came here for a cheap hard drive ... Found a thread full of disunity and blame.

we all scream about fighting for democracy .. Then moan when people make free choices.

Voted down as not a British hard drive .. sick of buying European Samsung

surprised you didn't pay £9 the previous month

LOL wtf are u smoking?

Voted down because not british? british people are not even british... samsung is top class, they do the best in nearly every area from washing machines to phones.

What this country needs right now is Strong and Stable primary storage...

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Expired.

Makes sense, i have a 4 year old 840 PRO in my laptop that is on most of the day EVERY day and an 840 EVO which is barely 2 years old and in comparison doesn't see hardly any use. Both have written 10tb.

ok thanks for info wasn't aware of this

Price £87.72 now. :-(

Some products such as coca and rice have increased in price due to its own supply issues. That said we buy everything is brought in $ or €. Petrol is brought in $/€.. Even though many large companies buy in advance (up 6 months or more) and that has migated (so far) of price inflation - it will eventally feed into the system.

With price inflation and where in some markets (like food) it is price sensitive; the company has 3 options.

1. absorb the price increases.
2. reduce the quantity sold at that price (so say reducing the weight from 500grams to 450 grams)

The above would mean little change to your weekly shop but its still inflationary..

the 3rd option is to increase prices ..

So if we went back to pre-referendum currency exchange, food as well as everything else would drop dramatically? I don't think so.

There are still crazy deals going on and have been since the referendum. Even though the currency dropped. I've gone through my online food shopping bills over the last 2 years and there hasn't been much of a difference at all. It works both ways, we are the consumers, companies essentially work for and around us. No consumers buying, product dead in the water. Also, a lot of companies have a safety buffer on products for things like currency fluctuation.

Thanks, now find me some cheap DDR4 and I'll buy you a sandwich

Yeah true now you mention it I have seen a few products at ridiculously low prices from sellers that have just launched.

Live in hope! I paid £116 for the 500gb version just over a year ago and reckon that at £139 now it's better value than the 250gb at £77 is now in this thread,
By the time that the 500gb falls to £77 who knows what sort of memory device the boffins will have thought up.

will this fit my pc i wonder

Hello 2015?
COLD

Most likely a scam pricing. They pop up briefly all the time.

I made a mistake on my quote... my post should have been:



If demand is high, why decrease manufacturing?

If DRAM is been extensively used in smartphones, why reduce production? This would justify an increase in production.

so almost 80 quid for a 256gb ssd? lol what a rip off

That's a coincidence...the person I replied to (you) hadn't heard of Google either.

Only if all you've done or spent since June last year is on a cheap as chips PC

TLC is MLC. The nand is the same, it just has more bits stored. The actual limit per cell is much higher than three, but there's a trade off with longevity.

vNand is different to regular nand as it uses a different method to store bits which should give it a longer lifespan.

I don't know why Samsung call them MLC when they are 3bit cells which would make the TLC. Just stacked 32 or 48 cells high.

This is the most helpful comment ever. I have never heard or used Google before. :confused:

1. there was a fire at a fab - less capacity.

2. many fabs are converting from 2d flash to 3d flash ..

3. chips take about 3 months produce.

4. Silicon cylinders are sliced into wafers, these wafers can only be made into dram or flash memory - you can't instantly switch...

Producing chips isn't easy and an easy answer won't be forth coming :smiley:

We will see higher densities at the same price point late this year/early next year once risk production has been done

These are vNand, so the life expectancy is a lot better than the standard TLC ssds.

I'm still happily using tiny 120GB SSD's on a few computers without issue....yes bigger might be better for those that move/store tons of data but for me the days of having huge drives one each machine are long gone.... networked drives or a server to have all you prawn and music warez stored and nimble SSD's in your dekstop/laptop. Well that's wot I do.

whooosh is the sound you probably heard as that comment flew over your head :smile:

Well I blame auto correct 100 purse cent! :sunglasses:

Hmm I thought it a good price but then I found out it's not the cheapest its ever been. I don't want one now. BREXIT has put me right off SSDs. Anyone got an old hard drive I can buy for 70 pence?

250GB is a little small these days and once you fill an SSD its life expectancy becomes a lot lower. So it is always better to have a much larger drive than you need so you can keep some free space.

You do realise that the SAMSUNG Company is not Europe, European, and/or has it's 'source' anyyyyyyywhere near Europe right?.

It's a South Korean Company.
As in East Asia, and /or an Oriental Company altogether ...

SAMSUNG has nothing to do with anywhere to do with a European anything?, lol. :-)

It's much like the Japanese Company SONY ...

These Companies trade in different parts of Europe, yes, but are with of them European?, no.

You don't drop a lmgfty like that, you do it like this.

840 had a serious firmware issue that was making them slower and slower when accessing old data. Samsung released a fix with their tool that basically circumvents the issue by parsing the disk and re-writing old data, but it significantly decreases the life expectancy of the disk.

http://www.techspot.com/news/60501-samsung-addresses-slow-840-evo-ssd.html

At any rate I would suggest upgrade to the 850. I have done that, and just run the windows partition by the 840.I really do not care if it fails (easily replaceable unlike work related data)

I know we had it good last year with SSD's at stupidly low prices but it was never sustainable and I think this price is acceptable for the size and brand. It's still pretty damned cheap price for such a decent performing drive.

