Another 256GB SSD Deal :) Shipping to customers today!! 18/06/2012

MeatLoaf · 7 Jun 2012 at 23:15

Cleeecooo said:
WOW; JUST WOW!

But who are Plextor?

Plextor were the king of CDRW/DVDRW at one time.

shadow_boxer · 7 Jun 2012 at 23:16

Wow! Amazing price for a 256GB SSD! OEM for Intel hey...interesting.

What's the situation with warranty with these? Duration? Will OcUK honour the whole period?

setter · 7 Jun 2012 at 23:18

Yup, theyre dvd drives are much sought after. Still have one of their old dvd-rom drives here, lost the rw drive i had.

crinkleshoes · 7 Jun 2012 at 23:19

Cleeecooo said:
:/

dam you! Just when I get my Samsungs

I never knew they did SSD's

The Samsungs are better drives.

This drive doesn't use the same controller as the Intels and IOPs on this are "only" sitting at 18,000... the Samsung's quoted as 80,000

... that will be rather noticeable in real world usage.

Despite that... still incredible value for money!

Cleeecooo · 7 Jun 2012 at 23:21

MeatLoaf said:
Plextor were the king of CDRW/DVDRW at one time.

Before my time interested in computers I'm afraid

crinkleshoes said:
The Samsungs are better drives.

This drive doesn't use the same controller as the Intels and IOPs on this are "only" sitting at 18,000... the Samsung's quoted as 80,000

... that will be rather noticeable in real world usage.

Despite that... still incredible value for money!

So for a saving of £50ish (2 drives) do you think it's worth getting these instead of my sammies and returning the sammies under DSR?

wkingsnorth · 7 Jun 2012 at 23:30

Cleeecooo said:
Before my time interested in computers I'm afraid

Oh?
I thought you were born on a laptop going by your addiction

crinkleshoes · 7 Jun 2012 at 23:32

Cleeecooo said:
Before my time interested in computers I'm afraid

So for a saving of £50ish (2 drives) do you think it's worth getting these instead of my sammies and returning the sammies under DSR?

Personally... I'm sticking with the Sammy

Not worth the saving IMO

But then if all you're going to be using them for is a raid-0 array for sequential read/writes (ie games and not much more) - there won't be a huge difference.

If you plan on using 1 or both of the SSDs for a boot drive, I would definitely stick with the Samsungs.

arknor · 7 Jun 2012 at 23:33

whats the warranty period on these considering its a discontinued drive?

crinkleshoes · 7 Jun 2012 at 23:33

arknor said:
whats the warranty period on these considering its a discontinued drive?

Not long enough for you to wait for the pre-order, I'm afraid

teehee

arknor · 7 Jun 2012 at 23:37

crinkleshoes said:
Not long enough for you to wait for the pre-order, I'm afraid

teehee

whats your problem? i ask a valid question and get a retarded response this is not GD so *********** (interpret asterisks into whatever you want it to be theres enough of them)

and FYI i have nothing against waiting aslong as im not constantly told something going to happen on XXX and then it doesnt for 4-5 days running

Cleeecooo · 7 Jun 2012 at 23:44

wkingsnorth said:
Oh?
I thought you were born on a laptop going by your addiction

FFUUUU!!!

crinkleshoes said:
Personally... I'm sticking with the Sammy

Not worth the saving IMO

But then if all you're going to be using them for is a raid-0 array for sequential read/writes (ie games and not much more) - there won't be a huge difference.

If you plan on using 1 or both of the SSDs for a boot drive, I would definitely stick with the Samsungs.

Thanks, I'll stick with the sammies

arknor said:
whats your problem? i ask a valid question and get a retarded response this is not GD so *********** (interpret asterisks into whatever you want it to be theres enough of them)

lighten up mate! It was just a joke!

Darg · 7 Jun 2012 at 23:48

Razor-BladE said:
I said to myself I might be tempted for a 256GB SSD for OS, apps and the main games I play if it gets around £100.. but I wasn't expecting it to get down so low so quickly!

I think they must have been reading my post earlier in the Storage forum:

Darg said:
What I'm thinking of doing is waiting for the prices of 256gb SSDs to drop some more (about the £100 mark would be perfect))

Oh dear, so tempted. Seems right to have the fast 60gb SSD for OS and this bigger boy for games. Oh dear oh dear.. I need money for food and stuff... don't I???

Ace Modder · 7 Jun 2012 at 23:48

Warranty is 1 year

I would buy the sammy as os and this as a gaming drive.

If I was to only use one drive in my pc the sammy would edge it for pure drive performance.

But for £109.99 this is by far the best bang for buck drive available perfect for games which generally don't need the massive iops

rjk · 8 Jun 2012 at 00:01

the samsung is way better than this drive.

but this is a daft price.

although i have just picked up a samsung. I may get one of these for the mrs so she shuts up about her laptop being slow

mithrandir · 8 Jun 2012 at 00:04

WOW!

JJimmyJ said:
Any benchmarks on this? How good compared to M4 or Samsung?

I would like some screenie comparisons too (please).

shawsy109 · 8 Jun 2012 at 00:06

jesus h christ, how did i not see this, I want one so bad! but now i have to decide next pay day, this or 2 acceleros for my 6950s grrrrr

Cleeecooo · 8 Jun 2012 at 00:09

Ace Modder said:
Warranty is 1 year

I would buy the sammy as os and this as a gaming drive.

If I was to only use one drive in my pc the sammy would edge it for pure drive performance.

But for £109.99 this is by far the best bang for buck drive available perfect for games which generally don't need the massive iops

rjkoneill said:
the samsung is way better than this drive.

but this is a daft price.

although i have just picked up a samsung. I may get one of these for the mrs so she shuts up about her laptop being slow

Thanks for keeping my mind at ease guys.

Damn technology for changing so fast

Surveyor · 8 Jun 2012 at 00:54

Managed to find a benchmark but the Plextor was only in tabular form.

I've added the Plextor results to the side of the Samsung.

From the other thread:

drunkenmaster said:
Samsung is significantly faster, the biggest difference in SSD speed/feel comes from 4kb random, QD32/64 results are completely irrelevant, no home use will hit this outside of benchmarks, sequential is nice but ultimately not used much. The samsung is 50% faster in the single most important performance measurement, 4kb random read's.

Still a decent drive for a very good price, the reality is most of us have most of our games and quite a lot of programs on an HDD still, 16mb's random read's is slow for even midrange ssd's, its magnitudes faster than HDD's which can barely break 1mb's.

They would make pretty damn good game storing drives, £100 to fit a pretty large amount of games on with hugely better than hdd performance, and lower power, no noise. Great deal overall, though if you're going for a windows + games type drive, I'd pay the extra and grab a Sammy 830.

shadow_boxer · 8 Jun 2012 at 01:23

Ouch, only 1 year warranty!

Surveyor · 8 Jun 2012 at 01:31

shadow_boxer said:
Ouch, only 1 year warranty!

I was starting to regret buying 2 of the Samsung 830s.

I've got over it now.

Better performance and a 3 year warranty

Another 256GB SSD Deal :) ** Shipping to customers today!! 18/06/2012 **

Another 256GB SSD Deal :) Shipping to customers today!! 18/06/2012