One of the top selling item on Amazon International site.
Price drops again now to US$159.99
Shipping when I bought it was US$ 6.4
The lowest was $158, this is quite close
CamelCamelCamel.
Because these aren't offers or special discounts.. it appears to be a new standard price. Yes the first time it drops it is noteworthy, and the price will continue to waver a little - but do we need to know ever movement of THIS items price.
If you were interested in this device at the time of the first proce drops then you'd appreciate the notice. Now however if your interested in this product then you'd see this option on Amazon anyway - who doesn't check Amazon.com as a potential purchase point or just pricing guide.
Generally your seeing a downward trend on all types of HDD and SSD as the supply from Thailand is restored and demand is met and competition resumes.
You make all valid points. However, this is more a subjective then factual issue. I wouldn't say that Amazon is the price guide for any technological item. Each outlet has its own specials and its own overpriced rip-offs. SSDs are a big point in the electronics consumer market right now, and in my opinion deserve some coverage when price drops are noticed. I get too some this is irrelevant as they have no desire to purchase a SSD or interest in electronic device and thus would find these annoying.
But, this site has a well documented feature that allows the blocking of specific deals. So I don't see the problem with these post at all. I know as soon as it cracks $150 im jumping on the wagon.
It's not that I'm not interested - actually I'm highly interested - in the 256GB model and like you I'd make it my bitch @ $300. I guess I feel the pain of others as I'm monitoring the price on a semi daily basis on it's gradual decline and have yet felt the need to alert others.
Also … I don't think I can just block the Amazon M4 128GB item can I .. I'd have to block amazon.com right? - something I don't think many people would do.
I get your view point 100%. But at the end of the day with all of the above noted, one post of 100 or so (guess) front page deals a week isn't so hard to ignore :)
And by our more or less equal votes from other members, I am going to assume its a borderline issue with the rest of the community (by common practise, something that cannot be decided due to indecision is generally left unchanged). Appreciate the level headed discussion Elijha.
Note that the 64GB one is $79.99 too, quite a price drop, lowest so far. If you're after a small drive that could save you some money as it's the same $ per GB as the 128GB.
Good idea. For desktops 64GB is enough for the OS drive.
Yep, great for my HTPC :D - I'll wait, though. They can only get cheaper.
We said the same about HDD :P
For desktops 64GB is enough for the OS drive.
The advantage of a larger SSD is not speed but rather endurance (or lifetime). The more unused space available on SSD the greater it's able to spread any writes (on unused blocks), conversely, the less unused space the more often the same blocks are (read, erased and) written to.
MLC flash memory has around 10K write-cycles per 4K block, after that, no more reliable writes on that block. Intel's caching "Intel SSD 311", is small only because Intel's using SLC flash memory, with around 100K write-cycles per 4K block.
You may say that all above is all just dandy, because by the time you'll wear out the blocks, there's be bigger and cheaper SSDs around, right? However, the new generation of larger and "cheaper" SSDs will use TLC flash memory, with only 5K write-cycles, so, no free lunch.
Do you get the same speeds though?
EDIT: Just checked, how come the seq write speed is so much lower on the 64GB? 175MB/s down to 95MB/s.
by design, SSDs with bigger capacity are faster. It has to do with the way the memory is arranged and accessed.
Imagine it's a V4 vs V6 ;)
I am getting the 64GB for an older laptop that won't be used for much except work. I guess the difference between SSDs in real world usage isn't as noticeable compared to benchmark reports? I'm pretty sure it will speed things up quite a bit as the mechanical drive seems to be the bottleneck on that old laptop.
Could squeeze a couple more years out of that laptop, and the CPU has more grunt than an Intel Atom. Couldn't justify paying $16x for an old laptop when I could've bought a new netbook for $199. And when that laptop retires the SSD will go into my HTPC / Server of which 64GB for OS is more than enoujgh.
But ya, 128GB is faster. =) Just not $80 faster for space that I don't need.
Honestly provided it is a 'name brand' SSD, they'll all be much of a muchness for everyday users.
i'm thinking of getting the 64 to be an awesome fast USB drive… just wondering if it's worth it.
I think whether you see a big difference in speed also depends on the SATA interface in your old laptop. If it's SATA I at 1.5Gb/s then maybe this SSD won't make the laptop very much faster?
@nickbose: Even at SATA-I speeds the 64GB drive should hit close to 150MB/s for reads and 100MB/s for writes. But the main benefit of any SSD over a mechanical hard drive is the random access speeds / IOPS. The real-world difference should still be very noticable.
@slowmo,if its not usb 3 dont even bother…actually theres no real logic. You wont need the speed since the capacity is so small, and you wont need the speed sincce the files you'll most likely transfer would be done in seconds anyway.
