Kingston 128GB SSD £49.98 @ eBuyer

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  kamaran10 months, 1 week ago14 LikesShow comment toolsReply

  fishmaster

  
  
  My SSD runs awesome no problems. You have a lot to learn. ......yes boot times are massively increased.
  

  
  
  Doesn't sound so awesome to me ;)
  

  
  Edited By: kamaran on Aug 08, 2012 11:47
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  quezi10 months, 1 week ago9 LikesShow comment toolsReply

  jonohanson

  does it really need a 2nd post?? or is the OP a heat ****??

  
  
  It's not a 2nd post, it's a different deal.
  
  Available at a different price and from another website. Stop being rude and ungrateful.
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  poinsy10 months, 1 week ago8 LikesShow comment toolsReply

  polly69

  I don't think they are a good buy for the simple reason that everyday they are getting cheaper and i bet within a few weeks you will be able to get a decent drive like the M4 or 830 for around the same price and you lot will all be kicking yourselves, these drives have halved in price in the last couple of months and will continue to fall or they will be replaced by something faster like the Revo drives and the manufactures and retailers will be left with 1000s of them sitting on there shelves unsold. The high price of £ to gb where stopping a lot of people buying a SSD so its either drop the price or don't sell any.
  
  I have a Crucical C-300 which was my 1st SSD which i've had over a year and i now have a Sandisk extreme which is blazing fast, ive stuck the Crucial in a new FM1 rig with a K series CPU just to use as a server and anyone who says that you wont tell the difference between a slow drive and a fast drive is really talking **** My Sandisk is much faster than the Crucial, how can anyone say that a 300mbps read speed would be as fast a drive that will do 550mbps that's like saying windows boots on the crucial in 15 seconds and under 10seconds on the Sandisk and the same with opening programs, i've spent hours benching both drives and comparing how they perform and even swapped Sata ports to check which are faster and i can tell you straight the faster spec drive is faster it has nothing to do with spec sheets and the Samsung 830 doesn't get the high speeds using compression so the Samsung drive is much faster in the real world with real Data and is the drive to get.

  But, if you take this approach, you would never buy anything. As soon as I buy an SSD, I know full well it is going to get cheaper. The question is whether this is a deal at this moment in time, and I believe it is. It will be cheaper tomorrow, but this deal is today. You could spend forever waiting otherwise...

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  MONKEYBUNKEY10 months, 1 week ago3 Likes #1Show comment toolsReply

  same supplier via ebay already posted HERE
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  mega197810 months, 1 week ago1 Like #2Show comment toolsReply

  MONKEYBUNKEY

  same supplier via ebay already posted HERE

  
  
  is different deal
  ebay Model: SSDNow V200
  
  ;)
  
  here only Kingston 128GB V200 SSD and 48.98
  
  ONE 1P CHEAPER !!! ;)
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  scotia210 months, 1 week ago1 Like #3Show comment toolsReply

  whats the difference?
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  Max-Power10 months, 1 week ago1 Like #4Show comment toolsReply

  there is none, but cheaper with quidco.
  

  
  Edited By: Max-Power on Aug 08, 2012 09:00
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  CyDoNiA10 months, 1 week ago2 Likes #5Show comment toolsReply

  Apparently they had issues when first released and was fixed with firmware update. If you do buy one check it has the latest firmware on it. :)
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  ThunderBolt10 months, 1 week ago #6Show comment toolsReply

  Could I suggest referring people to the ebay deal to discuss the merits or otherwise of this particular drive as that ones already been flooded with argie-bargie on the updated firmware... And my head is bloomin' wrecked with it all!?!
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  CyDoNiA10 months, 1 week ago #7Show comment toolsReply

  Yeah. I have just been reading that thread and theres loadsa posts about the drive. The basic answer is (that I found elsewhere anyway) is that the drives should be fine now with the firmware update that is most likely already on the drive anyway.
  
