Kingston SSDNow V200 SATAIII, 256GB: $139.99

[SandEagle]

http://www.buy.com/prod/kingston-ssd...226050640.html

$159.99 - $20.00 MIR = $139.99
free shipping

 

[sunilx]

wow!

 

[mazeroth]

wow!

I said the same thing when I saw the title!

 

[Ricochet]

Nice deal. Even with tax.

 

[RPD]

I need to stop visiting this forum... Is there some new drive coming out or just a glut of inventory? /firstworldproblems

 

[SandEagle]

Nice deal. Even with tax.

tax only in following states:
http://www.buy.com/ct/help.aspx?loc=67244

California
Connecticut
Illinois
Massachusetts
Tennessee
New York
Washington

 

[VirtualLarry]

V200 isn't recommended for laptops due to the (relatively) high power consumption.

Edit:
Also, performance is closer to SATA2 SSDs.

 

[Zap]

Also, performance is closer to SATA2 SSDs.

True. These drives had some major performance issues on earlier firmware. Supposedly 256GB only comes with latest firmware. They are SATA 6G pretty much in name only. Writes have super low IOPS (4000) compared to any other current drive.

 

[Xcobra]

shipping kills most of these deals for me...amazing price though

 

[MontyAC]

Might as well pay a little and get the Kingston HyperX 3K that's on sale on Newegg.