Cheapest ever M500 960GB posted on ozbargain
One of the cheapest high capacity SSD's sub $400 ive seen in a long time on ozbargain.
Great reviews and its Crucial !!
Cheapest in Australia is $534 Posted from Ramcity
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This is the recent price drop its had.
Mar 31, 2015 06:31 PM $363.95
Apr 01, 2015 05:08 AM $299.99
You'll probably be waiting a while for the next price drop
Standard Ozbargain 1st comment reply, its now on the Wiki
8 months is a long time to wait, and the M900 or whatever they call it will probably be in the works by then.
Yes he'll be saying at the time M900 is coming next year, will wait until the M700 gets cheaper. These people are always making excuses not to buy now.
I'm going to wait until the m7700 5000tb comes out in 2026. This should be cheaper then. You would be mad to buy technology now considering there will be better products in the future.
M700000000 200000000000000TB drive coming out soon. Wait till this gets cheaper!!!
As with all technology stuffs.. if you really need it now, buy it!
Otherwise, wait for the m7700 in 2026 ^_^.. 960gb will be a wearable for $5 at Officeworks..
M700 coming out next year, will wait till this gets cheaper. Was meant as Sarcasm as that is the standard comment when tech is posted …wait till? Glad though it was taken literally as it means that we have become more courteous at Ozbargain in giving sarcasm the benefit of the doubt!
Next year is a long time.
M700 coming out next year, will wait till this gets cheaper.
M500s will be long discontinued by then and stock will be impossible find. Great plan.
anyone knows if its good for rMBA? mine has only 256gb, maybe its time to upgrade it.
actually, how can i find out what type of ssd is used in my mac? and if this M500 is faster and better than the one in my mac?
edit:
find an answer:
http://ssd.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Crucial-M500-960GB-vs-A…
rMBA
If you meant retina Pro or any Air this won't fit, sorry.
They take very specific / expensive drives. Try http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/SSD/OWC . Probably not worth it unless you reaaally need space.
I meant rMBP (pro, not air)
It depends on the year of your model. Various years and models of Retina Display MacBook Pro use different types of SSDs. "Apple does not intend for end users to upgrade the SSD in these models themselves." However, if you do the proper research and get the proper tools, you could possibly be able to do it, depending on the model. For example, the 2011-2012 models used PCIe-based SSDs, but the SSD posted here is SATA-based.
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/macbook-pr…
@twocsies: I just finished reading the article then notice you linked the same one.
I think I will stay with the 256gb for now until one day owc's ssd is cheaper. Mine is the very first generation rMBP.
Just get an SD Card, you can add 128GB fairly cheaply without having to upgrade anything: for example: minidrive.bynifty.com - …but there are cheaper options out there.
It's what I have been doing. Dropbox is on the sd card
Nice find EC !
solid SSD been using one in my Samsung laptop for 15+ months!
These things have crashing problems with Haswell processors. Not sure if that's fixed yet.
That's interesting because mine seems to crash considering you said that. I've now reinstalled the OS twice and thought you might just have to do something with the mobo, which is clearly not the case.
In that case it seems Crucial is still the one company with nasty firmware compatibility bugs. When will they fix their sh-t?
Glad to know you've tried all +100 plus consumer SSDs available on the market and thoroughly inspected their firmware for issues chief.
Just because one random Joe on OB says there's an issue does not mean sh*t. Firmware MU03 fixed those issues lostn is talking about.
No, there've been other crucial issues over the years chief. Sorry if I haven't written them all down.
@justtoreply: Every single SSD brand has had at least one, if not several models, with firmware issues.
What is your point?
Unless you can establish some sort of repeat pattern of persistent firmware problems amongst several generations of Crucial SSDs (which you can't); then there's no basis for smearing Crucial SSDs with the Seagate brush.
@Amar89: I had a couple of M500's one for a laptop and one for a desktop. Caused BSODs in both. This was only a few months ago. Maybe they have a new firmware. Except I wouldn't able to update it because it keeps crashing… Imagine it it crashed during firmware flashing..
