Seagate 600 Series 240 GB: $99 after $30 rebate from Tiger Direct

[IndyColtsFan]

A good price for a good drive, but I'm not sure about their rebates these days:

http://www.tigerdirect.com/email/wem...com&SEG=C&lk=8

 

[cytoSiN]

This is the best price I've ever seen on this drive, assuming the rebate is good, of course. But I have no reason to believe that TD would refuse to pay...just make sure you follow all steps properly. Assuming the rebate works, this is $0.41/gb, which is SMOKING HOT.

 

[alaricljs]

So I see TD still plays games with their shipping rates. Free shipping on the 480GB which is not on sale, pay for shipping on the 240GB. Interestingly Shoprunner extended my membership without telling me or charging me. Weird.

Decision time

 

[IndyColtsFan]

I believe Anandtech did a review of the drive and concluded it was a great drive for desktop use. IIRC, power usage was higher than most SSDs so they were a little hesitant to recommend it for mobile use.

I have one as my boot drive and my brother bought one for his new PC too. No complaints so far.

 

[alaricljs]

LOL... was just going through all the benches I could get at. Looks like for laptops the EVO is better suited (~66% lower idle power) and the EVO can do better in some circumstances. On the other hand the 2 Seagates I have (RAID1) in my server are doing quite nicely with a mix of VMs (mail, DB, webserver).

Seems the 600 also doesn't do well with sub-4k transfers.

This beats the M500 240GB tho, pretty much across the board aside from those sub-4k transfers.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

LOL... was just going through all the benches I could get at. Looks like for laptops the EVO is better suited (~66% lower idle power) and the EVO can do better in some circumstances. On the other hand the 2 Seagates I have (RAID1) in my server are doing quite nicely with a mix of VMs (mail, DB, webserver).

Seems the 600 also doesn't do well with sub-4k transfers.

This beats the M500 240GB tho, pretty much across the board aside from those sub-4k transfers.

Yeah, I have the Evo 250 in my laptop and it seems a little faster. Not sure I'd put this in a server because I believe it uses TLC. I'd probably go the 840 Pro route for a server if the server has anything semi-critical. I've got mirrored Samsung 830s in my server and have been really happy.

 

[alaricljs]

It was an upgrade from Vertex 2's so it's an improvement either way and I don't have the capital to be that into it. It's just a personal server and it all gets backed up nightly to spinny bits.

 

[StitchExperimen]

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...25800&csid=_22

4gb of memory also $114.99

$50 rebate pay $164.99


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[Leyawiin]

That's the price ($129.99) I paid for it without a rebate during Black Friday. Good deal here. I use it as a boot drive for a desktop and its performing very well. Glad to see this one actually has Shoprunner available - so many of TD's products don't and you either pay for shipping or use the slow boat free shipping they might have on an item.

 

[Elixer]

A good price for a good drive, but I'm not sure about their rebates these days:

http://www.tigerdirect.com/email/wem...com&SEG=C&lk=8

While they do pay rebates, the time it takes to get a rebate in your hands can vary greatly.
If you pay them for 'quick processing', you do get it faster, but, then again, you need to pay them for this 'service'.

 

[nwo]

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...25800&csid=_22

4gb of memory also $114.99

$50 rebate pay $164.99


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Very tempted... Need another 4-8GB of RAM for a future build I have in mind and that deal basically makes it free after MIR.

TD's rebates have been the best to me. Always the quickest and 100% of them have arrived so far.

But I can't find a use for the SSD... I already have a spare :\

 

[Steltek]

While they do pay rebates, the time it takes to get a rebate in your hands can vary greatly.
If you pay them for 'quick processing', you do get it faster, but, then again, you need to pay them for this 'service'.

It has been my experience that, with TD rebates, even paying for the "quick processing" service option still results in a rebate that takes forever.

The last "quick processing" rebate I submitted was back in November 2013 and I finally got the card today.

 

[nwo]

It has been my experience that, with TD rebates, even paying for the "quick processing" service option still results in a rebate that takes forever.

The last "quick processing" rebate I submitted was back in November 2013 and I finally got the card today.

I've had exactly the opposite experience with my recent 6-8 TD rebates. I usually get them within 4-6 weeks and I never paid a penny for quick processing.