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Spreadie
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Crucial Refurbished SSDs£46 delivered for 64GB  Perfect to breathe life into a laptop [edit] 30 day warranty. Still worth it IMHO, I have a two year old Crucial SSD that hasn't missed a beat.
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| Thu Aug 25, 2011 2:35 pm |
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JJW009
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I wonder what "refurbished" means? Given the limited write cycles, if they've already been used how do you know they aren't going to start failing in 31 days..?
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| Thu Aug 25, 2011 4:51 pm |
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Spreadie
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That model was released, what, less than a year ago? More often than not, refurbished means customer returns. Crucial stick on a test bench, run a few scripts and then give it a clean bill of health (or not). I seriously doubt it's going to fail any time soon. I'll let you know in a month or so. 
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hifidelity2
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Just ordered one 64 for my oldish laptop as that only has a 60G ish HDD - interested to see what (if any) preformance speed I get
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Spreadie
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My 64GB drive arrived on Saturday morning.
Fitted it to a laptop that used to take around a minute to boot to desktop. It now takes about 30 seconds, and is much more responsive. Of course, a three year old laptop won't benefit from the full speed of the drive, but it still made a huge difference.
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| Mon Aug 29, 2011 3:04 pm |
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hifidelity2
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My laptop is about the same age - will be interesting to see what happens - now just need to find some cloaning s/w - I used to have a copy of Aconis TrueImage but think I gave it to my mum when I moved from XP to W7 and she was still on XP I wonder if there is a free one out there
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| Tue Aug 30, 2011 8:44 am |
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saspro
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hifidelity2
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hifidelity2
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Arrived yesterday - will fit over weekend unless SWMBO has other plans
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| Fri Sep 02, 2011 11:57 am |
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hifidelity2
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Well (see tails of fail) - tried to fit it and after a long argument with a screw managed to open up the HDD case and oops  its an IDE and not a sata so thats bugg3red So I could (its the 64G) put it inot my main PC as a boot drive but its all set up with RAID etc so it wont be a simple image and install but a complete W7 re-install NOt sure how much appitite I ahve for that - will need to thinkabout it Could of course always put it into an enclosure and use it as a massive USB stick!
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| Mon Sep 05, 2011 11:07 am |
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JohnSheridan
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How much did it cost you?
I'm always buying SSD's for our new work PC's (mini-ITX jobs) so might be interested in buying it off you.
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hifidelity2
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let me dig out the invoice and I will PM you
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| Tue Sep 06, 2011 1:01 pm |
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