How badly did you get hosed on your first SSD?

[Hulk]

I'm talking about compared to today's pricing. I don't regret my first SSD purchase at all but looking back it's kind of funny to see what a beating I took.

Intel 320, 120GB - $225 from Buy.com

Now you can easily get twice the capacity for half the price and a much faster drive as well.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

My first was a 90 GB for $89. Vertex 3.

You can get a 120GB now for $60-$80, but they're often slower than the V3 was. So I'm not sure I even got hosed by today's standards. At the time it felt like a steal.

 

[Deders]

Thankfully I waited until prices became reasonable, and got myself a 128GB Samsung 830 for around £80. Was definitely worth the wait.

 

[WT]

First was a 96GB Kingston I won at a tech fair. Second one was another Kingston 128GB I got at Staples for $57. Third was a Vertex 4 128GB I picked up on CL for $40. Fourth was a PNY 120GB that same CL seller tossed in for free due to thinking the SSD was bad (new firmware installed and so far it passes any and all tests).

Not doing too bad, am I ? Glad I waited, as I lucked into pretty much every one of mine.

 

[ronbo613]

My first SSD was an OCZ Vertex 2 120G that cost about $230. It failed within a couple months and after dealing with OCZ "customer support", which meant going on their forums, having all the OCZ shills and fanboys call you an idiot before they RMA'd the drive. The Vertex 2 they sent back failed as well. I would not use an OCZ product in my computer if they paid me to use it. Glad to see they are out of business.

I currently have a Samsung 830 in my workstation and a Kingston Hyper X in my laptop, both have been problem free.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I heard all of the claims about SSDs in this forum, and quite frankly, I was skeptical. I never noticed slowdowns, using HDDs. I'm a patient person, I guess.

The one thing that finally got me to get an SSD, was some objective data - virus/malware scans ran much faster, and could run in the background without lagging up the whole computer.

So I happened upon some OCZ Agility 30GB SSDs that finally came back in stock at Newegg, for $40 ea. I bought several of them, for all of my rigs, and then some. (I think I bought the limit. Gave one to a friend of mine.)

So I kind of jumped in with a bang, although, they didn't seem hugely faster than a HDD, except for the malware scans.

Actually, I had purchased a prior SSD, a Kingston V-series (relabeled Intel X25-V 40GB) for $95 on some prior "Hot Deal". After finding out about TRIM, and the need for it in order to maintain performance, and the fact that the Kingston firmware was never getting the official Intel TRIM-capable firmware update, I gave it to a friend to mess with. He was very impressed with it.

I did get burned, I splashed out $239 for a 240GB Mushkin Chronos Deluxe SSD, supposedly one of the largest and fastest SSDs on the market at the time, and it died in less than a month. SandForce 2nd-gen bugs, I guess.

 

[zoob]

I bought really early on... 2009.

I can't remember what I paid, but I bought 4 Patriot Warp 32GB SSDs with a RAID controller... probably a really bad price.

Next was $210 for 80GB Intel X25-M Gen 1.

This was coming from Velociraptor 300GB I bought for $250.

Honestly felt I like was more hosed buying a DVD writer for $200+ and seeing the price drop 50% the following month.

 

[RaistlinZ]

120GB Vertex 2, $320.00

But it worked perfectly for me. No issues with it, other than the high cost at the time.

 

[RU482]

Oh man, I've been researching and/or buying SSDs for roughly 6-7 years now for my company. 1st was a SanDisk 5000 Series series. I think the 32GB version was ~$800 when we first got our hands on them.
In the early years, we were spending more on SSDs than payroll.

I've still got one of those 1st SSDs in a beater laptop at work. Still faster at booting than a 2.5" HDD, even after all the abuse over all these years (and no TRIM...plus most likely pathetic garbage collection)

 

[ksheets]

$240 for my first Intel Gen2 ...Then $220 a month later for the second once, cause i found out 80Gb really wasn't enough storage

 

[mikeymikec]

256GB Samsung 840 PRO £155 (March 2014), I guess you'll have to ask me this question in 5-10 years' time

 

[Tristor]

319.95 each for 2xIntel 80GB X25-M G2s

I'm pretty sure I ordered them on launch day, but maybe not. It was shortly after AT posted the review. Have had 2x SSDs in RAID0 in every box I've built since. You can never go back to a regular disk after getting an SSD, it just feels painful.

 

[h9826790]

Samsung 840 Evo 1T, $574 from a local computer shop

 

[Tsavo]

$200 Intel G2 120GB. Still runs like a champ to this day...0% burnage.

I've purchased stacks of Crucial/Samsung unit since...0% burnage.

My Blu Ray burner? 100% burnage.

 

[Blain]

How badly did you get hosed...

I remember paying $258 shipped for a slot1 Pentium 3 450MHz.
I don't feel I got "hosed" at all. A 500MHz P3 would have been quite a bit more for just 50MHz faster.

It's kind of a given here, that costs will drop and technology will increase.
That's simply a part of the game we play... No need cryin' over it.

 

[Doomer]

My first was a Intel x25 80. I paid somewhere north of $200. It's still working today so I can't really complain.

 

[_Rick_]

I bought a C300 in 2009 or maybe 2010. I think I paid 300 euros for 128GB.
That's incidentally also roughly what I paid 2 years back for a 256GB Samsung 830.

I got hosed on 80 euros for an 8GB module, which I bought around the same time as the C300 - not only was it super expensive (but at least SLC) but also it stopped working pretty early into its life, and the replacement wasn't much better either, and came FAT-formatted for some reason.... Very bizarre.

 

[smakme7757]

I was pretty early out with a 1st gen Corsair Force 120 and 180GB. Always got BSOD after coming back from sleep, but otherwise not bad.

Both still work today. Currently the 120Gb is in my HTPC and the 180GB in my Linux Laptop.

 

[Prey2big]

$214x2 for 2x Corsair F90 in late 2010. Loved them though, felt like good purchases. They still kickin'.

 

[MustISO]

I got all three of mine for free. Well worth what I paid.

 

[Yuriman]

$240 for my first Intel Gen2 ...Then $220 a month later for the second once, cause i found out 80Gb really wasn't enough storage

I ordered two together. Best price I could find right after they came out (early '08?) was about $240 per drive, and I immediately put them in RAID.

Those two drives are still in RAID, in another PC. They've seen some relatively heavy usage for a desktop machine, but still report 98% life remaining.

 

[PeeluckyDuckee]

In 2011 I got me a Kingston HyperX 240GB SSD for $450, it was a fair price back in the day. Got another 240GB Chronos for around $330, and was gifted a 128GB Sandisk when they were going for around $130.

 

[molitar]

When I bought an SSD drive for my mother made the mistake of getting a 128GB Sandisk SSD drive cost us $115 and it's slower than a regular hard drive! It is utter crap sitting on my desk now doing nothing.

Gave my mother my 120GB Hyper-X that I got on promotion when it came out for $90 buck and it was as fast as this Samsung when Rapid Mode is disabled.

Regrettably I have to run this new Samsung 840 EVO with rapid mode disabled because my wallpaper cycler stopped working and trying to manually change wallpapers would not work until I logged off or rebooted.

 

[MongGrel]

I just did like a few others and held off till the prices dropped I guess.

 

[Morbus]

Waited, bought a 840EVO 240GB for 135€ last December.

It's creaming it TBH.