The cheap SSDs thread

[VirtualLarry]

ADATA Premier SP550 2.5" 960GB SATA III TLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) ASP

# 291677924054

$189.99 FS

Newegg, on ebay

TLC, but fairly cheap. Benchmarks aren't bad on the SP550, I was impressed that TLC was benchmarking this fast. Could have been the SLC cache though. These models have a DRAM cache.

 

[VirtualLarry]

OCZ SSD IT3RSK41ET5G0-0960 Intrepid 3700 Series 960GB 2.5" SATAIII eMLC 9.2mm

# 291767120688

$189.99 FS

Newegg, on ebay

This is a discontinued, REFURB, OCZ enterprise MLC SSD. Note that these server SSDs run pretty warm, and may not be suitable for a laptop.

 

[VirtualLarry]

SAMSUNG 850 EVO 2.5" 4 TB SATA III 3-D Vertical Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

# 291833403497

$1499.99 FS

Newegg, on ebay

OK, this one doesn't belong in this thread, but I'm mentioning it, just because... 4TB! Crazy-huge SSD.

 

[Craig234]

Amazon France Samsung 2TB 850 Pro $257 shipped to US (Amazon US price is over $800):

https://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B010QD6RX4/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A1X6FK5RDHNB96

 

[you2]

Yea saw it on slick deal. Ordered one of these; curious if it ships. I wonder if it is a pricing error or perhaps it was meant to be the evo 850 2tb (but even for that drive it is a very good price).

If you check other buying options they are all close to 1000 EUR; we shall see what happens.

Amazon France Samsung 2TB 850 Pro $257 shipped to US (Amazon US price is over $800):

https://www.amazon.fr/gp/product/B010QD6RX4/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A1X6FK5RDHNB96

 

[you2]

Yep was a price error. In france it is illegal to sell things for a loss
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Yea saw it on slick deal. Ordered one of these; curious if it ships. I wonder if it is a pricing error or perhaps it was meant to be the evo 850 2tb (but even for that drive it is a very good price).

If you check other buying options they are all close to 1000 EUR; we shall see what happens.

 

[BenJeremy]

Yep was a price error. In france it is illegal to sell things for a loss
--
Bonjour,

Nous vous informons que l’article 'Ssd 850 Pro 2to' que vous avez choisi sur Amazon.fr a fait l’objet d’une erreur d’affichage de prix.

Nous avons été contraints de retirer cet article de votre sélection car la vente de ce celui-ci au prix erroné aurait entrainé une vente à perte, ce qui est interdit par la loi.

Sachez que votre compte bancaire n'a pas été débité du montant correspondant à cet article.

Amazon.fr met tout en œuvre pour que chaque client bénéficie d'un service de qualité irréprochable et des meilleures offres. Nous vous prions de bien vouloir accepter nos excuses pour le désagrément causé et vous remercions pour votre compréhension.

Cordialement,

Service Client Amazon.fr
http://www.amazon.fr

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Heh... just got my second Sandisk Ultra II 960GB to complete the set for the data drive of my new build (RAID-0 array - $350 for just shy of 2TB of SSD, so not that bad), so seeing this deal pop up was tempting... but I figured it would just end in heartbreak. Still, getting two of these for a 4TB data drive would have been nice. My boot drive is decidedly not cheap - two Plextor NVMe M.2 512GB SSDs for a RAID-0. I was going to wait until October... but I don't think the price will drop significantly by then.

Same goes for most SSD storage, though.. but I expect a drop on Black Friday. I wouldn't be surprised if we see 1TB-class SATA SSDs fall below $100 on Black Friday. X-Point is getting up to speed and other 3D chips are ramping up in the pipeline.... It will definitely be an interesting Christmas.

 

[sze5003]

There is a mushkin 1tb ssd on newegg for $209 with coupon code from today's newegg promotional deals.

I'm thinking of switching out the 256gb I have in my rig for that. I have that mushkin drive in my laptop and it has been performing very well.

 

[monkeydelmagico]

There is a mushkin 1tb ssd on newegg for $209 with coupon code from today's newegg promotional deals.

I'm thinking of switching out the 256gb I have in my rig for that. I have that mushkin drive in my laptop and it has been performing very well.

That one caught my eye as well. Very tempting and could replace my trusty old HD that houses all those games.....

 

[sze5003]

That one caught my eye as well. Very tempting and could replace my trusty old HD that houses all those games.....

I didn't end up ordering, the deal is over now but I still have 211gb free of my OS ssd.

I figure I can always find a 1tb ssd later, they will just be cheaper at some point. I install all my games on my regular HD which is why I want one eventually to replace the OS drive and keep more than just drivers and small apps on there.

 

[DesiPower]

Found a refurb Sandisk enterprise ssd 960gb, sold and shipped by Newegg. Seems to be MLC but speeds are pretty sad, but hey! its a ~1TB SSD for $180!!!

