Samsung SSD Deals & Offers

Wrong slot for my board :((

I've got a Lenovo x220 ThinkPad, does anyone know if this will fit?

For playing games this is the same as having a £100 nvme drive. If you have two m2 slots this is a bargain for the second slot!!!

bargain! Ordered!... cheers OP :)

Excellent price, I doubt the price of this will fall by more than £10 for the remainder of 2018.

Cheers, a 10% drop is still pretty big.

I exaggerated, I thought I read up to 25% lower by end of this year but these articles suggesting up to 10% by the end of this year and still continue to fall into next year.

Are you sure, can you link a couple articles?

Completely agree, the only benefit to nvme drives are when you copy large files. There's a few videos on YouTube of comparisons and these drives are pretty much similar to an SSD when using them for gaming. Spend the money of buying a larger capacity SSD if that's what you want this drive for.

970 evo for £149 on amazon

Nope. Both use 3D NAND but controllers are different.

http://amzn.eu/37gaVVB 500gb 970 evo for £149. and the WD black is £118.97 http://amzn.eu/3Krixjf

Not a great price. I bought the WD Black NVME 500GB for £129.99 less than a month ago and it is the exact same product as this.

Why not get the latest 970 PRO for £18. more at AMAZON here

have you tried claiming warranty from one of these? assuming you paid for shipping?

£11.

Sorry to be a bugger, but, this is a chinese brand, sold/sent from china... they can provide 100 year warranty, and it wont mean a thing... Lets assume they wanna honour warranty, 1st, you will be required to send item back and ensure it is tracked, check how much that is gonna cost you back and forth (assume back to you is on them, u still pay some good money to send to china tracked)? 2nd, assume your package never arrives to where it should, or they may just say it is lost? how will you prove? they ll just claim it wasnt them signed... 3rd it will need to be insured for this purpose, and your drive will have cost you a lot more, and not to mention hassle and time dealing with chinese! if these are a good deal cheaper than market prices, i guarantee you they made shortcuts! and it will not be pleasant for you... just saying from my experience...

"The Kingspec will roast at idle, not just when working hard." I see you are just pulling claims out of thin air, so I guess we are done here. But I could also mention of how your link with "bad" amazon reviews is mainly "Windows won't detect it!" Well I am 99% sure most of them will have not formatted the drive, its unfortunately very common when selling storage. But hey lets just agree to disagree.

I'm not sure what a 4 year old video showing a 100GB transfer has to do with any of this. The Kingspec will roast at idle, not just when working hard. I've got a Samsung 970 Pro, so yes I do =) It peaks at around 50-60c, comes with a 5 year warranty that Samsung will actually honour, actually manages to meet their advertised speeds, has good customer support and I managed to buy it from Amazon. On the other hand you've got Kingspec who say it's 3 years yet won't reply to any customer emails. I'm not sure why people will fight to the death for Chinese tat, but by all means, spend away. I'd advise not relying on it or putting anything important on it, but it's your choice so hey ho. Enjoy your SSD.

What slot do i look for on my motherboard to see if this will fit? Thanks in advance.

You should also have a good read of this thread https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/upgrading-2013-2014-macbook-pro-ssd-to-m-2-nvme.2034976/

That's what I have and asked the same thing. Apple use a custom interface on for SSD apparently we need to buy an adapter

Would this work on a MacBook Pro 13 retina mid 2014? fantastic machine but storage is not great

NICE. VOTING HOT.

High sequential speeds are quite useful if you back up your storage drives regularly (something we should all be doing). Also it should make loading screens in video games shorter. Plus some other uses here and there I can imagine. P.S.A. Seriously though guys, good advice; back up your storage drives regularly. I do a full disk image once a week. Depending on how much you use your PC, running into a problem that wipes your drive can be almost traumatic.

MX500 is better on random reads which is what gives the PC a snappy feeling and is most of real world (non datacenter) usage. Sequential speeds are a myth. Good price for a NVME though, bear in mind it uses 2 PCIE lanes where more expensive drives utilize 4.

