Cheapest I've ever seen the 512GB variant of this popular SSD… Very tempting - had been waiting for them to drop below $600.
CamelCamelCamel.
Indeed - I had an alert on at camelcamelcamel for when it dropped below $600 - couldn't it imagine happening so quickly, and figured it was worthy of an ozbargain post!
512GB @ $600 is the same $/GB as 128GB @ $150.
Tempted, but…must…resist.
Resist… then buy 4 128gb and put it on a raid 0 configuration.
This is probably the faster option as well.
raiding the 240gb versions would make the most sense as th 240gb is already in raid and uses the full 8 channles and not 4 - 6 of the lower capacity..
@T1OOO
Mind elaborating on the 8-channel bit?
I personally would not recommend RAIDing SSDs.
You buy SSDs for the fast latency, typically not the transfer rate. RAID0 does NOT improve latencies - if anything, it potentially makes it worse.
You also lose TRIM support with RAID, potentially making your drive slower over time.
RAID0 might give you epeen for the transfer rates, but in reality, probably makes most tasks slower.
This is exactly right.
For general speediness you need faster latency, transfer rates make little to no difference past the cheap 64GB SSD's in general usage.
How reliable is the command to check if TRIM is enabled from CMD?
(fsutil behavior query DisableDeleteNotify)
Because I have 2 x 128GB Crucial M4 SSDs in RAID0 and it is telling me TRIM is enable (result equals 0). Maybe a win for AMD and 990FX chipsets?
Curiously, is everyone using the SSD to run the OS and some applications? and then the HDD for storage.
Nope, I pay $600 to store my movies. Scrolling through the movie becomes instant, in fact its so fast it scrolls before I even click my mouse..
In all seriousness… theres no logic in using ssd's as storage at the current price/capacity. The main advantage is their read speeds.
You can throw one on a portable enclosure but just hope your friend's $200 netbook has a decent usb 3 connection and a hard drive fast enough for it.
hahaha, just put LINKS to the movies on the SSD and still keep the movies on hd…
Well the benefit should be the long MTBF that SSD's have making it perfect for storage.
Its too bad SSD firmwares are bad and you never reach that MTBF.
No idea why someone negged you for that comment, but I reverted it back to normal for you. People around here seem to be extremely neg happy :/
Have you not seen how much SSD posts are on OzB? If you troll this site regularly, you'd be a professional economist on these things.
No I mean mrhorseham was neg'd for asking a valid question…
It was borderline valid…
He might have been wondering why you'd want 512GB just for OS and applications.
I use an SSD as a log device for my storage pool.
Yes that's what I do. At current costs it's hard to store TBs of data on SSDs.
sry, ud have to have rocks inyour brain to chose this over 2x256gb and raiding them for the same price,, even with onboard mb raid it will be alot better.
buy 2 x 600GB and raid? Depends how many slots you have for storage.
the 600gb still uses the same config as the 240gb so its no faster,….. so when you raid 0 2x240 you get something alot faster then just 600gb… on and youll have alot of slots for storage if not just buy some expansions slots………
120gb = 4-6channles
240 = 8 chanles
600 = 8 channles
Avoiding RAID0 would be my preference; for the sake of simplicity and reliability. I reckon a single 512GB drive is fast enough already. I have experienced total data loss from an SSD failure before, and I wouldn't like to double the probability of that happening again.
No you wouldn't. RAID0 halves the MTBF, has more potential to lose data / cause corruption if the system crashes/loses power, and for most purposes SSDs are already plenty fast enough.
what if you have a laptop. Most lappies don't even have slots for a second drive(unless you remove the optical drive
What is the point of raid0 on an SSD? For most of the things you use an SSD for (eg. operating system, multitasking, gaming/graphics) latency is the key. Raid0 if anything will cause an overhead and increase latency, defeating the point of having an SSD.
I once bought 2 floppy drives and connected them in parallel and for a bargain of $700 each.
Your showing your age now DonkeyKong!
"You're"
Trivia; Which came first, 3 1/4" floppy drives or Donkey Kong?
Donkey Kong. Not only because he had to have come first in order to connect them in parallel.
3 and a half or 5 and a quarter. Not 3 and a quarter :P
Or 8 inch, if you're really old school (yeah, we had some of these :D ).
Trick question?… No you're right, 3.5" is the one I meant.
I saw those 8" disks on Wikipedia, the first model in 1971 held about 80kb!
Im waiting till the 1tb are around $400.. I reckon by December/Jan
Yeah, maybe Jan 2014…
Definitely not going to happen anytime soon.
would love one of these….but what is the chance of a dud? What's amazon's warranty like?
Tempting to grab one of these and stick it in my MBP… piece of shit 5200rpm HDD is so slow.
Is everyone still using desktops here? For me a giant SSD is the only option since I need at least 400GB and don't want to lose the CD drive out of my MacBook Pro and I want all of my data with me…
Anyway, a good deal, but I need to say NO! I told myself I won't buy until $1/GB happens and I am sticking to it.
yep! my rule as well
I bought a Lenovo Thinkpad E420 specifically because it had an mSATA slot so I could fit a postage stamp sized SSD in addition to a traditional 2.5" harddisk. You should be able to put a expresscard/34 SSD drive in. However, 2.5" drives seem to be better in price, performance and reliability than expresscard SSD drives so buy with care.
I heard they don't delivery to Australia. Is this true?
Thanks.
Amazon won't sell certain products to Australia for whatever reason, this isn't one of them. I and a fair few others on here are testament that they will send these drives to Aus.
The good (read - logical) thing with Amazon is they won't let you pay for something they won't deliver/provide.
600 for a SSD…Can that make your PC faster than light?
Price has dropped again on this… by another $30… now $550 + post… pretty awesome.
It's currently at its cheapest price from amazon so far:
http://camelcamelcamel.com/Crucial-2-5-Inch-Solid-State-CT51…