SSD prices seem to be slowly getting back to affordable levels again. Got one to make my old dell laptop bearable to use again.
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bascule
8 Oct 17#1
SSD prices seem to be slowly getting back to affordable levels again. Got one to make my old dell laptop bearable to use again.
Chippy8
8 Oct 17#2
Seems like a pretty good price. Hot :grin:
bascule
8 Oct 17#3
4 left in stock, there were 11 left after I bought one, this doesn't look like it will last long.
QuickProfits to bascule
8 Oct 17#4
Mine lasted about 4 months. This exact one.
FireOnAWire to QuickProfits
8 Oct 17#5
:laughing:
bascule to QuickProfits
8 Oct 17#7
Given how much of a nightmare it is to change the drive in my dell, I may well cancel then. It's not something I want to do more than once.
QuickProfits to bascule
8 Oct 17#10
I would imagine they are mostly fine.
Regprentice
8 Oct 17#6
Mine lasted about 3 months. A 128gb. Replaced under warranty no bother but a real pita.
Mac stopped booting. Disc manager stopped being able to see it. A win10 machine also failed to see it so i couldnt even reformat it. No idea what happened.
QuickProfits to Regprentice
8 Oct 17#9
The same happened to me. Windows 10 had warned me that something was wrong but I doubted it. Did you get warnings?
Regprentice to QuickProfits
9 Oct 17#17
No
Mine was in a mac and i received no warnings. Just switched it on one day to get a picture of a flashing disk which means the os is missing.
I mounted the ssd in a caddy but, despite that being the way in which i had originally formatted and copied to the disk i couldnt get an osx or win 7/10 machine to recognise the drive at all...even to show any error or fault.
The staff at pcworld/currys said that ssds dont fail and it must be something i'd done but Sandisc replaced without issues.
MrHappy37
8 Oct 17#8
Ive got this exact one, bought from amazon around a year or so ago. It has performed faultlessly and gave a huge improvement in my macbook pro laptops speed. I use sandisk memory usb sticks too, which have also been completely reliable.
Sinbad
8 Oct 17#11
73.46 now. Or have I missed something somewhere...
kelzebub
8 Oct 17#12
I bought this directly from Amazon July 2015 for £64.71 :cry: at least prices are slowly dropping now
mrbargain to kelzebub
8 Oct 17#13
I just checked and I got one of these in November 2015 for £39.99 albeit as a lightning deal so they still have a bit to go to get back to that level but it's good to see prices creeping down again.
QuickProfits to mrbargain
9 Oct 17#16
I seem to remeber that being 120gb
Babbler
8 Oct 17#14
What surprises me is DDR3 RAM price. I just checked and my 16gb set which I paid 35 quid for sells for 120 now! Laptop SODIMM.
Xyzac to Babbler
9 Oct 17#15
Well DDR4 is all the rage now. Most likely, production from DDR3 has reduced and shifted to DDR4, hence the price increase + the weaker pound of course.
morocco1
9 Oct 17#18
"The staff at pcworld/currys said" :angry:
jackthulborn
9 Oct 17#19
Good and fast SSD, my 128GB failed after 3.5 years
bascule
10 Oct 17#20
Well it turned up and is genuine, that was my biggest concern.
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Mac stopped booting. Disc manager stopped being able to see it. A win10 machine also failed to see it so i couldnt even reformat it. No idea what happened.
Mine was in a mac and i received no warnings. Just switched it on one day to get a picture of a flashing disk which means the os is missing.
I mounted the ssd in a caddy but, despite that being the way in which i had originally formatted and copied to the disk i couldnt get an osx or win 7/10 machine to recognise the drive at all...even to show any error or fault.
The staff at pcworld/currys said that ssds dont fail and it must be something i'd done but Sandisc replaced without issues.