The Lemon Fool

If you need a new SSD, then it's worth a look at buying direct from Samsung's own site. They have some good discounts right now, like this one I have just ordered.

https://www.samsung.com/uk/business/mem ... 7e1t0b-eu/

Looks like the discounts are available everywhere. E.g. for the 1TB:

https://www.johnlewis.com/samsung-870-evo-sata-2-5-inch-solid-state-drive-1tb-black/p5540082 (1p cheaper than Samsung direct)
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-Intelligent-Magician-Software-Internal/dp/B08PC5DKZQ (ditto)
https://www.argos.co.uk/product/9401363 (£2.99 more)

Well, it's nice to see the discounts wherever they are found.
I though there was supposed to be a chip shortage pushing up prices. A sale was the last thing I expected....

Breelander wrote:Well, it's nice to see the discounts wherever they are found.
I though there was supposed to be a chip shortage pushing up prices. A sale was the last thing I expected....

I was reading the other week that SSD's are one of the few 'shortages' that no longer apply and to expect discounting to return to something near pre-covid levels.
Hopefully it spreads to other areas...

Infrasonic wrote:I was reading the other week that SSD's are one of the few 'shortages' that no longer apply....

Well, I was very pleasantly surprised and took advantage of it to do an HDD > SSD upgrade I've wanted to do for a long time, but been put off by the prices

Here's some more reading:

While semiconductor supply chains remain a mess, if you’re in the market for a new SSD, you may be in luck.

https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/19/ ... h_decline/

Thanks for posting.

Your post prompted me to look at external USB SSDs.

2TB external SSD, USB 3.1 £37 on Amazon, is that typical? If that's the case, I'm amazed.

For external drives, do you guys prefer traditional HDD or more up to date SSD.

Sorry if slightly off topic but feedback would be appreciated.

scotview wrote:Your post prompted me to look at external USB SSDs.

2TB external SSD, USB 3.1 £37 on Amazon, is that typical? If that's the case, I'm amazed.

For external drives, do you guys prefer traditional HDD or more up to date SSD.

Sorry if slightly off topic but feedback would be appreciated.

That sounds like a 'fake' SSD. They've got 'sponsored ads' running on Amazon currently despite hundreds of people reporting them.
They look like Samsung T5's and report as 2TB or greater but are in fact USB cases with SD cards or USB drives inside them with modded firmware to fool the PC into misreading them...BARGE POLE!

scotview wrote:
For external drives, do you guys prefer traditional HDD or more up to date SSD.

Sorry if slightly off topic but feedback would be appreciated.

I like USB 3 caddys and then I can add \ swap SSD disks as wanted.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Orico-Drive-Enclosure-Tool-free-Design/dp/B011O9JB7S

RC

If you've got a desktop the icy style front bays are good as they give you removable SATA capability meaning you could swap boot/ data/ backup drives around as needed.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=Icy+Dock

FWIW Scan have 1TB Crucials for £60.97 with nominal performance within 10% of the Samsungs, and WD with the same nominal performance for £68.48 (albeit currently out of stock)

https://www.scan.co.uk/shop/gaming/stor ... i#filter=1

Ebuyer have a slower Patriot for £60.89, and a faster Crucial for £69.99 :

https://www.ebuyer.com/store/Storage/ca ... +ascending

I imagine there's going to be a lot of Bank Holiday deals around.

scotview wrote:Thanks for posting.

Your post prompted me to look at external USB SSDs.

2TB external SSD, USB 3.1 £37 on Amazon, is that typical? If that's the case, I'm amazed.

For external drives, do you guys prefer traditional HDD or more up to date SSD.

Sorry if slightly off topic but feedback would be appreciated.

Just to back up Infrasonic's reply re scams/fakes look at today's article from ArsTechnica.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08 ... ly-a-scam/