Great price for this 1TB SSD, the lowest ever posted. Vat is removed at checkout to bring the final price down.
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Either makes sense to me.
Why so many downvotes? Lighten up, people
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Unfortunately, I think the deal has finished. The price is showing as 418.28 euros now.
I wonder if another Amazon will have a similar deal soon, after France and then Germany?
Now back down slightly to 412.00 euros, including 19% VAT. I think when the full discount was on, the price in euros must have been around 353.42, including VAT.
Perhaps also including the price before the VAT is removed would be handy when posting these discounts where the full discount is only realised at the checkout. That would make it quicker & easier to know if the price is still good, rather than needing to go through the checkout process to know whether you're still getting the great price.
I just upgraded to gtx 980 ti and bought 4k monitor, is there is any noticeable difference while gaming on this ssd compare to normal 7200 HHD(FPS improvement or anything else?)?
Loading maps/levels will be 20x faster on ANY ssd verses a 7200RPM hard drive. FPS won't be affected.
Ah, I wish that were the case, but in practise loading times are certainly not 20x faster.
Will be faster though for sure…
I was exaggerating to highlight the advantage of an ssd. Prob not 20x but significantly faster.
It's been so long since I used a 7200 drive that I've forgotten how slow they are in comparison. :)
@Skramit:
Depending on the game, it may be that or more. Battlefield 4, Carmageddon both went from upto a minute to a few seconds. It's a massive difference.
Just the windows load time and general use improvement is worth it, once you go SSD you'll never go back
It can improve your minimum FPS. Loading resources into your graphics card memory or your PC's memory can be bottlenecked by your HDD.
As others have mentioned though, it's definitely worth the upgrade for other reasons as well.
Im running the OS with SSD but all the games and most of the apps running at the normal HDD so thats why i was wondering if there will be any improvement.
When you have a setup like that then there won't be much improvement. Certain games can benefit greatly from the SSD if there's like 10,000+ files in their game folder but if the game is just in a couple archive files then it doesn't improve much at all.
wondering if anybody actually orders via Amazon Germany? If so how long did it take for your items to get to u.
I've just bought one from Msy for $599 so the difference is pretty significant buying it overseas. Several months ago I purchased 2 from Msy at almost $680 a piece. I need to get another 2 and hoping this deal a viable option.
Anywhere between 1-3 weeks (with the cheapest shipping option selected) from the feedback I've received for past amazon germany/france posts.
I know it's different, but I got my 256GB Pro from the last Amazon France deal on the 25th of April, and it was estimated to land on 11th of May, and it actually arrived at 8:30AM this morning, the 4th - so it was definitely very fast.
Apart from price, is there a reason not to use an SSD as your only drive?
A lot of people do the os and key apps on an SSD and then have a big mechanical drive, but when SSDs are 1TB in size, I wouldn't see the point in the extra mechanical drive. Is price the only factor causing people to go dual drives?
Yup, I'd say that applies to a large majority of people including myself. Hard drives aren't usually a priority especially for gamers, considering you can just get a 250gb ssd to chuck on the OS and some games and allocating the additional $250 on a better GPU or something.
Apparently I need to remove some games from my 1.5tb Steam folder then! :P
No way you could fit even half of my steam folder on a 250gb SSD. One of my 250gb ssd is half full just from having BF3, BF4 and BF4 CTE installed on it =/
In my PC I have 2 250gb SSD (one for boot, one for games) and a 4TB SSHD for games.
There isn't much load time difference between an SSD and a fast hard drive when you aren't using the hard drive as your boot drive.
IMO, better to have 1x 500 GB SSD and 2x 2 TB HDD for bulk data, rather than spending the same amount on 1x 1 TB SSD.
The biggest advantage of the HDD setup is you have additional drives and space for backups.
I would never trust my data on a single drive, SSD or not. Catastrophic controller and NAND failure is not unheard of (and unexpected early failure of some SSDs might actually be more common than that of HDDs), and backups also protect against things like ransomware.
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