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Review: SK hynix Canvas SC300 (512GB)

by Tarinder Sandhu on 28 July 2015, 16:11

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Conclusion

The 512GB model of the SC300 drive is available for approximately £130 and offers a solid combination of good performance and value for money.

The question we pose to ourselves is why hasn't everyone moved over to SSDs for the main boot drive? Modern SSDs are relatively inexpensive, backed by decent warranties, and offer performance that makes a manifest difference to your user experience.

Any SSD is better than no SSD but spending more for a premium drive is often wasted money when the drive is presented in a 2.5in SATA form factor, and this is why it makes sense, for most people, to look at mainstream drives first and foremost.

Plying this mass-market furrow is SK hynix. The 512GB model of the SC300 drive is available for approximately £130 and offers a solid combination of good performance and value for money, all backed by a comprehensive warranty.

The Good
  
The Bad
Solid performance
Competitively priced
Good warranty terms
  
Limited encryption support



SK hynix Canvas SC300 (512GB)

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Posted by Kanoe - Tue 28 Jul 2015 16:24
Looks pretty good. Been wanting to get a SSD for my laptop but as it can only support 1 drive and didn't want to spend a lot on it I haven't up to now but this might change my mind.

Btw you could do with correcting your Hexus.where2buy link for Amazon, it currently doesn't work correctly.
Posted by Grove - Tue 28 Jul 2015 17:00
Well spotted Kanoe, link to where2buy doesn't take you directly to their product lists - but if you add a space between SK and Hynix in the search bar, that's a quick fix for now :)
Posted by Arulmani - Tue 28 Jul 2015 18:24
Nice one with a very good value for money !
Posted by Myss_tree - Tue 28 Jul 2015 19:11
Whenever i go on a computer without a SSD i wonder how the person who uses it puts up with the slowness. I could never go back to a standard HDD.
Posted by crossy - Wed 29 Jul 2015 10:21
Myss_tree
Whenever i go on a computer without a SSD i wonder how the person who uses it puts up with the slowness. I could never go back to a standard HDD.
It really depends on what they're using it for etc. Getting onto my “I hate Microsoft” horse for a minute, I find Ubuntu always boots faster than Windows (and by “boot” I mean “to a usable state”). And yes, I have seen folks who've streamlined their Windows experience to lightning quick.

Both machines I've got are mix of SSD and HDD. The main one - a laptop - has OS, apps and user data on SSD, with HDD (mainly RAID) for other storage. Desktop is a 50/50 mix of SSD and HDD - SSD for OS and apps, with HDD for user (one of those Hybrid SSHD drives) and for in-case backups.

What I've got to wonder is why manufacturers are still shipping HDD's in their systems. If £130 gets Joe Public a 512GB Hynix drive then surely the OEM's can get a better price. In which case, why not use them for all but the budget lines (where every £ is counted).

Back to the drives, these look very appealing, I'd be particularly interested when Hynix decide to look at the larger sizes (esp 1TB). Also interesting that Samsung don't seem to want to play in this particular pond. At this price I could afford to replace the RAID1 array that I use for my VM's - currently on 512GB WD Black laptop drives.

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