Report: SSDs Rapidly Dropping in Price !!!

Um yeah, guess you haven't been following the market. I got a 128GB Samsung 830 on sale at newegg for $140 about 6 months ago, and now it's routinely $80. That's a huge drop for a great SSD.

Hmm.

Where have I seen this before?

http://www.avsforum.com/t/1407836/ssd-prices-to-drop-even-more

Not exactly, I didn't put an SSD in my gaming box because its not required. I spent more on the GPU (mmm, 7950) rather than a SSD. For an office box, certainly. I put a 256GB Samsung 840 in and its well worth it. Its not a dead set rule though.

Twilight Zone .... maybe

Now if HDD prices would go back down. I'd like another 3tb.

Pffft, I want 6TB now for less than $299 in a single 3.5" drive.

If you have a Costco of course.

The problem with that is you need to have a Costco membership in order to actually order somethine from their site. If you don't even have a Costco store near you, I don't know WTH you have a membership for

Missed the $120 Amazon deal while I was on vacation, frontpage on slickdeals . .

Waiting for another, but having a hard time choosing not to go for the 128GB Samsung 830 for $70

Since the 840 pro is taking production, I wonder how long the 830 stock will last?

Do you mean the 840 or the 840 Pro? I'm actually wary about the new 840 since it uses newer, presumably less reliable TLC NAND (the 840 Pro uses 21nm MLC NAND). The 840 is also not across the board faster compared to the 830. In some cases, the 830 is faster, in some cases the 840 is.

I purchased a 256GB Samsung 830 yesterday from Amazon for $155.

I just saw the OCZ Vertex 3 128GB SSD on Tiger Direct for $69.99 (probably after MIR), I've bought a couple of the 90GB version at Micro Center for $60.

The 830 are a damn good deal for the moment.

I would stick to the 830 or 840 pro from samsung until people do enough torture tests on TLC nand to see how they hold up. SLC/MLC are fairly well documented now, barring other kinds of drive failures. (cough OCZ cough)

It will take a few months to actually write a petabyte or two anyways.

Happier with the $69 Samsung 830 128GB deal. $10 more but performance is the same with both compressed and uncompressed data and I don't have to deal with rebate hassles. I always end up not saving the rebates nowadays since they give you a Visa card instead of check and I tend to just use the card to buy more tech stuff.

Who is offering this deal.....link?

Amazon and Newegg both had it on sale for $69 last Thursday. Already have 3x 830 128GB on hand so picked up another to play with. Planning to compare performance of 4-way 128GB RAID-0 on SATA2 vs 2-way 256GB RAID-0 on SATA3. It'll be interesting to see which set-up would come out ahead.

The Samsung 830 64GB was $49.99 this morning at Newegg.com. I put my order in around 7:45am and just got an email saying "sorry, it was actually out of stock".

I've seen some test on YouTube with (4) Intel 530's I think (128GB) and on Storage Reviews when they did two Seagate Hybrids (2nd Gen) 750GB's in RAID0. In the YT vidoe they used a LSi RAID card, it was marginally faster than the onboard Intel chipset.

In any event, RAID made a big different in both reviews with Windows Media Center and other programs that use files like it does. That is why I am going to double up on Agility 3 60GB I already have and add a second one in the near future and do RAID0 as well.

I predict BF 2012 will have $100 or less 240GB/256GB Value SDD's, especially now that 60-64GB have dropped to $50 and 120-128GB is $70-$90 nominally now (no rebates). Lowest price on 240GB is $140 after rebate and 256GB is $170.

Not exactly what I'm planning to test. Planning on using onboard RAID for all my tests. Just trying to see if 4-way SATA II RAID-0 will be able to match 2-way SATA III RAID-0 since most Intel motherboards have a max of 2 SATA III ports so if you plan on doing more than 2 drives in RAID-0, you automatically get bumped to SATA II.


I don't think you realize how exactly Storage Reviews runs their HTPC benchmark. Basically, they take the HDD traces over a 15 minute period and just test how fast the SSDs can finish the entire task. However, regardless of how fast your SSD is, it's not like you can record a 30-minute show in 6 seconds or watch a 2.5-hour Blu-ray movie in 30 seconds. In real world HTPC usage, there won't be any difference unless you've found a way to fast forward through the time-space continuum.


Lowest price I've seen for 240GB after rebate is $120 (Agility 3 240GB) and $140 before rebate (Intel 330 240GB). For 256GB models, I've seen both the Crucial m4 and Samsung 830 dip down to $150 on sale. *sigh* Too bad sales on 512GB models are pretty rare. I have a couple more laptops I'd like to upgrade and I haven't been able to catch another 512GB for $350 on the Crucial m4. Did see the Agility 4 512GB for $280 but given I tend to abuse my SSDs, I'm wary about getting an OCZ drive.

I stay away from RAID0 whenever possible...it doubles your chances of losing everything.

Lol, my planned set-up is even riskier: live data on 20-24GB RAMDisk flushed to an image on a 2-way SATA III SSD (most likely the Samsung 830 256GB) RAID-0 array when unmounted.

Of course, PC will be connected to a UPS (CyberPower PFC 900W/1500VA to give sufficient runtime for writing) and planning on doing frequent backups to a VelociRaptor 1TB RAID-1 (or if I can find less expensive mechanical drives capable of hitting 200MB/s sequential, then RAID-1 of those).