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The prices continue to fall: Crucial M4 256GB is $179.99 on Amazon today. edit: Back up to Argyle fucked around with this message at 18:54 on Jun 7, 2012 |
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Jun 6, 2012 18:31
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Argyle posted:The prices continue to fall: Crucial M4 256GB is $179.99 on Amazon today. Price match at Staples then take $25 off http://slickdeals.net/f/4705556-SSD-Crucial-M4-256GB-for-164-99-at-staples-PM-to-Amazon
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Jun 6, 2012 18:43
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With these prices it's so tempting to pick up a 256 and ditch my
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Jun 6, 2012 18:56
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DarkJC posted:With these prices it's so tempting to pick up a 256 and ditch my Very tempting. I'm kicking myself, since I JUST bought an M4 128GB at $109 for my laptop. If the price holds out til payday, I'm all over this 256 for my desktop.
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Jun 6, 2012 19:07
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Argyle posted:The prices continue to fall: Crucial M4 256GB is $179.99 on Amazon today. Nevermind. They won't ship it.
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Jun 6, 2012 19:32
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Argyle posted:The prices continue to fall: Crucial M4 256GB is $179.99 on Amazon today. That's a god drat steal. Anyone that doesn't have a SSD yet should spring for that drive.
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Jun 6, 2012 19:36
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Yeah, I saw that in the SSD deal thread in coupons and had to pick up a couple. Looks like Amazon has them limited to one per customer, but Newegg has it for the same price with the $20 off promo code 24HRSALE606D.
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Jun 6, 2012 20:58
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I just bought that SSD for $40 more ($219) from Newegg yesterday! I emailed them to see if they would refund me the price difference. If not, I guess I'll have to RMA it, eat the fee, and then buy it again.
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Jun 7, 2012 00:03
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Monopthalmus posted:I just bought that SSD for $40 more ($219) from Newegg yesterday! I emailed them to see if they would refund me the price difference. If not, I guess I'll have to RMA it, eat the fee, and then buy it again.
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Jun 7, 2012 00:10
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grumperfish posted:Talk to them on the support chat. I did that when the 830 price dropped $20 over Memorial Day weekend and they gave me an immediate refund for the difference. They just answered my email and are willing to credit me the $20 for the price drop, but not the $20 for the coupon code. Meh. Better than nothing I guess and more than I would get if I did an RMA. Kinda bummed, though.
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Jun 7, 2012 00:16
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Argyle posted:The prices continue to fall: Crucial M4 256GB is $179.99 on Amazon today. How long until these 256GB drives are at or below $100? Really want an SSD but can't justify spending more than that for nonessentials right now.
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Jun 7, 2012 14:10
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In my uninformed opinion you're looking at 12-18 months, if you're lucky.
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Jun 7, 2012 14:50
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On the other hand, $100 will buy you a decent 128GB drive, which is sufficient for most people to use as a main drive with another HDD serving as mass-storage. Unless you're on a laptop, anyhow.
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Jun 7, 2012 15:00
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Xbit did a review of the OCZ Petrol that was released ages ago but was completely impossible to find information on. Apparently OCZ have been making it difficult for reviewers to get samples of it. Also, it had significant changes in SMART data through their testing. Has OCZ legitimately managed to reach a new low?
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Jun 7, 2012 17:11
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Anyone recommend where I can buy an SSD from in Australia? Besides eBay that is. And if you answer with Amazon, unless something has changed and they are actually shipping more than a limited subset of items with horrific postage, please feel free to punch yourself in the genitals repeatedly.
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Jun 8, 2012 00:12
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Allstone posted:Xbit did a review of the OCZ Petrol that was released ages ago but was completely impossible to find information on. Apparently OCZ have been making it difficult for reviewers to get samples of it. Also, it had significant changes in SMART data through their testing. Has OCZ legitimately managed to reach a new low?
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Jun 8, 2012 00:16
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General_Failure posted:Anyone recommend where I can buy an SSD from in Australia? Besides eBay that is. And if you answer with Amazon, unless something has changed and they are actually shipping more than a limited subset of items with horrific postage, please feel free to punch yourself in the genitals repeatedly. Use http://staticice.com.au/ to find the cheapest thing in your area. MSY have the 240GB Sandisk Extreme frives for $248, which is about as good as you're going to get in Australia
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Jun 8, 2012 00:45
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General_Failure posted:Anyone recommend where I can buy an SSD from in Australia? Besides eBay that is. And if you answer with Amazon, unless something has changed and they are actually shipping more than a limited subset of items with horrific postage, please feel free to punch yourself in the genitals repeatedly.
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Jun 8, 2012 01:24
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Thanks for the advice. So it looks like either that, eBay or trying to find a store overseas that doesn't thoroughly rape foreigners on postage. Amazon aren't exactly all that hot on Australia. At best apparently they were willing to ship to shops in a book store chain (Angus and Robertson?) using them as a go between and pick up point, and postage was really jacked up. I don't want to be bent over on extra fees, don't know if they would actually ship what I wanted, and the bookstore? well none locally so yes. gently caress Amazon indeed.
