Lowest price ever according to camelcamelcamel. The 500GB is the only real bargain as far as I can tell. Other (approx) prices are below so you can decide for yourself.
120GB - $ 97.80AU
250GB - $178.64AU
750GB - $493.59AU
1TB - $521.61AU
Cheapest local price for the 500GB is $329.00 without shipping according to SI.
CamelCamelCamel.
Kingston SSDs are cheap as well, not sure how they compare but the 240Gb is now US$106.18 delivered and the 480Gb is a touch under US$246 delivered.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00A1ZTZNM/ref=ox_sc_sfl_ti…
how these compared to the 480gb crucial m500s
EVO has faster write speeds, especially at the sub-400GB capacities, but not enough that you'd notice unless you spend your day running benchmarks or doing large SSD-SSD file copies. EVO theoretically has a shorter lifespan, but not enough for it to become an issue unless you're intensively writing to the drive for many years. M500 features power loss protection, which most SSDs including the EVO don't have - the benefits aren't well quantified so you're best off reading a bit about it and assigning your own value based on your situation and how risk-averse you are.
For most, all of that is much of a muchness, and you'd do no worse using a coin flip to choose.
the way i see it between the two is price vs capacity. is the increase of ~$30 worth the extra 20gb to you.
Jabba's right on the money.
The things that set the M500s apart are the power-loss protection via an array of capacitors that'll provide enough juice to flush any data waiting to be written to the NAND in the event of a power failure unlike an Evo/Pro 840 which could suffer from file corruption in those circumstances. They've also got a better way of dealing factory bad blocks (something virtually all SSDs have) & NAND failures (RAIN provides an additional reserve on top of the standard 7% of over-provisioning).
I had a full-on black-out not too long after getting my M500 while I was in the middle of copying a bunch of files over and when power was restored it booted back up with no dramas and the SMART stats were all still healthy.
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Samsung-840-EVO-Series-500GB-2-5-…
ebay has this price for now but it says no sata-usb 3.0 connector.I don't
know how much the connector is and if the one sold on amazon comes with a
connector.
0 feedback, back away from the Ebay store…. Or is it your store?
It is not mine but I search ebay every time before I decide to
purchase anything. This is common sense.
wow, dude way to take it so seriously, I was warning people that this [ebay] deal is very suspicious, and not be considered valid.
Umart is $7 cheaper for the 250gb
I can get it for <AUD270 when I let my citicard do the USD to AUD conversion.
MSY has it for $329 so this is a good price, although it depends on how much a local warranty is worth to you.
Wife should be happy we are moving house next week and have other stuff to spend money on!
Direct?
Not through Paypal?
I want mSATA for brix
Did anyone notice you can opt to pay in US or AU$ - because my card has 0 international fees on conversion, I'm getting a figure of $270 rather than the $280 I do on the AUD - a small saving but worth noting.
(Bankwest Platinum Master Card)
For the 500 Gb :
My costing came to $252.98 (US) — (using an AmEx card for the "double points")
in AUD that is $272.56 delivered (total includes Expedited Shipping cost)
what was the price in USD of the 500GB
I am getting USD 265.73 inc shipping.
And here i just bought a Crucial M500 240GB SSD from Amazon. Oh well. Sill only paid $110 USD for that one.