a higher temperature / workload) but of doesn't mean they'll necessarily achieve it in practise. They also generally have higher performance and some form of error correction. All depends on the working environment though tbh. I would just avoid any drives with cheap drives with MLC / TLC NAND or as mentioned consider NVME instead of RAID

Didn't see your reply here. As above BlackAle is right 10GB/day is nothing for enterprise drives

I ordered one of these even though if I'm honest the 128gb Kingson SSD I have as a boot drive now is adequate as I have a separate 1TB SSHD for Steam games and a regular HDD for less exciting stuff like documents and pictures. That said my existing SSD is at least 3 years old and well out of warranty so this way I can at least upgrade to a newer bigger drive and sell my old one for a bit off the price.

Just not sure what I'll use the extra space for since the 128GB does for Windows 10 and the applications I use. Guess I could put a couple of my most used games on there for faster loading then the SSHD...

Thanks OP, ordered last night and have got a 5th April - 4th May delivery estimate.. Don't see why this shouldn't be fulfilled if Amazon can source the stock. I also put in a Flubit demand and got an offer of £84-something, but by the time I got round to checking it this afternoon it had expired... :disappointed: Don't know why Flubit seem to have shortened the expiry times on their offers.

just got the dreaded cancellation email :disappointed:

also had the cancellation email. :disappointed:

Got the cancellation email.

Cancelled.

This drive did shoot up to '#1 best seller in hard drives' so cancellations hardly surprising if they got thousands of orders :smile:

I got the cancellation email too. Two in two days!!

Mine is cancelled too. Not acceptable to cancel due to having too many orders though, their system should take an item out of stock when they have none left. Email says due to misprice.

cancelled, well it was worth a try atleast :stuck_out_tongue:

That is correct, but they no longer advertise the 120GB V300 drive with the advertised speed of the 505A (~450MB/s) and supply the 521A (~170MB/s), so there is no longer an issue with bait and switch.

That was all done and dealt with in Q1 2014 and I think most sensible people understand that. You can't just mention half-baked crap and espouse it as truth - that's what dumb folk do.

Love the passive aggressiveness of your post.

Yeah I'm completely dumb for having trust issues with a company proven to bait and switch, just because it happened once means it will never happen again right? They've definitely learnt their lesson right? After all a business that is out to earn money always has the customers best interests at heart and this kind of thing was just a big screw up and misunderstanding totally wasn't intentional, I'm so blind and dumb! thank you for showing me the light!

:disappointed:

oh well, was worth a punt :disappointed:

Amazon cancelled

Whoah there feller. I was replying to dxx's post which implied that Kingston were still advertising one speed and selling another, which is simply not true.

I don't think passive aggressive is the description you're looking for either, but if you're going to vociferously spout stuff that is plain wrong and uninformed in a public forum and try to convince others that what you're saying is the truth then you can expect to get called on it.

Yes but they could decide to not honour it due to large volume of sales. Selling 50 at a loss/lower-margin is very different to selling 5000 at a loss/lower-margin even for a company like Amazon

I was going to reply to the "Those drives are still on sale, aren't they?" comment before but decided to just ignore it & save myself the drama. You took the bullet, thankyou good sir :smile:

PlSSED off now...I'm writing to my MP about Amazons TAX situation blah blah....

Surprised they claimed it was a misprice; while cheap it was hardly beyond the realms of imagining. Inability to source stock would have been completely understandable.

Totally agree.

I'll back you up. If we have to consider turning the UK into a tax haven to compete with the EU, the least these corporate tax avoiding companies can do is throw us a bone when they've been caught mispricing. Won't someone think of the HUKDers?

Managed to get a one month extension of Prime after whinging on chat.

Amazon cancelled :disappointed:

I'm not surprised they cancelled this as a misprice, as opposed to saying they couldn't source stock. Even when SSDs were cheap, these KC400s were never one of the drives which were dropping down to the ~£130/TB mark.

According to CCC, the cheapest Amazon have ever sold the KC400 in 512GB capacity for is ~£125 and that was June last year. It's no surprise that with a much weaker Pound and much higher NAND prices, they're not willing to sell you one now for £87.

Sad times. Cancelled too.

Cancelled as well, a bit disappointing but not going to complain as I have had some very good deals on Amazon lately and they have honoured some other mispriced items I have ordered. Still a shame though and I was quite surprised too as it isn't really an unfeasible low price as I don't think the SSDNow range is a particularly high end range. Perhaps the kind of price they might have on a lightening deal, though maybe a bit low for an everyday price.

That said, storage prices are atrocious lately and retailers have the perfect excuse for their rip off prices in brexit. Would advise anyone wanting a HDD/SSD to hold off right now or get absolutely fleeced with present pricing, if you absolutely have to have one get it on eBay or something, don't support the current pricing model.

Anyway back on topic, Amazon definitely seem to cancel PC and component misprices much more readily than other categories, I don’t think I have had one under-priced PC part get through yet have had headphones and some food items, Can only assume the profit margins aren’t wide enough on the PC gear for them to absorb much loss….

Hope you dont drive anything from the VW group or own a samsung phone then

Was wondering how others had got on. I've had bottles of wine cancelled and various other things (not just PC parts), so it's just bad luck.

giv it half a year,the price may drop to where it was.

That WD 4TB black for £119 has just been dispatched, coming on Saturday :smile:

Haha that took a while :laughing:
Still, nice result in the end