Seagate 600 Series 480GB 2.5inch SATA-III SSD

jameshayes

Holy Moley! http://www.ebuyer.com/daily-deals?utm_source=b2c_friday&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=b2c_friday

£159

sweetie

Think I might pull the trigger on this, thanks. What else do I need to install it?

Etnies

Why the odd number of GB's?

Alanstrainor

Etnies wrote: »

Why the odd number of GB's?

Its quite common on ssd drives. Its determined by the number of physical blocks of memory they put in the drive. Intel, Crucial and others have the same odd sizes in a lot of their ssds.

moodrater

Etnies wrote: »

Why the odd number of GB's?

Its a probably a 512gb drive with 7% overprovisioning leaving 480gb when formatted you'll only have about 446GB free.

machalla

Have Ebuyer started delivering to Ireland again?

free_man

machalla wrote: »

Have Ebuyer started delivering to Ireland again?

No, but you can get it posted to parcelmotel for 11stg I think.

nanoro

free_man wrote: »

No, but you can get it posted to parcelmotel for 11stg I think.

I just paid £8 for postage to Parcel Motel.

nanoro

My order was cancelled... Seems that they won't accept a credit/debit card which is registered to an Irish address.

machalla

Some sort of issue with vat I think is why they claimed they stopped shipping here. That might explain the Irish credit card cancellation.

stimpson

If you're having issues with your credit card then ring them. Lots of people in the microserver thread had that problem but got it sorted with a call.

Virtual

I was thinking about getting this when I got the e-mail this morning, but I ordered a 250 SSD yesterday from Amazon.
I might order this still and return the one to Amazon.

However, last time I tried to order something from eBuyer my order got cancelled and after contacting them they simply refunded the money and never said if I can actually order.

Anybody had any luck with this?

ozmo

Interested also - but has anyone successfully ordered one of these yet to parcel motel? How did you do it?

Also - I see a free (5 day) postage option.

cherryghost

I wouldn't touch Seagate with a bargepole, they are the worst SSD and HD manufacturers.

Virtual

cherryghost wrote: »

I wouldn't touch Seagate with a bargepole, they are the worst SSD and HD manufacturers.

That is true. I usually prefer WD for HDD and Samsung for SSD is possible.
That being said, the offer is really good though.

ozmo

cherryghost wrote: »

I wouldn't touch Seagate with a bargepole, they are the worst SSD and HD manufacturers.

I get where you are coming from with mechanical HDs from them and might agree somewhat - but I cannot find One bad review online about this exact SSD drive - all reviews are 9/10 or better - including the really technical ones like this.

http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/5454/seagate-600-ssd-st480hm000-480gb-ssd-review/index.html

ozmo

Ok - so Ebuyer are a pain to deal with- ordered it - but it went to Cancelled after 15 minutes.


Email I got from them said
Your order has been cancelled for one of the following reasons:

- You've asked us to cancel your order,
- An item on your order has been discontinued or is now out of stock.


Their website still right now says 96 Available and price hasnt changed - (and I didnt cancel it)

So they not deliver to Parcel Motel?

JustMac

ozmo wrote: »

Ok - so Ebuyer are a pain to deal with- ordered it - but it went to Cancelled after 15 minutes.


Email I got from them said
Your order has been cancelled for one of the following reasons:

- You've asked us to cancel your order,
- An item on your order has been discontinued or is now out of stock.


Their website still right now says 96 Available and price hasnt changed - (and I didnt cancel it)

So they not deliver to Parcel Motel?

This happened me too

Virtual

As I said, same thing happened to me a couple of weeks ago when they had an offer on a keyboard I wanted. I tried my ROI address and my PM NI address with no luck.

Thor

cherryghost wrote: »

I wouldn't touch Seagate with a bargepole, they are the worst SSD and HD manufacturers.

What about hitachi and OCZ.

