Amazon - prime - not the cheapest

50Twuncle

I was about to order a 1Tb Crucial SSD from Amazon @ £213.99 + £4.03 Delivery when I selected PRIME (tick box) - this raised the cheapest available SSD to £227.48 with free delivery - so you have to buy with care !!

pappa_golf

NO , the suplier that could offer prime delivery was charging more

why on earth would anyone need a 1t SSD drive , ?

agrinnall

50Twuncle wrote: »

...so you have to buy with care !!

Surely buying with care is standard practice for all MSE regulars? It's certainly not something that should be specific to Amazon Prime purchases.

[Deleted User]

pappa_golf wrote: »

NO , the suplier that could offer prime delivery was charging more

why on earth would anyone need a 1t SSD drive , ?

My 500gb SSD is pretty full, i'd like one please...

If you do want to save money on Amazon purchases like this, try getting a quote from https://flubit.com/

Not all Amazon suppliers offer prime - so that's where the price difference comes from

pappa_golf

ringo_24601 wrote: »

My 500gb SSD is pretty full, i'd like one please...

If you do want to save money on Amazon purchases like this, try getting a quote from https://flubit.com/

Not all Amazon suppliers offer prime - so that's where the price difference comes from

full of what ? 500g of quickly loading operating systems or execttable files?

50Twuncle

ringo_24601 wrote: »

My 500gb SSD is pretty full, i'd like one please...

If you do want to save money on Amazon purchases like this, try getting a quote from https://flubit.com/

Not all Amazon suppliers offer prime - so that's where the price difference comes from

Sorry flubit is an advert /spam generator !!

Nilrem

pappa_golf wrote: »

full of what ? 500g of quickly loading operating systems or execttable files?

Games at a guess.

I'm having to juggle what's on my 480gb SSD as games are now often in the 20-60gb range, so 500gb doesn't go far if you play a variety of games, or don't want to redownload them every few weeks. (I sometimes copy the relevant steam sub folders off to a cheap mechanical drive).
If you're playing games at the highest resolutions supported by modern graphics cards you can hit somewhere in the region of 80gb for a singe game after downloading things like optional higher resolution texture packages (and if you're playing some of the popular modifyable games you can end up with tens of gigs of things like modified/better quality textures and extra content).

Consider that videocards are now coming with 8gb of memory and that's pretty much just for the graphics and it gives you an idea of how big the art assets that have to be loaded from drives are now.

pappa_golf

I thought xboxes and the like were for playing games , and a PC was for work ?

Nilrem

pappa_golf wrote: »

I thought xboxes and the like were for playing games , and a PC was for work ?

I'm not sure if you're serious?:)

The PC has been one of the best (if not the best) machine for games since the Sinclair days.
It's got a far larger catalogue of games than any of the consoles, including vast numbers of "indie" games (and you can generally run games from 20 years ago on the PC if you know what you're doing*), you can modify many of the games to give extra content or improve their look, and it's got the best control system for many types of games.

With the likes of the Steam platform it's never been easier to buy and run games on the PC, and because of Steam (and the other download games platforms) you do tend to need more storage in the system for games, as you no longer run them off CD/DVD/BD, which means they'll need something like 5-60gb of drive space per game (my Steam account downloaded something like 30gb of patches and updates this morning).


*And there are a couple of companies who let you buy those old games already set up to run on your modern system if you don't have your old discs.

[Deleted User]

pappa_golf wrote: »

full of what ? 500g of quickly loading operating systems or execttable files?

Full of VMs and work stuff.. my laptop only has an SSD (Work laptop). I'd happily put stuff that doesn't need speed elsewhere if I had the option.

With a decent graphics card this would be an ace gaming machine (16gb of RAM, i7, 500gb SSD...) but sadly, 'tis but for work

flubit tends to save me 10-14% on the price of stuff from Amazon

agrinnall

ringo_24601 wrote: »

I'd happily put stuff that doesn't need speed elsewhere if I had the option.

If you don't need the speed then why can't you move those items to an external drive and free up that space on your existing SSD?