Yes you definitely can and do let us know how that works out for you. :wink:

I never go burned by ebuyer RMA dept. my issue with them is they decided to switch to using ParcelForce for deliveries and i absolutely loathe them.

problems with the RMA dept didnt arise till a few years after that when i think i heard the size of staff bonuses depended on how many RMAs they reject.


For anyone interested in this SSD.... Its SLOOOOOWWWWWWW i think its 260mb/s write and 500mb/s read.... even a Samsung 830 evo from a few years back outperforms this SSD.

Not the end of the world, but its something to take into consideration if you regularly write a load of files.

They are the ONE internet retailer I still avoid, not a very exciting story, but unprofessional and shocking customer service, in a nutshell. And I bought from them quite happily until I had an issue.

resale value? its a flippin SSD not a Ford Fiesta. you dont resell hard drives! you just keep adding more, you back them up to a massive HDD regularly and you run them till they are dead. if you are on a laptop you don't buy cheap, you buy once, you imagine a size you will never fill and then double it then buy that one.
SSD is not following the normal trends for size, price, and time I bought my 1st before 2012 (120gb) and a similar spec (speed and capacity) one now costs more than I paid, my 240gb was the same price as this 2 years ago. my 256gb was £80 last year.

there is no benefit either way to reselling, if you need bigger you either bought too small the 1st time or you add to it in a desktop.

This deal is hot.

This or a different brand SSD, if they have a normal physical hard drive, this would make a difference, Sata 3 is backward compatible with SATA2 / SATA1. Just make sure you don't install bloatware on their computer and use a good browser that optimises their experience, y'know Firefox, Opera, Googles Chrome etc. Avoid MS Edge/ Internet Explorer. That's the grandparent order of browsers. Well Opera, Firefox, Chrome, Safari / Edge if you have to.

Possibly, that would depend on why something only 4-5 years old is slow. If it's got a very slow processor like an Atom N450 it may not make as much difference as hoped.

If it's a decent processor like an i3-2100 with a decent amount of memory (4GB+) then I'd go for it.


There's no reason to avoid Edge, I use it more than the other major browsers installed on my system (my main browser is something smaller than can better handle lots of tabs). It's a good design for a basic browser and they've been consistently squashing the bugs and improving the speed.

SSDs make a computer far more snappier compared to an HDD (especially if it's a prebuilt budget PC with a 5400rpm drive). If it takes a minute or two for the system to become responsive after booting, browsers are slow to open or you just notice the computer stalling whilst it thrashes the hdd, an SSD makes a colossal difference.

I'd argue booting off of an SSD is one of the best upgrades you can do for a struggling system. It won't magically make an underpowered PC do more than it could otherwise though (if videos stutter and drop frames, they probably will continue to do so).

Yes - just clone your drive with SuperDuper! Or CarbonCopyCloner and swap out the drives - easy

No, but the £ has... :disappointed:

If you have a stick up your a** please skip this post

no, its that everything needs more and more memory, manufactures keep pushing larger memory sizes in smartphones, laptops, TV's, sat navs, fridges, internet connected everythings, toilets that can automatically update your facebook with a status update about size and weight of your number 2s as you do them (Patent pending).

so we throw away our 2 year old tech and buy a new one and all that changes is the screen is 2mm bigger and the memory has doubled.

all these different memory chips have to be manufactured and even a few years ago the system was stressed... then one of the larger foundries burned to the ground making the already existing chip shortage grow, pushing the prices up.

of course as long as chip demand continually increases the companies who make the chips can charge higher prices to manufacturers of devices but don't worry they will pass those price hikes on to the consumer.

on the up side since everyone always demands more power it means the more money than sense crew push technology to advance, the sensible wait just a little while for the announcement of the new product that has 10% more memory to but the last model and make a cheap purchase, and the elderly sit there wondering how to change the channel to strictly come dancing as its been stuck on cartoons since the grandkids came round.

(if anyone doesn't understand this is a mix of fact and funny please avoid angry ranting replies)

The global issue is that phone makers are now taking a lot of the raw materials to build SSDs, and so there is a major shortage of them. There are only 2 factories worldwide that make SSDs (or the parts for it, can't remember), and they can't make them quick enough for the massive demand.

I know this for a fact, I deal with the suppliers daily.

Well they seem to badge them up, these are made by Galt (never heard of them either) and other AMD SSD's are made by OCZ I believe

Because it's AMD. When was the last time they did anything sensible?