** Samsung 830 series 128GB SSD ** - IN STOCK!

[Andrew Moore]

Hello

Well after the mass of delays from Samsung last time I have decided to wait it out on this deal until the stock was here and accounted for...


Well here it is!


128GB Samsung 830 series SSD for just £79.99inc (will be £89.99inc by Monday).


Check it out



Samsung 128GB SSD 830 Notebook/Apple Series SATA 6Gb/s KIT with Norton Ghost - (MZ-7PC128N/EU) @ £89.99 inc VAT

Samsung’s fast random read speeds (up to 80,000 IOPS) maximize performance* when it matters most. A Samsung SSD is the ideal solution for your everyday computing needs, such as web browsing, document creation, viewing or editing multimedia files, playing PC games, etc.

Samsung SSDs are designed and build completely in-house. The Samsung SSD 830 Series is optimized for exceptional, sustained performance and unrivaled reliability through its specially- engineered wear-leveling and garbage collection algorithms.<br>

Use the wider image option when adding this feature. We would like to capture all of the data represented on this specific feature image. However, do not use this feature image in this document, use the actual image in images folder. Samsung’s 20-nanometer-class toggle DDR NAND Flash chips enable data transfer rates of up to 133 megabits per second (Mbps)-more than three times faster than conventional (40 Mbps) single-date-rate (SDR) NAND Flash chips.

While most SSD makers rely on generic, dual-core controllers, Samsung has developed its own proprietary, triple-core MCX controllers that excel in multi-tasking and help to assure stead performance over time. Based on an ARM9 controller, its three CPU cores can execute multiple instructions such reading data, writing data and optimization.

- Capcity: 128GB
- 256MB DDR2 Cache
- 3-Core ARM9 Risc MXC Controller
- Dimensions (LWH): 100 x 69.5 x 7 (mm)
- Samsung Toggle NAND
- Sequential Read: 520MB/s
- Sequential Write: 320MB/s
- 4K Random Read: 80,000 IOPS
- 4K Random Write: 30,000 IOPS
- Warranty: 3 years
- Norton Ghost
- SSD 2.5"-3.5" tray


Was £139.99 Inc. VAT

Only £89.99 inc VAT.

ORDER NOW

 

[Andrew Moore]

Yeah, I'm hoping for the same, I think it will but maybe not quite yet - still, I'm willing to wait

BTW any reason these offers only seem to be for the "notebook version"?

Its on what ever version i can get my hands on. 512GB is only on the M4 and the 480GB MXT drives for any sort of value.

 

[Andrew Moore]

Small update everyone, stock that we have is selling quickly so the price will have to go up to £89.99inc I am afraid until i can secure some more. The 830series are VERY popular it would seem

 

[Andrew Moore]

+1. Should've have at least honoured the priced for the rest of today.

This I would have usually have done however over selling 100units as an example to not be able to honour them would cause many issues that i would rather avoid

 

[Andrew Moore]

I have 2 choices... 1, over sell and annoy many customers who won't get the drive if I can't get more at that price or 2, up the price on the remaining units which have a cost price of £78.xx (yes I am making a loss on those) but avoid many unhappy customers.

The issue is you as a customer have no idea how much items cost the company to purchase. There are situations where X amount of stock may be £100 as an example and the rest at £120... If I sell at £110 I make money for the company on all stock except for the higher priced stock which makes a loss.

Sometimes there are situations where by a deal is so popular that you cannot begin to predict the run rate. When this happens the deal either has to come off (i.e. go up in price) or the company has to let it sell out to pre-order stage and buy more. If you can't get more then there is only one option.

That is how it is and sometimes these things happen. The Agility 3 240GB is fast approaching selling out however I have secured more so the price is still sat at a nice and healthy low of £134.99inc. Some you win, others you lose and the fact of the matter remains that if I could provide the price of £79.99inc to you I would. If I can get more stock then £79.99inc will be back in business again.

 

[Andrew Moore]

But how would u over sell them, don't u have a real time stock system?

The stock system updates in realtime as stock leaves. Which is why a 10+ can drop to 5 or even out of stock if you watch the item often enough. This however doesn't stop someone ordering say 20 units when it says 10+ and at that point we may only have 15 in... The end result is - 5 units and an out of stock line.

I have potentially secured more of these drives and once I have a confirm on shipment I will reduce the price again, if not then the price may have to creep back up again as the re-buy is even higher than the current sell price

 

[Andrew Moore]

Why can it not be as simple as this:

1: OCUK put something up for sale at £79.99
2: It sells very fast due to popularity at that price.
3: They consequently sell out.
4: Done.

Why is that so hard? You have stock levels to show customers if something is in stock or not. If your stock system is pap that's not the customers fault. If I order something when it says it is in stock and then I don't get it yes I will be disappointed, but based on the above I do not understand why that could even happen...are you saying that WILL happen if you do not rise the price? How? Why?

That is what has happened. Cheap stock sold, now on the more expensive hence the price going up and even up its still making a slight loss. I dont understand why the concept or more expensive stock = higher price seems difficult to take in by a small portion of our forum members. New stock will land thats cheaper hopefully next week, when it does the price will drop again so long as the more expensive stock has sold through otherwise it wont until it has.

As for the How and Why..

If it stays at price X and it OVER SELLS then we run the risk of disappointing customers if we cant get more.

We have got more stock but it costs more, end result is price goes up. There is a big difference between running out of stock and running out of cheap stock. We ran out of the cheap stock, its a popular drive, it happens.

 

[Andrew Moore]

To me Andrew you are waffling on about long term and largely irrelevant business practises. We don't as customers care why/how you operate as a buyer. I simply want to see as a customer the following:

1: If a deal is posted. Don't raise the price just before it all sells out. This looks bad on OCUK and annoys customers. We do not care if you bought 50 at price X and 100 at price Y. That's up to you/OCUK to sort out.

2: If prices have to fluctuate in that way then don't do the deal in the first place if there is only enough stock to sustain the deal for a matter of hours. Surely you should just keep the deal on until it sells out and make a loss on some of the lines you bought for more, or don't do the deal at all. Or adjust the price to a middle ground. Doing it for hours at a time at supposedly rock bottom prices for headlines, only for customers to come on and see a thread and realize they are too late becomes frustrating for us.

3: Stock levels that are true and real time. Apparently OCUK are very accurate and one of the best at this. Despite this, above in your comments you are almost putting down your stock level indicators on the website defending price rises and such practices based on stock levels updating too slowly. Am I reading this correctly? Why does a system allow orders to be accepted for items that are out of stock. When someone checks out, surely there either is or isn't stock, even if by seconds, it's still a queue and the system knows if there is stock or not?


My comments above will come across really harsh. You obviously do your best to give us great deals and I appreciate that. Just saying how I feel on this though.

Your simply not getting it are you, please refrain from arguing here. I have been very clear, the promo stock all sold, we are now on new more expensive stock. This concept isn't hard to understand so please stop picking at it as i have explained how this works in more detail than I should have anyway.

Other members understand this from posts below yours, there is no cheating of the customer or annoying them etc, the only issue is here that a deal was put it, it sold out and the price went up leaving some people who may have wanted it without.

Deals dont last forever so if someone is interested when it is posted then it is usually a good idea to buy it there and then to avoid disappointment.

 

[Andrew Moore]

Mine arrived today, a 256 for me and a 128 for my bro. Anyone got links to a good w7 install guide?

Do i need to enable the disk through disk management before I can install to it?

If its a fresh install just plug it in and install on to the drive from boot