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Crucial M4 512GB SSD - $324.42 AU Delivered - Amazon.de

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barnetas on 30/10/2012 - 01:56 amazon.de (905 clicks)
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The Crucial M4 512gb SSD is currently 279 euros from Amazon Germany. This comes to $324.42 AU Delivered. At this price I think it's time I jump on the SSD bandwagon!

If you like this deal feel free to use my affiliate link: http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B004W2JL3Y/ref=as_li_qf_sp_a… (affiliate link)

Also, the 256gb version is $182.47 AU delivered: http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B004W2JL2A/ref=noref?ie=UTF8….
Or by using my affiliate link: http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B004W2JL2A/ref=as_li_qf_sp_a… (affiliate link)

TIP: furythree pointed out that if you use a 28 Degrees Mastercard you can get it for $AUD312.70. Just remember that do this you must click "Nein Danke" on the first payment total page. This circumvents the Amazon currency conversion, which doesn't use the most favourable rate.

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  • Merlict on 30/10/2012 - 02:02
    +4

    Too much for me, but still a good deal

    • TimApple on 30/10/2012 - 11:55
      -1

      Cutting edge technology is always too much.

    • opt on 31/10/2012 - 10:16
      +1

      yes, SSD prices are dropping fast, but $300+ is still too much for most of us .

      So here is a tip for those who have regular laptops: Buy a 120GB SSD and put your regular HDD (the one you already have) in the optical drive bay. Most regular laptops (except netbooks and new ultrabooks) have a standard 12.7mm optical drive which can be easily replaced with a 2.5 HDD using a SATA optical drive caddy. if you really need the optical drive (which I don't) then get an enclosure for it. You can buy both (Caddy + enclosure ) for around $40 from eBay (http://goo.gl/QP2WO).

  • halfaznpersuasion on 30/10/2012 - 02:10
    +3

    really good deal as i got mine a couple weeks ago for 385 with transfer kit

    • furythree on 30/10/2012 - 12:48
      +3

      does this come with a kit? and is it sata 3?

      Btw, THANK YOU SO MUCH barnetas!!!!

      ive been holding out resisting deal after deal waiting for a crucial deal to come out and just as i was about to give up, a deal gets posted at a…wait for it…"crucial" moment.
      Affiliate link used!

      btw the current exchange rate is 1.25AUD = 1 eur
      so 234.45+15.71=250.16 euro delivered with VAT removed
      28 degrees master card rate therefore is:
      $AUD312.7

      Holy magic savings batman!

      TIP: remember to click "nien danke" (no thankyou) when at the first payment total page. its asking whether you want to use the amazon price rort conversion rate or pay at the website euro price. 28degrees customers click nien danke

      • barnetas on 30/10/2012 - 13:29
        +1

        Nice tip furythree and I hope you enjoy your new SSD! If you don't mind I'll add this info into the description??

        • furythree on 30/10/2012 - 16:04
          +1

          np go ahead

          saved me like $200 to put towards a galaxy note 2 lolz

  • h3h3 on 30/10/2012 - 02:18
    +1

    this is the first time I've considered getting ssd after seeing the capacity and this price

  • vandlin on 30/10/2012 - 02:52

    Hello, computer noob here. In spite of this, however, I'm thinking of building a computer for my parents and I would love some help a few questions that I have.

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding of the benefits of an SSD is that it makes opening up programs and extracting files from storage faster, and hence also booting up your comp faster.

    My questions are:

    1. Will an SSD be of any real benefit if I use my computer only for light tasks such as web browsing?

    2. Am I correct in thinking that it won't as you're not really opening up any programs but will rather be multitasking (through tabs etc) and using temporary memory and thus only using the RAM instead? …or am I speaking complete gibberish…

    3. Also, will an SSD be of any real benefit if it's fitted with a low end processor?

    • Balls on 30/10/2012 - 04:19
      +5
      1. yes, every component of your OS has some relation to the drive, afterall, you'd want to install your primary OS on it, for browsing youd have the caches loaded and browsers load quicker installed on ssd
      2. you should install programs onto ssd, so as mentioned theyd all benefit from operation, theyre not just in RAM, most programs would read and write to the SSD as needed.
      3. look just get it even a pentium 3 will benefit(theres some videos on utube on this)

      think of it as an overall upgrade of your pc, as almost every action will benefit in terms of speed, whether noticeable or not.

