Had to find a cheap, but half decent SSD for a build, and at £114.99 delivered from Amazon this is about the best you are going to find.
Lets clear a few things up first before the comments start.
1.) Yes we know you bought a 500GB Samsung Evo on Black Friday for £79, but that can't happen now due to NAND price increases.
2.) Nope it is not going to break just because you once bought an OCZ Vertex 2 drive, and got stung by it failing, this is a Toshiba drive through and through.
3.) It's SATA III 6Gbps, it's not an M.2 NVMe drive, that runs at 3200 MB/s so if that's what you are looking for then this is not it.
I've probably missed something, and no doubt someone will still mention that this seems expensive, and why not just wait for the prices to come down.
If you need a decent drive, and you need one now this is a good deal. If you don't need one now, then wait until next year when the prices may or may not reduce.
Anyway, hope this help someone. :smiley:
Manufacturers specification and marketing page can be found HERE! and HERE is one of many positive reviews about the drive/range, and another one just for good measure.
Sequential Read/Write
480GB: Up to 550/520 MB/s
Random Read/Write2 (4KiB, QD32)
480GB: Up to 86,000/83,0000 IOPS
Top comments
jamgin
14 May 1717#3
I remember when you could go to pictures, have a fish supper and buy a 480gb SSD all for 20 shillings... :laughing:
Uncommon.Sense
14 May 177#6
Brrr... all these cold votes, clearly people know where they can get a cheaper or better drive for less money, but don't want to share, and just keep it to themselves. Or they are living in the past.
All comments (34)
jasee
14 May 17#1
This is terribly expensive of course...:wink:
But for the price it's actually a good deal, 512GB (presumably 480 GB formatted) SSd are difficult come by at this sort of price
cainer1
14 May 17#2
its 480gb total, so probably nearer 450gb of usable space
drives tend to be 60/120/240/480..
or
128/256/512
which ever you buy you dont get the full amount as usable space
jamgin
14 May 1717#3
I remember when you could go to pictures, have a fish supper and buy a 480gb SSD all for 20 shillings... :laughing:
gr8h8me to jamgin
14 May 17#5
I had to say...Well done old bean
jasee
14 May 17#4
Obviously, but I didn't realise that actually made them as this size unformatted, I assumed they meant formatted. Rather annoying!
Uncommon.Sense
14 May 177#6
Brrr... all these cold votes, clearly people know where they can get a cheaper or better drive for less money, but don't want to share, and just keep it to themselves. Or they are living in the past.
cainer1
14 May 17#7
i had a 60gb Vertex 2 drive that had just over 55gb usable space,
i now have a samsung 128gb 840 pro which has just over 119gb usable space,
they should advertise the size as usable space :disappointed:
Ian2014
14 May 172#8
The discussion about advertised size versus what the computer sees has been going on for a long time.
Is it 1Gb = 1000Mb or 1Gb =1024Mb?
Yes, of course, but to me the standard sizes have always been shown as
256GB = 238GB
512GB = 477GB
1024GB = 954GB
but now it appears that they are actually making them as 238GB
=221GB etc
BIGUSHEADUS
14 May 171#9
While this may be of help to no one, you can get some good deals on amazon warehouse with the 20% off, managed to get a m.2 crucial x300 1tb for 150 yesterday. If it doesnt come off at checkout just ask in customer chat and they will take it off for you.
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Opening post
Lets clear a few things up first before the comments start.
1.) Yes we know you bought a 500GB Samsung Evo on Black Friday for £79, but that can't happen now due to NAND price increases.
2.) Nope it is not going to break just because you once bought an OCZ Vertex 2 drive, and got stung by it failing, this is a Toshiba drive through and through.
3.) It's SATA III 6Gbps, it's not an M.2 NVMe drive, that runs at 3200 MB/s so if that's what you are looking for then this is not it.
I've probably missed something, and no doubt someone will still mention that this seems expensive, and why not just wait for the prices to come down.
If you need a decent drive, and you need one now this is a good deal. If you don't need one now, then wait until next year when the prices may or may not reduce.
Anyway, hope this help someone. :smiley:
Manufacturers specification and marketing page can be found HERE! and HERE is one of many positive reviews about the drive/range, and another one just for good measure.
Sequential Read/Write
480GB: Up to 550/520 MB/s
Random Read/Write2 (4KiB, QD32)
480GB: Up to 86,000/83,0000 IOPS
Top comments
:laughing:
All comments (34)
But for the price it's actually a good deal, 512GB (presumably 480 GB formatted) SSd are difficult come by at this sort of price
drives tend to be 60/120/240/480..
or
128/256/512
which ever you buy you dont get the full amount as usable space
:laughing:
i now have a samsung 128gb 840 pro which has just over 119gb usable space,
they should advertise the size as usable space :disappointed:
Is it 1Gb = 1000Mb or 1Gb =1024Mb?
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-2270887/128gb-ssd-showed-119gb.html
256GB = 238GB
512GB = 477GB
1024GB = 954GB
but now it appears that they are actually making them as 238GB
=221GB etc
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B01F9G46Q8/ref=mp_s_a_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1494776906&sr=8-10&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=ssd+500gb
150 for what you said seems a bit wrong, it's nearly half price for a m.2..
https://uk.camelcamelcamel.com/Crucial-MX300-Internal-Solid-State/product/B01L80DH1Y?context=search