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Lexar Professional NM700 M.2 2280 PCIe NVMe 1TB SSD, Gaming, Up To 3500MB/s (LNM700-1TRB) £77.34 at checkout

Good upgrade for anyone with a newer laptop that came with a smaller capacity M.2 drive. Check youtube before buying to check how easy any upgrade is going to be.

If you aren't going to do a fresh install of your OS then you'll also need cloning software and a cheap way of connection an M.2 drive to a USB connector such as

Edit> Wow like the way the link automatically converted to the graphical link - will have to investigate that feature :)
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I get most of these for hotukdeals and Amazons own Todays Deals link and filtering for computer stuff. If I don't actually buy them myself I go as far as buy now on Amazons checkout to check the price with import duty (IRL VAT) and that they deliver to Ireland. Prices are I use are always in pounds so you'll have to do your own conversion to euros.

Crucial MX500 1 TB SSD CT1000MX500SSD1-Up to 560 MB/s (3D NAND, SATA, 2.5 Inch, Internal SSD), Black £80.37

- bought two of these so far for upgrades. Check this link on Crucials site for free cloning software and instructions.

Corsair Carbide Series 275R Tempered Glass Mid-Tower ATX Gaming Case - Black £33.32

- have this on order will update with when it arrives - as with most new cases PSU is not included.

Some feedback on the site> The mechanism for creating links from the menu is a bit lacking. Just creating URL tags either side of the highlighted text doesn't really cut it in this day and age. Its easy to rework the url to connect the URL to the text but it should be easier.
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Cheapish HDD enclosure use code UGREEN904 to get the reduced price. If code doesn't work sorry your too late they are all for a limited time which could be minutes or days you never know.

UGREEN 2.5 inch USB C Hard Drive Enclosure with Built-in Type C Cable £9.22

- Handy to use when upgrading to an SSD and to put your old HDD in (2.5inch) NOTE: its a type C connector.
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The responses may be few, but I'm eyeballing these...
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No idea if this is a bargain I'm just going on price, might be OK to make a cheap budget PC or maybe better than that - if you know then say so :!:

Gigabyte A520M DS3H mATX Motherboard for AMD AM4 CPUs £33.83

After a bit of investigation seems thats not a bad deal but to make use of the onboard graphics you need the version of the Rysen chip with built in graphics. Supported CPU's listed here check for ones with GPU support.
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Just bought this SATA to USB 3 adapter hopefully faster than the USB 2 ones I have

UGREEN SATA to USB 3.0 Adapter Hard Drive Cable External Disk Reader £6.14 with the voucher code UGREEN61
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Tell you what is a bargain - cost me zero quid - Lenovo support. My laptop is out of warranty but still Haris somewhere in central Europe spent more than 4.5 hours with me the other day fixing BIOS and serious graphics driver issues, and being a charming lad the whole while. For nothing!! I could not believe the amazing service
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^^^ Way back when..

I worked in Gateway tech support, I supported a few Windows 3.1 users who called in. Well out of hardware replacement warranty.

But yeah. sounds good. Ironically these days, some main stream computer manufacturers are known for trying their hand at making in warranty computer faults, your fault. Lenovo is good though. IBM regret spinning off their laptop division to them.
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Crucial P2 CT1000P2SSD8 1 TB Internal SSD, Up to 2400 MB/s (3D NAND, NVMe, PCIe, M.2) £61.49

Note the speed on this one if you want faster then you'll need to pay more.
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Kingston DataTraveler 70 - DT70/32GB USB-C Flash Drive Black £2.79

I wouldn't normally post such a small capacity stick but they are ideal for installing an OS (like Windows 10 or Linux) where you don't need anything bigger than 8GB - why delete everything on a larger capacity drive just to do an installation when you can get a suitable flash drive for around €3.50
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Samsung 980 PRO 250 GB PCIe 4.0 M.2 £51.97

Fast if you have support for it with a claimed Read speed of 6400 Megabytes Per Second
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£69.99 price on page when posted.
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Asus Prime A320M-A Micro ATX Socket AM4 Motherboard - Black Amazon Price £25

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