Samsung 840 EVO 750GB SSD - Links to Cheap Sellers

[jaydee]

Back up to $430 at newegg

 

[IndyColtsFan]

Still $350 at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Electr...ywords=evo+750

 

[rsutoratosu]

dang, i bought this from amazon 2/10 for 399,they still price match or should I just buy and return ?

 

[BenJeremy]

I thought 'real world' performance increase with raid wasn't significant with SSD

I would agree with this. My current system is a pair of 180GB SSDs in RAID0, simply for the capacity. I don't think there's any perceptible performance increase over a single drive.

My current RAID setup (2x256GB Samsung 830 SSD in RAID-0) sees 1GB/s performance sequential read and 775MB/s write.

http://img2u.info/img/g9d545ad7.jpg

By my count, that's double the performance of a single drive. I had a similar doubling of speed with my previous rig using 2x60GB OCZ Vertex SSDs.

As for noticeable? It's an SSD.... pretty much everything loads close to an eyeblink, but even eyeblinks can be quicker.

If all you do is web surfing, e-mail and write the occasional word document, it isn't really going to do much for you. I'm a developer, and I have a lot of resource hogs running on my system. I welcome the extra burst of speed.

 

[BadThad]

$389 at Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00E3W1ALE

 

[BadThad]

Consolidated links to all sellers in this thread into the first post.

 

[BrownThunder]

Kind of strange and I don't know if I'll get probated/warned for this, but I'm selling one for $330 in my FS/FT thread. Brand new. Alright bye!

 

[BadThad]

Updated OP prices and links!

Still only $351 at Amazon and BH.

 

[BadThad]

Prices creeping back up!

Rakuten.com has the SanDisk EX2 480GB for $269 today....that's HOT.

 

[BadThad]

TD super sale...this is the cheapest I've seen this drive $340 shipped:

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...?EdpNo=8466639

 

[Cardio]

Fry's also has the 500 EVO for $249 today at the Houston stores. Different locations do not always have the same prices so YMMV.

 

[Clinkster]

TD super sale...this is the cheapest I've seen this drive $340 shipped:

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...?EdpNo=8466639

Wow, that is a really good price.