Samsung 830 SSD 128gb $69.99

[Soundmanred]

No one talks about 512GB Sammy thats probably 600 now. That is why no one can afford one, no one has one. You guys get 256GB ,, that is not enough , for everything
OS, Apps, Games, Data, videos etc.

I got 14 games installed on this SSD and DAW and I still have 150GB free, I did good, Crucial was 3 hundred less at the time I bought it. 700 ... I payed 400 dollars and I love how firmware and TRIM speed things up,,,,, my boot times have changed as firmware changes,, amazing........ Go Crucial...... your not gonna see a diff. plus in Toms hardware M4 was fastest booting W7 , It launches PS CS6 in 2 seconds. good enough.. why pay 300 more alto I like Sammy, Crucial doing good,, crystal reports 100 percent Good...,, Im no where near 3000 hours usage yet. Cant wait for the next firmware to fix the UEFI problem and enhance speed even more.

 

[BenJeremy]

No one talks about 512GB Sammy thats probably 600 now. That is why no one can afford one, no one has one. You guys get 256GB ,, that is not enough , for everything
OS, Apps, Games, Data, videos etc.

I got 14 games installed on this SSD and DAW and I still have 150GB free, I did good, Crucial was 3 hundred less at the time I bought it. 700 ... I payed 400 dollars and I love how firmware and TRIM speed things up,,,,, my boot times have changed as firmware changes,, amazing........ Go Crucial...... your not gonna see a diff. plus in Toms hardware M4 was fastest booting W7 , It launches PS CS6 in 2 seconds. good enough.. why pay 300 more alto I like Sammy, Crucial doing good,, crystal reports 100 percent Good...,, Im no where near 3000 hours usage yet. Cant wait for the next firmware to fix the UEFI problem and enhance speed even more.

I build my current system with 2x256 Samsung 830s. Paid about $1.40/GB at the time, but no regrets... 1GByte/sec speeds with the two drives in RAID-0. Plenty of room to keep my primary games and apps (while offloading lesser used apps to the 2TB data drive).

At these prices, it's foolish not to to a RAID-0 array with them. It's a straight-up speed multiplier.

 

[Soundmanred]

I build my current system with 2x256 Samsung 830s. Paid about $1.40/GB at the time, but no regrets... 1GByte/sec speeds with the two drives in RAID-0. Plenty of room to keep my primary games and apps (while offloading lesser used apps to the 2TB data drive).

At these prices, it's foolish not to to a RAID-0 array with them. It's a straight-up speed multiplier.

I see RAIDing SSDs sorta as abuse. imo.

 

[BenJeremy]

I see RAIDing SSDs sorta as abuse. imo.

I did it with my last system, too... but with 2x60GB OCZ Agility drives.

Not sure how it's abuse to double your performance (both real world and benchmarked).

As stated above, the 512GB SSDs are still above $1/GB, so you'd still want to RAID-0 a couple of 256GB SSDs (at less then $1/GB) to get the capacity, anyway.

I've also seen some insane benchmarks with up to 8 SSDs in RAID-0 configurations.

 

[Jiggz]

I see RAIDing SSDs sorta as abuse. imo.

Huh? So trying to increase capacity and performance is now an abuse? I guess it's time to go back to the 360Kb floppy disk!

 

[alkemyst]

I see RAIDing SSDs sorta as abuse. imo.

i can count to potatoe!

 

[luv2liv]

has anyone received their SSD from TD?
i received an email with tracking but UPS said it was invalid.

 

[Graxe]

Same issue here luv2liv. Order went through and TigerDirect said it shipped but tracking has yet to come from UPS.

 

[chimaxi83]

I got my two yesterday. Ordered on Monday. I live in Chicago so one day delivery from TD is normal for me.

 

[alkemyst]

The tigerdirect/CompUSA deal is in store. The OCZ Vertex 3 120GB SSD is $39.99 after $20 mail in rebate with the purchase of any Windows 8 or system and all must be on the same ticket. The Windows 8 Pro Upgrade (XP, Vista, Windows 7) is $69.99.

Limit 1 per customer. The SSD partnumber is 0261-6380

 

[mshan]

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Someone else created another thread for $69.99 shipped Newegg deal: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2280272

 

[IndyColtsFan]

I got my two SSDs that I ordered from TigerDirect yesterday.

 

[zardthebuilder]

i ordered mine via buy.com. Status: Cancelled

 

[shortylickens]

Once you go SSD, you'll never go back. Just sayin'.

I tried SSD twice and gladly went back.
The performance boost was massively overstated, and neither one was nearly as reliable as a basic quality hard drive.

However, that was a good deal, I'll admit.

 

[Jiggz]

I tried SSD twice and gladly went back.
The performance boost was massively overstated, and neither one was nearly as reliable as a basic quality hard drive.

However, that was a good deal, I'll admit.

It's exactly the same mentality and attitude when we shifted from floppy disk to hdd in early 80's!

 

[luv2liv]

finally got it today. sent via USPS, not UPS.
cant wait to have it up and running

 

[Graxe]

I found the ssd in my mail today. UPS sent it to the post office who then left it in my mailbox. The UPS tracking code from TigerDirect was oddly never used. I'll have to spend some time this weekend changing my main boxen around and installing the ssd.

 

[Meghan54]

I tried SSD twice and gladly went back.
The performance boost was massively overstated, and neither one was nearly as reliable as a basic quality hard drive.

However, that was a good deal, I'll admit.

About your problems with SSDs:


1. Quit buying junk.

2. Quit buying junk.

 

[BenJeremy]

I tried SSD twice and gladly went back.
The performance boost was massively overstated, and neither one was nearly as reliable as a basic quality hard drive.

However, that was a good deal, I'll admit.

I built my first system with 2 SSDs in a RAID-0 configuration back in December of 2009. Since then I have had ZERO issues with the SSDs. I built this current system in May... again, no issues. The main reason I built a new machine was because of instability in my CPU voltages (Socket 1156), I discovered that the issue was my Radeon 4890 video card.

In short, if you had a bad experience with SSD drives, you did so because they were junk quality from a bad vendor. That you are complaining about this in a thread about Samsung drives, which are easily "best in class" for speed and reliability, is ridiculous.

I have several systems in my house, and I can tell you there is a significant improvement in performance, too, compared to my other systems with platter boot drives... my current array is about 10-12 times faster, in raw speed, than platter drives (I get about 1 Gigabyte/sec read and 770 Megabytes/sec write speeds) , and random access is no contest. Applications blink on the screen. Processing data is no longer bottlenecked by the drive speeds.

I suggest you try a better brand next time you experiment with SSDs.

/USB Flash keydrives don't count as SSDs, either