Samsung 830 SSD: Competition

Competition closed

[petur]

Don't bother if you're not in the UK <EOM>

The post is required, and must contain letters.

[Wensleydale Cheese]

Re: Don't bother if you're not in the UK <EOM>

¨The post is required, and must contain letters.¨

I assume you meant post code there. You could have saved yourself the trouble:

¨Terms and Conditions: Competition closes 30/09/2012. You must be 18 or over and resident in the UK to be eligible.¨

[Caff]

UK only

No love for your Irish neighbours?

[the-it-slayer]

What's the booby prize?

A duffle coat? =D

[Anonymous Coward]

Can you please stop doing competitions for things I've just bought... first the HTC One X, now this!!

Is that one of your researchers following me around?

[Anonymous Coward]

Not wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth, but....

Competition closes 30/09/2012...

Really?

[CraigW]

Re: Not wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth, but....

Does that mean we're stuck with those wanky samsung adverts on here until October?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Not wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth, but....

What adverts?

[Gordan]

Deliberate Trick Question?

The disk reviewed was, presumably, 256GB. But the options are Mb, Gb and Tb. Since the closest option is out by a factor of 8 (bits vs bytes), where's the "other" option? (I'm not going to argue the size of the byte also being architecture dependant this time, that would probably be a bit too facetious. ;) )

[batfastad]

Re: Deliberate Trick Question?

Nice one! It really hacks me off the way people seem incapable of getting that right. Especially on a tech website.

[Cholo]

Tb

If the drive is 256GB, which answer is closer, 256Gb or 256Tb?

[Steve Knox]

Re: Tb

Gb is still closer by far (1/8 as opposed to 1 000/8 [or 1 024/8 depending on the choice of base unit]).

I'm not from the UK, but I'd recommend y'all wait till they review the one with the 520PB/s sequential read speed.

[The Envoy]

Background image?

Are the three people in the background pic actors in some prime time "comedy" coming our way sooner rather than later.

[Ketlan]

Who the hell?

'Are the three people in the background pic actors in some prime time "comedy" coming our way sooner rather than later.'

I was wondering who they were, too. Maybe they're El Reg editors?

[Sir Runcible Spoon]

Re: Who the hell?

The one with the beard could pass for Lester (Tree-Hugging hippy gone to seed ) :P

[Anonymous Coward]

I see what Samsung did there....

SSD830 240GB?

Could they be more deliberately confusing?

[Richard Lloyd]

By the time this is won, SATA 4 will be out

Can't believe that the closing date for this compy is 30th September - over 3 months away! By then, a new Samsung model will be out, this 830 model will be half the price it is now and finally someone will draft a spec for SATA 4 (we can hope), making all current SSDs obsolete :-)

Still, I entered it anyway - can't have enough SSDs in your drive bays if you ask me. Next time, set a closing date in terms of weeks and not months, especially for rapidly changing tech.

[something]

You are an international site...

... so post the damn thing outside UK!