**OCZ AGILITY 3 240GB @ £139.99 Inc. VAT w/ FREE SHIPPING FOR ALL!!

[Gibbo]

Hi there


OK a truly stonking deal and the lowest price in the UK. Also enter the voucher code "oczfreeship" and you will get FREE Shipping for your basket contents if this SSD is present in your basket.


OCZ Agility 3 240GB 2.5" SATA-3 Solid State Hard Drive (AGT3-25SAT3-240G) @ £139.99 inc VAT

As the third generation of the Agility Series, OCZ Agility 3 Solid State Drives are designed and built to unleash the full potential of the 6Gbps SATA3 interface. The OCZ Agility 3 pushes the limits in both sequential and random data transfer rates, significantly improving your gaming, multimedia, and overall computing experience over traditional mechanical hard drives. In addition to maximized productivity, a Agility 3 upgrade makes a hard drive equipped notebook more portable than ever with superior durability and reduced power consumption.
Using the latest break through controller and flash technology, Agility 3 SSDs workin perfect harmony with next generation platforms and operating systems to deliver the industry’s best storage solution.

Features:-
- Capacity: 240GB
- Controller: SandForce SF-2281
- Maximum Read: 525MB/sec
- Maximum Write: 500MB/sec
- Max I/O Per Second (IOPS): 85,000 IOPS (4KB File)
- NAND Flash: Multi-Level Cell (MLC)
- Interface: SATA-III / 6Gbps (Backwards compatible with SATA-II / 3Gbps)
- TRIM Support (Requires Windows 7)
- Winner of 54 awards/reviews worldwide
- Warranty: 3 Years

Was [£179.99] Inc. VAT

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[Gibbo]

Website price is now correct!

 

[Gibbo]

What has happened with Sandforce based drives lately, they all seem to be crashing in price!

Something new on the horizon perhaps?

Do tell us, do tell.

NAND is like memory.

Memory is stable with small increases.

However NAND over the past month has crashed through the floor, this could be the bottom, it may not be but right now these are just crazy deals, could go cheaper but can't see it going much cheaper, but could easily shoot back up.

Still at around 50p per Gigabyte you can't go wrong.

 

[Gibbo]

Don't think it's just sandforce I think it's NAND in general (i.e. non-SF drives are dropping in price too) A couple of review sites have articles on recent trends for SSDs which indicate this.

I'd love to pick up a 256GB drive to replace my 120GB but overspent a bit on my recent build so will have to wait a bit ;S but a bigger SSD is the next investment!

It is NAND.

Also remember the FREE shipping is for your entire basket, so why not buy other stuff along with the SSD too, or use the SSD to get free shipping on your order.

 

[Gibbo]

Well I just said sandforce as I looked at the vertex 4 drives which still seem pretty pricey in comparison (and I bet you couldn't really tell the difference unless benchmarking)

Its new and demands a premium.

NAND has fallen, but also a lot of manufacturers are clearing out overstocks, hence some good deals which are particular cheap, hence why pricing could go up, as NAND is falling but this is being combined with manufacturers smashing deals out.

 

[Gibbo]

Always trying to tempt me

Interestingly, 240GB drives are now around what I spent on my Vertex 2 so do you think we will see 512GB coming down in line with their smaller size counterparts i.e. £240-260 or are the 240GB just the new price/perfromance sweet spot

Not really as 480GB+ manufacturers have little to no volume to shift, deals happen when there are overstocks, there has been big overstocks on 240GB sized drives hence this good deal.

No one has overstocks on 480+ and as such the pricing were getting is hardly anything worth shouting about.

 

[Gibbo]

Wouldn't risk it even at this price with OCZ's reliability.

You buy cheap and you buy twice.

Some stats for you:-

We've sold 234 units of these since they came out.

We've had 4 back.

3 were faulty
1 was DSR.

That is a sub 1.50% failure rate, so in comparison with other SSD's, for instance the Crucial M4 256GB which has stats of the following:-

Sold 682 units
7 were faulty.

Giving a 1.03% failure rate.

There is less than 1/2% in it and both drives are sub 2% and closer to the 1% mark, there is certainly nothing wrong with these.

Also remember if you need assistance OcUK after service is now the best it has ever being and you also get 14 days to play with the product where you can choose to return it in that time frame for a refund should you wish.

 

[Gibbo]

I'm impressed, have OCZ had a revision then or has their manufacturing process improved?

The technology is maturing which means failure rates are less for all and the Agility 3 is at the end of its life cycle so all the bugs have being pretty much ironed out now.

The older OCZ Solid and Core drives were admittedly pretty poor, the newer SandForce drives on the latest revisions are far better.