Yes, I was going to mention this :)
64GB is the cheapest it has ever been, since 17/02.
I believe it's even cheaper per GB than the 128GB.
edit: andddd just like that, it's gone up $5!
Yeah it is $80, shipping & handling is $72.32 though…..
Tell me I'm doing it wrong.
Select the one from the Amazon store, mine comes to Order Total: AUD 92.63
(SSD listed at $89.25USD)
I'm waiting till 128gb is the price of 64gb.. probably about 5 months at this rate.
Negged because of a personal preference. No demands others wait, no neg vote on the deal… you were just negged for expressing your personal preference. Good ole ozbargain.
Is that english?
Ok we get it now this drive get cheaper every week, yawn.
$2 cheaper than last time… yabout the 10th post in a row like that… yawn indeed…
Very few computers have SSD's built in ans the ones that do are expensive and have slower speed drives.
Raphy has been brainwashed by Gerry Harvey! go buy a comp at hardly normal for 3 grand, ill build myself a faster one for $1000
How to register this on Amazon?
Other computer parts are okay, but this one got "We are not able to ship this item to your default shipping address. "
Anyone knows why?
My PO Box got rejected. My home address was accepted.
This was for the 64GB SSD, not 128GB.
What are these things anyway? I've seen them a few times posted on this website and have wondered what on earth they are.
my understanding is much smaller, faster, more reliable, less power consumed, less noisy hard drive. BUT MORE EXPENSIVE!
Can swap your existing Hard drive for SSD to save power/time and noise.
Once done you can use your old HDD as a back up or external memory source.
Another thing you can do (if you have an optical drive in a laptop say)is run the OS (e.g. Windows) from the SSD and keep the HDD for files etc.
More info here
http://www.newmodeus.com/shop/index.php?main_page=page&id=28
It's a much faster hard disk for your computer. You have to open it up to put one in, then re-install windows and all your files onto it.
When you turn your computer on, it'll take, say, 10 seconds instead of a minute; when you open a Word document it'll open in 1 second instead of 7, that sort of thing (these are very rough numbers, but you get the idea). Games won't generally run faster, but loading times will be much shorter.
lol, I don't think you used "much" enough, I have a few of these drives in various PC's n Laptops. They fly! :-) I can boot up, load BF3, kill a couple of enemy, before my non SSD friends have loaded the game. Mad speeds!
Imagine Usain Bolt….on steroids
Anyone put one of these in an iMac? Thinking 128gb is probably too small for a single drive system like the stupid iMac… then you have to rely on USB for storage.
Didn't the M4 have issues after a certain number of hours?
Has that been solved yet or did I get mixed up with another drive?
It was fixed some time ago now..
Just make sure you have the latest firmware (version 0309); should be fine on new drives unless you get old stock.
Don't think it's a good idea $10 more for 8GB less and poorer feedbacks
Crucial m4 128GB 247 users gave 5 stars and 10 users gave 1 star
OCZ Vertex 3 120GB 70 users gave 5 stars and 38 users gave 1 star
Apparently Crucial M4 has a good reputation for being the most reliable SSD, or close to it (and it isn't noticeably slower than the very fastest SSDs).
the problem is that not many people heard about crucial until they seriously start researching because the marketing for ocz and the likes are way much more.
vertex 3 has some notorious reliability issues.
M4 is a damn good SSD and this is an incredible price.
its interesting you guys say this because from all the reading I do, if its not for the big price difference the vertex 3 is better.
As per: http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/storage/2011/09/08/crucial-…
Heh. I'm still using my SATA1 Macbook. 1.5Gb/S baby!
Its just keeps going down!
I think there is a new model on the way!
Ah… Got one this time. :) BF3 will be awesome on this.
It is :-)
Yeah hoping so, loading times are fairly slow on my mechanical hard drive.
Finished - back to $169.99
i was just about to get one and i saw the price gone up too. =(
Marked as expired for now.
Awww, I guess I will just have to wait for next week for it to drop down again :P
FYI the 256 just went down to a new low.
http://camelcamelcamel.com/Crucial-2-5-Inch-Solid-State-CT25…
Regardless of all the negativity to the crucial/amazon posts, thanks to the OP for the heads up. I ordered three of these drives last Tuesday, (from another link here) paid for the express postage @$33.75 and they were in my office waiting for me on Monday morning. That compares to the fastest delivery to Darwin from interstate normally…
Anyone got theirs yet from this sale? Hoping to get mine soon :D
Got mine today!
Appreciate the heads up bud, thanks.
(not sure why there has been hate on this being reposted when th price drops)