    • WT on 30/10/2012 - 10:01
      +2

      for web browsing, I would say your wasting your money.

      Im no computer expert but the difference between IE/chome/firefox taking 1 second to opend or 0.1 second isnt that big of a deal.

      If you were to use an ssd, you would be better off with a sub $100 SSD for your OS (about 20-30g with drivers on win 7) and a 1tb ($74)for storage.

    • AlexF on 30/10/2012 - 16:39
      +2

      but my understanding of the benefits of an SSD is that it makes opening up programs and extracting files from storage faster, and hence also booting up your comp faster.

      it makes all disk IO faster.

      The only issue is - how much IO are you really going to do and whether you'll be hindered noticeably over say a 7200RPM HDD and whether it make a difference to user if the boot is 10 seconds or 40 seconds?

      If the PC has sufficient RAM, a casual users won't see any difference between boot and shutdown.

      I'd spend the savings on a higher quality screen, mouse, keyboard, ergonomic chair, foot stool - things that actually matter during computer use.

      However, I'd recommend an SSD to anyone with a laptop - purely because solid-state is going to weather transportation much better than even a auto-parked HDD.

      • rokkz on 30/10/2012 - 19:35
        +4

        Disagree ssd regardless of ram size will improve the performance period, I/O doesn't magically appear in ram, rather via ssd.

        • ThadtheChad on 30/10/2012 - 21:59
          +1

          +1

          Unfortunately, there seems to be this weird thing where most applications are written to use paging regardless of the amount of RAM a machine has. Even if 20% of your RAM is in use, there will still be page faults. Also, if the pagefile is disabled, some applications tend to start having stability issues.

          tl;dr:

          Get an SSD. Preferably a 120GB one for primary OS and Apps drive and a 1TB HDD for storage, if you're budget concious.

    • vandlin on 30/10/2012 - 20:58

      Thanks for all your help guys!

  • nakata on 30/10/2012 - 03:22
    +1

    Sweet price! Been waiting for a price drop. Don't have to pay VAT so the price incl shipping is EUR 250.16 with standard delivery (10-14 days).

    Thanks!

    • barnetas on 30/10/2012 - 06:04

      Not a problem nakata. Enjoy!

  • narbe on 30/10/2012 - 06:39
    +1

    How would warranty work on this ?

    • Cluster on 30/10/2012 - 14:06
      +1

      I bought a 512Gb Crucial SSD from Amazon USA earlier this year. It worked for about 30 minutes before completely dying. Amazon covered postage of the item back and gave a quick refund.

      • superuser on 30/10/2012 - 14:26
        +1

        30 minutes, wait….what?

        • blaze on 30/10/2012 - 14:31
          +7

          i'd rather my ssd die in 30mins than in 30 days or 30 months to be honest

        • Cluster on 30/10/2012 - 16:22
          +1

          I was imaging a laptop HDD to the SSD when the process stopped with read/write errors after about 30 mins. From that point onwards the SSD was unmountable and nothing I did could get it working again.

          SSDs are generally more reliable than HDDs, but when they die there's usually no warning. I've had HDDs click and make weird noises as a warning of impending death.

  • dirtybird on 30/10/2012 - 08:43
    +1

    nice price thx

  • ozlegacy on 30/10/2012 - 08:56
    +1

    Even cheaper on 28 degrees mastercard awesome deal

    • barnetas on 30/10/2012 - 10:57
      +1

      How much did that come to ozlegacy??

    • Cluster on 30/10/2012 - 14:07

      BankWest Platinum (no annual fees, 55 days interest free) also does commission free currency exchange.

  • Shlomo Scheinbaum on 30/10/2012 - 09:07
    +1

    Great deal, once you get buy a SSD you'll never look back.

  • aeon on 30/10/2012 - 09:15

    Excellent price - I'd been waiting for some time for it to get this cheap, but ended up just getting a Sandisk 480gb one which has been serving me well.

