Coupon code for this SSD, Price originally $99 down to $59 using the coupon code provided.
Model #SNV125-S2/30GB
Not sure of delivery costs from these guys, so it might end up cheaper than if you just walked into MSY who have it as $76, if there's one nearby anyhow.
Price was edited in less than 30 seconds after I originally quick-posted the deal.
jv diligently patrols the postings looking for errors; as well as cheap prawns! ;)
Good for using with Z68 mother board as a cache. (Smart Response)
thanks cpeiqi did not know you could do that
Actually, no, it's not. By its nature, cache has extremely high throughput and hence large number of write cycles which are limited on all NAND SSDs but particularly MLC. Hence, Intel is itself only marketing an SLC drive as a Z68-bound cache drive.
I suspect (reference?) that this SSD cache is invisible to Windows, which will only see HDDs as targets and hence won't implement TRIM, hence reducing write-lifetime of the cache even further.
"SLC generally endures up to 100,000 write cycles or writes per cell, while MLC can endure anywhere from 1,000 to 10,000 writes before it begins to fail" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSD#Single-level_cell_.28SLC.29…
Half correct; the drive is presented to the OS as an SSD, so it gets the full benefits from TRIM, it is however not presented to the user. As far as the user knows, it's just the larger HDD.
Everything else you said is very correct though. I'd imagine the write performance of this drive would seriously reduce the performance of it as a cache drive, considering the write speed of any current gen. HDD is better than it….
Not a bad price at all! :)
30Gb is not very practical thought…
It's actually fairly practical just to use as a OS boot drive, last I checked w7 is usually around 15-20g without huge system restore and page files.
It's actually fairly practical
not for a notebook or netbook, unless all you want to do is surf the net…
not much space left for files / video / music / pics… especially after loading a few basic apps…
i just installed a 60G one in my home PC and after installing some basic apps, i've already used almost 30G
Then don't use it in your laptop.
Plenty enough for win7 and anything you run regularly.
It's what they're generally used for anyhow.
not much space left for data if you can't installed a second disk internally…
If you're able to install this in a netbook, then obviously you'd know that you wouldn't be able to use it for lots of file storage. Otherwise you would buy a larger drive.
It IS only $59 after all.
No need to be so negative, SMILE, dance a jig, something… :)
Don't mind if I do!
Dances a jig
The issue isn't how much space is used, but rather how much space is unused and can be utilised for wear levelling (during writing). Without space for wear-levelling your SSD won't last too long.
cheapest sydney metro looks to be 6.95
Are these any good?
Umart has the 64GB version for $115, which is better value I reckon.
I haven't read about them for a while, but when I got mine at the end of last year the 30/60/120GB versions had the newer version of the controller then the 32/64/128GB ones and outperformed them considerably in terms of write speeds.
now the series 3 are out, and are at least twice as fast again…
For this price that's pretty good BUT the write speed is just over double for the larger versions.
30 GB - up to 180 MB/sec. read, 50 MB/sec write
64 GB – up to 200MB/sec. read; 110MB/sec. write
128 GB – up to 200MB/sec. read; 160MB/sec. write
Yeh, checked these out a while ago for the HTPC, write speed is horrendous - but read speed is great for the price.
I'd never use them for a boot drive or similar, unless you set it up with swap, tmp, etc on another drive.
Would we agree that its practically impractical unless you have a practical use for it?
I would think it's practically practical if you have a practical use for it, yes.
Ah, a glass half full man :)
Maybe it would be practical to buy 2 or 4 and RAID them.
why not just get a bigger one then?
redundancy perhaps?
speed
speed
???
These are SSD's… there is no read/write head…
RAID 0 on SSD's gives significant performance advantages in read/write throughput.
Quiet jv, or I'll unleash the nerds!
anyone knows what is the delivery cost to melbourne 3000?
Seems to come up with a few choices for melbourne 3000
State Based Rate
Shipping to Victoria $14.00
Auspost Satchel
Satchel for small items $9.00
Small Satchel
Satchel for smallest items $6.95
Vic Metro Rate
Vic Metro & Geelong Only $8.25
cant get this deal instore?
cheapest postage I can see after logging in is $6.95 for VIC
……rats too slow with typing ;)
If your using a credit card for the first time you have to do a lot of shit like scanning a bank statement and 2 other things so its easier to just use a different payment method.
Thanks for the deal though, I just got 1.
being Broden Jr, shouldn't you get like 2000?
I have a HP 2133 netbook, about 2 years old, and heats up really badly. It's a common problem with these netbooks. Would an SSD like this one fix this issue?
Doubt it's the harddrive heating up, more than likely the RAM&CPU rather than the HDD. Usually they'd stay under 30degrees..
Use a temp program to see what's getting hot. I've got a HP netbook 310 has an SSD and it gets really hot just under the touchpad. It's the RAM that gets hot on that one.
Thanks for the advice. Temp program? I've upgraded it from Vista to Windows 7 - is there gadget which would show this?
try speedfan
edit:double post
I was really contemplating buying this but with postage at at least $8 for Perth (haven't checked) the price is only $12 cheaper than Netplus, I was also looking at their graphics cards and it would be cheaper just to get it locally. Also the R/W speed isn't the best.
Just wondering, I have an HP desktop with supplier installed Windows Vista. How do I transfer the OS to this new drive if I buy it? It really does struggle on the current HDD. Thanks
Use something like Acronis - pretty easy to use
EDIT - have a look at this link http://www.allacronis.com/step-by-step-2.php
Make sure the partition is aligned! I do it with Acronis, but it takes a few more steps to properly move data over from a mechanical HDD to an SSD.
p.s. asim - get W7 too, it'll fly compared to vista.
jv on 24/05/2011 - 11:21 Comment score below threshold.