The manufacturer doesn't sell it for £30 less though do they? o.O Moogle said "another place" not specifying Crucial itself.
Is an M4 really THAT good?
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The manufacturer doesn't sell it for £30 less though do they? o.O Moogle said "another place" not specifying Crucial itself.
Read the post again, I'd buy the Crucial at £74~ because they have good RMA services.
Now lets turn it around and say it's a Corsair SSD at a cheap cheap price.
I would pay the extra to buy at the retailer that I have a good experience of RMAs/customer service with because if that SSD needs replacement or goes faulty I'd have to rely on either the place where it was sold and might not give me the best service that I'm used to, or pay like £12~ to send it overseas to the Netherlands to Corsair's RMA base.
The saving might be everything to you, but if you haven't experienced what can happen with certain retailers that have the 'cheapest' prices then obviously you won't mind until you get that bad experience with them.
I'm not talking about other retailers here, or the 128Gb version, or any other make of SSD. You lot are deliberately clouding the argument by talking about anything else but the current topic of discussion. The main points are:
1) Crucial M4 SSD's tend to be the most reablie SSD's out there, so failure is unlikely
2) Crucial customer service is good enough for me if i need to replace it
3) The price of the 256Gb is £30 less then overclockers
If Overclockers doesn't match pricing this time next month, then when it comes to me buying, I'm buying direct from Crucial and overclockers lose money by not being competitive.
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1) Crucial M4 SSD's tend to be the most reablie SSD's out there, so failure is unlikely
2) Crucial customer service is good enough for me if i need to replace it
3) The price of the 256Gb is £30 less then overclockers
If Overclockers doesn't match pricing this time next month, then when it comes to me buying, I'm buying direct from Crucial and overclockers lose money by not being competitive.
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Yeah but we were, and you're quoting us saying we're mad for buying at a higher price which is not what I've said and you've not even bothered to read the reply post or the original that you responded to.
Not clouding any discussion, in fact we weren't even responding to you before you jumped to conclusions.
1) Irrelevant, I'm not bashing their reliability.
2) I agree that's why I said (to Ollie) I would buy from a retailer selling it cheaper (which is what I was talking about, the £74 128GB version) because if I needed to RMA I would be safe should that retailer selling it cheap decide to screw me over, because I could go directly to Crucial.
3) It's a significant amount with the 128GB too.
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A GB is a billion bytes; the calculation you show is for MB.
You actually want:
128 x 10^9 / 1024^3 = 119.2