Generally only use WD for hard drives, but I always thought since the Samsung/Seagate business deal, Seagate were somewhat better.

Hal1

I have two crucial m500 240gb. They worked out at €90 something each on amazon prime trial I have.

Review here: http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/5600/crucial-m500-240gb-ssd-review/index5.html

ozmo

Thor wrote: »

What about hitachi and OCZ.

Generally only use WD for hard drives, but I always thought since the Samsung/Seagate business deal, Seagate were somewhat better.

Its seems to be constantly changing - so some peoples opinions may be based on drives from long ago.

I've always stuck with Seagate because from the early days I've found the drives to be quieter than anything else out there (there is an engineer menu you could- and I think still can - enter to change the drives acoustics). Funny reason I guess - but I preferred their sound to other drives in a quiet room.

I tried the OCZ SSD (30Gb) when it came out - very cheap - but wasn't impressed at the speed - drive was noticeably stuttery.
Using Samsung Pro (250G) now in same machine and its really really good - but it was expensive.

Blinked_Missed It

nanoro wrote: »

My order was cancelled... Seems that they won't accept a credit/debit card which is registered to an Irish address.

I had the same problem a few months ago. Found a solution using an Irish CC. Just use Google Wallet and ship to Parcel Motel. Not sure why it works but it did for me.

cherryghost

Thor wrote: »

What about hitachi and OCZ.

Generally only use WD for hard drives, but I always thought since the Samsung/Seagate business deal, Seagate were somewhat better.

Article from 2 months ago proves otherwise.

ozmo

cherryghost wrote: »

Article from 2 months ago proves otherwise.

I did read that - but they are using desktop drives the wrong way - even say so themselves - they are cutting corners not buying server drives for a server environment.

"Part of the problem, Backblaze says, is these drives are designed to spin down when not in use to save power. That’s a great feature for a home PC user, but in an industrial environment Backblaze says the drive would spin down only to spin back up a few minutes later. The end result being more wear and tear on the drive than it was designed for."


Anyway - those are mechanical drives - and I guess question was about SSD - which is an entirely different set of things that can go wrong.

Thor

cherryghost wrote: »

Article from 2 months ago proves otherwise.

This isn't really the thread for this as it's a bargain alert of a Samsung SSD, but nothing the less, another little tidbit inside that article.

Backblaze said this particular model is pretty bad, but it cautions not to read too much into it. The company received these specific drives as warranty replacements, so they were probably refurbished with wear and tear on them by the time they met Backblaze’s HDD taskmasters.

They actually used replacement drives and even think they were refurbished with wear and tear already on them. Hardly a fair study.

I wouldn't really put to much weight in that article, but if you do. the numbers state the failure rate on the Segate 4TB is 4-percet over a year which is the same as all WD drives and only 2-percent higher than the Hitachi's

I'm not saying Seagate have a stellar record, and to be honest, I only have 1 Segate drive at the moment. The rest are either WD or Samsung (I miss Sammy drives). I still think they aren't that bad.

Rather coincidence, but I just shipped Seagate a Samsung drive(at least 3 years old now) that they are replacing. They have been great with the RMA as there was some issues with shipping which resulted in it falling out of warranty, but they're covering it none the less.

ozmo

Queried cancellation - Official reply from EBuyer - they don't like ParcelMotel...

Please be advised that the order was cancelled due to issues with the delivery address selected.

If you wish the account to be reactivated, we can do this for you, but you would need to use a different delivery address.



Kind Regards,


Ebuyer.com
Customer Support Team

PlanIT Computing

Weird
Got delivered for us through parcel motel ..

ozmo

PlanIT Computing wrote: »

Weird
Got delivered for us through parcel motel ..

no fair.


Maybe its how I entered the address that flagged something... probably should have left out the Parcel Motel name bit.

PMXXX Parcel Motel
1A McKinney Road, Mallusk
etc.

PlanIT Computing

I'll check our address shortly and revert