Kingston 120GB SSD - SATA3 -Amazon Lightening Deal

Xzen

It's on Amazon's Lightening deals at the moment Here for £54.99 (~€67)

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Just an update, the lightening deal is over already but the price is still low, £65.97 (~ €80)

The Fool

Just what I was looking for, thanks

Xzen

The Fool wrote: »

Just what I was looking for, thanks

Your welcome, got me another one too Prices are dropping like crazy lately on SSDs... bout time too.

omerin

Still £55 for me op

Lenny

omerin wrote: »

Still £55 for me op

show 65.67 for me

Cossax

Just got it for £60.07 (€78.16).

Lenny

Cossax wrote: »

Just got it for £60.07 (€78.16).

hmm, guess ill just keep refreshing and wait for the price to fluctuate..

omerin

Got mine for £55. It was 55 up until 6.30. I didn't know what time the offer would end and was looking to buy a book when I saw a notice in the checkout window counting down in seconds that the offer was ending. My time ran out but I contacted customer services and they honoured the price.

dingding

If you click view lightning deal button on the RHS you will get it at the discounted price.

Just got it for £54.99

Lenny

dingding wrote: »

If you click view lightning deal button on the RHS you will get it at the discounted price.

Just got it for £54.99

that was it, didn't notice that. cheers dingding & OP
looking forward to see how quick these drives work

Prowetod

Is the lightning deal still showing for ye?

Lenny

Prowetod wrote: »

Is the lightning deal still showing for ye?

Can't see the box anymore

mik_da_man

Seeing as only 60% were claimed, the chances of it coming up again are pretty high

if you're using this to replace a laptop hd how do you do it? Do you need a seperate transfer kit?

Xzen

glasso wrote: »

if you're using this to replace a laptop hd how do you do it? Do you need a seperate transfer kit?

Some laptops have a secondary bay so you could keep your old HDD and add the SDD to it.

Otherwise you would need to transfer a complete image (not just files) from the old HDD to the SDD. You could use software like Norton/Symantec Ghost or Acronis True Image.

If you just copy and paste files from one drive to another you wont be able to boot up.

Another option- remove the old HDD, insert the new one. Re-Install Windows (I reccommend Windows 7, which supports SSDs better). Then pop your old HDD into a USB case like one of these. Connect that via USB and copy off any files you need. Thats probably the best option

alanbk

dingding wrote: »

If you click view lightning deal button on the RHS you will get it at the discounted price.

Just got it for £54.99

I cant for the life of me find the lightning deal button. Do i have to be logged in to Amazon to see it ?

Mountjoy Mugger

Lightning deal is over; that's why you don't see it.
Click on "Today's Deals" on the main page, and it will link you to today's lightning deals (Mon-Wed).

fergiesfolly

mine arrived today. Installed and going like a bomb. Difference in speed in amazing. Thanks op.

dingding

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B007IXPQMY

I ordered one of these.

This will allow you to replace the CD drive in a laptop with a SATA drive and it also has an enclosure to make an external dvd drive of the dvd.

So you can replace the HDD with the SSD and put the HDD in this enclosure.

_Kaiser_

Are these REALLY worth it for a modern decent laptop?

I have a Vostro 3350, Dual-Core i7, 8GB RAM, 500GB SATA etc etc and it pretty much flies along as it is - but I'm not using it for gaming or anything, just really web, videos/streaming and some Office/Word etc type stuff

Do SSDs really make that much of a difference in these cases? Boot time doesn't overly bother me as it does it as is in under 10 seconds to the login screen anyway and I've yet to see a copy of Windows that doesn't spend a minute or two after that setting up

Genuine question btw.. I've been thinking about one for a while but not sure if there's a point?

Xzen

Kaiser2000 wrote: »

Are these REALLY worth it for a modern decent laptop?

If you're speed obsessed (as I very much am - I want my PC to be a step ahead and not waiting for it to do stuff), then yes its a great investment. This is true more so if you like games/MMOs, and prefer fasting loading times. If you do intensive things like Photoshop or orther software that does a lot of caching on a HDD.

Another aspect of SSD is the failure rate...or lack of. Disk-based HDDs are infamously delicate and prone to age related wear-related failures (less so for Laptop HDDS). A major knock, contact with a magnet or static will ruin data or cause a complete drive failure. SSDs are far far more resistant to these.

Another point on static - I have noticed an increased number of failing laptops that go through airports. It seems the convayer belts used on those x-ray machines gather static - not a good thing for any laptop component, less so for a HDD.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

Kaiser2000 wrote: »

Boot time doesn't overly bother me as it does it as is in under 10 seconds to the login screen anyway and I've yet to see a copy of Windows that doesn't spend a minute or two after that setting up

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you've clearly never seen windows installed on an SSD so.
i log in and i'm done. I don't have to wait for anything, whatever program I want to open opens instantly.

_Kaiser_

OK you've convinced me

What's the best price on a 256GB SSD then that'd work in the above laptop? 128GB seems a bit low for comfort

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-2-5inch-Notebook-Accessory-Norton/dp/B005OK6VLS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1348915459&sr=8-1 is the one I have, dunno what the cheapest is really I stopped looking once I got mine

they are coming up on deals every few weeks though so if you can wait a while and keep checking bargain alerts/bargain sites, you'll probably nab one cheap enough in the next month or two

_Kaiser_

dingding wrote: »

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B007IXPQMY

I ordered one of these.

This will allow you to replace the CD drive in a laptop with a SATA drive and it also has an enclosure to make an external dvd drive of the dvd.

So you can replace the HDD with the SSD and put the HDD in this enclosure.

I like it.. never thought of that. I've a DVD burner in mine that really only gets used if I'm reloading

_Kaiser_

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-2-5inch-Notebook-Accessory-Norton/dp/B005OK6VLS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1348915459&sr=8-1 is the one I have, dunno what the cheapest is really I stopped looking once I got mine

they are coming up on deals every few weeks though so if you can wait a while and keep checking bargain alerts/bargain sites, you'll probably nab one cheap enough in the next month or two

Cheers mate.. looks like I'd get £50 back on that too so better again

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

enjoy it

the benefit of an ssd isn't neccesarily a *huge* difference in speed.. but it's a thousand small differences and during the course of a day using a computer they add up, they really add up.

I had to use a normal hdd computer last week and christ it just seemed unmercifully slow even to open the browser

dingding

Kaiser2000 wrote: »

I like it.. never thought of that. I've a DVD burner in mine that really only gets used if I'm reloading

And you can put an operating system on both drives and you can decide which drive you want to boot from in the Bios.

This means that if one HD fails you have ready access to an additional one.

My original drive was 750 GB, I am going to partition it to 150 and 600 and use the 150 GB partition to have a copy of the OS and programmes that are on the SSD. This then leaves 600GB for Data. You can also put your critical data on drop box which you sync from both OS.

_Kaiser_

Quick one guys..

When claiming the cashback on the Samsung SSD, should country of purchase be Ireland or UK (given that it was ordered from Amazon UK and charged in UK sterling?)

Cheers!

dingding

Thanks OP, mine arrived today and even though I have an i7 laptop this drive made a huge difference in speed.

randombar

Selling one on adverts if anyone is interested too.