SAMSUNG 830 Series 128GB at the egg $89.99

[john3850]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc..._-20147163-L0D

SAMSUNG 830 Series MZ-7PC128B/WW 2.5" 128GB
$89.99 with promo code EMCNBJN47

 

[GTFan]

Damn - I paid $140 for this SSD on another AT egg deal around 4 months ago, prices are falling like a rock.

 

[shelaby]

got this a earlier this week for 90$, dont know why I waited so long, the difference in booting up windows/programs is amazing

 

[whistler4ever]

just got one couple days ago, cant wait to try it out!! my first SSD!!!

 

[MontyAC]

Seems the 830 is always on sale these days. Must be a newer version coming out soon.

 

[jaydee]

This should be considered the new normal. Anyone who pays more than $90 for a 120/128GB consumer SSD isn't patient or isn't looking hard enough.

 

[Herr Kutz]

Would buy if my laptop used SATA instead of IDE. =(

 

[Herr Kutz]

Well as it turns out my laptop does use SATA drives. Is it worth putting in one of these babies if my laptop only has SATA 1.5gb/s, core duo (not 2) processor, and 2 geebees of ram? I think my current drive is a blistering 5400rpm. Also, would coming close to filling up the drive slow it down too much even considering the limited speed I could expect with the SATA 1.5gb/s interface? I don't plan on purchasing a new laptop until at least haswell is released.

Edit: Actually, I think I'll ask this in the storage section since it might get a better audience and may be better suited for this question anyway.

 

[pauldun170]

Well as it turns out my laptop does use SATA drives. Is it worth putting in one of these babies if my laptop only has SATA 1.5gb/s, core duo (not 2) processor, and 2 geebees of ram? I think my current drive is a blistering 5400rpm. Also, would coming close to filling up the drive slow it down too much even considering the limited speed I could expect with the SATA 1.5gb/s interface? I don't plan on purchasing a new laptop until at least haswell is released.

I'm in the same boat with an older Pavillion dv9207us. Since it is on the old side I do not wan to sink any money into it.

 

[qliveur]

I seriously doubt that laptops that old would have the CPU power to keep up with a modern SSD, even if they didn't have the SATA I bottleneck.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I saw a (small) improvement, putting a 240GB Mushkin Chronos Deluxe (3x nm Toggle NAND, 2nd-gen SF controller) into a C-60 dual-core netbook.

Of course, the SSD turned out to be majorly FUBAR. (Sandforce bugs?)

I hook it up to my desktop and did a full format, it died at 70%, and hasn't been able to be detected in any system since.

I tried secure erasing it multiple times, didn't help the problem.

 

[Paperlantern]

Well as it turns out my laptop does use SATA drives. Is it worth putting in one of these babies if my laptop only has SATA 1.5gb/s, core duo (not 2) processor, and 2 geebees of ram? I think my current drive is a blistering 5400rpm. Also, would coming close to filling up the drive slow it down too much even considering the limited speed I could expect with the SATA 1.5gb/s interface? I don't plan on purchasing a new laptop until at least haswell is released.

Edit: Actually, I think I'll ask this in the storage section since it might get a better audience and may be better suited for this question anyway.

It will still feel a good bit snappier I'm sure of it. We put SSD in machines that are circa 2007 and 2008 and they more than tripled thier boot speed. We we're talking 3 minutes to desktop, the same image on the SSD was 54 seconds.

 

[MAG1969]

I also have Hp DV9000 laptop with the Nvidia chipset. I tried to install a kingston V+100 ssd into it and the bios would not detect the ssd. Also, the Nvidia chipset didnt support AHCI mode.

If someone tries a Sandforce drive please let me know how that goes...

 

[jhansman]

This should be considered the new normal. Anyone who pays more than $90 for a 120/128GB consumer SSD isn't patient or isn't looking hard enough.

Amen. And soon 256GB 830s/M4s will be under $200 as well. However, gas will be $5/gal.

 

[lothar]

Amen. And soon 256GB 830s/M4s will be under $200 as well. However, gas will be $5/gal.

Where have you been?

 

[benjamin.mtzgr]

DEAD as of 12am EST 8/16/12

 

[kmmatney]

Well as it turns out my laptop does use SATA drives. Is it worth putting in one of these babies if my laptop only has SATA 1.5gb/s, core duo (not 2) processor, and 2 geebees of ram? I think my current drive is a blistering 5400rpm. Also, would coming close to filling up the drive slow it down too much even considering the limited speed I could expect with the SATA 1.5gb/s interface? I don't plan on purchasing a new laptop until at least haswell is released.

Edit: Actually, I think I'll ask this in the storage section since it might get a better audience and may be better suited for this question anyway.

I put an SSD in my old Core 2 Duo Inspiron, and it made a huge difference. This will give any old laptop new life, even using SATA 1.5 gb/s.

 

[BadThad]

I seriously doubt that laptops that old would have the CPU power to keep up with a modern SSD, even if they didn't have the SATA I bottleneck.

Bunch of bologna! The HDD is THE bottleneck on any system. I've put several SSD's into older machines and they made a HUGE difference.