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Jun 8, 2012 01:40
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General_Failure posted:Anyone recommend where I can buy an SSD from in Australia? Besides eBay that is. And if you answer with Amazon, unless something has changed and they are actually shipping more than a limited subset of items with horrific postage, please feel free to punch yourself in the genitals repeatedly. PC Case Gear all the way. Great service, they don't gently caress you around with stock levels
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Jun 8, 2012 02:25
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Mr Chips posted:Use http://staticice.com.au/ to find the cheapest thing in your area. I bought this from MSY for a laptop & its been really reliable. Good price too
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Jun 8, 2012 02:32
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You can buy direct from Crucial as well. UPS Express International Shipping is $25, so a 256GB Crucial M4 comes to $256.99USD shipped, compared to $335 + shipping from PCCaseGear.
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Jun 8, 2012 02:42
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Alereon posted:My roommate works at a computer store that ordered a bunch of smaller OCZ Petrol drives to stock as a dirt cheap SSD option in addition to the good drives they sell. She said that every single Petrol drive they sold was returned for some kind of defect or failure within the first 30 days, to the point where they just demanded the distributor take back all the drives and refund their money. Anecdotes are not evidence, but the Petrol series really does seem worse than usual for OCZ. Kind of reinforcing "gently caress OCZ" and not just "gently caress Sandforce"
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Jun 8, 2012 09:12
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What's the consensus on SanDisk? The 240GB is a $179 Gold Box deal today.
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Jun 8, 2012 18:45
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Argyle posted:What's the consensus on SanDisk? The 240GB is a $179 Gold Box deal today.
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Jun 8, 2012 20:47
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Evidently a lot has changed in SSD tech over the past two years. I ran a back-to-back crystal disk mark analysis of my system before and after replacing my SSD with a Crucial M4(for space upgrade reasons). The read and write times, other than 4k, are 2 - 4 times faster.
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Jun 8, 2012 20:56
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And I'm hoping the speeds stay the same for a while. Is anyone really hoping for faster speeds? We just want bigger sizes and lower prices.
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Jun 8, 2012 20:58
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I didn't see a huge difference between my new M4 and old Vertex. The M4 was definitely faster but not even 2x if I recall. Both are on SATA 3 ports though. 
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Jun 8, 2012 20:59
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Mu Zeta posted:And I'm hoping the speeds stay the same for a while. Is anyone really hoping for faster speeds? We just want bigger sizes and lower prices. You sound like my girlfriend.
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Jun 8, 2012 20:59
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Obviously nobody from Microsoft reads SHSC..
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Jun 8, 2012 21:58
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Welp, this can only end well 
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Jun 8, 2012 22:04
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Even with OCZ being less reliable, if they're fast enough and MS is getting them cheap enough, and they're used in a redundant manner (which of course they are), then they could easily be a good choice. On the other hand, even though I've never had a problem with my OCZ SSD's, I don't like to see them getting support.
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Jun 8, 2012 22:06
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They probably just put out a competitive bid on the supply of drives. I'd love to hear how this plays out, but we won't. OCZ is going to be running full blast shipping out drive replacements though.
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Jun 8, 2012 22:07
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Civil posted:They probably just put out a competitive bid on the supply of drives. I'd love to hear how this plays out, but we won't. OCZ is going to be running full blast shipping out drive replacements though. That's what I'm thinking. This might actually work out badly for OCZ. Time will tell. It's an interesting data point for SSD life, if nothing else, hopefully some information will get out.
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Jun 8, 2012 22:08
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Civil posted:They probably just put out a competitive bid on the supply of drives. I'd love to hear how this plays out, but we won't. OCZ is going to be running full blast shipping out drive replacements though. Plus you figure that Microsoft is already paying a full-time staff to manage the thing, so having to physically replace a few drives every so often probably isn't seen as a big issue. And if the bid is aggressive enough to cover the purchase of a few extra nodes so that over-all uptime isn't impacted, either, then Microsoft may end up simply not caring that the failure rate is probably gonna be higher than with LSI or Fusion-io.
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Jun 9, 2012 01:43
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There's also no guarantee what they sell a big client is the same as what consumers get. They might send their better product to clients who pay more and let consumers deal with worse QC and more RMAs.
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Jun 9, 2012 01:59
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 16TB Look at those stacked boards full of chips.
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Jun 9, 2012 02:35
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 Is this alright for a Crucial m4 512GB on SATA 2?
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Jun 9, 2012 06:07
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30 seconds on Google for this: Yes your numbers seem reasonable considering you're using SATA 2. Now that your purchase has been validated, enjoy your SSD.
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Jun 9, 2012 07:01
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HalloKitty posted:Kind of reinforcing "gently caress OCZ" and not just "gently caress Sandforce" Specifically, how bad is a non-OCZ Sandforce drive these days? I've used a Kingston V+200 in my laptop for two months now, and it's been pretty great.
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