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Do any of you guys remember the price of the 250GB SSD hard drives posted during Black Friday? I'm shopping for one and looking for what's a good deal on them. Doesn't necessarily have to be 250gb but it'd be nice, 120GB will work as well.
It really depends on the brand. I've seen some drop to like $70 while samsung 840 EVO was around $110
Do any of you guys remember the price of the 250GB SSD hard drives posted during Black Friday? I'm shopping for one and looking for what's a good deal on them. Doesn't necessarily have to be 250gb but it'd be nice, 120GB will work as well.
I see the 120gb models are much more inexpensive at ~$60. I think that's what the Kingston and Crucial 250gb were going for. I'm in need of a hdd for my laptop and thinking that I can get away with 120gb and use an esata adapter for a 500gb external drive (non-ssd ).
Are Kingston, Crucial, Intel reliably ssd brands?
Newegg has a 240GB Crucial for $89.99 and $1.99 shipping. This is an M500 which I believe gets good reviews for longevity.
Intel and Samsung are the best. Crucial is a close second. Kingston has experience numerous issues with their SSDs. I had a problem with using them in a NAS solution due to how they confirm writes.
The 240GB Crucial M500 went down to ~$73 I believe. I bought one shortly after for $80 to replace my desktop hard drive. I had the 120GB model in my netbook for seven months and it's been rock solid, and the increase in the desktop's performance after installing the SSD was quite impressive. But you don't have to take my word for it. Plenty of reviews out there.
The Intels should be reliable as well, though usually they cost a bit more. The Kingston drives seem to be the luck of the draw based on reviews; some drives seem to perform better than others since the company sources flash memory from more than one supplier.
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The 240GB Crucial M500 went down to ~$73 I believe. I bought one shortly after for $80 to replace my desktop hard drive. I had the 120GB model in my netbook for seven months and it's been rock solid, and the increase in the desktop's performance after installing the SSD was quite impressive. But you don't have to take my word for it. Plenty of reviews out there.
The Intels should be reliable as well, though usually they cost a bit more. The Kingston drives seem to be the luck of the draw based on reviews; some drives seem to perform better than others since the company sources flash memory from more than one supplier.
The prices on most SSDs right now are being the standard. BF was the day of a better deal for an SSD. I would advise not to shop for SSDs right now until after New Years. This happend last year as well, when usually alot of stores try to push out the last of their inventory, mainly because the new stuff comes in around March...
I mean if u find a Crucial MX100 256GB for 85 bucks, thats a deal. I would even consider OCZ for an SSD, eapecially since they are now own by Toshiba and their quality has gone up again.
But ask yourself, will you see a diference between a mx100 and a 840 pro? Real life situations, probably not. Thats because most benchmarks measure performance differently than just the ordinary timing windows boot up.
I load up BF4 pretty quickly with my OCZ Vector 150 and Windows starts up in like 8 seconds or so and shuts down in about the same time as well.