Crucial M500 - 960GB for $470 shipped from Amazon

[Hulk]

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00...=ATVPDKIKX0DER

Update - now it's down to $439


I've had this in my cart for a while and I just noticed the price dropped $100. I don't know how long that price will last though.

 

[superxero044]

The 480 GB is 279 which is a decent deal as well I believe.

 

[CurrentlyPissed]

$440 + free shipping here. Seller is a store, has 200k feedback.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Crucial-M50...5335869999&campid=5335869999&afepn=5335869999

 

[TemjinGold]

Same at Tiger if you do v.me.

 

[superxero044]

The 960 is now 439 on Amazon.

Pulled the trigger.

No more spinning disk in my rig wahoo!

 

[Wedge1]

Thanks OP!!

 

[philipma1957]

it is a very nice ssd I have one in my mac mini since april works very well.

 

[NickelPlate]

Up to $513 now as of 11/30 11pm EST. Yesterday it was $429. Price seems to fluctuate all over the place. Why does Amazon do this?

 

[s44]

Ebay/Adorama has it for $440. Don't think I'm allowed to link to it though.

 

[Syran]

Back down to $439 again.

 

[SithSolo1]

B&H Photo has this for $435 atm, free shipping:
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/cont...=REG&A=details


Edit: Looks like Amazon is the same price.

 

[PliotronX]

This is awesome if you asked me two years ago when wed see terabyte ssds in the grasp of consumers I would have guessed 2018

 

[Hulk]

This is awesome if you asked me two years ago when wed see terabyte ssds in the grasp of consumers I would have guessed 2018

I just hope this is the new normal for this drive and we see another long awaited wave of SSD price drops.

 

[Awesomedude99]

Hulk. You been a member here since 1999? 15 years?!!!

 

[PliotronX]

Hulk. You been a member here since 1999? 15 years?!!!

Hell he might've been from back in 97 on the original BBS too. Back when Toms Hardware was sysop.tripod.com and I think feuding with AT

 

[Hulk]

Hulk. You been a member here since 1999? 15 years?!!!

Jeez, that really dates me. I was just married back then, no kids, with a Ford Probe GT. Loved that car almost as much as my A3. I was a member of the original board. I stumbled on one of Anand's CPU reviews way back and just loved his writing style, testing procedure, analysis, and passion that came through in his writing for the subject matter. And it's still there. It's just gotten better. He is one talented guy.

One tiny bit of trivia. Way, way back before the original release of the Athlon Anand did a CPU review and included in the charts an "unnamed CPU." I knew it was the Athlon and made a post calling it out. I remember it got a lot of attention on a few tech sites of the day as "Anandtech member "Hulk" identifies Athlon in Anandtech benchmarks" or something like that. I, or rather my screen name got 5 minutes of fame!

If this drive gets below $400 I'm going to pick one us and hammer the crap out of it for video work just to see how long it'll take for me to put a dent in the endurance rating of the cells.

 

[potzocalli]

Is there a noticeable difference when video editing when using SSDs? Is the bottleneck the CPU or the HDD/SSD?

 

[PliotronX]

Is there a noticeable difference when video editing when using SSDs? Is the bottleneck the CPU or the HDD/SSD?

HD can in some cases be the storage bottleneck, particularly if you're using h.264 GPU encoding. If you're wondering, yes it's worth it :thumbsup:

 

[jalaram]

Still over $500 in canada

 

[you2]

Is this specific ssd more reliable than a traditional harddisk ?