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The cheap SSDs thread

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Macgyversite said:
Maybe we should use one at the same time along with Viagra.......

Seriously tho:

It is MLC. Its Amazon Primed. It has a 3 year warranty if the company is still around.
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Even their "official" website is pretty vague in general, but they do at least cover return shipping for RMAs for products purchased in the US, so that's something. On the other hand, 12 of the 41 Amazon reviews admit to being free/discounted product reviews and another 8-9 seriously sound like they probably are too even though they don't say so, with a smaller handful of mediocre-to-bad reviews and a number of first time SSD buyers who only say "it's great!" thrown in for good measure... Personally, I'd rather go with a known TLC drive, but if someone really wants a cheap MLC drive and is willing to risk the potential hassle of a return or later RMA, it is a current-model option...
 
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Macgyversite said:
http://www.ssd-hard-drive.com/view/405-54634.html
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What little info there is on Drevo's own website about their SSDs is oddly silent on the subject altogether (you'd think it would be a big selling point, although the English is so poor, I guess it could be an oversight?) and that www.ssd-hard-drive.com page, and the Ebay listing it links to, are the only ones I'm seeing that actually claim any of the Drevo drives larger than the 60GB uses MLC, so I really don't know what to make of it. Again personally, I'd at least want email confirmation from Drevo itself before taking a chance on any of the others, if I were otherwise willing to take a chance on them...
 
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Well, their old Hectron marketing material, when they introduced the drives larger than 60GB, was pretty clear that the 60GB was MLC, but the larger drives were only "Hynix". My understanding was that the larger drives were TLC, but that the smallest drive (60GB) was MLC, because of the parallelism needed for performance at that smaller capacity was only available with MLC dies.
 
I scoured the web late last night. There was nothing on the MLC for Hectran or Drevo. I thought for sure there would be but they all had the same info that was ripped from their Website.

Well this is the Cheap SSD thread. LOL

Maybe we should rename it the Inexpensive, Quality SSD thread.

Good catch on the Biased Reviews. I saw a few but didnt go back too far. I hate that crap. You take them out and Its a marginal drive. Not worth saving $10
 
VirtualLarry said:
Well, their old Hectron marketing material, when they introduced the drives larger than 60GB, was pretty clear that the 60GB was MLC, but the larger drives were only "Hynix". My understanding was that the larger drives were TLC, but that the smallest drive (60GB) was MLC, because of the parallelism needed for performance at that smaller capacity was only available with MLC dies.
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Did you notice how the hectron 60g jumped 11 bucks when the name changed to drevo 🙁
 
**DEAD NOW**

Just saw this on SD and ordered one for myself:

Crucial M500 960GB SSD Refurb $129.99
Factory-recertified Crucial M500 960GB SSD for only
$129.99

Quantities are limited while supplies last. The sale is first-come, first-serve. We've included an exclusive coupon code to get your recertified 960GB SSD for $129.99, but you have to act fast!

Act now, only 600 units available at sale price!

USE THIS CODE AT CHECKOUT: CRUM500SSD

http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/store-ssd-factory-recertified
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After tax and free shipping it comes out to less than 15 cents / GB.
 
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Timmyotule said:
Just saw this on SD and ordered one for myself:

Crucial M500 960GB SSD Refurb $129.99
Factory-recertified Crucial M500 960GB SSD for only
$129.99

Quantities are limited while supplies last. The sale is first-come, first-serve. We've included an exclusive coupon code to get your recertified 960GB SSD for $129.99, but you have to act fast!

Act now, only 600 units available at sale price!

USE THIS CODE AT CHECKOUT: CRUM500SSD

http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/store-ssd-factory-recertified
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After tax and free shipping it comes out to less than 15 cents / GB.
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showing as $471 for me and promo code wont work
 
Intel 600p PCI-E NVMe 3.0 x4 256GB M.2 2280 SSD

Ebay item # 302055211484

$97.99 FS

Newegg on ebay

I paid $109.99 FS when this first came out, LOL. Haven't even opened it.

This SSD is a mid-range performance M.2 NVMe SSD. It doesn't compare with the 950 Pro, but it's a lot cheaper, and it does perform better than most SATA6G SSD, in most cases.

It always writes data to the SLC cache when writing, so if you are sequentially writing large files like ISOs or movies, and your source drive is fast (another SSD), then you might spill over the SLC cache, at which point writes on this drive can go down to 2MB/sec. Read some of the reviews for more info about this. Updated firmware to fix this issue is expected at some point from Intel.

Uses 3D TLC NAND, I believe from Micron.

Edit: P.S. Please post if you see the 1TB 600p for sale anywhere for $250 or less. That will be one to watch for.
 
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Samsung 1TB 850 EVO 2.5" SATA6G SSD

Ebay item # 381541206446

$269.99 FS

Newegg on ebay

Not much to say about this one. Anything under $300 for one of these is considered a deal.
 
Timmyotule said:
**DEAD NOW**

Just saw this on SD and ordered one for myself:

Crucial M500 960GB SSD Refurb $129.99
Factory-recertified Crucial M500 960GB SSD for only
$129.99

Quantities are limited while supplies last. The sale is first-come, first-serve. We've included an exclusive coupon code to get your recertified 960GB SSD for $129.99, but you have to act fast!

Act now, only 600 units available at sale price!

USE THIS CODE AT CHECKOUT: CRUM500SSD

http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/store-ssd-factory-recertified
​
After tax and free shipping it comes out to less than 15 cents / GB.
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Those dropped $50 since they last went on sale for $179.99 August 2015:

https://forums.anandtech.com/thread...500-ssds-960gb-179-99-480gb-99-99-fs.2443388/

Not bad!
 
That's actually even more amazing, because Newegg on ebay's prices on their SSDs have been going up!

60GB MLC SSDs, used to be $29.99, now $39.99,

120GB TLC SSDs used to be $33.99 or so, now they're $49.99 some of them!

240GB MLC drives used to be below $60, now they're nearly $80!
 
I hope that its just demand outstripping supply causing the rising prices. I dream of never having to work on a machine booting from a 5400p rpm drive again 😀
 
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