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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,710 ✭✭✭Monotype


    It's certainly not a bad idea to spread out the parts. Whatever works out cheaper really. I've often ended up ordering from about three places as it works out cheaper, even with postage. I don't think you'll see any huge shock movements upwards in SSD pricing. You'd need a flooded factory or something for that.

    Edit: Actually I hadn't seen this drive before, at this pricing anyway.
    http://www.dabs.ie/products/ocz-technology-128gb-octane-series-sata-3gb-s-2-5--solid-state-drive-848C.html
    €81 for 128GB!

    Not a great drive or anything but it does put pressure on other ones and opens the door for further price reductions!


  • Registered Users Posts: 138 ✭✭pcadvice


    You still haven't got one yet? :D

    Might aswel wait for next gen m8 ;)

    havent really been online as much for good few weeks now so wasnt in any rush to purchase:cool:

    i do need a new one as what i have is awful, i laugh when i read other posts of how bad/out dated people think their pc is but as i said im just not online enough at the moment:D

    dont worry i wont forget you:)


  • Registered Users Posts: 138 ✭✭pcadvice


    Monotype wrote: »
    It's certainly not a bad idea to spread out the parts. Whatever works out cheaper really. I've often ended up ordering from about three places as it works out cheaper, even with postage. I don't think you'll see any huge shock movements upwards in SSD pricing. You'd need a flooded factory or something for that.

    Edit: Actually I hadn't seen this drive before, at this pricing anyway.
    http://www.dabs.ie/products/ocz-technology-128gb-octane-series-sata-3gb-s-2-5--solid-state-drive-848C.html
    €81 for 128GB!

    Not a great drive or anything but it does put pressure on other ones and opens the door for further price reductions!

    yeah think i will just get the samsung 830 128gb as its a good price


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,137 ✭✭✭✭TheDoc


    Monotype wrote: »
    Apparently the price drops were to boot out smaller sellers out of the market. The OCZ Petrol seems to be fading and Samsung + Crucial are some of the best and cheapest drives out there now. There's hardly any reason to go for other drives now. Unless Crucial and Samsung want to try to continue beat one another, they probably won't go down much further until there's more motive. Crucial seems to have eased off in the price reductions and Samsung looks to have won the battle for the lowest priced decent SSD.

    Of course, this price war was a surprise shift in prices so you wouldn't know what may happen.

    I'd say Samsung want to make their name well known in storage for SSDs since they no longer have their HDD division.

    Very informative. I kno with my OCZ experience ( finally got a replacement 6 months waiting) I wont go near them again. Havnt taken the Crucial out of the box awaiting a replacement motheboard also.

    I guess it might also have been due to the rise in pricing on normal HDD's, an opportunity for manafacturers to drop their SSD pricing to get more first time buyers and get more SSD's into the home PC. Wouldn't be outragous to assume as much.

    I know I was happy with the limited amount of time my first ~SSD worked, that I went and bought a second one, to house games exclusively.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,929 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    I know I will go 256gb at least for my next ssd. Will still keep my 60gb for os thought. Prices are really sexy lately. It's a shame 512gb still more expensive then 2x256gb...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,710 ✭✭✭Monotype


    Wow, you must be very eager for that 256GB SSD, Shadow!


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,105 Mod ✭✭✭✭Tar.Aldarion


    Must be a real shame 512gb still more expensive then 2x256gb :pac:
    /copycat

    My first ssd will be 256/512 minimum. Probably 256.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,929 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    Damn sorry lads. My phone had a brain fart moment. Could mod delete those extra posts? :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,690 ✭✭✭✭Skylinehead


    Damn sorry lads. My phone had a brain fart moment. Could mod delete those extra posts? :)

    You can delete your own threads if you edit them :pac:

    EDIT: posts not threads...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,710 ✭✭✭Monotype


    Well the Samsung 830 128GB has gone down by €2 since yesterday!
    http://www.dabs.ie/products/samsung-128gb-830-series-sata-6gb-s-2-5--ssd-laptop-kit---free-norton-ghost-15-7SR9.html?src=2

    Looks like they're still going down. I think we could still expect more drop if Samsung considers OCZ to be worthy competition.


