Best price for Intel G2 80gb SSD - Christmas

[COPOHawk]

OK...I am a last minute shopper/slacker...now that is out of the way.

Where is the best deal/in stock for the Intel drives right now? I did a Google search...but don't like trusting unknown vendors.

 

[COPOHawk]

Hmm...no opinions? I am not lazy...I found a number of options.

Let me throw out a few and see if I am missing the best price as of today...

Zipzoomfly: http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=10010790&prodlist=celebros

The price has gone up...kind of Newegg-like seasonal gouging...


Intelserverstore: http://www.intelserverstore.com/Pro...neItemId=a6a5b255-973c-445e-8d2a-ada0a0a23011

Any one buy from these guys before?


Axiontech.com: http://www.axiontech.com/prdt.php?item=87982


So is $240 plus shipping the best you guys see too? I am fine with the OEM drive BTW....

 

[Engineer]

You could get it cheaper after Bing cash back (currently 10&#37😉 from eBay from reputable dealers such as zzfshopper (ZipZoomFly eBay store):

http://cgi.ebay.com/INTEL-SSDSA2MH0...C_Drives_Storage_Internal?hash=item2c52221d2b

$265.20 - $26.52 with FREE shipping. The Bing cash back via PayPal is instant.

It was as low as $220 this morning but those have either raised or have sold.

Edit: Platnium Micro's eBay store has it for $254.95 - $25.50 cashback = 229.45 shipped.

http://cgi.ebay.com/INTEL-X25-M-SSD...C_Drives_Storage_Internal?hash=item48389a8f8c

 

[Blain]

I did a Google search...but don't like trusting unknown vendors.

Weed the bad ones out here

 

[Emulex]

stock is really nasty right now. really bad. but the non-retail and retail come in and out independently it seems. keep an eye on both.

 

[COPOHawk]

Thanks for the responses.

I have to agree that prices have gone up this week due to Christmas...and I would expect them to drop a bit after the weekend.

A late Christmas present it is 😉

Thanks!

 

[sxr7171]

stock is really nasty right now. really bad. but the non-retail and retail come in and out independently it seems. keep an eye on both.

It's been terrible for 2 months now. If you see one at a reasonable price just buy it. Potentially saving $10-15 isn't worth it.

 

[sxr7171]

Thanks for the responses.

I have to agree that prices have gone up this week due to Christmas...and I would expect them to drop a bit after the weekend.

A late Christmas present it is 😉

Thanks!

$239 in your 3rd link is the one you should jump on. Can't really find it better - its in stock at least.

 

[ScorcherDarkly]

~$250 shipped is a pretty good price. If you can find that I'd take it. The ABSOLUTE BEST deal I've seen on one was during Newegg's Black Friday sale. Got one for $215 - $21.50 (10% bing cash back) and free shipping, total $193.50. Good luck finding that again though, lol.

 

[bradley]

The Intel's were at the lowest price around Black Friday and have since gone up in price. The X25-M 80GB was at $193 AR + cashback and the 160GB was at $375AR + cashback. Meanwhile the OCZ Vertex and Agility were relatively high during Black Friday and have dropped tremendously AR in the last two weeks.

 

[Zap]

The Intel's were at the lowest price around Black Friday and have since gone up in price. The X25-M 80GB was at $193 AR + cashback

Yeah, almost got one from Newegg for that price. When I checked, the OEM was already sold out but retail was in stock. Went to do Bing and came back, and it was sold out. 🙁

 

[jjmIII]

Intel drives have really slow write times (70mb/s)....my next ssd will be an Indilix controller in 120-128gb.

 

[Seven]

Intel drives have really slow write times (70mb/s)....my next ssd will be an Indilix controller in 120-128gb.

Who cares about write times, its all about access time, IMO.

And OCZ drives have lots of issues compared to Intel.

 

[ashishmishra]

Who cares about write times, its all about access time, IMO.

And OCZ drives have lots of issues compared to Intel.

I haven't heard about many issues with the OCZ drives and was looking to get one in the near future. Care to elaborate?

 

[Seven]

I haven't heard about many issues with the OCZ drives and was looking to get one in the near future. Care to elaborate?

Well, if you go to OCZ forum, you'll see lots of threads about all kinds of issues, but only a few at Intel SSD forum, IMO.

 

[MJinZ]

I'd consider the retail version if you intend to put it in a 3.5" slot. You'll end up spending more for a 2.5" to 3.5" adapter later.

 

[Engineer]

I'd consider the retail version if you intend to put it in a 3.5" slot. You'll end up spending more for a 2.5" to 3.5" adapter later.

Lay it in the bottom of the case. Tape it even.

Do what I did...took an old floppy drive apart, fastened the SSD to the case and mounted it in a bay! 😛

 

[Zap]

Intel drives have really slow write times (70mb/s)....my next ssd will be an Indilix controller in 120-128gb.

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3631&p=22
"the disk operations that feel the slowest are the random small file reads and writes"

How well does that Indilinx controller work with the random stuff, eh? :hmm:

The Indilinx controller drives have higher sequential writes. The Intel totally stomps it (and every other drive, HDD or SSD) in the possibly more important random writes. In Anand's testing, the Intel G2 drive was the best MLC SSD for random writes as well as reads. Basically it is faster all around than the Indilinx drives in the more important random stuff.

The G2 is good.

The Indilinx drives do lose performance here. They drop from roughly 13MB/s down to 7MB/s. We're still talking ~5x the speed of a VelociRaptor, so there's no cause for alarm. But it's clear that even Indilinx's SLC drive can't match Intel's random write performance. And from what I hear, Intel's performance is only going to get better.

This is what the X25-M price premium gets you.

So, basically the Intel G2 drive claims 70MB/s and in the real world gets around 35MB/s. The Indilinx drives claims 200MB/s and in the real world gets around 7MB/s. BTW, when I say "real world" I mean a used drive doing normal desktop tasks that would do a lot of random reads/writes.

 

[jjmIII]

Thanks Zap!