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Posted 17 May 2023
Integral V Series 2 480GB SATA III 2.5 Internal SSD, Up To 520MB/S Read 470MB/S Write, Solid State Hard Drive £19.98 @ Amazon
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Product Description
The Integral V series SSD is an excellent choice for increasing storage and boosting performance for your desktop or laptop PC. With a fantastic combination of fast data read/write and reliability, along with low power operation. The Integral V series offers excellent performance at great value and is best used with popular makes of desktop and laptop computers; such as Samsung, Dell, Toshiba, Lenovo, HP, ASUS, ACER and many, many more.*Speeds based on internal testing.
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1 x 480GB SSD V2 Series SSD
**Delivery around end of May
Product Description
The Integral V series SSD is an excellent choice for increasing storage and boosting performance for your desktop or laptop PC. With a fantastic combination of fast data read/write and reliability, along with low power operation. The Integral V series offers excellent performance at great value and is best used with popular makes of desktop and laptop computers; such as Samsung, Dell, Toshiba, Lenovo, HP, ASUS, ACER and many, many more.*Speeds based on internal testing.
Box Contains
1 x 480GB SSD V2 Series SSD
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Edited by p1001, 17 May 2023
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sorted byHelp a noob understand - I was looking at the 1TB price for this SSD which is £39.95 & the much faster NVME drives sell for the same sort of price so why would anyone buy this? I ask as I am looking for external drives for storage & back up purposes & I am really not very tech/computer savvy!
Many Thanks!
Also, SATA SSD's are still perfectly fine for low budget gaming PC's, or just PC's that are used for the basics (office work, watching/streaming TV and film, etc).
The only issue with this drive for gaming is the size, but the performance is fine).
A few games consoles come with 2.5in HDD's, so people also upgrade their consoles with 2.5in SSD's.
Like you are thinking, people also still use these for storage/backup.
I still use SATA drives like this as external backups (though I got this 4TB one recently as the price is just too hard to say no to - hotukdeals.com/dea…662 ).
NVMe drives in external enclosures are quicker, but they also get a lot hotter if put under sustained write for a long time, but for the most part you're better off with an NVMe as an external.
The only reason I went with a 4TB SATA is there's a huge difference in price between 4TB SATA TLC NAND drives and 4TB NVMe NAND drives (TLC NAND is high endurance, there are cheaper 4TB NVMe drives but they are QLC NAND, which has much lower endurance).
If you're going 2TB or lower for an external, you're much better off with NVMe drives, even if the extra for the enclosure makes them a bit more expensive.
I have a habit of confusing people, if there's anything above you're not sure of, feel free to let me know and I'll try to make it easier for a non-techie to understand, lol.
Right, after all that...
If you want to buy a 1TB to use in an external enclosure, this is pretty hard to beat at the moment -
amazon.co.uk/Sil…-17
It's TLC NAND, which I mentioned above as having better endurance than many of the other cheap 1TB drives.
However, decent NVMe enclosures are around £20+ usually, compared to £6-7 for 2.5in SATA enclosures. (edited)
Tempted to get a 1tb one at some point
Games seem to load a little quicker, particularly Wreckfest, which had mad long loading times before. It's not night and day, and it will vary between games, but's it's probably worth it at the price point for these.
would be the first apple products worth buying in over 10 years