Just bought an SSD

bloodhunter · 1 Mar 2014 at 14:13

I have never had an SSD before due to their relatively high cost. I found one on an online retailer site, a Seagate 480gb on offer for £159.99 so snapped it up, needless to say they are now sold out. For that money it seems worth it.

Not sure of the entire spec but at least it will be better than my HDD

sh33pst3r · 1 Mar 2014 at 14:31

If that reads at 500mb+, that's a steal of a price!

On Holiday · 1 Mar 2014 at 14:37

Pretty good price!

What are the speeds like though? Care to give us a screenshot of CrystalDiskMark if you have time/can be bothered?

mhvcbv · 1 Mar 2014 at 14:38

Good price for a 480gb ssd

andy_mk3 · 1 Mar 2014 at 14:40

mhvcbv said:
Good price for a 480gb ssd

Indeed, even if it only does 200mb/s it's a massive improvement over a hdd!

tamzzy · 1 Mar 2014 at 14:45

if you bought it from the etailer that im thinking of, then it's the seagate 600
reviewed here: http://www.anandtech.com/show/6935/seagate-600-ssd-review/10
looks very decent, a steal for the price

mhvcbv · 1 Mar 2014 at 14:47

andy_mk3 said:
Indeed, even if it only does 200mb/s it's a massive improvement over a hdd!

One of the best upgrades ever m8
You will be chuffed when installed

bloodhunter · 1 Mar 2014 at 16:21

It is the 600 series with read data transfer rate (MB/s) - 550 and write data transfer rate (MB/s) - 450

Just looked at the Etailer again, now selling for £299.99 lol.

Hagar · 1 Mar 2014 at 16:55

bloodhunter said:
It is the 600 series with read data transfer rate (MB/s) - 550 and write data transfer rate (MB/s) - 450

Just looked at the Etailer again, now selling for £299.99 lol.

I got one too

hash70 · 1 Mar 2014 at 22:37

dam/missed it,cracking buy

Craig321 · 1 Mar 2014 at 22:38

Wow, good deal. I remember buying my first 128GB SSD for £130!

Well worth it though. It's still going strong in my main PC.

bloodhunter · 2 Mar 2014 at 11:15

YarwoodUK said:
Pretty good price!

What are the speeds like though? Care to give us a screenshot of CrystalDiskMark if you have time/can be bothered?

Sorry for asking but what is CrystalDiskMark please?

andy_mk3 · 2 Mar 2014 at 11:45

It's a program to benchmark drives.

hawkhench · 2 Mar 2014 at 14:21

Craig321 said:
Wow, good deal. I remember buying my first 128GB SSD for £130!

Think my first 64GB cost £110

Dervious · 3 Mar 2014 at 11:51

I paid £185 for an Intel 80GB SSD.

Best £185 I ever spent on a component.

I saw the offer for the 480GB SSD, very good price for the capacity. I'm sure it will be a great upgrade.

Hagar · 3 Mar 2014 at 14:40

I paid £153 for my first SSD from OCUK, a Sandisk 240Gb extreme two years ago, still going great as my C: drive. My netbook has an Intel 330 120Gb which cost me £60 also from OCUK. The 480Gb will replace one of my HDD when it arrives, looking forward to prices generally coming down as I still think 33p per gigabyte is too much.

bloodhunter · 3 Mar 2014 at 19:32

Got my SSD delivered today. When I got home I quickly had it in the PC and then installed Windows 7. This is the fastest install I have ever seen. Now in the process of downloading and installing the mass of Windows updates.

wazza300 · 3 Mar 2014 at 20:54

I wanna see some numbers,i saw this deal n didn't pay it too much attention,but wished id have grabbed one now

all comes down to long term reliability I guess

stevejigga · 3 Mar 2014 at 20:59

I saw this deal and bought one then cancelled the order the next morning it was reviews and comments that slightly put me off and then someone said you can get the 250 sammy pro for the same money. kinda made sense as i dont need that much space for a boot drive with my apps. But it was a bargain.

Dervious · 3 Mar 2014 at 21:22

It's possible to get an 840 EVO 250 for less than £110.

OK, it's not 480GB, but it appears to be a safe place to keep upto 250GB of data. Two EVO 250s for just £60 more than the lesser proven Seagate ?