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Crucial M500 SSD 960GB AUD $368.00 + $21.89 Shipping @ Newegg

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Crucial M500 SSD 960GB AUD $368.00 + $21.89 Shipping @ Newegg
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haha on 18/05/2015 - 23:49 newegg.com (458 clicks)
Last edited 19/05/2015 - 00:00 by 1 other user

Another hdd deal!
do not forget cash back from Cash Rewards - 1.2% off (total $385.48 after cash back)

cheaper than this deal https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/192375

from website:
crucial M500 SATA 2.5" 7mm (with 9.5mm adapter) Internal Solid State Drive

  • Transformative performance: dramatically faster than a hard drive
  • Nearly instantaneous boot times
  • Ample storage: available in capacities up to terabyte-class
  • Extensive quality and reliability testing built into every drive
  • Three-year limited warranty
  • Compatible with PC and Mac® systems
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  • bargainperson on 19/05/2015 - 00:13
    -2

    The Crucial M500 SSD is a legacy product.

    • silent1 on 19/05/2015 - 00:35
      +4

      Still a very good SSD and it also has tried and tested reliability. The larger 20nm NAND is also good for durability.

    • Miami Mall Alien on 19/05/2015 - 00:46
      +8

      Oh that's right. Everyone on OzB is running a petabyte TPS database on their very own 7U SAN arrays that have to have sub-nanosecond read latencies to avoid slowing access times for the 200,000 requests they service a minute.

      No?
      Then you won't notice the difference.

      I've used both the M500, M550 and MX100; along with its most common competitors of the same era (Samsung 840 Evo and Intel 530). They're all more than adequate for a majority of users.

      960GB/1TB of current-gen SSD storage will set you back $500 dollars or more. This is a perfectly valid deal and probably as cheap as or nearly as cheap as this SSD will ever get, with our exchange rate.

      • jackau on 19/05/2015 - 08:38
        +1

        Lol lol can't agree more.
        The only way to go is size now given most drives released are above 450mb / s read, that any system build with sata 2 onward can see a huge improvement, and can't get pass the 530-580 write limit ..
        Therefore given the size of 2.5 in drives, the only way to go is pack more space when no room to go faster… This I meant: it would only go cheaper no faster for larger drives down the track.. I m waiting for 1t to dip below 350 aud

    • sarasani on 19/05/2015 - 04:37

      I received mine from Newegg today and successfully installed it right away in a MacBook Pro (after cloning my existing drive).

      I decided to go with the M500 based on the low price and reliability. I realise that some people have reported issues with this product (but at least there is plenty of info available about said issues). I don't have the time to be a beta tester for the latest and greatest gear. Plus, I also don't need to achieve the fastest possible speeds.

    • stumo on 19/05/2015 - 09:44
      +3

      Legacy product, thats pure gold right there. Better buy one to put in the museum.

    • dr on 19/05/2015 - 10:25
      +1

      I guess you're opting for 10TB HDD that are coming this quarter, right?

    • bargainperson on 19/05/2015 - 16:14

      Oh, that was just copied from the Crucial site:
      http://www.crucial.com/usa/en/storage-ssd-m500

  • supercheap1 on 19/05/2015 - 03:15

    Cheap cheap

  • JohJoh on 19/05/2015 - 07:11

    Didn't know newegg shipped to Australia!

    EDIT: Woah, costly though.. $51 to ship one stick of notebook memory. I suppose it's only good for more expensive purchases like the deal.

  • lint on 19/05/2015 - 10:30
    +1

    Received mine last week from the previous deal and installed it in my 2011 MacBook Pro. It's been a world of difference from the stock 5400rpm HDD. That and a RAM upgrade makes it seem like a brand new computer.

    Well worth it for close to 1TB.

  • sickburn on 19/05/2015 - 10:50

    Thanks, ordered one! Now I have to figure out how to undo all those hard links I made to my user profile all hose years ago…

    • lint on 19/05/2015 - 12:36

      If you're cloning your existing drive to the SSD, I believe depending on the software used to clone, all the hard links will either be preserved, or they'll just be followed and duplicated anyway.

      Not sure why you'd need to undo them - if anything, you'd just need to redo them if the cloning software undoes and duplicates the data.

      • sickburn on 19/05/2015 - 13:33

        My very first Crucial SSD was only 120GB in size, so I used hard links to move most of my user profile to a 2TB HDD. Now that I have a 960GB SSD coming in, I feel that I no longer need to have a hard linked user profile, and would like to move it back to the C: drive.

        • lint on 20/05/2015 - 09:47

          Oh, right. I think you've got hard links and soft links mixed up. :P

          Hard links are two entries in the file system that point to the same data on the same physical drive.

          Soft/symbolic links are what you're describing.

          I use them to put my photos and music on a second drive too, though I've since moved my photos back after getting this SSD.

        • sickburn on 20/05/2015 - 10:53

          @lint:
          My mistake!

  • UnciasDream on 19/05/2015 - 14:15
    +1

    Price has shot back up to $382. If you miss out on the current price, wait a bit and they generally come down again.

    I think Newegg scales their price on demand or something.

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