No More Excuses To *NOT* Buy *AN* SSD

[Kraven]

Anyone have/know anything about the intel 320s?

160gb for $160 after rebate...
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product...BF2011_Listing

[WiseGuy]

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

[Wesley Crusher]

Yep. Great deal right now, but their 520 Cherryville drives are supposed to be coming out very soon - huge performance boost.

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BTW NCIX has the same thing but with free BF3

[Xzinum]

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

So you need a 50% off sale to make it almost worthwhile, what's your point?

[WiseGuy]

BTW NCIX has the same thing but with free BF3

oh crap - i think that's a deal then.

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dam - ncix price is much higher actually http://www.ncix.ca/products/?sku=598...ufacture=Intel

You have to fork out $320 plus taxes and then it's a $120MIR, so a bit over $200. That's $40 bucks more than at Newegg, which is pretty much more than I'm willing to pay for BF3.

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winning deal here: $149 after rebate for 160GB
http://www.canadacomputers.com/produ...item_id=037671

^^ pricematch this on NCIX and you get a $160GB SSD and BF3 for $150. Good deal!

[ugly]

I didn't really know where to put these but:

Kingston: Solid State Drives Will Finally Supplant Hard Drives in Second Half of 2012

Nathan Su, flash memory sales director at Kingston, says the average price of 1GB of NAND flash memory will probably fall to around $1, according to DigiTimes. Su readily admits that the high cost of flash has hampered SSD adoption, but he believes the transition to 19nm and more advanced manufacturing processes will prove a game changer in 2012.

And this might be good information to know for those buying SSDs: Is Your SATA Cable Slowing Down Your Data Transfers? Max PC Investigates

Let’s first say that when we started this, we were absolutely sure we’d see a difference. Afterall, moving to an authentic SATA 6Gb/s cable cleared up our problems the first time right? Wrong. As we worked our way through the first few cables, we began to realize that the SATA I/O did its work when it first put together the Serial ATA spec for cables. There is virtually no difference between a brand-new SATA 6Gb/s marked cable made this year and one produced nearly eight years ago as far as performance goes. Expensive cable, cheap cable; long cable, short cable—none of it seemingly made a real difference. If anything, the minor variances in performance can be attributed to variances in the benchmark or the SSD.

During our testing, we also tested out a couple of often not recommended practices: bending your SATA cable at right angles. Many motherboard vendors recommend against putting right-angles into the cables during system builds so we took a cable and put about 15 right-angle kinks in it: no difference. We also took a 36-inch cable and tightly wrapped around a hot PSU cable: no difference.

[Freezerburn]

I grabbed a 120GB Corsair Force 3 during Canada Computers' Black Friday sale.

[fab]

keep updating me on these :3 when I become subsequently less lazy, I'll throw one in my desktop :3

[Xzinum]

[10:16:36] [vvork] my OCZ drive failed
[10:16:38] [vvork] AGAIN
[10:16:46] [vvork] 3rd drive
[10:16:55] [vvork] each one lasting less than its predecesor

[10:31:01] [vvork] fucking crap
[10:31:14] [vvork] i want them to send me the new vertex4 drive
[10:31:19] [vvork] or my money back
[10:31:21] [vvork] im so done with OCZ

Consumer advice more than anything, not a knock on vvise.




Ok, maybe a little knock on vvise.

[Derfel]

[10:16:36] [vvork] my OCZ drive failed
[10:16:38] [vvork] AGAIN
[10:16:46] [vvork] 3rd drive
[10:16:55] [vvork] each one lasting less than its predecesor

[10:31:01] [vvork] fucking crap
[10:31:14] [vvork] i want them to send me the new vertex4 drive
[10:31:19] [vvork] or my money back
[10:31:21] [vvork] im so done with OCZ

Consumer advice more than anything, not a knock on vvise.




Ok, maybe a little knock on vvise.

I've got 6 (admittedly a lot). But when one of them dies I have backups etc. Do you really want to store ALL of your data on a single drive which is likely to fail at some point in the future?

Good thing.