500GB Samsung 840 SSD - $295 Shipped EDIT: NOW $279.49!

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frostedflakes

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The samsung 830's were down to $149 before they sold out. Crucial M4's go for $299 for 512gb.

Worry about reliability first, speed second.

Like buying a 512(480gb) ocz = bad investment.

Buying a solid 830 or M4 = good investment.


Older ssd's were 5000 P/E cycles.

Newer MLC (19-20nm) 3000 P/E cycles.

TLC 1000 P/E cycles.

Ancient X25-E 100,000 P/E cycles.

However I suppose you could just use 50% of the 512gb drive and it would last FAR longer.

An Intel 320 SSD 320gb @ 200gb usable would probably last 100x longer than a samsung 840 non-pro if it matters to you.
If we're talking about 100x longer than 20 years, it won't matter to most people. Looks like in the XS write endurance testing thread a 120GB 840 was able to handle about 425TB of writes before going belly up. A 500GB drive should have about 4x the endurance, so 1.7PB of total writes. As an OS drive a person would probably write 5-15GB/day to it, let's say 20GB just to be safe. At that rate it would be 233 years before you exhaust all the writes on the drive.

Not saying I'd stick one in a server or subject it to some other very demanding workload, but for home use even TLC is plenty good enough. Especially larger capacities like 250GB and 500GB since they have so many cells to spread wear over.

People focus too much on P/E cycles. What matters is how long they actually last in the real world with the usage you will put it through. Plus more than just P/E rating affects write endurance, 840s have more over-provisioning for example to help offset the lower P/E rating for TLC NAND.
 

KingGheedora

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Is this deal dead? I just went through order process all the way to "place order now", and it says $339. I used amazon as payment method, would that affect getting the deal price?
 

tracerbullet

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$240 shipped from Newegg if you were emailed the promo code. Sheesh the prices just keep going down, down, down.

(I'd post the code but it says it's attached only to my account with them).
 

Engineer

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$240 shipped from Newegg if you were emailed the promo code. Sheesh the prices just keep going down, down, down.

(I'd post the code but it says it's attached only to my account with them).

$383 for the Pro edition 512GB drive.
 

Ricochet

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$240 shipped from Newegg if you were emailed the promo code. Sheesh the prices just keep going down, down, down.

(I'd post the code but it says it's attached only to my account with them).

I was sent the code too and bit on the deal. I even used Ebates (1%) and Chase Freedom (%1) on top of that to get $4.80 cashback. If V.me would have stacked that would've been an amazing deal.
 

tracerbullet

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I bit too. Hopefully not too many others do, I'd say it's better than 50/50 I won't end up using it and will sell it. Need to keep prices high, LOL.
 

ArchAngel777

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LOL. I note your registration date - do you remember the days when a WD 80GB hard drive would show up on here, from the Dell site I think, for like $100 and everybody including me jizzed themselves? And we were worried that if too many people bought it, they'd catch on to the price mistake?

I'm kinda looking forward to a 500GB SSD being $100, and curious as to what is next, though admittedly that could be another 10 years out.

/Wave fellow Minnesotan... This is a great deal, but can't wait to be buying a TB SSD drive for $300 within the next year or two.
 
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