  • Registered Users Posts: 138 ✭✭pcadvice


    Monotype wrote: »
    Well the Samsung 830 128GB has gone down by €2 since yesterday!
    http://www.dabs.ie/products/samsung-128gb-830-series-sata-6gb-s-2-5--ssd-laptop-kit---free-norton-ghost-15-7SR9.html?src=2

    Looks like they're still going down. I think we could still expect more drop if Samsung considers OCZ to be worthy competition.

    just saw that on dabs, does it make any difference that it says laptop kit?

    would the norton ghost be on the ssd or seperate disc?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 371 ✭✭Zith


    Drive is the exact same, only the extras in the box are different. Laptop = SATA->USB adaptor. desktop = 2.5->3.5 mounting adaptor, screws and SATA cable.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 881 ✭✭✭Bloodwing


    Has anyone ordered one of the samsung SSDs from Dabs? The tracking number they've given me isn't the standard 13 digit Royal Mail/ Parcel Force number so the site won't accept it. The dabs e-mail says it shipped with royal mail.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,537 ✭✭✭Nollog


    Neilos wrote: »
    Has anyone ordered one of the samsung SSDs from Dabs? The tracking number they've given me isn't the standard 13 digit Royal Mail/ Parcel Force number so the site won't accept it. The dabs e-mail says it shipped with royal mail.

    I ordered a dvd drive from dabs a few days ago. My email said Royal Mail deliveries can't be tracked.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 371 ✭✭Zith


    pcadvice wrote: »
    would the norton ghost be on the ssd or seperate disc?

    On disk, not on SSD.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,304 ✭✭✭N64


    Dabs ship with parcelforce (a subsidiary of Royal mail) . Sometimes it can take up to 24 hours for the tracking code to show up on the website from dispatch. Once the packages hit Ireland, they will be delivered by anpost. Delivery usually takes 3 working days.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 881 ✭✭✭Bloodwing


    N64 wrote: »
    Dabs ship with parcelforce (a subsidiary of Royal mail) . Sometimes it can take up to 24 hours for the tracking code to show up on the website from dispatch. Once the packages hit Ireland, they will be delivered by anpost. Delivery usually takes 3 working days.

    That's the way it's always been for me with Dabs but with the SSD they have sent it with "royal mail letters". They've given me a reference number but it can't be tracked apparently. They must be trying to save on postage costs seen as the SSDs are so cheap!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,304 ✭✭✭N64


    Neilos wrote: »
    That's the way it's always been for me with Dabs but with the SSD they have sent it with "royal mail letters". They've given me a reference number but it can't be tracked apparently. They must be trying to save on postage costs seen as the SSDs are so cheap!!

    I ordered something recently and it came to about €105 and it was shipped with parcelforce. Perhaps since the SSD package is so small they used the cheaper shipping method?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 881 ✭✭✭Bloodwing


    N64 wrote: »
    I ordered something recently and it came to about €105 and it was shipped with parcelforce. Perhaps since the SSD package is so small they used the cheaper shipping method?

    I'd say that's exactly what it is. It's just a pity there's no tracking on it but hopefully it'll fit through the letterbox seen as I'm guaranteed not to be at home when it arrives.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,537 ✭✭✭Nollog


    i keep posting replies in the other thread. x.x force of habit or something.
    Nertballs wrote: »

    "A Dual BIOS feature allows enthusiasts to experiment with alternative BIOS settings and performance can be further enhanced with the SAPPHIRE overclocking tool, TriXX"
    http://www.sapphiretech.com/presentation/product/?cid=1&gid=3&sgid=1041&lid=1&pid=1530&leg=0

    Does flashing 6950 to 6970 still work?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,304 ✭✭✭N64


    /\/ollog wrote: »
    i keep posting replies in the other thread. x.x force of habit or something.



    "A Dual BIOS feature allows enthusiasts to experiment with alternative BIOS settings and performance can be further enhanced with the SAPPHIRE overclocking tool, TriXX"
    http://www.sapphiretech.com/presentation/product/?cid=1&gid=3&sgid=1041&lid=1&pid=1530&leg=0

    Does flashing 6950 to 6970 still work?

    It may work but its unlikely. Only the very first couple of batches of 6950 had disabled 6970 cores. Unless its old stock, its likely that the cores have been physically removed from the card.

    The 7850 on pixmania for €219 probably a better deal due to decreased power consumption, marginal performance increase and better overclocking potential.


  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 4,282 Mod ✭✭✭✭deconduo


    N64 wrote: »
    It may work but its unlikely. Only the very first couple of batches of 6950 had disabled 6970 cores. Unless its old stock, its likely that the cores have been physically removed from the card.

    The 7850 on pixmania for €219 probably a better deal due to decreased power consumption, marginal performance increase and better overclocking potential.

