Intel X25-M 80GB SSD $198 AC BCB FS

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KIAman

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Ordered. The promocode covers tax. Got it for $217 after tax, shipping, bing. Awesome deal.
 
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Newegg has the retail version that comes with a 2.5" adapter for $225 shipped....sorry, I don't see the "big deal" here....
 
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KIAman

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Just for reference, Newegg order would have cost me $243 after tax and shipping. Saved me $26.
 
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Hacp said:
This is 198 shipped. It is 27 dollars cheaper.
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and the mounting bracket is only a few bucks.

I would say this is a very warm deal, but not scorching. a few weeks ago the retail drive could be had for $205, but its definately great to see prices coming down.

I knew they were going to drop before the end of the year and many tried to tell me otherwise:rolleyes:
 
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Infrnl said:
and the mounting bracket is only a few bucks.

I would say this is a very warm deal, but not scorching. a few weeks ago the retail drive could be had for $205, but its definately great to see prices coming down.

I knew they were going to drop before the end of the year and many tried to tell me otherwise:rolleyes:
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Well if you're going for a notebook drive, then you don't even need a mounting bracket.
 
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Hacp said:
Well if you're going for a notebook drive, then you don't even need a mounting bracket.
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I'm building my wife a new rig in a Lian Li PC-60FNW and it natively supports 2.5" drives. It has four 3.5" drive trays and a 3.5" drive connects from the sides while a 2.5" drive in the same spot uses bottom mounting holes. Got a 3.5" HDD and a 2.5" SSD taking up two of the trays. No adapter needed. :D
 
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KIAman

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Finished installing Windows 7 Pro 64 on the drive. Wow, what a change. Everything is noticeably faster. I even had some games which would slightly stutter at certain points which are now smooth as silk. I had always thought the stuttering was caused by my GPUs.

Amazing stuff. Now anybody know a way to optimize the drive for Windows 7 environment? Does the trim command get sent automatically by Windows 7? I already turned off indexing.

Also, my Windows Experience score went up from 5.9 to 7.3. My CPU is now my limiting score, lol.
 
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KIAman said:
Now anybody know a way to optimize the drive for Windows 7 environment? Does the trim command get sent automatically by Windows 7? I already turned off indexing.
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That's pretty much it.
 
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SimMike2

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I'm trying to resist this purchase. My thinking in prices will be better in the near future. But I'm also thinking I could put this in my desktop right now. And if prices get better, I can always upgrade my main computer with a bigger faster SSD, and put this in my notebook.
 
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brianmanahan

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LOL Mike, same here. I heard that Intel will be releasing 25nm in Q4 '10, with sizes of 80, 160 and 320GB, with estimated prices similar to drives half their size currently (so a 160GB would be $200-$300). That may just be speculation, but it's enough for me to try to hold off. Hard to do though.
 
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SimMike2

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You only go around once in life so you've got to grab for all the gusto. At least that is what the beer commercial said. I think I am going to wait for at least another week. They might start to push the older drives with discounts.
 
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