Pray tell

Or hint at something that happened many years ago which hasn't been reported since!

read a good review site like this one https://www.anandtech.com/show/12991/the-kingston-a1000-nvme-ssd-review

It's reasonable. Fine for office/ word work. I am not a gamer so works for me

Finally got mine today. Screen is very Matt, hardly any reflection (how I like it). Not very bright, it came fully on which was fine. But would would have expected it to go up a couple more notches. Was using it in a bright room ok though. It was sharp. Much better than the dell 5770 I saw previously. On par with the lenovo 520s I'd say.

I viewed a similar laptop in currys. I wasn't too happy with the screen. What's your thoughts

1. Screen 14" diagonal FHD IPS anti-glare WLED-backlit (1920 x 1080) what is the "antiglare" -( a coating? and Is the screen a gloss "glass" screen (like on the touchscreens), and is it any good? 2. anyone know how noisey is fan on this under load?

Mine arrived today. Pro Feels premium Quick on off Good performance during web browsing Bag is average but optical mouse is very useful. Both the products in the bundle are worth £19 extra. Con No backlit keyboard Of the 256GB ssd, 35gb reserved for recovery so only 220GB available. Hp product support not available - weekends. I have registered the product with my bank for further 2 year warranty.

Agreed. I cancelled my order last night and went for a 1TB WD for £178. 5 year warranty and an age of reputation. Considering my wife’s last M2 from adata died suddenly and she lost her stuff, I didn’t want to risk it for her again.

Price seems too good... but having trouble finding actual reviews for this model. A lot of the reviews on Amazon are for different form factors etc...

The only difference from 2.5” SSDs is the form factor.

Is there a advantage of these over standard SSD’s? Speed specs and prices appear similar.

Yes

was waiting for kingdian to make an nvme ssd, kingspec stepped up (have got kingdian ssd before an no problem) This is a killer product, theres always a risk buying from aliexpress on electronics. If I was in the market (or a need ) for an nvm ssd I would get one. Don't forget 4% quidco (always get mine) so you could potentially get this drive for £83.95 thanks op for posting

I've got a KingSpec M.2 SSD albeit the SATA 3 2242 variant. No issues with mine (yet) but you're right to be wary. The reality is that the DRAM, QC, tolerances, manufacturing etc, is all going to be at the lower end of the quality spectrum. No really that different to buying anything else in life - a cheapo 'no brand' microwave from Asda is not going to be same quality as a top end Panasonic microwave and isn't going to last as long. You pay your money, you take your choice....

Hot, perfect for use as a catalyst for a House Insurance claim....

Not sure this is the sort of thing I'd buy from aliexpress, personally

as far as I know you'd need an adapter like this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/M-2-NGFF-SSD-adapter-original/dp/B010PUUL3A/ and a M.2 SATA SSD not an NVMe one like this.

Nah mate, that's a third party not from Amazon. :)

£118.90 now

I posted that deal, if you just need extra storage it is the cheapest price per Gigabyte currently available, just the P&P makes the deal slightly less appealing. :)

They wouldnt. If you just want extra storage and dont need the extra speed consider the deal.

Why would someone consider that if they wanted an nvme drive?

I didn't know m.2 supported pci-e 3.0 at X8 speed ..

It's a good price, but I prefer the old gen Samsung m.2 nvme with 7100mb/s read.

https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/samsung-970-evo-500-gb-v-nand-m2-pci-express-solid-state-drive-black-15195-amazon-2965847

Or £151.95 from Amazon... Ebuyer are absolute cheats and as bad if not worse than Currys/PC World. Personally I would never use them, mainly because they canceled my account after their mistake. To add insult to injury they then blacklist my work address so now no-one can have items delivered there, with one person having there account canceled too. Either way, it's cheaper here https://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-V-NAND-Express-Solid-State/dp/B07CGGP7SV

Great price! Paid about 50 more for my 960 Evo earlier in the year

Good price I'll stick with my evos though Both because of the hassle of returning and because my use cases will never see the performance difference for £40 (26% more). For those who need it I'd highly recommend it

Yeah, up and down, will keep an eye on it. ;)

Seems to be 164,69 EUR now :-(

Choices choices. Nearly finished my pc build just need an ssd and gfx, I did have a 860 evo ordered the other day but cancelled. Dont know if to get this or the MX500 at £80.

Pretty significant price drop, can be had for ~£135 now. :)

Another example why this community makes no sense when voting cold.