[Dead] sandisk 256gb ssd 139.99 buy.com

[philipma1957]

http://www.buy.com/sr/searchresults....=sandisk+256gb


try this link


http://www.buy.com/prod/sandisk-256g...240501577.html

it is 139.99 which is a good price. if you link from discover card 5% off from discover card makes it 133 net.

if you get the rakuten points from buy.com 1 % to spend on the buy.com site at a later date. so under 132 shipped. remember buy.com has a more complex ordering system so be careful when you push your order buttons.

Some times the shipping default is ups 3day not ups ground and 5 bucks can get tagged on so look for it. I will check if amazon has this.

[daveybrat]

Hot deal!

[sequoia464]

Any idea what controller this drive has?

[Zap]

Originally Posted by sequoia464

Any idea what controller this drive has?

No, but it obviously isn't that great based on the published IOPS numbers. While a top notch drive like the Samsung 840 Pro is advertised with 90K IOPS writes, this one is a mere 2.2K. FWIW even the Crucial V4 (not M4, which is up to 50K) has a 4K published IOPS for writes.

[daveybrat]

I've heard over at slickdeals that this drive uses a Marvell controller, not a sandforce.

[Hulk]

Just so any prospective buyers thinking it's the Extreme, it looks like the Extreme but it is not.

[Zap]

Originally Posted by daveybrat

I've heard over at slickdeals that this drive uses a Marvell controller, not a sandforce.

The SanDisk Ultra Plus uses a cut down Marvell controller with 4 channels versus the usual 8. Reads are fine, but writes suffer a bit.

I don't know what controller this one uses but it isn't the same one because AFAIK Sandisk specifies the Ultra Plus to have something like 39K IOPS for writes, versus 2.2K.

[Childs]

The Sandisk Extreme is the fast version. This is the plain Jane version.

[Zap]

Originally Posted by Childs

The Sandisk Extreme is the fast version. This is the slow version.

Fixed.

There are a number of these SSDs out there these days that have similar names/models as more well-known units, but which are a lot inferior. For instance Kingston V+200 is yet another cheap Sandforce 2281 based drive, but the V200 is a horrid Jmicron based drive. Also, the Crucial V4 is a terrible performer but Crucial M4 is great.

[Childs]

Originally Posted by Zap

Fixed.

There are a number of these SSDs out there these days that have similar names/models as more well-known units, but which are a lot inferior. For instance Kingston V+200 is yet another cheap Sandforce 2281 based drive, but the V200 is a horrid Jmicron based drive. Also, the Crucial V4 is a terrible performer but Crucial M4 is great.

hahaha I didnt want to say slow because with SSDs, slow is relative, especially considering the price. But the Extreme is faster, so its OK to call it fast.

[AkumaX]

Considering how terrible the IOPS are for Random Write (2200 IOPS), how will it perform in real world testing? Still better than a spinning HDD, right?

[scrubman]

both links are saying $189 now - looks to be DEAD