I may be a random guy, but I know I'm not the only one. Forum threads from google searches is how I found out about the Haswell compatibility problem in the first place. Other people had it too.
Now I got a couple of paperweights.
Except I wouldn't able to update it because it keeps crashing… Imagine it it crashed during firmware flashing..
Your terminology is confusing here. If by "crashing" you mean you're simply BSOD'ing from Windows, but you can boot back into the OS just fine after restarting, then that has no bearing on you being able to update the firmware. You'd be running it from a bootable image on a disc, as I explained in these posts here. That's the only surefire way to update firmware; manufacturer-bundled installer utilities that run from within the OS are not reliable. BSOD'ing due to the primary partition becoming unresponsive (depending on the error code) is usually driver or chipset architecture-related or even a problem with power state transitions (some power-saving states in the BIOS can cause SSDs to just "disappear" during idle periods; BIOS updates or settings changes can fix this); not a symptom of a hardware issue with the SSD itself. In general, I would recommend you thoroughly ensure your BIOS, and all motherboard drivers are fully up-to-date (especially all storage-related drivers which you may need to get direct from Intel's website like the Intel Rapid Storage technology driver).
If your SSD actually stops responding to I/O entirely (this would not be a BSOD, but more just a black screen) and upon rebooting is not showing up in the BIOS and you get a "no system disk/OS" error (and you potentially need to cold-boot to have it be detected again), then that could be a hardware issue.
I've been a happy M500 user for nearly 2 years now.
Being a newbie with this SSD, can someone please help.
I have the Asus G75V model, and having a quick look at the link above I saw a similar make and model there but Im not sure what all that means.
So would this fit my laptop and is it easy for someone that hasnt done or replace one of these before like me be able to have a go in replacing my old one ?
Thanks
Steve
Yes it'll fit and yes it's easy. There's even a tutorial on YouTube. I'm pretty sure the G75V has two SATA disk bays, so you can still keep your old HDD for storage too.
Thanks heaps for your help Amar89.
Much appreciated.
Veeery tempting…
Any deals in Canada? Our exchange rate against the CAD is very good
Does it have an international warranty? In case of failure, do we need to ship it back to US?
No international warranty on Crucial SSD. Ship it back to the USA for warranty.
Hasn't the $AUD vs $USD really tanked when $299 USD + delivery from Amazon = $397 AUD. I remember a time when that would have been under $300 AUD.
Does anybody know if Eluktronics brand of SSDs are any good? The 250GB SATA III model is available for about $USD 100.
Amazon won't ship them to Australia, but they're available on Ebay for the same price.
Depends entirely on the controller they use and who's NAND they source. It's a rebadged SSD for sure, and there have been plenty of rebadged SSDs using reputable NAND and controllers, but because of the obscurity of the brand you might have difficulty finding out whose hardware is inside.
In any case you can get a SanDisk Ultra Plus or Crucial MX100 256GB for about $40 dollars more and avoid gambling on reliability.
MX100 is as unreliable as it gets
Says who?
http://forum.crucial.com/t5/Crucial-SSDs/bd-p/ssd
Lot's of discussion there. Perhaps not as bad as the 840 EVO, but enough for me to stay away.
@joeflacco: Yes, lots of discussions, because people only post on those forums when they have a problem. No one's chiming in with gratitude. Go to a Samsung or Intel forum and you'll see the same thing; or better yet WhingePool.
It honestly just sounds like a lot of laptop users with funky motherboard chipsets/BIOSs (which are notorious for causing issues when switching the boot disk to something released years after the laptop was) who don't know what they're doing.
I saw the same horror stories about the M500 and M550 when I ordered them on the Crucial forums (I post there as well). I have yet to actually experience them though.
Expired? Price is $339USD… Shame, I was ready to bite
I'm looking for a cheap 1TB SSD. This deal has expired. Any other deals around?
The new generation (not just new, but 4x as fast) SSD's are just about to be released. Both Intel and Samsung.
M700 coming out next year, will wait till this gets cheaper.