MOD: removed reference to amazon deal since the deal is not available directly to Australia.
Another offer on the same SSD from B&H.
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/768803-REG/Crucial_Tec…
$231.26 shipped and they don't require a forwarder!
Thanks to the guys in the comments for this one.
Edit: Price has now changed to $199.
I tried adding 2 to my cart but it imposes a 1 per transaction limit. I've included it in the OP.
Is this because this model is being replaced? Not saying it's obsolete or anything, but this model has been out a while
Not a word from Crucial on whether or not they're going to make a Crucial M5.
Discussion here:
http://forum.crucial.com/t5/Solid-State-Drives-SSD/Crucial-M…
Quote for me :
$11.90 by Airmail Priority (Oregon address, no sales tax)
$4.30 for Insurance
$8.50 Ship.To fee
Total Shipping $24.70
Total Cost landed is $204.69 USD = $205 AUD
That's pretty good!
There are other shipping options but they are 3x more expensive.
which mail forwarding do you use ? That sounds very reasonable for delivery!
Looks like a quote from shipito
24.7+189 = 213.7 not 205?
fail math?
He was referring to the original amazon deal (removed by moderator), which was cheaper.
damned!!!! 179.99??? they are that low today?
They were, just gone back up to $196 - volatile market.
Volatile indeed…$210.99 now!
Dammit, that's a good price… it was my firmly-held opinion that we would be able to get a 256Gb SSD for under $200 delivered within six weeks (from a post about the front end cracking off the SSD-price-berg). Not quite there, but it's not quite six weeks…
sorry man, not available to Australia, so it will be deleted as usual.
Sigh…..I paid my 128G M4 for this price 4 month ago, should wait longer.
Had a quick look on B&H Photo Video and looks like they ship to Australia.
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/768803-REG/Crucial_Tec…
SubTotal: $189.00
Sales Tax: $0.00
Shipping: $32.26
Order Total: $221.26
Might be worth a look.
comgateway.com is my forwarder of choice.
shipito.com is also one i've used a few times.
I'm tempted at this price, but with so many recent drops I'll be kicking myself if in 3 weeks it's $50 cheaper!
The eternal Ozbargain dilemma.
The markdown probably initiated from the manufacturer themselves as Amazon have even cheaper prices (but don't ship here). Probably is worth waiting a little to see what other vendors ship international.
Well if you buy it here http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/768803-REG/Crucial_Tec…
Its $189 and they ship to australia :)
$189 doesn't include shipping (as per the most above)
OP better put the B&H photo offer in the title, otherwise this will be deleted :(
Why has amazon stopped shipping here? Are they likley to start again?
You havent SSD threads have you?
It's just inconsistent, some computer products will still ship, others will not
Gonna give HopShopGo via comgateway.com a try from Amazon purchase, bought in US dollars take advantage of rate rise.
fail economics…
No fees on 28 degrees card - win!
Surely with the 28 degrees card, the fee is in their forex spread. But I suspect it's still going to be the cheapest option available to consumers.
No :) gives the standard MC rate.
Thanks for the info :)
Says $199 plus $32 shipping now.
Just another option to consider, I bought it for $179.99USD on Amazon, sent to Shipito in California.
Amazon charged me AUD$189 for it and shipito had charged an AUD$8.81 deposit/handling fee. Should be around AUD$215 when I finish paying for shipping + insurance. I'd say it's a better deal than this which would cost almost AUD$240, if you're willing to pay that price then you might as well hop on down to your local MSY for a 240GB sandisk extreme at $239.
I bought it the other day from Amazon for $199.99 so was rather annoyed to see it drop to $179.99. I thought that Amazon has a price drop guarantee but seems they got rid of that years ago.
I sent them an email letting them know I was disappointed to see it drop by $20 a few days after I bought it. They kindly offered a refund of that $20 so I am a happy ozbargainer :)
How did you manage to do that Hellfire? What did you type?
Which email address did you send it to?
I used the contact us form and wrote basically what I said.
Don't get caught up in these deals unless it's an urgent purchase, you realise they'll drop locally under $200 in the next 2 months and you'll be kicking yourself. I'll hold off on re-installing my os….
Then they'll be $150 landed from the US :)
BTW you don't have to re-install, just clone your HDD with imaging software.
Anyone got an Amazon Order number for the $179.99? Was the seller Amazon or third party?
Sold by: Amazon.com LLC
Mine was amazon too - I shipped mine to a friend in usa, its so small it will go airmail for just a few $$.
are these compatible on macbook pro like any other hd?
yes it will ! and it's also one of the top choice for MMP
I have order two drives from Amazon yesterday and will use Shipito with express service ship back to Melbourne.
