NetPlus already have one of the lowest price in Australia at $239 on SI, have decided to celebrate the start of Autumn and have these at $199! Delivery is only $1 Australia wide regardless of how many drives you buy!
240Gb Corsair Force GS 3 SSD SATA3 555/525 HDD CSSD-F240GBGS-BK
Type in promocode: AUTUMN
Get the evo, it's one of the more reliable ssd's out there (second to the intels).
can u buy ssd that are portable or mass units? i was thinking i need a new one to save my documents for backup and need around 500gig if so much are they atm for diff sizes~ like 120 gigs/200/320/500?
Just go a mechanical hard drive for backups. There's no benefit at all in using an SSD.
Really? How about 10GB of small files like logs, cctv pogs/mpegs, databases, text files? Can be the difference between minutes and hours
why mechanical??? i read ssd drives are less likly to be damaged because of no spin, can u explain rather then such a bold statement ~_~"
Simple reason..they're an assload cheaper. Slow mechanical drives (good enough for backups you access once a week or less) are up to 1 / 20th of the price per gig
If it's not going to be moving often the difference in reliability isn't massive, not that one disk should ever be a solo backup if it's important
Merlict is exactly right.
You need 500GB of backup, that can easily be done by getting a couple of 1TB portable externals (you have room for future backups, plus redundancy by using 2 drives) for a hell of a lot less than what ever 500GB of SSD storage will cost.
For actual OS uses, I would never go back to a mechanical drive. For storage and backups, I'd only use mechanical drives due to the $/GB being insanely better.
How does this drive fair against the Crucial M500 (currently $159 del) or the 840 EVO(the drive I'm looking at getting)?