Warm: 64GB OCZ Petrol SSD $54.99 after $10 MIR @ NCIX.US

[Avalon]

http://us.ncix.com/products/?sku=67558&vpn=PTL1-25SAT3-64G&manufacture=OCZ Technology&promoid=1361

Not a fast drive by any stretch of the imagination at 185MB/s read and 95MB/s write, but hey, it's an SSD, and it's $0.85/GB.

*Edit* It's an Indilinx based drive and not Sandforce, if that helps anyone.

 

[Schmide]

I have this and it works fine, but I've found 64gb barely enough even when I have a 2gb HD for things like Visual Studio/Office/etc. You would be surprised what they sneak into the windows folder even when you tell them to install on another drive.

So I'm going to raid them so I have 120gb space and a sightly better pref.

 

[Avalon]

My main use for this will be to go into a light backup gaming machine/netflix box. I don't plan on putting more than 1-2 games on it, the rest is for web browsing and netflix downstairs on the big tv.

 

[beergeek]

I would think this would be fine for a small HTPC or such (especially if running Linux as, say, a dedicated XBMC box), where (random access) speed is relatively unimportant, as is size if you are largely streaming with the local disk used for caching (if that), and the major considerations are noise and heat.

 

[fei_xng]

from the same vendor, I order a OCZ SATAIII 60G SSD for 60 dollars after rebate, yesterday.