Cheapest ever according to camelx3…
Even cheaper by $30 than the last post for same item.
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/131534
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I actually paid the higher price too, but can't resist of being nice to share the cheaper price info to fellow ozbargainers.
So this is approx $262 delivered using a 28 Degrees card and therefore $37 cheaper than the deal from Shopping Express (https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/136603).
The question I have (having not looked for the answer) is: What about the warranty? Is Crucial warranty international?
Amazon warranty, any fault or damage they'll take care of it.
As usual, one person posts an Amazon SSD deal and a million others do some digging and post every model for sale…
So what? People like to see comparisons. Its just people trying to help other ozbargainers.
How does the Crucial M500 compare to Samsung 840 EVO-Series ?
In a nutshell, this model (the 240GB is a lot slower), is on par in all areas apart from sequential and random writes where it's somewhere around 60-100Mb/s slower.
That really doesn't translate into a whole lot of gains in everyday usage though and unlike the Evo, the M500s have power failure protection and better NAND provisioning.
Its crazy how it is cheaper delivered to my door in ACT than my mother-in-laws door in California. WTF with the shipping costs!
Order Summary - Shipped to CA
Items: $229.99
Shipping & handling: $8.07
Free shipping: -$8.07
Total before tax: $229.99
Estimated tax to be collected: $20.70
Order total: $250.69
Order Summary - Shipped to ACT
Items: $229.99
Shipping & handling: $7.51
Total before tax: $237.50
Estimated tax to be collected: $0.00
Order total: $237.50
Gotta love GST free imports.
I notice a lot of SSDs oversea (amazon) and locally are discounting, perhaps it was slow sales and maybe possible they are phrasing them out in time for the 2nd half launch of next gen SSDs from all the major controller and NAND makers.
(http://www.zdnet.com/cebit-2014-ocz-plextor-launch-new-ssds-…)
It is estimated that 12XGB will replace 6XGB as base drive size
The 4XX-51X level drive will be priced at around 60 above the current 256 drives today and 256 drives be stable at 150 dollar level.
Expect the next gen chip with minimum 500+mb read combined with TLC be less than 230 once price stables. where as 750 or 1TB level at under 500 AUD.
However 2.5in SSD has reach the bottle neck of SATA 3 and the new PCI-E style card SSD allow faster speed above 600MB/s be introduced late this year.
You have my +1 sir.
Good to see SSDs becoming affordable - best upgrade you can do to your PC.
Great price!
Do you have a laptop or desktop as phone?
Hell of a price. I paid $259 + $7 shipping in January (which became $298.18 AUD thanks to the magic of Voodoo).
Outside of E-Peen Championships, most users will see virtually no difference from an Evo 840 or Pro 840 and the M500s actually have an array of capacitors that'll provide enough juice to flush any data waiting to be written to the NAND in the event of a power failure unlike an Evo/Pro 840. It's also got a better way of dealing factory bad blocks & NAND failures (RAIN provides an additional reserve on top of the standard 7% of over-provisioning).