    That particular sapphire card (along with the MSI TF III) is one of the ones where flashing it still has a pretty decent chance of working. It doesn't have the extra cores lasered off like most of the newer 6950s.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,766 ✭✭✭farna_boy


    Does anyone know if scan.co.uk will post to Ireland? I think I have tried to find out before by setting up an account but they keep asking for a postcode for Ireland but I don't know what this is supposed to be.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,414 ✭✭✭Fluffy88


    Yes they do post here.
    Just put any random number in the postcode.

    Once you have your address entered the postcode doesn't matter.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,589 ✭✭✭savemejebus


    farna_boy wrote: »
    Does anyone know if scan.co.uk will post to Ireland? I think I have tried to find out before by setting up an account but they keep asking for a postcode for Ireland but I don't know what this is supposed to be.

    Their support told me to put roiroi


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,888 ✭✭✭Rsaeire


    Their support told me to put roiroi

    If you're in Dublin, you can put in your postcode twice, e.g. D10 D10.

    I've bought from Scan several times in the past and have never had any issues. If you happen to be a member on AVForums, you'll get a discount on shipping to Ireland too. ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,144 ✭✭✭Ballyv24


    Email from Dabs with 128GB SSD for €76.28

    http://www.dabs.ie/products/kingston-128gb-ssdnow-v200-sata-6gb-s-2-5--solid-state-drive-7V53.html?src=2

    Looks like a great price?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,766 ✭✭✭farna_boy


    Rsaeire wrote: »
    If you're in Dublin, you can put in your postcode twice, e.g. D10 D10.

    I've bought from Scan several times in the past and have never had any issues. If you happen to be a member on AVForums, you'll get a discount on shipping to Ireland too. ;)

    Cool. Saw a Sandisk 120GB Ultra SSD for £62 on scan. All in it comes to €93. Not sure how much of a bargain that is though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,690 ✭✭✭✭Skylinehead


    farna_boy wrote: »
    Cool. Saw a Sandisk 120GB Ultra SSD for £62 on scan. All in it comes to €93. Not sure how much of a bargain that is though.

    SATA II, don't bother. I'd spend the extra tenner on a Samsung 830.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 377 ✭✭CarefulNow


    Ballyv24 wrote: »

    Brilliant price, but I had quick search there and it seems to have bad write speeds.
    But they have released a firmware update which seems to solve this.
    http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=6488&p=2

    So tempting


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,888 ✭✭✭Rsaeire


    To be honest, Crucial and Intel SSDs are the most reliable drives available so my advice would be to look for one of them at the cheapest price and buy. I have 2 Crucial drives and one Intel and can't recommend them enough.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,911 ✭✭✭aN.Droid


    Rsaeire wrote: »
    To be honest, Crucial and Intel SSDs are the most reliable drives available so my advice would be to look for one of them at the cheapest price and buy. I have 2 Crucial drives and one Intel and can't recommend them enough.

    You can throw samsung into the mix there the 830 series is amazing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,656 ✭✭✭C14N


    Monotype wrote: »
    Well the Samsung 830 128GB has gone down by €2 since yesterday!
    http://www.dabs.ie/products/samsung-128gb-830-series-sata-6gb-s-2-5--ssd-laptop-kit---free-norton-ghost-15-7SR9.html?src=2

    Looks like they're still going down. I think we could still expect more drop if Samsung considers OCZ to be worthy competition.

    Are these Samsung drives significantly better than the competition from OCZ? I'm looking at getting a 120GB to replace my 60GB and this is about €15 more expensive than the Agility but is it worth it?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,911 ✭✭✭aN.Droid


    C14N wrote: »
    Are these Samsung drives significantly better than the competition from OCZ? I'm looking at getting a 120GB to replace my 60GB and this is about €15 more expensive than the Agility but is it worth it?

    Yes it is, if you have sata3. The 830's are topping most benchmarks out now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,710 ✭✭✭Monotype


    Yeah, I'd go for the Samsung 830 over any OCZ drive, funds permitted. I haven't seen any good reviews of the Vertex 4 so we'll see how that goes.

    Edit: Is it the Agility 4 that you're looking at?

    Samsung is better than the Agility 3 because:
    1) Reliability (not as big a deal now because the serious bugs were patched out)
    2) Samsung 830 is faster in most situations (OCZ scores are inflated and only do really well with compressed data
    3) The Agility uses asynchronous NAND and slows down when it fills up.

    Now we don't know a whole lot about the Agility 4. The drive is made by OCZ themselves rather than using Sandforce internals as in the '3' series.
    Reliability was fairly poor in the Sandforce drives, but as I said, it was patched. Reliability has also been week in OCZ's other drives that they made themselves, possibly not as bad as the Sandforce situation. They've mostly been using their own drives in their lower end budget products and since the Agility and Vertex are their front line, higher end products, perhaps they are confident that performance and reliability will hold up.