I can say that my 850 doesn't work noticably better than the 830 it replaced in one of my desktops in day to day stuff and the 840 I've got in another machine seems about the same so I'd say no. I don't game or do heavy duty stuff other than a bit of HD video editing though.

The fact it was cheaper before is irrelevant, unless you have a time machine.

furthermore, memory prices fluctuate all the time so you cannot really compare this way.

Probably best not to mention the fluctuation of the pound to factor in also :wink:

For those looking to buy one of these NOW.... it's a good deal, and that's all anyone should care about.

This is not cheap. They were lower cost over one year ago.
It may be a low recent price, but not cheap.

errrm you would have "saved" alot more .. (depends on when & what you brought for your new build)

Would have.... would've is not short for 'would of' ...... cheeky

Anyway, those prices are third party and don't take into account postage cost and scammers :smile:

New version: 960 evo - nvme m.2 ...

This and the 850 pro saturate the sata 600 bus... Realistically you might see a 6tb and 8tb in the future

Was this ever posted back in August?... I would of had two! :confused::disappointed:

You would have saved a lot more, as the £ was quite strong at the time and was forecast to become stronger. note the word WAS.

If you run SQL server on the SSD, you could end up with a 'Colation of Chaos'. :smiley:

anyone know if these are much of a real upgrade over a 840 evo?

Why are SSD so expensive?

Would love to see them drop further in price faster so that we can get rid of stupid unreliable mechanical hard drives..such an old,unreliable,ancient technology.
Even 500GB drops near this price I'll be really happy.

Any new version coming soon?

Sorry for the trump...spicy lunch.

Hot. Bought. You lot need to get a room

I wanted the real reason and not the Mickey Mouse version but Brexit is as good as any.

If we had not BREXITed would I have saved 3 pounds and 17 pence on my new PC build?

To add,Mini tool partition wizard about easist ... https://www.partitionwizard.com/free-partition-manager.html

As i've said before the sdd/memory prices are down to two main factors, Nand Supply (or lack of ) and brexit.

1. Nand supply. 3 factors here, a) ever increasing demand from smart devices. b) had seen reports of a fire at a fab(can't confirm ) and 3. Nand manufacturing down due to transition from 2d nand to 3d nand .

That has caused worldwide prices to increase - you will see it at tigerdirect and new egg etc.

2. Brexit - we have seen a massive drop in the GBP to euro and dollar. We buy everything internationally in either euros or dollars .. Accept it and realise this is now the new norm.

Brexit is price inflationary... and we have no control over it ..

AnywhereButHere there is a cool website when you post google querries like that. "Let me google that for you"
https://lmgtfy.com/

Cool deal and very well perfoming SSD drivers, voted hot

What software is the best for cloning SSD. I want to swap my current 128gb SSD for a larger size one

We all know who is really to blame for the price increases.....white supremacist fascists!!1

What this country needs right now is Strong and Stable primary storage...

it is going to be a soft boiled brexit, the kind that the eu are going to say no to

Everything is blamed on either Brexit, or Trump!.... c'mon get with it! :smiley:

If you plonkers seriously think this has anything to do with Brexit (I hate that word) you should really look at the international prices.. i.e... USA : https://camelcamelcamel.com/Samsung-2-5-Inch-Internal-MZ-75E250B-AM/product/B00OAJ412U

I think most of us have had enough of politics.. can we have a week off.

Voted down because of sense of humour failure

Maybe we should start adding "/s" to the end of posts to indIcate we are being SARCASTIC

Or maybe it's just remoaners who don't understand?






/s just in case you weren't sure

You are the best....You made me day with your reply

The prices for SSD has gone up recently instead down

Thanks in for one

says RRP: £78.83 so not sure if its even a deal at this price now? I think it could be the last of the stock and the next 250gb model will release soon

LOL wtf are u smoking?

Voted down because not british? british people are not even british... samsung is top class, they do the best in nearly every area from washing machines to phones.

came here for a cheap hard drive ... Found a thread full of disunity and blame.

we all scream about fighting for democracy .. Then moan when people make free choices.

Voted down as not a British hard drive .. sick of buying European Samsung

Needs must, good price for the here and now!

I paid £71.75 for one of these from Amazon in Sept 2015 :disappointed:

SATA SSDs have such grim prices currently, this deal included.

Good deal for the ssd, thanks for posting! Heat added

Only if you have the slot for it without using an expansion card.

Nice price but I wouldn't waste a SATA socket on a drive this small.

That said, it's M.2 PCIe all the way for me these days.

A great deal if you want one now or in the near future. Its a big drop - see https://uk.camelcamelcamel.com/Samsung-inch-Solid-State-Drive/product/B00P736UEU

Prices are expected to ease and may drop to last year's prices - but not till next year. Hang out till then or buy now. Its complicated by the complete screw-up by Theresa on the Brexit election which, unless someone with the confidence of the market comes running quickly to the rescue - otherwise we could see further damage the exchange rate.

Not good times.

saw this ealrier, paid 10£ last month :P

if the 500gb ver comes down to this price the day will be prefect

If you buy me a ham sandwich. This day will be perfect.