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I went and got it somewhere else, not as cheap as could be had but had next day delivery to and still cheaper than here....shame I was looking forward to my Haribo! 
** Samsung 830 seres SSD, CRAZY PRICE ** READ POST 342
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I paid £153 for this drive on Wednesday and it's £144.98 today?
It was £139.99 this morning.
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Prices are fluctuating loads on these! Supply and demand I guess.
Last time I looked:
64GB: £49.99
128GB: £76.99
256GB: £139.99
512GB: £463.77
Last time I looked:
64GB: £49.99
128GB: £76.99
256GB: £139.99
512GB: £463.77
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it still is elsewhere
poke me in the eye while you're at it too!!!
paging 5UB! any chance of a partial refund as it didn't ship until this morning anyway?!?! (Don't ask don't get!
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Depends on how urgently you want one. Remember prices can rise too. Not impressed by all these price changes, once a day is fine but any more is taking the mick.
poke me in the eye while you're at it too!!!
paging 5UB! any chance of a partial refund as it didn't ship until this morning anyway?!?! (Don't ask in the customer service forum don't get!
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Yes, it was this mornig. I have decided to get one when I get home. But surprise, surprise - its 144.98 now.
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the phrase "you snooze you loose" appears to be alive and kicking when it comes to SSD prices !!
I have to admit, annoying as it is, sometimes you will catch the up, others the down (although i dont have much luck personally!) on a whoole, the price fluctuations is a good indication of a healthy competitive market, which can only be good for everyone, us included
I have to admit, annoying as it is, sometimes you will catch the up, others the down (although i dont have much luck personally!) on a whoole, the price fluctuations is a good indication of a healthy competitive market, which can only be good for everyone, us included
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OK, I have also posted in there. I could just DSR it but I want to use it!
Nowhere else have put their prices up.
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I paid £153 for this drive on Wednesday and it's £144.98 today?
and I paid £139.99 on Thursday
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Surprised how much having a mechanical drive in your system slows down boot even if you have your SSD as the OS drive, I got one of these 256GB drives to use as a games drive and finally removed my old Samsung F3 1TB drive and now I go from waiting for 4-5 seconds with a full Windows 7 boot logo, to the logo not even getting to finish forming before I'm loading the desktop.
It's a massive difference in boot speed.
It's a massive difference in boot speed.
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Yeah it would be nice to step away from mechanical storage, obviously size is the issue. Might be a crazy idea but I wonder if they have considered making a sort of hybrid SSD drive with a fast NAND sector (e.g. toggle) to handle small random read/write files and then a large sector with cheap flash (e.g. the cheap stuff they stick in USB flash drives) for media storage and synchonous files. Maybe it would be too slow for the bigger sector, just a thought!
Already been done.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=701&catid=14&subid=1894
Not really worth it imo as you just double the chances of component failure and the speed/price/performance ratio just doesn't make sense.