120Gb Intel SSD €58

The_B_Man · 26-09-2014 11:15AM

Is this the Samsung one:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R3G28SXQBETFR9/ref=cm_cr_dp_cmt?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B00E391OX6&channel=detail-glance&nodeID=340831031&store=computers#wasThisHelpful

MuffinsDa · 26-09-2014 04:19PM

The_B_Man wrote: »

Is this the Samsung one:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R3G28SXQBETFR9/ref=cm_cr_dp_cmt?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B00E391OX6&channel=detail-glance&nodeID=340831031&store=computers#wasThisHelpful

Thanks for bothering to find it The_B_Man.

unkel wrote: »

I rest my case

Would you like some dressing on your hat?

loki7777 · 26-09-2014 09:23PM

The_B_Man wrote: »

Is this the Samsung one:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/review/R3G28SXQBETFR9/ref=cm_cr_dp_cmt?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B00E391OX6&channel=detail-glance&nodeID=340831031&store=computers#wasThisHelpful

Will be fixed in next FW in middle of next month.

MuffinsDa · 26-09-2014 09:56PM

loki7777 wrote: »

Will be fixed in next FW in middle of next month.

Brilliant!!

colossus-x · 26-09-2014 11:46PM

Is it the case that many ppl are buying these ssd's and putting them in laptops that wern't designed for them although they fit. I read the port speed you connect it too has to match the speed of the drive which it wouldn't if it previously had a HD attached to it, thus the overall performance is minimal and not worth it ? Of cousre is your just upgrading from your previous SSD then it would be worth it.

loki7777 · 27-09-2014 12:10AM

Not true at all. Most of modern laptops use msata port for ssd. If this port is not available main hdd is connected to sata 3 port and that will give you max speed of new ssd drive - for example my 3 years old dell x502l achieved ~520mb/s with evo 840 250gb - same as all new pc's can do. Overall performance- os,running apps,games,using web browser -You will never have that comfort with hdd,never-it will be always slower.

TireeTerror · 01-10-2014 03:28AM

I bought the earlier model to this, the 510 series. I still use it as my main drive for windows and for battlefield 4. I have been tempted to buy a newer faster higher capacity drive as I do find I'm running out of space a lot even though I try to install everything onto my secondary drive.

The main reason why I have not bothered to buy a new one is that despite all of the reviews of the latest SSDs showing much faster speeds, in reality when I'm playing Battlefield 4 I am almost always first to be loaded in and I can then quickly spawn in the vehicle of my choice before it gets snapped up. So what real difference will it make? Not much I would say.

I just looked out my receipt, I bought it from Komplett.ie on 6th July 2011 and I paid €294.03 for it! So you could get 5 of them now for the price I paid.

Its a bitch being an early adopter!

vectra · 01-10-2014 08:48AM

colossus-x wrote: »

Is it the case that many ppl are buying these ssd's and putting them in laptops that wern't designed for them although they fit. I read the port speed you connect it too has to match the speed of the drive which it wouldn't if it previously had a HD attached to it, thus the overall performance is minimal and not worth it ? Of cousre is your just upgrading from your previous SSD then it would be worth it.

This si something I have thought about and wonder if you could advise me if my Laptop would benefit from an SSD and if so which one?
I don't need anything too big as I have lots of external storage.
Around 256gb would be plenty.

My laptop sis a Samsung RC520. It is just 3 years old now.

Cheers

Alanstrainor · 01-10-2014 09:43AM

vectra wrote: »

This si something I have thought about and wonder if you could advise me if my Laptop would benefit from an SSD and if so which one?
I don't need anything too big as I have lots of external storage.
Around 256gb would be plenty.

My laptop sis a Samsung RC520. It is just 3 years old now.

Cheers

I've been running a 5+ year old machine with an SSD for 2 years. I had upgraded the graphics card, the RAM (to 16GB...) and nothing compared to the difference the SSD made. We're talking 10 fold speed improvement. It's incredible, my machine will boot in under 15 seconds (Windows 7 ultimate), and I'll be browsing boards. Any applications saved on the SSD will open almost instantly.

My machine is SATA2, which is older/slower than SATA3, and yet I still see a huge improvement. As for which SSD, don't get too hung up on the read/write speed, it's not something you're realistically going to notice in everyday usage as they are all sufficient these days. I'd be looking for reliability and price, and a balance of the too. Samsung or Crucial get my vote, mine is a Crucial drive and it's still fantastic.

beauf · 01-10-2014 03:35PM

I stuck a SSD in a 5yr old latop. Makes a big difference.

