This was $149 + Shipping here
Price has dropped $10 and now includes free shipping. Original free shipping deal
Achieve the ultimate read/write performance to maximise your everyday computing experience with the new Samsung EVO 850 series SSDs. Featuring a 250GB capacity, up to 540MB/s sequential read and 520MB/s sequential write and 1.5 million hours MTBF for the ultimate reliability.
Highlights:
Samsung 32 layer 3D V-NAND
SATA 6Gb/s Interface
120, 250, 500, 1000GB (1GB=1 Billionbyte by IDEMA)
R/W(MAX) 540 MB/s/520 MB/s
97K/88K IOPS
1.5 Million Hours Reliability (MTBF)
2.5” inch
Do these suffer from the same problem as the 840? ie. files older that 30 days makes the drive go very slow.
I haven't kept up but last time I checked the new firmware that was meant to address the issue didn't really work.