960GB SSD for £90
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Monty Python

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228 months

Wednesday 3rd April 2019
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Kingston A400 from Ebuyer

captain_cynic

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126 months

Wednesday 3rd April 2019
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Monty Python said:
Kingston A400 from Ebuyer
Piqued my interest.

The way it does writes increases capacity on the same hardware but lowers the MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) which is a bit of a moot point considering MBTF's are pretty big already... and you should be doing backups anyway smile

The performance is reported to be pretty bad for an SSD, throughput is a bit less than 2/3 of what you'd get for a Samsung or Crucial for a few quid more... So as a gamer, I'd pay those few extra quid.

But 1 TB for under £100. What could possibly go wrong (the 120GB version can be had for under £20).

Over over under steer

810 posts

154 months

Wednesday 3rd April 2019
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I have used these in the macs in my family (actually after some advice a while back here). They are all going well and perked the laptops up well. Depends how intensively you'll be looking to use them, for normal use laptops they're perfect.

RZ1

4,514 posts

237 months

Wednesday 3rd April 2019
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I presume these don’t work in a 2013 Mac book air?

Lagom

564 posts

93 months

Wednesday 3rd April 2019
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The Samsung SSD 860 QVO 1TB is only a tenner more from Amazon.de

paulwoof

1,781 posts

186 months

Wednesday 3rd April 2019
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had bad luck with a kingston drive before. May of been bad luck but was corrupt straight from amazon.