Most rebates over $10.00 are now in the form of a pre-paid CC.Slightly off topic but I too just bought my first SSD with this deal. I assume the prepaid card is a Visa card? Is there a way to cash that in at your bank either as a deposit for for cash? I ended up spending my last prepaid card in bits and pieces and ended up leaving a little bit of the balance.
They just now lowered the price of their 80GB SSDs to $199? I've been seeing that price at retailers for a while now. Good thing I jumped on the $100 G2 Intel 80GB SSD I found on craigslist when it was up. It had 2TB already written to it according to SSD Life, but it's all good.
Newegg is selling 120gb G2s for $199 now.
I might grab one since I sold my 80gb.
BF deal had it at $165.
Sold out!
I don't know what all the fuss about capacity is! Just buy a few of them and RAID them, problem solved.
heh, laptop only has 1 sata slot.
Not good enough. Who even shutdowns their computer anymore ? What kind of computer nerd would run more than 2 to 5 startup items as well ? I bet some here don't even run any. There no point of having a billion stuff to start when your computer boots up.
Most do and some actually have two.
Even still 120-160GB is plenty for a portable PC. Data can be stored on USB hdds, etc.
I just got swapped out my cd drive and got a caddy for a hard drive for my Sony Z.
Best of both worlds for me since I have burned a cd on a laptop exactly 0 times over the course of 10 years of laptop ownership.
Most do and some actually have two.
Even still 120-160GB is plenty for a portable PC. Data can be stored on USB hdds, etc.
Not expensive ($19.99 after rebate Asus as of this posting) either.Yeah that's a good idea! They also have USB optical drives too.
Not good enough. Who even shutdowns their computer anymore ? What kind of computer nerd would run more than 2 to 5 startup items as well ? I bet some here don't even run any. There no point of having a billion stuff to start when your computer boots up.
two 40gb in raid-0 would decimate the 120gb because.. intel underrates the x25-V so much on paper (like chevy does its camaro).
people who bought the 120 please post some benchmarks
The G3 X25-M should bring sustained performance. The G1's had a bit of problem with that, and G2 fixed it further but this is the real deal. Screw the benches, it won't show there. Even random write 4K numbers are not fully representing real world performance. The Sandforce drives outgun the X25-E in sequential/random/iops for both read and write yet the latter is still faster on server workloads.
Maybe in synthetic benchmarks. But the fuss of getting RAID to work and the greatly lowered latency SSD's bring reduce big benefit of going to RAID. Can't run TRIM, needs chipset support(might cost few $ more too), takes longer to boot, more complex setup.
What "fuss"? Setting up raid takes about 10 seconds? I boot up in under 30 seconds with raid and not sure whats so complex about it. Only downside imo is that you have a greater chance of failure. But thats why you back up your system. or store "data" on a raid 1 or 5