That's pretty hot for being 128GB, rebate and all. Even the before rebate price isn't bad. It is the "desktop bundle" meaning it comes with SATA data cable, SATA power adapter, disc with Acronis True Image HD and most importantly a 3.5" drive bay adapter. Indeed the adapter looks as if it can hold two 2.5" drives in one 3.5" bay. Nice!
The controller is a Jmicron JMF618 (rebranded as Toshiba). Not the hottest controller on the block, but with reasonable performance. It is not to be confused with the old crappy Jmicron controllers that gave early SSDs a bad name. This has decent performance and supports Trim. Now, this drive doesn't have the raw benchmark performance, but reads are great (as usual with most SSDs these days) and writes are okay. It only drops the ball somewhat on random writes, but then again some other controllers do as well (hellooooo Indilinx).
$135 AR for 128GB makes this IMO pretty juicy for use as a sole drive in notebooks and desktops w/o games/media. I'd get one, if it weren't for the fact that I have way too many SSDs (have around five sitting in my garage unused) and that I'm going to be out of town for two weeks. Wife will be around to receive it, but I don't need her askance glances.
EDIT: Awww crap!
I also remembered that Shop Discover has 5% cashback for Buy.com.
Then again...
alid for first time Buy.com customers only.
So, I'll just get the 5%, making the drive around $125 AR. Wow, $1/GB!!!