Crucial C300 256GB now at $2.56 per GB. Pull trigger?

[RaistlinZ]

It's getting harder and harder to not pull the trigger on one of these. It seems like prices have been dropping rapidly over the past two weeks. The 256GB C300 is now only $679.99 at the Egg, which is a mere $2.65/GB for arguably the top SSD out there.

At this price it is even cheaper per GB than the 80GB Intel drive at $220.00. And you get the advantage of SATA III support. Decisions, decisions. 😀

 

[lsv]

I'm in the same boat with a single 80gig Intel. I need at least another 80gigs for audio samples and project files. Turns out accessing 100k sized files over and over from an HD is slow on magnetic storage 😀

 

[fleshconsumed]

nm

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

I wouldn't drop the cash for that drive. I'm impressed with this OCZ Vertex 100g LE but this is nothing new as 3-4yrs ago, I dropped a 15k SCSI 300g drive in my machine and the experience was the same if not better. The big benefit I see coming from a Vraptor is the absence of the 10k drive whir.

Q 3 or 4, Intel will release their new SSD drives and by then, we'll see something worth the wait.

Personally, I am going to get another 100g LE just so I have the option to RAID-0 them in the future; seeing they only made 5000 of these SSD drives.

 

[GlacierFreeze]

Might as well RAID-0 it when you get it. No point in putting off the extra speed.

 

[The Sauce]

I do not think that big SSDs are a value buy at this point. Better to buy a small SSD and a large HDD for additional storage. Spend $700+ now on an SSD and you will surely be kicking yourself in a year when they are sub-$200...and faster.