Kingston 128gb SSD from dabs.ie €76.28

eamonnq

marcbrophy wrote: »

Never really had the need for a NAS, but that looks quite good!

B**tards !! I had this in my basket yesterday, and went to process the order this morning and the price has gone from 122 to 169 !!!

Guess I can manage without it !!!

beardybrewer

eamonnq wrote: »

B**tards !! I had this in my basket yesterday, and went to process the order this morning and the price has gone from 122 to 169 !!!

Guess I can manage without it !!!

Dabs are terrible for this. It's happened to me on several occassions that the price in the basket is less than the price shown after I click checkout. I think once you press checkout it must go update its price. But if you cancel checkout and look at the basket you will still see the old (lower) price. I've called them before about it hoping to get the better price and they will just fob you off.

PCDub

eamonnq wrote: »

B**tards !! I had this in my basket yesterday, and went to process the order this morning and the price has gone from 122 to 169 !!!

Guess I can manage without it !!!

Think all the vip offers expired last night.

Tar.Aldarion

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

it's not just boot times it's using the computer from minute to minute

I load windows, I see the desktop and that's it. everything can be used. I dont have to sit here staring at the background for 2-3 minutes before I can open my browser. I see desktop, I click browsedr it opens instantly. same for winamp, steam or any other program/game I care to run.

even just general useage is so improved. All those little 2-3 second delays whenever you tried to do anything, open explorer, open a file, check the size of a folder.. it's all just about instant now. An SSD doesn't neccesarily make a huge difference for everyone but it does make hundreds/thousands of little differences that make just using a computer such a more pleasant experience.

To be fair, if you have a good computer these delays don't exist anyway, certainly good for booting though. And I guess simultaneous loading.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

I have a good computer and delays all over the place


before I got the ssd anyway
everything instantaneous now

solarith

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

I have a good computer and delays all over the place


before I got the ssd anyway
everything instantaneous now

Same, I'm on a reasonable spec 2011 MacBook Pro and the difference the SSD has made is enormous! It's the most noticeable upgrade I've ever made.

Tar.Aldarion

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

I have a good computer and delays all over the place


before I got the ssd anyway
everything instantaneous now

I suppose 99% of peoples computers would get a good deal out of one. On my OCed i5, when I click something it opens, it cant really go much faster. But computers slow down. I'd still say everything would feel a bit better with an ssd, what kinda boot time do you get? I'm just waiting for a cheap 256!

kenyard

i got a 128 just to see what sort of improvement i get. will try it on my laptop first and then stick it in the pc (i know a lot depends on motherboard also)
if its pretty good ill get a 256 if theyre relatively cheap for the laptop.
heres hoping bargain alerts finds a decent cheap one again soon

Tar.Aldarion

There are bargains on them every day. A nice place to look is here http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055214991&page=20
and here http://www.hotukdeals.com/search?action=search&keywords=ssd


Not getting a 256 til they are 100e
This time last year 128gb was 200e.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

I suppose 99% of peoples computers would get a good deal out of one. On my OCed i5, when I click something it opens, it cant really go much faster. But computers slow down. I'd still say everything would feel a bit better with an ssd, what kinda boot time do you get? I'm just waiting for a cheap 256!

tbh before I had an ssd I'd hav said that my computer starts porgrams pretty quickly as well and there wasn't much room for improvement.
trust me on this, there is.

boot was 37 seconds or thereabouts this morning, that includes typing password and opening browser/all those little programs tthat open up when you start windows

god's toy

Just in case some new people to SSD's...

If your using windows, please turn off all types of Defrag! No really, SSD's have/use there own way sorting where stuff goes and Windows doesn't account for this. It will try to group things together like old style hard drives and that can lead to premature drive failure or blue screen of death.

SSD technology works in a different way and the drives does not fragment as such and so no Defrag ever needed.

Best to disable it more than just turn it off as it can auto kick start in the background when your pc is idle.

Tar.Aldarion

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar wrote: »

tbh before I had an ssd I'd hav said that my computer starts porgrams pretty quickly as well and there wasn't much room for improvement.
trust me on this, there is.

boot was 37 seconds or thereabouts this morning, that includes typing password and opening browser/all those little programs tthat open up when you start windows

I think the problem is that people have all these little programs that start when they open windows, I have a whole custom gui/dock/overlay that loads etc, which takes a few seconds and would be faster on an ssd. Also people never bother to change program settings so that programs don't lauch on start of windows, I'm bad for that heh. But things like chrome etc, it launches before I can let go of the button that opened it. Good launching time! It's a bit slow on a normal hdd, even though I don't bother with a password screen.

Mountjoy Mugger

Amazon have the Samsung 256GB 830 SSD now in stock, selling at £153 to ROI buyers.

Link

Monotype

Mountjoy Mugger wrote: »

Amazon have the Samsung 256GB 830 SSD now in stock, selling at £153 to ROI buyers.

Link

What you could do instead is get it for €196 from dabs.ie

http://www.dabs.ie/products/samsung-256gb-830-series-sata-6gb-s-2-5--ssd-basic-kit-819P.html

Then add something to your basket that's 3-4 euro.

Then use the coupon code for €10 off!

http://www.dabs.ie/articles/landingpages/landing-pages/coupons-updates-11650.html?

Drive for €190 plus a free gift!

The one on amazon has the adapter bracket and cable so that might be worth the small bit extra.

markusd1984

Monotype wrote: »

What you could do instead is get it for €196 from dabs.ie

http://www.dabs.ie/products/samsung-256gb-830-series-sata-6gb-s-2-5--ssd-basic-kit-819P.html

Then add something to your basket that's 3-4 euro.

Then use the coupon code for €10 off!

http://www.dabs.ie/articles/landingpages/landing-pages/coupons-updates-11650.html?

Drive for €190 plus a free gift!

The one on amazon has the adapter bracket and cable so that might be worth the small bit extra.

@Monotype
Thanks very much, just ordered the Samsung 830 256GB laptop kit for 213€ with the JULY10IE 10€ discount code, yay!

Monotype

Kit contains SATA to USB adapter as well as Norton ghost. I'm not sure that that's worth the extra money. A bit expensive for just those two items and you can get cloning software free if you look around.

The adapter should be handy, although you might want to buy an enclosure anyway for your old drive. I would recommend that you do a fresh install rather than cloning if you're going from HDD to SSD.