Toshiba SSD THNSNH series 512GB for $250fs at NE

Engineer

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how fast are these ?

In real world application test (like PCMark 7 where real world Windows performance is measured), they are top notch only falling behind the Samsung 840 Pro and by less than 0.1%. In raw synthetic benchmarks, not so much. Great price for this drive! :D
 

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http://www.anandtech.com/show/7074/strontium-hawk-240gb-review (AT has actually reviewed this series, but not under the Toshiba name)
http://www.anandtech.com/show/7074/strontium-hawk-240gb-review/7
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2013/07/03/toshiba_thnsnh_256gb_ssd_review/8
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/storage/display/toshiba-thnsnh_5.html#sect0

Needs TRIM, which is no biggie with Windows 7+, or Linux with a discard-supporting FS. Not the fastest at everything, but not shabby, either. I've found [H]'s mixed steady-state results to do a decent job of mirroring my experience, when there's a substantial difference at low QDs (which, here, there only is for the 840 TLC, amongst drives tested along with this one).
 

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I'm really trying not to buy this. The 5% mobile code plus 5% Discover bonus cash back is making it very difficult.
 

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Heh. I had no problem. I've been looking for either it, the M500, or the Extreme II to get below $275 for a 500GB, this season. Toshiba's got there first, and I don't want to miss out on any short-lived deals that come later (I missed every good 250GB sale last year, some of them by mere minutes).
 

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Heh. I had no problem. I've been looking for either it, the M500, or the Extreme II to get below $275 for a 500GB, this season. Toshiba's got there first, and I don't want to miss out on any short-lived deals that come later (I missed every good 250GB sale last year, some of them by mere minutes).

But I really don't need it! :p
 

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New mobile code to use at m.newegg.com or using their mobile app: MBLBF52

5% off.

Can also use 'User Agent Switcher' app on Firefox and the PC. Must set to User agent 'iPhone 3'. Takes $12.50 making this $237.99.
 

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Cerb,

I too should've gotten a Samsung 830 last fall, but I finally bit on the Toshiba deal 2 months ago.

But I really don't need it! :p
Engineer, more importantly any update on the performance degradation after 50% capacity use you referenced in the old 256 GB deal thread?
 

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Cerb,

I too should've gotten a Samsung 830 last fall, but I finally bit on the Toshiba deal 2 months ago.


Engineer, more importantly any update on the performance degradation after 50% capacity use you referenced in the old 256 GB deal thread?

Have not filled either to 50%. Don't know when (or if based on the way I like to upgrade) that will happen. If I have time, I might fill them with something and test later.
 

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Edit: Nevermind - coupon died: Use mobile code MBLNOV13 for $20 off (10% but with $20 max) bringing this to $229.99 shipped.
 
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Does this degrade at all over 50% because I have almost 300gb of games/programs and don't want to bother upgrading if I'm going to see a big performance drop. My whole reason for the purchase was because my computer is booting up extremely slow.
 

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Does this degrade at all over 50% because I have almost 300gb of games/programs and don't want to bother upgrading if I'm going to see a big performance drop. My whole reason for the purchase was because my computer is booting up extremely slow.

I just filled my RAID 0 array to 60% (to make sure that it was over 50% full on each drive) and nothing changed. The synthetic benchmarks are all as high as ever and I can tell no difference in operation. I ran the tests immediately after filling the drive with no recovery time involved (the drive may have been recovering while filling though as I was simply copying a couple hundred gigs of files from my storage drive to my OS drive array).

ATTO still tops out at over 1GB/sec reads and writes and scored a 1428 on AS-SSD. RAID has no effect on what the drive does so it still should be valid on a drive per drive basis. Note that I have 2 x 256GB drives and not the 512GB.
 
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