expired Kingston 30Gb SSD Drive - $85 from centrecom.com.au! (very limited stocks)

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Kingston 30Gb SSD Drive - $85 from centrecom.com.au! (very limited stocks)
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Centrecom on 16/09/2010 - 15:47 www.centrecom.com.au (1065 clicks)
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Special offer today and tomorrow or until stocks are exhausted (which is likely!)… Kingston SSD 30Gb for $85! By far the best price around anywhere in Australia, just use the coupon above to get the discount in your shopping cart. Limit 1 per customer.

Size not bad for a Windows 7 Home Premium install (which is around 20Gb or so), really this is IDEAL for a boot drive with minimal programs installed there.

If you haven't seen a system running with an SSD drive - its really one of the cheapest, easiest best upgrades you can perform - the boost is great!

Thanks OzBargain.

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    Aturaya on 16/09/2010 - 15:48

    Link requires username and password

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    Mikinoz on 16/09/2010 - 15:53

    schweet , 20.00 off

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    mrkyle on 16/09/2010 - 15:56

    errr. what can u do with 30G.. espically if you got Windows 7 64bit
    but i guess its still a pretty good deal if you got XP

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      GreenGuava on 16/09/2010 - 15:57

      Agree. It's a good price for what it is, but 30GB is a little small IMO.

      • +1 vote
        wisc on 17/09/2010 - 14:25

        easy just grab 2 and raid them, double the speed double the space… works out better than buying 1 big one.

        I have two SSDs in raid… supported by an ICH10 chipset… get close to 400 reads…

        NICE!

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      RonDMC on 16/09/2010 - 16:00

      Great for a HTPC… I have a 60GB Falcon SSD in my HTPC running Windows 7 x64 MCE with all codecs, HUGE mediabrowser library with image cache etc and am only using 25GB. SSD makes a world of difference if you are running mediaBrowser.

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      anthony on 16/09/2010 - 16:21

      Windows 7 is about 15gb

      That would leave you about 10gb free after installing windows which would be fine for a portable netbook where you want longer battery life

  • +1 vote
    Turd on 16/09/2010 - 15:59

    30GB – 180MB/sec. read; 50MB/sec. write

    Slow sorta…

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    ihuangyu on 16/09/2010 - 16:01

    Very limited stocks, very limited spaces.

  • +7 votes
    RandomNinja on 16/09/2010 - 16:11

    Hmm, the 64Gb SSD is more than double the size and around double the price. But seems like it may be a more practical size. http://www.centrecom.com.au/catalog/product_info.php?product...

    Hey Rep, how about a coupon for $20 off this one? =)

    • +1 vote
      Turd on 16/09/2010 - 16:14

      Yeah!

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      Trance N Dance on 16/09/2010 - 16:43

      more like a $35 to keep the discounts the same :D

  • +2 votes
    webbiegareth on 16/09/2010 - 16:45

    I was excited until I realised that the shipping fee takes up half of that $20 discount, so it's more like a $10 discount. Unfortunately when you order online, you can't select a store to pick it up from… and there's a local store the next suburb over from me.

    If I could buy one for that $85 and pick it up in person (Sunshine Vic store), I'd do it… otherwise I'll pass. :(

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    drexxx on 16/09/2010 - 17:27

    wouldnt you have this as your Operating system drive and use your normal drives for storage.. e..g music, games, large apps.

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      GreenGuava on 16/09/2010 - 17:50

      Yes, but the suggested minimum HDD requirements for a Windows 7 install is between 16 to 20GB depending on whether you choose to use the 32- or 64-bit version.

      http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/get/system-requir...

      On a 30GB SSD, that really doesn't leave much space for anything else.

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        m0tyrider on 16/09/2010 - 18:22

        I have my win7 drive partitioned to 35gb, so about 34.x usable. I have 11gb free, plenty of room :)
        Get other drives for games, apps and storage.

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        drexxx on 16/09/2010 - 18:50

        Why would i put other stuff on the SSD? i woudl prob put firefox and other apps i freqently use on teh SSD so those apps and windows would respond faster.

        thats just how i see it anyway.

        My win 7 64bit takes around 20GB

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        AlexF on 16/09/2010 - 19:15

        The issue with SSDs is not how much disk space it provides, but how much is left free.
        SSD controllers attempt to prolong life by minimising writing to the same memory locations and the only way they can do that is by spreading the write to as many different unallocated memory locations as are avaiable, ie. free.
        Less free disk space, means less spread means more wear means less life.

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          drexxx on 16/09/2010 - 19:39

          ah ok cool. i didnt know that.

          what life times are we talking? Lifetimes greater than 3 to 4 years is enough…. and it has a 3 year warranty :)

          is it that much faster tho? SataII is 3GB/s right?

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            AlexF on 16/09/2010 - 19:41

            Lifetimes greater than 3 to 4 years is enough

            is it? SSDs don't have moving parts and hence you should be expected the investement to last longer.

            and it has a 3 year warranty

            Wear that I am referring to above, aka, "wear leveling", isn't covered by warranty. This kind of thing is considered "wear & tear".

            is it that much faster tho? SataII is 3GB/s right?

            In the scheme of things, SSDs are pretty much limited by the interface… Sata2 is 3GB/s. Which is plenty fast for any practical use - hence the comment about expecting investment to last.

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              chansthename on 16/09/2010 - 19:47

              Just mentioning that the memory chips SSDs use have a limited number of read/writes and therefore that impacts on the lifetime.

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                AlexF on 16/09/2010 - 19:49

                There's no limit on reads only on writes.

                A larger SSD is a brilliant investment, but 30GB is too small and won't pay back as much due to reduction of life.

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    Rutger on 16/09/2010 - 18:21

    This is a great price but I did some research after these came out and fairly soon will be another big leap in price/gb (~end of year) so for a desktop it's best to wait. For a laptop or silent htpc I'd buy this.

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      drexxx on 16/09/2010 - 18:51

      so would after xmas be the best time to get one of these do you think?

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        diddy50 on 17/09/2010 - 12:56

        UIsually prices go down as technology take up increases…
        so it would be far to say that in 6 months time this would be cheaper as would other SSDs.

        But the only problem is that for the next 6 months you would not be using an SSD, so you have to weigh up the cost vs. use SSD now.

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    sir_gavin on 16/09/2010 - 19:25

    Ok price if you have a use for 30GB ASAP. This kind of stuff just wait a few months and get a 160GB the same price. Does anyone urgently need 30GB. Not really an upgrade is it. SSD is the way of the future though.

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