Patriot 480gb SSD for 124.95 on ibood

bawnBeag

Seems like a good price

davo2001

Link?

ejabrod

http://www.ibood.com/ie/en/

Alanstrainor

Amazon have this Crucial drive for in and around the same price. You wouldn't have to deal with a long wait from ibood either:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Crucial-BX200-480GB-2-5-Inch-CT480BX200SSD1/dp/B016JREG84/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1452768095&sr=8-3&keywords=crucial+500gb+ssd

Lord Nikon

I will always buy Brand Name electrics/electronics.

Alanstrainor

And people should keep in mind, that when an SSD fails, the chance of recovering the data from it would be slim. Unlike a HDD which usually gradually fails and gives you a chance to recover.

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Alanstrainor wrote: »

And people should keep in mind, that when an SSD fails, the chance of recovering the data from it would be slim. Unlike a HDD which usually gradually fails and gives you a chance to recover.

I learned this the hard way

MOH

Lord Nikon wrote: »

I will always buy Brand Name electrics/electronics.

Patriot aren't exactly an unknown brand

s982102

MOH wrote: »

Patriot aren't exactly an unknown brand

It is an unknown brand for SSDs or HDs.

Pique

Well so were Lamborghini for making cars.....until they started making cars.

Patriot make Flash drives, solid state memory in a smaller form factor. Not a big jump to SSD's.

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s982102 wrote: »

It is an unknown brand for SSDs or HDs.

Not that I would use a Patriot SSD myself, but in fairness they have been making them for a long old time, just because they're unknown to some doesn't unknown to everyone.
I certainly remember a review of a Patriot SSD from about eight to ten years ago when I was looking to get my first SSD.

s982102

Pique wrote: »

Well so were Lamborghini for making cars.....until they started making cars.

Patriot make Flash drives, solid state memory in a smaller form factor. Not a big jump to SSD's.

Yeah, Lamborghini is well known car maker now. But the argument is that it was an unknown car maker at the start.

For Patriot, it is currently an unknown brand for making SSDs. I don't the phrase is anything wrong.

Alanstrainor

I think we should all just realise that iBood is ****e, amazon is infinitely better. And also, the crucial drive I linked to, is the same capacity, a proven drive and the same price. Anyone going with iBood would want their heads checked.

s982102

By the way, the word 'unknown' in this discussion generally means it is not a well-known brand. There is no point of talking the meaning of absolute unknown as any brand is known to someone.

MOH

s982102 wrote: »

By the way, the word 'unknown' in this discussion generally means it is not a well-known brand. There is no point of talking the meaning of absolute unknown as any brand is known to someone.

My point was that Patriot isn't some unknown knock-off like Adidaft or Hayloft Packard, they're an established electronics supplier.

The Crucial on eis probably a better option though.