Samsung SSD Deals & Offers

Thank you! I just thought m.2 was m.2 I didn't spot the difference, so thank you :D

The crucial MX500 is a sata 3 drive that's available with the M.2 form factor (easier installation). Whereas the Evo 970 is an NVMe drive. It's a different protocol and allows significantly higher performance than sata however can cost up to twice as much per gigabyte For most people, a sata drive is more than enough in terms of performance.

Would anyone have any views on this? 250GB for £79.99 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-V-NAND-Express-Solid-State/dp/B07CGGNX7S So half the space of the original posted one, but for some reason the speeds seem massively different? read/write speeds up to 3,500/2,700 MB/s*, approximately - for the Samsung one where as the originally posted one is reads/writes up to 560/510 MB/s Why is there such a difference are they completely different types of m2 or something?

Potentially get £5 bonus https://www.amazon.co.uk/b?node=11301833031

Fitted one to a cheap laptop a few weeks ago, very speedy for a SATA drive. Faster than a WD Blue, only slightly overall slower than a Samsung 860. It does have better 4K random read performance though which is one of the most common tasks in Windows and makes everything feel very snappy.

still has a postage cost showing even with Prime for me?

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/wd-green-3d-nand-240gb-m.2-2280-6gbps-solid-state-drive-wds240g2g0b-hd-558-wd.html# 240GB for £40.99 here

Another M.2 SATA drive... The price is inline with regular SATA SSD drives really.

Cheers mate I've ordered one and it's kick started the new Ryzen 2700x build (y)

Raid 0 has some serious problems when it comes to SSDs. All striping versions of speed increases were mainly for spinning disk. It has some benefit in throughput, large file reads, however, it actually slows access time.

I have them in RAID0 and it's not a whole hell of a lot faster due to DMI limitations. I wanted to run the second one in a PCIe slot, but on my board if I run 2x 1080TIs in SLI they each max at x8 and if I add anything to the 3rd PCIe slot (say an x4 to M.2 card) then slot 2 also drops to x4. Let this be a lesson to you: never buy gigabyte - anything.

The price has gone back up a bit to 135.99 still a great deal.

Yeah I was about to bite at £131.98 for my new build but before I ordered they bumped the price up lol I'll have to keep my eye on it as the ACO offer is on for plenty of time.

Why not go for the Adata SX8200 for around £105? Granted, it's 480GB, but it seems like better value to me?

It'll be 500GB at this price - and the performance is fine. You might get a SATA 2TB for 260 at Black Friday but if you dont know the devices and market then maybe best to steer clear of nVME SSDs all together

Great price for a 500GB NVMe drive.

Hopefully 2TB at this price.

Probably a good idea to add capacity to the title.

Now £75.12.

Yeah just noticed that, strange how it runs that hot despite being only SATA

Interesting seeing the review about overheating.

NVMe should be 4K anyway, none of this 760p rubbish.

lol, this guy

You don't have to write it. There is a little plus button beside each deal.

Agree, you can get faster and cheaper, cold.

Not even full HD

I have a 960GB OWC upgrade in my late 2013 model MacBook Pro Retina (it replaced the 256GB it came with). Been using it 18 months. It works ok but it has drawbacks: - Slower than the OEM drive, noticeable but not too bad - It can run very hot. Previously my MacBook ran quite cool, you could use it in your lap but now it often gets uncomfortably hot, the aluminium case gets extremely hot and the fan runs noisily. This gets irritating. I'm pleased to have the extra space but the drawbacks are significant and it was very expensive. I wish I hadn't bothered.

What are you on about thats half the size so they are more expensive

This is a bit like saying "Why would anyone get an estate car, they should get 2-seater sports cars because they're so much faster."

I know the r/w of a NVMe is ridiculously high at 3500 and 2500 or something, but not everyone needs that high speed or has the budget to do so. Some people like me already have a NVMe to store windows/applications and probably some games. So this OP could still benefit those users who want secondary/additional storage space but wants it at a higher r/w speed but does not need it to be that high of what a NVMe is capable of.

Hahahahaha that drive has half the storage capacity

Price increased now. Roughly £106 including delivery ;(

Got this, thanks!

Good deal. Can get three of these for the price of the 1tb one incredible. Luckily I got myself two incredible deals on the 1tb £200 and £220. Amazing little things. I know you can buy enclosures and all that but you’re only paying a small premium and the build quality and form factor is great.

Expert installation = unbox and plug in, thats £59 please

Hahahahahahahaha, ask me another?. :-D I'll sell you the SAME 'rhetoric' if you like?. But for £29 instead, lol. A BARGAIN! (being less than half price and all ... hehehehe). ;-)

This drive comes with "Samsung Data Migration and Magician Software/ Easy to install and management/" as do most of their drives.

Phone Microsoft they are always a great help

Windows or Mac?

Before I get this, Does anyone have any advice on how I can mirror copy by current hdd to this m,2? I want to use the m.2 as my OS drive and my current drive to install software and data storage.

Think i'm just going to get the Adata XPG SX6000 256GB. I still have A fair bit of space left on my 128GB stock SSD.So to get bit more space and bit more speed that will be fine for me.

Opted for the 970 evo from ebuyer, remember me saying i was a little intimated, well, installed it and killed it in less than ten mins, told ebuyer it's DOA!

Any reason why? The comments without any facts is just BS!

If you can afford it, go for the Samsung one For gaming , the difference in speed between those two it's not a big issue.

Thank you Johnro, apologies for my lack of knowledge, feel a little intimidated where pc's are concerned, but want to make my new "gaming" laptop runs and starts more efficiently.. Will be shaking like a leaf when I finally get round to doing it would you recommend this kingston or the samsung??

Yes they are

Good price but too big..looking for an S9 minus

Does anyone know, based on previous years. When the "new" price for the Plus version will drop? Does it take a few weeks or months after the launch of a new Note for the price to drop? Thanks.

Only "Good" left. This is the third level down and the one above "Acceptable" "These devices are in good condition. There will be some minor signs of wear and tear on the screen and casing. The previous owner didn’t use a case or screen protector as they weren’t too bothered about minor marks. This device has been fully tested to ensure it is in full working order."

Oh dear! Bought one but not fitted it yet as I need to buy a few more components yet. Was going to use as a W10 boot drive lol. Probably still will but your experience is noted (y)

Fair enough...wonder how many people buying one has such specialist needs. For everyone else who is using it as a Win10 boot drive or a games drive...no difference between boot times / loading of games compared to a (much cheaper) SSD.

Not really an accurate statement. I do some video editing and use both Windows and Mac environments and I use the 500GB NVME drives for optimising media for editing.

Most professionals needing that kind of capability use a Mac...just saying!

Nice to compile a large graphics library in 2 seconds.

It was about a month or two ago so sadly the listing has ended but keep searching on eBay for new NVMe SSD's as you will often find some really good deals on good brands like Intel (what I got) :)

That was a good price you got. Got a link to it?

Paid this price on eBay for a 1TB NVMe M.2 SSD, granted not as good as the EVO 970 but still a very good SSD :D

Check pcpartpickeruk for this item and jts cheapest one. Second part of company name is pc (lol)

What are those other retailers? I'm interested to know

A month on and its dropped £16ish https://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/samsung-970-evo-500gb-v-nand-nvme-m2-pci-express-ssd-super-fast-ssd-13597-amazon-3045835 Though no free game included

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?

Good price for 1T drive but personally I would not buy a ssd via aliexpress or Gearbest just due to warranty hassles if something goes wrong will pay more and buy from a UK retailer. It is a excellent deal for those that are happy with the risk though.

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.