Not selling for profit but just sharing the postage, should be around $220 after all.
Send me a message if you are interested ! drives are expecting to arrive by end of next week.
it was $179.99 from Amazon…are you sure your not charging both drive shipping to the person that buys it… ?
40 bux shipping for one drive seems very excessive.
If you have looked into the details may give you a different thought
The story was I didn't get that $179 deal, I bought those two at $189 and Amazon only allowed one drive per order so eventually they will arrive in two packages at mailing forwarder . I used Shipito and the handling fees for two packages with consolidation for reship is around $20. The express shipping rates from them are not as cheap as those big companies and it's not fixed, like USPS Express or FedEx are about $50 overall. The total sum up would be $450 and this is in USD, converting to AUD by today's currency rates will be around $460.
$460 / 2 = $230 I believe a simple math can tell I would be even in short if I sell it for $220
Very excessive ? By How ?
Please don't judge on something you are not completely sure, especially using a strongly offensive word.
based on the info that these where 179 and the size/weight of these drives (for standard shipping ie 20 for both) = 360+20=380/2 =190
you over paid…so you may be out but you still over paid 30-40 dollars per drive
now your trying to claw some of that overpayment back by sharing the costs of your overpayment.
I won't ship two drives valued $400 on a regular airmail even its with insurance. will you ?
and I said I bought the drives at $190, and where's the shipping forwarder fees in your math ?
Be smart !
Hopshopgo charged USD44.01 so drive is AUD221.89 delivered.
Crikey that's a lot. Glad I didn't buy now. Last time I used h$g was for my nook color and it cost like $35 to ship. How can they justify charging $10 more for something smaller and much lighter?
OK just my package arrived from Amazon in the Shipito warehouse.
The dimensions they sent it in are pretty big for the package, but thankfully very thin and thus cheap. (12" x 9" x 2")
Shipito has charged me in USD, $8.5 + $5 + $4.49insurance. That is a total of about $18.60AUD for shipping with insurance. Or about $14AUD for shipping without insurance.
Note: If you're buying from Amazon don't pay in AUD like I did!!!! Make sure you pay with USD and get your bank to do the conversion for you. It'll save you about $2 for every $100 you spend.
Final Cost: $208AUD, which is a shame haha, I missed the direct shipping from Amazon for $206AUD deal by one day.
just saw that amazon has the sandisk 240gb as daily special .. 179.99 usd (wont ship to oz though)
is this drive better than the sandisk?
The Sandisk one you can get it around $240 in from those online computer store
Crucial's SSDs are more reliable and have more positive reviews by user than SanDisk's drives.
is crucial the same drive that dies after 5000 hours? cause i saw one of the review on the bhphoto review page and it said something like that
That's no longer an issue, after Crucial patched it with a firmware update.
This may interest some people, seems to be a good product
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/848999-REG/Crucial_Tec…
http://www.techspot.com/review/515-crucial-adrenaline-ssd/
A lot of the SSD benefits with no so much of the cost..
A 50GB SSD for $90 USD is very poor value. You're paying $1.80 per gigabyte of data capacity. And that's not even including shipping fees.
For e.g Sandisk Extreme 128GB for $130 AUD represents much more bang for your buck ($1.0156 dollars per gig)
Hey scrimshaw,
You didn't read the article did you.. it's a SSD cache not an SSD drive. It's there to cache the most actively used parts of your traditional HDD to speed up response, so you could say have a 2TB disk with this along side and your traditional hard disk would respond more like a SSD (though there are limits to this).
In a corporate environment this is common place on large storage arrays so you can have relatively slow disks with a small number of fast SSD devices sitting in front of the disk which (with some hardware/software magic) speeds up overall response time and throughput.
This is just the first time I'd seen this done on a consumer level (without it being locked in to a all in one HDD/SSD package).
But why not just go full SSD and be done with it? The cache drive costs $90 (possibly over $100 after shipping) which is only a few dollars shy of a quality, locally bought 128GB SSD drive.
In other words, you could fork out $100 and get SSD caching, and partial benefits of an SSD drive.
or pay an extra $30 bucks and get the full SSD experience (and no requirement for a Z68 chipset).
Which sounds better?
I would say MOST consumers (not corporate customers) would prefer the full SSD experience as opposed to just caching — large capacity SSD's are getting plenty cheap nowadays.
What is the deal with warranty when purchasing overseas?
I've had too many SSDs fail in the last few years, so I need to know this before purchasing.
wow thats cheap!
would make sense if group buy and save on postage