  The drives are at the slower end of the range but then the price is at the lower end too.
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  MrBrightside198710 months, 1 week ago #8Show comment toolsReply

  CyDoNiA

  Apparently they had issues when first released and was fixed with firmware update. If you do buy one check it has the latest firmware on it. :)

  
  
  you can install the firmware yourself. It's advisable to do it first, before you start putting anything on it.
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  CyDoNiA10 months, 1 week ago #9Show comment toolsReply

  Agreed. I was just trying to point out the problems people report should not be there.
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  bomberman110 months, 1 week ago #10Show comment toolsReply

  ordered one showing Ship Date: 14/08/2012
  
  They may have overdone it a bit selling over a thousand at once
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  roxazz10 months, 1 week ago #11Show comment toolsReply

  does anyone have ssd drive without issues? as me myself and my friends who had ssds started having problems within one month.
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  cibarious10 months, 1 week ago1 Like #12Show comment toolsReply

  mega1978

  MONKEYBUNKEY

  same supplier via ebay already posted HERE

  
  
  is different deal
  ebay Model: SSDNow V200
  
  ;)
  
  here only Kingston 128GB V200 SSD and 48.98
  
  ONE 1P CHEAPER !!! ;)

  
  
  Actually, this is exactly the same drive as the eBay one as the model numbers quoted in both places are identical. The only "real" difference is 1p. :D
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  CyDoNiA10 months, 1 week ago4 Likes #13Show comment toolsReply

  Everyone talks about the failure rates of SSDs so I am still unsure if I can be bothered saving a few seconds here and there as a boot drive. Then again in my work (in IT) I have seen plenty of HDD's fail within weeks of being bought.
  
  Thing to remember is people only post online to complain about things. Not many people will take the time to post online saying "my SSD runs great no problems).
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  fishmaster10 months, 1 week ago1 Like #14Show comment toolsReply

  CyDoNiA

  Everyone talks about the failure rates of SSDs so I am still unsure if I can be bothered saving a few seconds here and there as a boot drive. Then again in my work (in IT) I have seen plenty of HDD's fail within weeks of being bought.
  
  Thing to remember is people only post online to complain about things. Not many people will take the time to post online saying "my SSD runs great no problems).

  
  
  My SSD runs awesome no problems. You have a lot to learn. Just get one! Stop peddling the nonsense that SSDs are all about boot times. As far as I'm concerned that isn't important, but yes boot times are massively increased. My SSD is the single best performance upgrade I have ever done on any machine. Obviously if you're a gamer a gfx card would be more important.
  
  

  
  Edited By: fishmaster on Aug 08, 2012 11:44: ssd
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  kamaran10 months, 1 week ago14 Likes #15Show comment toolsReply

  fishmaster

  
  
  My SSD runs awesome no problems. You have a lot to learn. ......yes boot times are massively increased.
  

  
  
  Doesn't sound so awesome to me ;)
  

  
  Edited By: kamaran on Aug 08, 2012 11:47
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  softpurple10 months, 1 week ago1 Like #16Show comment toolsReply

  Very tempting but going to hang on until Samsung's cash back offer starts in a week and pick up a 256GB instead. £/GB should work out similar to this then.
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  sjhirst10 months, 1 week ago #17Show comment toolsReply

  £8.00 delivery for Northern Ireland- I thought ebuyer had scrapped all that!
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  JoeSpur10 months, 1 week ago #18Show comment toolsReply

  So if I'm running on SATA2 would I notice any difference between this and say Crucial/Samsung/Intel? Being that it wouldn't be able to reach top speed anyway...?
  
  Also what is the reliability said to be like on these? I've yet to jump on the SSD bandwagon but have been looking to sometime soon...
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  Phila410 months, 1 week ago #19Show comment toolsReply

  Does anybody know if this will work with XP?
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  CyDoNiA10 months, 1 week ago3 Likes #20Show comment toolsReply

  fishmaster

  CyDoNiA

  Everyone talks about the failure rates of SSDs so I am still unsure if I can be bothered saving a few seconds here and there as a boot drive. Then again in my work (in IT) I have seen plenty of HDD's fail within weeks of being bought.
  
  Thing to remember is people only post online to complain about things. Not many people will take the time to post online saying "my SSD runs great no problems).

  
  
  My SSD runs awesome no problems. You have a lot to learn. Just get one! Stop peddling the nonsense that SSDs are all about boot times. As far as I'm concerned that isn't important, but yes boot times are massively increased. My SSD is the single best performance upgrade I have ever done on any machine. Obviously if you're a gamer a gfx card would be more important.
  
  

  
  
  I was going to type a lengthy explanation to how you completely missed the point of my post but then I realised I couldn't be bothered wasting my time... :p

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