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noise747
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£153 for a 512GB drive,.
Getting better and better, I may get another one when I update next year. My 128GB one is ok, but I have to be careful where I save stuff.
Getting better and better, I may get another one when I update next year. My 128GB one is ok, but I have to be careful where I save stuff.
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That drive has actually been at £149 on Amazon for some time.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Crucial-CT512MX100SSD1-512GB-Includes-Adapter/dp/B00KFAGCUM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1416051591&sr=8-1&keywords=512gb+mx+100
I already have a Hybrid, so I would like the 840Evo, but I can't justify £91 for a 250GB. I just don't have the cash for the the 512GB at present.
It may have been at that price at Scan for a while, but I just had a email yesterday to tell.
If I can get something the same price or close to it from another company than Amazon I will do. I try to avoid amazon these days if I can.
I have a seagate hybrid which is now used for Linux, that is 512GB, the 128 SSD is used for windows and some of my larger software.
I think I can justify £149 for the 512GB just about, not worth getting one yet as I can not fit it due to having to move the computer, so it will have to wait for a couple of months.
The problem with one that big is how reliable is the technology, a lot easier to back up 512GB than 1TB. I know my Corsair SSD have been rock steady since the the update a couple of years back or so, but this is still pretty new tech.
Picked up 2x a couple of weeks ago for £329 (each).
No its not.
How you getting on with them? I replaced my 2TB drives in my main PC with 3TB drives for data storage but my 512GB SSD is pushing it really for programme storage etc. I get back to the UK near the end of December and I've no doubt I'll upgrade to a 1TB drive then.
Crucial's SSDs, as far as I know, have always been a lot cheaper than the others at the same capacities. When SSD capacities currently available from the other companies start coming down in price a lot, that's when prices will truly be coming down. 1TB SSDs might start coming down in price when 2TB ones start being released.
Fine, no problems at all with them (Crucial M550s), ive also got a Cruicial M5 960gb (which is my Windows drive), which i bought when they just came out, and thats still fine also, never missed a beat.
It is compared to the spinny drives. i still like my SSD and it was on of the best updates I done on my computer, the machine now boots in seconds and since I change form Linux to Windows and back to linux, I have to disable windows fast start system. so with normal drives it would take even longer to start.
Also Vegas is so quick to start up, with all the plug ins I have for it, it would take a long time on a normal drive.
But these SSD drives do wear out, mine will last for another 8 years according to SSD life. I expect I will get a larger one long before then.
If they are cheaper, are they as good? My Corsair is great, sure the speed of it now do not compete with the newer ones, my mate got a Crucial, I think it is about 14 months old, and it is certainly faster than mine going by the blurb, I did not notice it i in use mind you.
I noticed Amazon is selling a Samsung 500Gb one for £162 and a 1TB for £294.
Don't cut off your nose to spite your face. Once you've bought the drive, pretty much your warranty is direct with the manufacturer anyway. Crucial won't care where you bought it, but IME their customer service is pretty good.
I would jump at the 256GB Crucial if the write speeds weren't middling (for SSDs). Or at the 840Evo at sub £80. Problem is I can barely afford that.
I've junked all the dead data off my 750GB hybrid and I'm running at about 130GB. A 250GB would work, but I'd feel more comfy with a 500GB+ just don't have the £150 any more than I can justify half that on something half the size I'd probably want to upgrade later.
The Crucial's 256GB MX100 is good enough for me. I don't copy large files that are hundreds of megabytes in size (can't see the point in that) to other places on the SSD. All I want it for is much faster loading/opening times than you get with an HDD. Images in webpages now nearly always appear in full instead of looking as if the storage device is struggling. But yeah, it does me until PCIe SSDs start getting brought out.....and then reach a cheap enough price.
I know the warranty is with the manufacture. i do not know what crucial is like in that way. i was impressed by Corsair. i tried to update the firmware as i was having problems with the SSD and it went belly up, i have no idea why. So I sent it back to Corsair, 3 days later a brand new updated drive saying any further updates will work fine and they have. Not that any updates have been available for a while.
Being off work for 3 months at the moment, I got to watch my money, while I do get paid full wages, I do not get the overtime. I am in no rush anyway, i will sort it out when I update the computer, I can't do it at the moment anyway as I can not move the computer, so if I have a problem hardware wise I am stuck.
i have got mates who will move it for me, but it means bothering them.
Anyway, by the time i get around to buying a SSD, the prices may have gone down a bit more, I can then get rid of the 250GB hitachi I have got, which is showing it's age now.
Got a 2TB spinny drive in as well, far too many drives
Putting the video files I am working with on a SSd will decrease the import times into Vegas, so for me it would be useful,, at the moment all video files are stored ont he 2TB, which is fine, but for a long edit, it can take a while for Vegas to string it all together.
some of that is done to CPU power, but most is down to the hard drive.
this is why a 512GB SSd would be useful for me.
Going to start using the camcorder more once I get myself sorted, Get more interested in the city and county i live in and video some events that goes on and other things.
Yeah, that'll be the read speed though. I was meaning the write speed.
True, but it will also write to the drive for temp files and they will be pretty large, so fast write speeds will also be important.
Yeah, but because Sony Vegas will be encoding, this will mean that only maybe about 4+ megabytes a time will be wrote to the SSD. I'm assuming that you're importing the video file to be encoded.
That is true, read time is more important to me, but i would still like pretty fast write speed as well.
I know one thing, I forgot how slow USB2 is, taking some footage of my old SD hard disk camcorder, taking ages. The HD camcorder uses a SD card and the card reader is USB3, much quicker.
The problem with electronics is that theres always something thats going to die earlier than expected, the life span is generally given as a MTBF in hours of usage now those who did maths and drew bell diagrams and did some probability will know that its any drives life could be anything from DOA to the end of the universe in theory for a normal drive or so many writes for a SSD.
did you ensure the SSD drive had the latest firmware and some drives have been known to be crap on certain versions?
http://channeleye.co.uk/apple-use-makes-it-harder-to-evolve/
It is nice to have a monopoly if you can.
If that all applies to existing SSD upgrades then I hope users kept their original 'Apple SSD'.
On a positive, at least it is better than having the SSD soldered down.