Crucials new SSD! The M500! Pre-order for stock end of week!
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the cheapest on "A" is £341.31. the most expensive is £455.54
meaning the most EXPENSIVE is £58 cheaper than here :S
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£347 is how i see it. If i had that money now then i would certainly be buying that!
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You have to watch what you buy here at OCUK. some times they have great deals, but 7 times out of 10 you can find it cheaper somewhere else. I always look around before I buy anyways, but I will say that OCUK do have really good Customer Service.....most of the time.
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IN RESPONSE TO ALL THE ABOVE COMPLAINING ABOUT PRICE
Firstly, £450 at time of dollar rate would work out at around £480 based on when these were purchased and ordered in. If you check our competition its not just OcUK that has priced it as it is. Infact at time of publishing on our site we were the lower price in the UK.
If you look at the American prices that do not include VAT or TAX (as this is tax by state) you will notice that adding the same as VAT (20%) it brings you in at £500+
Theres no "robbing" or extra cashing in here. Just another case of forum members seeing a price and assuming its gospel which if I am honest is exactly what I did which left me a little disappointed as I was told it was going to be "sub £500"
As for a resller having it for £347. Show me where it is and I will buy all their stock. Thats significantly below cost and cost doesnt even include VAT and by significantly we alre talking 25% less than ours or ours are 33% more, which ever way you look at it someone whos selling those has messed up.
However as a good will gesture, price will be reduced to £499.99inc which as far as i can see is the lowest price in the UK now that is actually "correct" and from a reseller who will have stock and not a reseller who has a phantom product.
Firstly, £450 at time of dollar rate would work out at around £480 based on when these were purchased and ordered in. If you check our competition its not just OcUK that has priced it as it is. Infact at time of publishing on our site we were the lower price in the UK.
If you look at the American prices that do not include VAT or TAX (as this is tax by state) you will notice that adding the same as VAT (20%) it brings you in at £500+
Theres no "robbing" or extra cashing in here. Just another case of forum members seeing a price and assuming its gospel which if I am honest is exactly what I did which left me a little disappointed as I was told it was going to be "sub £500"
As for a resller having it for £347. Show me where it is and I will buy all their stock. Thats significantly below cost and cost doesnt even include VAT and by significantly we alre talking 25% less than ours or ours are 33% more, which ever way you look at it someone whos selling those has messed up.
However as a good will gesture, price will be reduced to £499.99inc which as far as i can see is the lowest price in the UK now that is actually "correct" and from a reseller who will have stock and not a reseller who has a phantom product.
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Benchmark data would just provide a threshold value and the actual read/write numbers might vary from this. I personally feel u rely on someone who has actual real world statistics for compressible/incompressible data. Intel 5xx series SSD are said to have better sequential write performance for compressible data-520 Mbp/s
That's because they've made a typo...it's not from 'A' directly, (their price is much higher). If you look at the description, it lists the part number as 'CT480M500SSD1' which is the 480GB.
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Cant believe there are still no reviews of these! Andrew, can you do one?
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Are we forgetting the small amounts of margin that a disti has to make when selling into an etailer?
Purchased originally on a 1.498 rate, date of price quoted at a rate of around 1.56.
This is as you stated app $32 which is around £20 making it £470.
960GB SSD between these dates has gone up based on the cost of NAND by around $28 which is £18ish
£20 + £18 is £38...
So if we really wanted to be pedantic that would make them £488.
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Looks like I under sold that there actually doesnt it.
geez! you are going to make it hard on my wallet ... very tempting
and as someone else posted - that retailer with the 'cheap' price isn't even for the right model ... try ordering that and see which one you get in the mail.
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I will hopefully be providing one as you are correct to say the Plextor M5s and M5 pro are indeed faster on paper. If we cast back until August 2011, Crucial updated the M4 and brought the speeds up to 550/450 on some drives, up from 400/340 as it was before.
Heres hoping!
Samsuns 840 series on paper is slower than the 830 series but in reality its faster. The same can be said of the m500 over the m4 but until we have some benchies i cannot as yet provethat to you. In time I will
Since the press release was produced, Crucial SSD pricing has gone up 5% due to NAND pricing increase and the dollar rate has gone from 1.62 to 1.5
The fact of the matter is that the profit margin on this drive is actually lower, not higher, than the majority of the other drives currently on sale.
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I will hopefully be providing one as you are correct to say the Plextor M5s and M5 pro are indeed faster on paper. If we cast back until August 2011, Crucial updated the M4 and brought the speeds up to 550/450 on some drives, up from 400/340 as it was before.
Heres hoping!
Samsuns 840 series on paper is slower than the 830 series but in reality its faster. The same can be said of the m500 over the m4 but until we have some benchies i cannot as yet provethat to you. In time I will
That's exactly what I'm asking mate
not doubting the new drives, just interested to see some real world testing to compare it to other SSDs on the market. I'm especially interested in how it compares to the Plextor drives using the same controller, as you say firmware has a huge role in this and maybe they use different NAND which will affect results too.It was 1.61 or 1.6 depending on where you look and now its 1.53
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Are we forgetting the small amounts of margin that a disti has to make when selling into an etailer?
Purchased originally on a 1.498 rate, date of price quoted at a rate of around 1.56.
This is as you stated app $32 which is around £20 making it £470.
960GB SSD between these dates has gone up based on the cost of NAND by around $28 which is £18ish
£20 + £18 is £38...
So if we really wanted to be pedantic that would make them £488.
Looks like I under sold that there actually doesnt it.
Doesn't matter how you dress it up over 10 quid, you still price gouged the crap out of it
The very fact you priced dropped it to £499 after reading this thread shows this.
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live rates are different to the rates used by distribution, their rates depend on their buy in.
Are you being stubborn and argumentative for a reason or have you just had a bad day? Just admit that you jumped to an incorrect conclusion and we can all go about our business in peace
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Samsuns 840 series on paper is slower than the 830 series but in reality its faster. The same can be said of the m500 over the m4 but until we have some benchies i cannot as yet provethat to you. In time I will
looking forward to that review - I know your guys m4 review was IMO was one of the better reviews out there.