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SAMSUNG 830 512GB even lower on special

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We just saw the price of this drive go down this week. Now Newegg has it at $499 with a code.

If it was the kit for notebooks I would be getting it.
 
Yes, most of us know the Crucial is cheaper, but thank you for reminding us. There are people that prefer the 830s. I am one of them. There is such a thing as a matter of preference. As I said, if the special was for the notebook kit, I would have placed an order before posting here.
 
The 256gb 830's were just $190 in hot deals, if I were buying new ssd's today I'd get 2 of those and run them in RAID 0. The 512gb 830's are still too high, and as mentioned crucial just undercuts them by too much.
 
bryanW1995 said:
The 256gb 830's were just $190 in hot deals, if I were buying new ssd's today I'd get 2 of those and run them in RAID 0. The 512gb 830's are still too high, and as mentioned crucial just undercuts them by too much.
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I understand perfectly what you would do if it was you. But has it occurred to you that there are hardware limitations to do something like that? In my case, that 512GB would replace a 256GB 830 in a W520 internal bay. I do not know of any physical way to connect two drives into a single SATA connector and then squeeze them all into the single 9.5MM internal bay of the W520. Any ideas ?

512GBs in general are still too high for most pockets, and the 830s are at a premium over the Crucial, but as, also as it was mentioned before, there are people that prefer 830s even at this premium cost. And there are people that will get the Crucial for less money. It is a matter of preference in a free country.

Is this so hard to understand? Can we leave this point to rest ?
 
SATA ports are only for one device. You comment is confusing. I could easily replace my exisiting internal drive (T510) with the 512GB SSD. I would simply clone the exisiting drive to the new one by temporarily placing it in the Ultrabay. When done, I would replace the original drive in the internal bay.

When you say 512s are "too high" it is confusing. Do you ,mean too thick or too expensive?
 
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corkyg said:
SATA ports are only for one device. You comment is confusing. I could easily replace my exisiting internal drive (T510) with the 512GB SSD. I would simply clone the exisiting drive to the new one by temporarily placing it in the Ultrabay. When done, I would replace the original drive in the internal bay.

When you say 512s are "too high" it is confusing. Do you ,mean too thick or too expensive?
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Corkyg, I guess I should enclosed it in sarcasm brackets. The previous post was indicating that it would be much better to get 2 x 256GB and raid them instead of of 1 x 512GB. My point is that his "better" solution does not fit on a single SATA port / bay.

I am not asking for any tech know how. I am the OP that just commented on the 830 512GB sale.

So, thanks and I am leaving the discussion.
 
This whole message is just a opinion and my experiences. I am not downing any SSD for other. Thank you

These events happened in my mind or whatever when I got my SSD. I needed 512GB to put everything on it, OS, apps games, data everything. its a lot of space.

Sammy 830 700 dollars. Crucial M4 399.99 to the door step.
What warrants the 300 dollar price difference in these two 512GB SSDs

??????????? From my research I can say , Crucial in Toms Testing vs 830 , was the fastest to boot up 16.8 seconds. and sammy was 18.2 seconds.

Photoshop launches in about 2 seconds , and I boot up in 20 sec. I dont like the controller in the Sammy...I just dont trust Sammy with SSDs. They will be what OCZ was to RAM. These are just my opinions. I got F4's but . Both drives degrade in performance to like 20mbps even on crystal. So I have to defrag 3 times, then with another program and speed went up to 150mbps then it would degrade depending on reboots or what..... So I don't like Samsung guys for hard drives or SSDs. I got 2 and they both do this. They replaced also so total 3 drives i have tried,,,, same thing degrading performance.

Heck Im sata 2 and its blazing at 260mbps lol. My windows had a broken readyboot. Soo my boot up was 3 to 4 minutes, plus hard drive trashing when inside windows until after 15 minutes I could begin using it.. heeh ,, Now 20 seconds is boot time,,,,, and everything is instant ,, photoshop 2 sec, games instantly, good for my DAW as well.
 
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What does he mean by it then...? Glued the drive back together after smashing with a hammer?
 
Its $499.99 on Amazon as well. The sequential writes on this is far better than the Crucial M4. But $100 less is $100 less. Decisions decisions...
 
lehtv said:
What does he mean by it then...? Glued the drive back together after smashing with a hammer?
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😳 I was wrong. After readying back through some of tweakboy's posts, he just likes to defrag.
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I just like defragging so when I get my future SSD Im gonna defrag, I will not be able to use readyboost cuz you dont need it, its soo fast. BTW 830 gives WEI a 7.9 anyhow!
gg

Also I did say SSD needs no defragging, but I read up and actually it can become tiny bit fragmented...not even noticable.. my take on it
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