If you then get a new laptop you can move the SSD to the new one. So its not money wasted.

killbillvol2 · 01-10-2014 06:02PM

Alanstrainor wrote: »

I've been running a 5+ year old machine with an SSD for 2 years. I had upgraded the graphics card, the RAM (to 16GB...) and nothing compared to the difference the SSD made. We're talking 10 fold speed improvement. It's incredible, my machine will boot in under 15 seconds (Windows 7 ultimate), and I'll be browsing boards. Any applications saved on the SSD will open almost instantly.

My machine is SATA2, which is older/slower than SATA3, and yet I still see a huge improvement. As for which SSD, don't get too hung up on the read/write speed, it's not something you're realistically going to notice in everyday usage as they are all sufficient these days. I'd be looking for reliability and price, and a balance of the too. Samsung or Crucial get my vote, mine is a Crucial drive and it's still fantastic.

beauf wrote: »

I stuck a SSD in a 5yr old latop. Makes a big difference.

If you then get a new laptop you can move the SSD to the new one. So its not money wasted.

Same for me. I've put SSDs in two older laptops and the difference is phenomenal.

GekkePrutser · 01-10-2014 06:28PM

MuffinsDa wrote: »

By who, the man in the pub?
I didn't say they are not highly regarded, I have a crucial myself. But what makes you think OCZ, Kingston, Sandisk, PNY etc are less well regarded?

I have nothing against the others but OCZ has a really bad reputation in the industry. They have messed their customers about on several occasions.

First they take a controller (JMicron) for their Core series that isn't suitable for the multi-readwrite actions of modern PCs. It should never have been used in a general-purpose SSD. To be fair, they weren't the only one to use this controller.

More importantly, with the Vertex 2, they changed mid-cycle to a cheaper chip type (from 34 to 25nm) which caused the formatted capacity and write performance to reduce, all the while using the same (indiscernible) packaging. Customers who complained were offered the original model at extra cost. They backed off with that cost only after significant uproar in the media. Source

So saying they are less well regarded sounds like a reasonable claim to me.

TerrorFirmer · 01-10-2014 08:26PM

I would never use OCZ again on principle after the disaster that was their earlier SSD's. I had two which both failed within months, housemate's failed after a few weeks.

zom · 01-10-2014 10:42PM

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

I would never use OCZ again on principle after the disaster that was their earlier SSD's. I had two which both failed within months, housemate's failed after a few weeks.

I experienced the same - or even worse as I advised such drive to friend and he lost all his data after OCZ sdd crashed.
It is not giving any warnings - just stops working and nothing can be done then. No SMART errors or any other signals of disk be going to die.

colossus-x · 02-10-2014 12:39AM

colossus-x wrote: »

Is it the case that many ppl are buying these ssd's and putting them in laptops that wern't designed for them although they fit. I read the port speed you connect it too has to match the speed of the drive which it wouldn't if it previously had a HD attached to it, thus the overall performance is minimal and not worth it ? Of cousre is your just upgrading from your previous SSD then it would be worth it.

Guys cheers for all the great feedback on the above quoted issue. Looks like the upgrade is worth it after all. I'd love to have one for my lappy and esp my HTPC but I'd really like a nice 4TB drive for HTPC also. Think I better start saving.

Alanstrainor · 02-10-2014 08:47AM

colossus-x wrote: »

Guys cheers for all the great feedback on the above quoted issue. Looks like the upgrade is worth it after all. I'd love to have one for my lappy and esp my HTPC but I'd really like a nice 4TB drive for HTPC also. Think I better start saving.

A small capacity SSD for the operating system and applications (even 64GB would do...) and a large normal HDD for storage would suit that application.

I run a 64GB drive on my main PC with other HDDs as storage and have no issues whatsoever on Windows 7 64bit with a decent amount of applications installed.

For anyone who has ordered/install SSDs in their systems, make sure to turn off Disk Defrag, there is no benefit on an SSD, it only serves to hammer the disk and increase wear.

colossus-x · 02-10-2014 02:48PM

Alanstrainor wrote: »

A small capacity SSD for the operating system and applications (even 64GB would do...) and a large normal HDD for storage would suit that application.