    I'd wait for more reviews before investing in the Agility and Vertex 4.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,115 ✭✭✭Completionist


    eamonnq wrote: »
    Still coming up as 107.46 for me ??

    Showing up for me at the reduced price, I am not signed into my account so I don't think it is an offer for specific accounts.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 695 ✭✭✭Chosen


    Rsaeire wrote: »
    To be honest, Crucial and Intel SSDs are the most reliable drives available so my advice would be to look for one of them at the cheapest price and buy. I have 2 Crucial drives and one Intel and can't recommend them enough.

    To be honest, both Crucial and Intel had firmware issues with the M4 and 330 lines respectively. The issue in Crucial's case resulted in data loss and in Intel's case the drive was just bricked. This might be somewhat acceptable for Crucial, but not for Intel, with the size of the R&D and Quality teams they are supposed to have.

    On the other hand, Samsung have been an OEM provider for SSDs for Apple, Dell, HP etc. for the last 4-5 years. They haven't had a single issue with their drives getting bricked, or losing their data. They cannot afford to allow beta testing to be done by the customer, because their customers are Apple and Dell, not Joe Public.
    The failure rate on the Samsung PM800 and 830 series is as close to 0 as possible and this is the benchmark to top.

    Now, don't get me wrong, the M4 and the Vertex 4 are fantastic drives. Intel has not produced anything remarkable in the last 2 years, they are just rebadging drives just like Corsair, Plextor and soon MSI.

    So at the same time Crucial are concentrating on performance and they are releasing firmware updates that offer more of it, Intel dropped the development of their own controllers back in the X25-M days, while Samsung do not need to release firmware updates; their drives are already scoring best in 80-90% of the benchmarks, they have the best garbage collection by a mile and the best track record in reliability.
    The 830's only disadvantage up to 2 months ago, was price: it was consistently priced 20-30% higher than other SSDs in the same league. Now that disadvantage is reduced to the other extreme, where the 830 is in some cases the cheapest SSD as well as the best.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,012 ✭✭✭eamonnq


    Showing up for me at the reduced price, I am not signed into my account so I don't think it is an offer for specific accounts.

    Got it showing at that 81.99 price (long story), but when I add it to my basket it then comes up at 107.46

    Probably means that I am not meant to have one!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,850 ✭✭✭Fnz


    Clicked on a link from an old dabs email to get the reduced price to appear but, as with eamonnq's case, reverted to full price at time of checkout.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,540 ✭✭✭freeze4real


    Hi all were can I get 8GB ddr3 ram for less than 35e.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,600 ✭✭✭Eboggles


    Hi all were can I get 8GB ddr3 ram for less than 35e.

    Here :D

    €35 exactly.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 695 ✭✭✭Chosen


    Eboggles wrote: »
    Here :D

    €35 exactly.

    € 43.05
    Including VAT


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,690 ✭✭✭✭Skylinehead


    Eboggles wrote: »
    Here :D

    €35 exactly.

    Showing up as 43..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,600 ✭✭✭Eboggles


    Showing up as 43..

    I'm a fool, didn't see the grey Ex-Vat writing. Still the cheapest though, I think.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,144 ✭✭✭Ballyv24


    How about €40.43 ?

    Here

    And here if you have time to spare


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,600 ✭✭✭Eboggles


    Ballyv24 wrote: »
    How about €40.43 ?

    Here

    And here if you have time to spare
    The Dabs one is laptop RAM, but good find on the eBay one.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,304 ✭✭✭N64


    Its also nice to support a Irish company. So what if it is €3 more expensive :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,710 ✭✭✭Monotype


    You'd have to pay for delivery with dabs for that price range anyway, so memoryc still wins again.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,540 ✭✭✭freeze4real


    Ballyv24 wrote: »
    How about €40.43 ?

    Here

    And here if you have time to spare


    Good find on the ebay ram, but very skeptical as I dont recognize the brand.


    Also thanks for the replies guys, love you all.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,012 ✭✭✭eamonnq


    http://www.dabs.ie/search?q=ssd%20samsung


    Still coming up at 81.99 but when you try to check out it comes up at 107.46 have emailed them (again) about this but am still waiting for a response.


    I have now received an email from them explaining that the price in the checkout is the price you will be charged, so they are apparently not for sale at the 81.99 as on the website. Shambles!!


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