Why are people selling their Samsung 64GB 2.5" SATA-II MLC Solid State Hard Drives?

easyrider · 22 Jul 2009 at 22:39

Seen loads of these for sale recently...

sambo_joseph · 22 Jul 2009 at 22:43

you know i noticed the same thing in the MM....it must be all the guys who wanted the technology then and now and have since gone for an OCZ Agility or something for half the price they paid and double the capacity. A trend which will hopefully continue!

james.miller · 22 Jul 2009 at 22:45

because new drives have been announced of course.

easyrider · 22 Jul 2009 at 22:46

james.miller said:
because new drives have been announced of course.

which ones?

sambo_joseph · 22 Jul 2009 at 22:48

yes but all the ssd's that have sold (all bar one or two) in the last 2 weeks have been the samsungs i noticed. Also they all seem to be the same 90mb/70mb ones

james.miller · 22 Jul 2009 at 22:50

easyrider said:
which ones?

well, intel's new SSD's that are out on the 21st for starters. very top thread in this forum at the time of writing this

ooh that one actually works

easyrider · 22 Jul 2009 at 22:52

james.miller said:
well, intel's new SSD's that are out on the 21st for starters. very top thread in this forum at the time of writing this.

They don't count...Not interested in 250 quid SSD drives

james.miller · 22 Jul 2009 at 22:54

easyrider said:
They don't count...Not interested in 250 quid SSD drives

those, and the new corsair drives

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18034057

miniyazz · 22 Jul 2009 at 23:27

sambo_joseph said:
you know i noticed the same thing in the MM....it must be all the guys who wanted the technology then and now and have since gone for an OCZ Agility or something for half the price they paid and double the capacity. A trend which will hopefully continue!

I wish.. but bear in mind those drives were mostly all bought 5 months ago for c.£110. £55 for 128gb agility would be nice

james.miller said:
well, intel's new SSD's that are out on the 21st for starters.

Just so you know, that was yesterday

easyrider said:
They don't count...Not interested in 250 quid SSD drives

Read the thread

then you can take £70 off your price estimate.

easyrider · 22 Jul 2009 at 23:29

miniyazz said:
Read the thread then you can take £70 off your price estimate.

Still to pricey

LeJimster · 23 Jul 2009 at 00:37

Well, I wont be selling my SSD's for some time. When I do upgrade however, I plan to put one of them in a mini silent HTPC and the other in my Xbox 360 to speed things up

marscay · 23 Jul 2009 at 17:52

Unless i've missed some new firmwares over the last couple of weeks how are you going to use an SSD in a 360?

randal · 23 Jul 2009 at 17:53

easyrider said:
Still to pricey

Aye, and too power hungry for portable uses.

Rock on the 320gb+ SSD with a power efficient controller, TRIM and a sub £100 price tag.

D D Danneh · 23 Jul 2009 at 17:59

Because the original drives that OCUK advertised as the "PB22-J" drives, were actually the slower 90MB/s ones, as I found out

It's still faster than a HDD, but I still feel quite ripped. If I'd known, I'd have bought a 30GB Vertex and RAIDed another later (seeing as though I've only used 34GB of this one anyway).

marscay · 23 Jul 2009 at 18:17

D D Danneh said:
Because the original drives that OCUK advertised as the "PB22-J" drives, were actually the slower 90MB/s ones, as I found out

I doubt that has anything to do with it, and you should have returned them if they were falsely advertised.

miniyazz · 23 Jul 2009 at 18:42

marscay said:
Unless i've missed some new firmwares over the last couple of weeks how are you going to use an SSD in a 360?

Same way as a normal HDD, surely? :confused:

or is there something special about 360s I don't know about?

Duke · 23 Jul 2009 at 18:46

I had two in RAID0 which was great, too quick almost so sold one but found I missed the speed after all, so decided to grab one of the newer drives and sell the existing one whilst it was still worth something

Glaucus · 23 Jul 2009 at 18:50

Arent these the 90/70mb version and thus pointless other than in laptops. As a normal HDD is faster and a 100x cheaper.

craptakular · 23 Jul 2009 at 18:59

AcidHell2 said:
Arent these the 90/70mb version and thus pointless other than in laptops. As a normal HDD is faster and a 100x cheaper.

Where have you read that these drives are slower than normal HDD? I read two reviews which stated the samsung 90/70 drivers were faster than any mechanical HDD, including velocoraptors.

I just bought a second hand sammy 64gb ssd off of Duke for £70. I'm well happy, faster than any HDD I have ever had and will be really snappy in windows because of 0.1ms access times and other stuff

I am not willing to pay £150-£300 for a SSD, the sammy gets me better performance compared to my mech HDD and a third the cost of some SSD.

Best bang for buck SSD I think.

james.miller · 23 Jul 2009 at 19:05

miniyazz said:
Same way as a normal HDD, surely? or is there something special about 360s I don't know about?

yes - the hdd's are locked to the console and visa versa. there are only as few hard drives that you can use with the 360, and thats only after a bit of firmware jiggery pokery from what i remember.