Samsung SSD Deals & Offers

Pls use my Amazon deal for the same item in that case

Thank for clarifying :)

£1.99 (Not available) - Royal Mail is untracked, and is available for smaller items under £20

You are cool. I just don’t know the retailer enough but now I’ll surely check them for computer stuff as you say they have deals at multiple occasions.

Not trying to accuse you, don't worry :) Just wondering if the ban has been lifted or something because from time to time they have some killer deals but I've never been able to post one without it being banned immediately.

Yup

Back up to £128.99, and still showing as 'temporarily out of stock'. Expire?

Prices are dripping so quickly it will be cold by tomorrow. Hmm can I get this delivered to an Amazon locker, and get it in my laptop while my wife is at work and forget to mention it?

Missed it :/ thanks anyway though. Hopefully there'll be few more of these deals before the month is out.

I’ve had one for a few months now as a boot and main drive in an extremely small ITX PC. I’ve never seen the temps go beyond 60c during normal use.

200tb tbw not good enough compared to others mentioned. Better faster and more enduring drives are available for around the same price.

That's progress for you. QLC is all about cost cutting, not bringing a better product to market. Having said that QLC-based storage will still provide years of reliable storage for casual users who never come close to filling their drives. "Cheap" QLC drives like this are ideal for storage of static data such as Steam libraries where faster reads are desired but will be subjected to very few complete write cycles, in which case there is little to no benefit in spending more and it will last effectively forever. Those who hammer their storage with 4K video workflows will definitely want to look elsewhere though, that 200TB write endurance limit will come around very quickly for professionals.

Absolutely... For "Joe Average" SATA will do just fine. Problem is most laptop makers now moved to M.2 NVMe standard and no longer support sata. I'm actually expecting these 1TB P1 QLC ssd's to come down in price and settle around £120-135 range.

But surely even considering NVMe implies having more than average workload in mind. For those just moving to SSD storage, a normal SATA drive will do

How much you write per day? Even if you write 50gb per day this will last more than 5years. This is more than enough for avarage consumer who want to move to ssd storage option.

Interesting...

I've been checking different sites looking for more info on the 8200 Pro. I came across something which is a bit concerning on Anandtech here https://www.anandtech.com/show/13131/the-silicon-motion-sm2262en-ssd-controller-preview the new Pro drive also uses the same controller. It does say on those tests that it's an engineering sample, but it still put me off. I have the 1TB drive on order and am thinking about sending it back when it comes. I contacted the seller on Amazon to voice my concerns and was offered to keep it with a 50% refund if i run some tests, or send it back for a full refund. There appears to be a point where the performance drops off quite a bit when the drive fills up. But nobody seems to know yet how full the drive is before that happens.

Was hoping the samsung 970 was going to show up again from th eother day but no show. Saw this drive https://www.cclonline.com/product/264398/ASX8200PNP-512GT-C/Solid-State-Drives-SSDs-/ADATA-XPG-SX8200-Pro-512GB-M-2-2280-PCIe-Gen3-x4-NVMe-Internal-Solid-State-Drive-SSD-/SSD0896/ which is "supposedly" faster than the evo for £100 (512gb) Adata XPG SX8200 Pro 512GB M.2-2280 NVMe PCIe SSD, Its quite a new drive and the only review I have seen is on youtube her...Can any of the tech gurus on here help with this drive.

overclockers.co.uk/samsung-970-evo-polaris-1tb-m.2-2280-pci-e-3.0-x4-nvme-solid-state-drive-hd-23p-sa.html ... Sorry I have misread your comment.. my bad...

Do what now? If only the 1tb version was £20 higher! Try double the price!

Do you have proof of this?

The only think that puts me off these re-branded models was/is the driver support. I returned a Tesco Linx one a while back, really liked it, but straight away I did a fresh/clean install and Windows didnt pick up a lot of the drivers in device manager. Searched around online with no luck, so not an option for me to keep it.

I love Chromebooks. I also teach Comp Sci in schools and visit many to support trainee teachers. I've never seen a Chromebook in a school. A PC is more appropriate and what can't a child do on a PC that they could on a Chromebook?

It depends how "trendy" your daughter is, but at this price point, used Thinkpads on eBay are a good alternative. They're obviously business orientated so aren't sleek and thin and all that, but a 3rd gen i5 will out perform modern Celerons. (With a bit of excess heat though!) The HDD and RAM are easily easily upgrade-able and batteries can be found all over the place so charging isn't an issue. Just make sure to use a reputable seller... There are a few. And remember it's used but was worth over £1000 when new. Just an alternative, feel free to ignore.

'What's on your mind , ' it says here.

a very warm welcome to hukd newbie.have some heat :)

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I think you're getting a bit ahead of things, I could understand wanting the death of mechanical HD's, which will be slow and probably take many years. SATA SSD's will be around for a long time, NVMe is better, though only a marginal improvement for many. There is more to SSD performance than raw read/write performance, those figures are largely meaningless, a better metric is to look at how they cope with smaller files.

I think the use case for the 1TB 660p isn't as a boot drive (get a faster, smaller NVMe drive for that), but as a replacement for your hard drive for game storage. It's quick enough to not need to move it to a faster device and for games, it's mostly reads rather than writes, so the endurance that some people (including Linus) harp on about doesn't matter. It's what I've done with my 660p - moved my Linux Steam games off HDD (which was sub-200 Mbytes/sec read) to something 8-9 times faster. I'm planning to max out around 800GB (getting close to that now, but will be removing some games I don't play soon) just to leave some breathing space for the onboard cache. The justification for a 660p is simple - high capacity with pricing close to a standard SATA 3 SSD, but with 3 times the performance. With a bit more competition to come from Samsung and Micron, we might start to see SATA 3 SSDs finally die the death they've deserved for years now (SATA 3 plateaued on SSDs performance-wise about 6-7 years ago and is now really quite undesirable for SSDs, IMHO).

Not fond of Linus, but meh, sometimes he gets it wrong but his info is usually good for the masses, too much "youtube" delivery from him tho. Basically he said this. 1) It wears out faster 2) It's slower 3) The write speeds are not exactly correct. He follows it later in the video to say that. 1) It should last any non-enthusiast easily longer than the warranty time (5 years) 2) In day to day usage it should be just as good and fast as the better non-extra layer drives. 3) Benchmark test shows that the speeds can be really poor … if your going to peg your drive constantly. Here's the thing, it's cheap for what it is, compared to rotating hard drives it's a HUGE improvement (Unless your constantly moving gigs of files all of the time). It's a large drive for M.2 and your probably not going to find laptops or motherboards with multiple M.2 slots (tho, you can get a x4 M.2 adapter!). This product is definitely something I would recommend for regular users. Power users, people who like to download illegal films 24-7, and video editing people should probably avoid it. Also, if you REALLY want SLC drives. Go and look at how big they actually are. 64 GB is where Intel draws the line. 128 GB will probably run you about £700. So 1TB of SLC would only cost about £5.5k.

i paid that exact price for my 500gb nvme drive this time last year D:

Apparently slower than rotating disk drives (HDD) if you plan on filling it to like 50% capacity (for reference go to 7:00)? Not a good deal, gonna hold off buying since I don't need a 1TB drive asap right now and prices probably gonna drop...