  • nfr on 30/10/2012 - 09:40

    Good deal. They are 9.5mm right?

    • barnetas on 30/10/2012 - 11:00

      Yep this price is for 9.5mm. The 7mm version then jumps up to 354.94 euros.

  • Starcraftmazter on 30/10/2012 - 09:41
    +2

    Holy crap that's a good deal!

  • cairnsn on 30/10/2012 - 09:51

    Think I might wait until it drops below $300. That way I could claim it as an immediate tax deduction rather than depreciate it over a number of years if it used for work-related purposes.

  • Kelalako on 30/10/2012 - 10:00
    +5

    Very good deal, thank you very much OP.

    And thank you for all the Ozbargainers who find these deals on foreign amazons/websites, you guys are tops.

    • barnetas on 30/10/2012 - 11:03
      +1

      No worries Kelalako :)

  • bbcw1980 on 30/10/2012 - 10:30
    +1

    thx OP!

  • insinc on 30/10/2012 - 10:57
    +1

    Ordered - confirmed price.

    • samsico on 30/10/2012 - 14:15

      Help I can't even read the language ..no Singlish.. ?

  • ethereal88 on 30/10/2012 - 12:12
    +1

    Everybody in 2012 should be running some form of SSD. Chuck your old ass Core 2's and Pentium 4's in the bin and upgrade to 2012. An SSD will make some bits of browsing faster, especially as the cache is on the SSD. Win 8 is the best option for an SSD, everything is liquid.

  • bilanovsky on 30/10/2012 - 14:52

    I've read some negative reviews about this SSD here http://www.crucial.com/store/partspecs.aspx?IMODULE=CT512M4S….
    Is this particular SSD good, compared, say, with Samsung 830?

    I am looking to replace HHD at my laptop to increase performance.

    • furythree on 30/10/2012 - 21:36
      +1

      its been out for much longer than the 830
      both are fantastic
      the m4 has a better (because it has a longer) track record. the feedback is generally positive in terms of reliability and warranty

      Samsung uses 100% its own hardware and firmware so fully optimised and fast and just as reliable

      When you read reviews, the whingers always scream the loudest.

      in short, buy it. out of all the ssds out there, i would only ever buy an intel/crucial/samsung in that order

  • blaze on 30/10/2012 - 14:57

    apparently these arent so crash hot in a macbook pro otherwise i would have taken it up!

    keen to see a similar deal on sandisk ssds or similar if possible. :)

  • HereYeeHereYee on 30/10/2012 - 16:02
    +1

    wow !

  • googolplex on 30/10/2012 - 17:41

    I'm still waiting for these to hit my magic price point of $0.50 per GB

    • CuteBirdy on 02/11/2012 - 10:21

      Everyone was saying that for $1 per Gb before, once it hits $0.50 bet you'll say you wait for it to hit $0.25.

  • sirplus on 30/10/2012 - 18:07

    What's the name of a good website that tracks the lowest price over time?
    I'd like to see if this price plumet looks like accelerating….

  • jrcjamie on 31/10/2012 - 22:03

    Mmmm x2 for raid 0 and thats a cheap 1TB SSD for all my steam games. High risk of data loss is no drama as its all backed up! Ker Ching!' thanks OP

  • dirtybird on 09/11/2012 - 20:04

    Arrived today.

  • endotherm on 12/11/2012 - 18:25

    Mine arrived today. It's my first SSD, so can anyone tell me what optimisations are really necessary. From what I've read, some sites list a couple of dozen tweaks, whereas other guides say none are really required, as Windows 7 should be SSD aware and adjust them accordingly. Short of checking that defrag gets automatically turned off etc. is there anything else critical? For what it's worth, I'm replacing a Momentus 500GB hybrid drive in my Asus G73S running Windows 7 Home Premium. Being such a large drive, I'm not really interested in tweaks reclaiming space (this would have been important previously as SSDs were comparatively small), and I'm not paranoid about prematurely wearing it out from excessive writes, although if there is anything particularly bad I'd consider it. Thanks.

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