I run a 64GB drive on my main PC with other HDDs as storage and have no issues whatsoever on Windows 7 64bit with a decent amount of applications installed.

For anyone who has ordered/install SSDs in their systems, make sure to turn off Disk Defrag, there is no benefit on an SSD, it only serves to hammer the disk and increase wear.

Yes that's right my system partition is only 40GB ,more than enough for my HTPC and makes it easy to restore the partition from time to time. Could you recommend any particular model or are they all more or less the same like hard drives. I only have the first version of SATA I think on the mobo.

Edit: I don't' have any msata port on the htpc but I do have spare pci-e slots If I was to get some kind of adapter.

LanceStorm · 02-10-2014 02:59PM

anyone able to give a rough explanation or link on how you'd go about moving your OS to the SSD once you've got one?

Its the one thing that's been putting me off getting one, not knowing how you'd go about doing it!

Do-more · 02-10-2014 06:35PM

LanceStorm wrote: »

anyone able to give a rough explanation or link on how you'd go about moving your OS to the SSD once you've got one?

Its the one thing that's been putting me off getting one, not knowing how you'd go about doing it!

I borrowed a USB to SATA adapter from a mate, I think they are about €15 or so to buy one. Then Google for "How to clone a hard drive" there is various free software available if you didn't get some on a disc with your SSD.

Just installed a SSD into my new laptop today, only 31Gb to clone so it was all done in about 10 minutes.

[Edit] If you are buying the Samsung Evo SSD there are two different versions available, the "Basic kit" which has just got the drive and the "Laptop kit" which includes the USB to Sata adapter cable.

killbillvol2 · 02-10-2014 06:38PM

Alanstrainor wrote: »

A small capacity SSD for the operating system and applications (even 64GB would do...) and a large normal HDD for storage would suit that application.

I run a 64GB drive on my main PC with other HDDs as storage and have no issues whatsoever on Windows 7 64bit with a decent amount of applications installed.

For anyone who has ordered/install SSDs in their systems, make sure to turn off Disk Defrag, there is no benefit on an SSD, it only serves to hammer the disk and increase wear.

Doesn't Windows recognise an SSD and do that for you?

Do-more · 02-10-2014 06:46PM

killbillvol2 wrote: »

Doesn't Windows recognise an SSD and do that for you?

No. You need to go into Control panel > Administrative tools > Defragment and optimize drives and turn off defragging.

Do-more · 16-10-2014 01:36PM

loki7777 wrote: »

Will be fixed in next FW in middle of next month.

The firmware update for the Samsung Evo SSD is now available to download from the Samsung support site scroll down to "Samsung SSD 840 EVO Performance Restoration Software"

Only the Windows version is so far available, Mac and Linux versions coming at the end of the month.

loki7777 · 16-10-2014 01:42PM

Looks like it is just a software not new firmware.

colossus-x · 16-10-2014 04:23PM

Do-more wrote: »

The firmware update for the Samsung Evo SSD is now available to download from the Samsung support site scroll down to "Samsung SSD 840 EVO Performance Restoration Software"

Only the Windows version is so far available, Mac and Linux versions coming at the end of the month.

SSD's need firmware? more bloody updating.

eoin1539 · 19-10-2014 02:03AM

Seems like a good deal, I'm not sure about intel ssd's though. I got a samsung 840 SSD and it's great. Got it for 120 on pixmania.

TireeTerror · 19-10-2014 10:56AM

eoin1539 wrote: »

Seems like a good deal, I'm not sure about intel ssd's though. I got a samsung 840 SSD and it's great. Got it for 120 on pixmania.

Why are you not sure about Intel SSD's? Reliability should be the most important factor in a hard drive....

loki7777 · 19-10-2014 11:23AM

Gone anyway;)

beauf · 19-10-2014 12:28PM

eoin1539 wrote: »

Seems like a good deal, I'm not sure about intel ssd's though. I got a samsung 840 SSD and it's great. Got it for 120 on pixmania.

Is it an evo? Did you update the firmware.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18629993&highlight=EVo

eoin1539 · 19-10-2014 12:51PM

beauf wrote: »

Is it an evo? Did you update the firmware.

Ye it's an evo, I need to do this cheers :pac:

loki7777 · 19-10-2014 12:55PM

I updated and migrated data without any problems - about 10min.

120Gb Intel SSD €58

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