Black Friday/ Cyber Monday SSD deals? - X-post

[David]

Anyone spotted any outstanding SSD deals?

120 - 240 Gig preferred.

Decided my 60 Gb SSD is just too small for any OS in 2017 (at least any Windows OS).

Cheers

Dave R

[David]

Oh, and any 1TB external USB drives.

Google is throwing up one at Argos for under £50 but my Googling is often unreliable.

Cheers

Dave R

[David]

Argh! 2TB drives seem a better deal.

Toshiba

Maxtor

Seagate

All for £69.99 and all USB 3.

Any reason to chose one over another?

Cheers

Dave R

P.S. as the price is not far off a grocery shop or a fill up at the fuel pumps, am I spending too much time over a £5 saving?

[RJH]

Maybe :-)

FWIW, I generally start with a combination of Google/Shopping and Ebuyer. On ebuyer, sort by price.

[David]

Thanks, but I ditched eBuyer over the way they (don't) handle returns.

Fool me once, shame on you etc.

Cheers

Dave R

[Rob Morley]

My 120GB SSD is half root partition (23% full) and half swap partition which probably gets used only rarely. :-)

[Rob Morley]

I thought the sweet spot for USB HDD was around 4TB nowadays (although I've not checked very recently).

[Adrian Caspersz]

Perhaps time for the following technologies to make a reappearance?

Microsoft DriveSpace / Doublespace,

Stacker?

[David]

There is always a balance between bangs per buck and total bucks.

£69.99 for a 2TB drive I can wear.

Ummm....£109.99 for a 4TB Seagate.............another £40 for another

2TB....are you sure you aren't a double glazing salesman?

Or a divorce lawyer?

This will be for an external drive for a satellite decoder/recorder with a single tuner i.e. you can't record and watch unless you are on the same mux. My one has, I think, 500 GB. This is pretty good and only needs the occasional clear out. I think the Virgin Tivo also has 500 GB, with 3 tuners. 2TB is probably over provision. 4TB will never be used to record programmes efficiently.

I don't think I have a suitable 2.5" external drive to swap for it, either.

You were supposed to be helping, dammit!!!

Still, that is not bad value if I can find another use.

Cheers

Dave R

[Max Demian]

Disk compression isn't much use nowadays since most large files will be already compressed almost as much as they can: video files, JPEGS, PDF, MP3... That just leaves executables, text files (including web pages), WP and spreadsheet work files...

[dennis]

On win10 you can compress folders if you want to. Its under properties->advanced.

[alan_m]

Argos are still advertising a lot of stock where they have sold out and/or only one outlet in the north of Scotland has stock for pick up or delivery (delivery to the N Scottish store only). Last Sunday a friend ordered on-line a in-stock items to be delivered to the local store the next day - Argos staff now have no idea if the items will ever arrive at the store nearly a week later.

I purchased something from Currys/PC World last Monday (I was given some vouchers) and was surprised that they didn't push any of the extras when I stated quite early on that I just wanted the item and nothing else. However that was the good part of the experience - their point of sales software/hardware is crap. One machine crashed as my details were entered. The sales assistant and I moved to a second terminal where the terminal refused to boot correctly. On the third terminal my details were entered and then the question was raised about verifying the £50 vouchers. Apparently, previously the staff had to phone to verified voucher serial numbers for any voucher above £20 but evidently something has changed and staff can only do this via email now. So twenty minutes later, after a couple of phone calls by the 3 senior staff members now serving me they admitted that their verification system was unusable. They then took the vouchers on 'trust'. I suspect this is indicative of an organisation about to fail.

[Max Demian]

Won't gain much space as I have indicated.