•Sequential Read\Write: Up to 450/400 MBytes/sec
•Random Read\Write: Up to 80,000/14,000 IOPS

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820173239

FULL SPECS
http://downloads.sandisk.com/downloads/ess/cloudspeed-eco-product-specs.pdf

 

[sze5003]

Found a refurb Sandisk enterprise ssd 960gb, sold and shipped by Newegg. Seems to be MLC but speeds are pretty sad, but hey! its a ~1TB SSD for $180!!!

•Sequential Read\Write: Up to 450/400 MBytes/sec
•Random Read\Write: Up to 80,000/14,000 IOPS

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820173239

FULL SPECS
http://downloads.sandisk.com/downloads/ess/cloudspeed-eco-product-specs.pdf

Hey that's not bad I think the mushkin's speeds were 100mb faster.

 

[cbn]

Refurbished Intel 320 160GB SSD (SATA 3 Gbps) is back on sale for $31.99 free shipping on Newegg's ebay store.

Here is a review from 2011. Remember this is a SATA 3 Gbps drive.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Thanks for posting that, cbn. I bought a couple of those the last time that they dropped to $31.99 shipped on Newegg's ebay store.

Haven't had any issues with them. As far as I'm concerned, those older Intel drives were practically bullet-proof. Though, they aren't as fast as modern drives in some respects, especially sequential write speeds. (But those Hectron X1 60GB MLC drives are just as slow.) They're still "SSD class" performance though, and for an older PC, like a Core2 or AM2/AM2+ rig, that only has SATAII ports, it makes a good match-up.

I'm running a pair of 300GB models in my Gigabyte Brix J1900 units, dual-booting Win7 64-bit and Linux Mint 17.3. So far so good. I expect that those SSDs will out-last the PC that they are in.

 

[nerp]

Time to expect some big price cuts in the wake of the Intel 600p. I just got a 512GB PCIe NVMe 600p for $209 - used some credit card points + a 25 credit on a card to knock it down by nearly $100. $125ish out the door for me! woohoo

 

[DesiPower]

Newegg was selling it for 190 few days back, they gouged it recently

 

[BenJeremy]

Time to expect some big price cuts in the wake of the Intel 600p. I just got a 512GB PCIe NVMe 600p for $209 - used some credit card points + a 25 credit on a card to knock it down by nearly $100. $125ish out the door for me! woohoo

Wow... even $220 is a nice price. Still, I don't regret getting the pair of 512GB Plextor M8pe for quite a bit more. They are just sexy as hell on my new system with those racy red and black heat shields and they perform at a higher tier than the 600p.

I'd think the prices will drop on NVMe drives, but until intel and AMD can provide a lot more PCI-express lanes, their usage will be limited - we are kind of in a weird state of technology right now, where SSD technology is bumping up against the bottlenecks of the CPU's I/O. I was sweating bullets that dropping two NVMe PCIeX4 drives to use as a boot drive would break half my system (namely the SATA ports, which I still planned on using for a secondary RAID-0 array). It all worked, somehow, My performance is topped out due to the available lanes, OS overhead, and probably things like my realtime AV scanning.

Two of the 600p drives would probably get me about 80% of the read performance (write performance only around 60%, IOPs 50%) as the Plextor drives in the same configuration, though... decent price performance for sure.

 

[nerp]

Normally I'd want to go with the fastest but Intel nailed the pricing here.

 

[DesiPower]

REFURB SAMSUNG Data center series 480GB = $100 $ newegg . Not sure if much of a deal, speed is slow and price is warm




http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147427

Max Sequential Read
Up to 500 MBps
Max Sequential Write
Up to 400 MBps
4KB Random Read
Up to 60,000 IOPS
4KB Random Write
Up to 11,000 IOPS

 

[Macgyversite]

Good for 12 more hours.

480gb OCZ TLC for $90 shipped from Amazon.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01B4NUKME

Sry missed the ref link

 

[Elixer]

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01B4NUKME without the referral link

 

[VirtualLarry]

AMD Radeon SSD Radeon R3 2.5" 120GB SATA III TLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD

Ebay item # 291826830296

$33.99 FS

Newegg on ebay

120GB TLC for ~$34 shipped, not too bad, considering that SSD prices have been strangely trending upwards a little bit.

Does anyone know much about these Radeon R3 SSDs? I know that "R3" is their lower-end moniker. They use a Silicon Motion SM2256KX controller, which, I think, is DRAM-less.

Edit: READ THE NEWEGG REVIEWS BEFORE PURCHASE!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820784001&ignorebbr=1

Apparently, these are made, not by AMD, but by Galt. Inc. (I thought Radeon SSDs were originally made by OCZ/Toshiba??? When did that change???), and the support pages for these drives, show a "GoDaddy domain renewal page". Not a good sign.

So, I guess Caveat Emptor!

Those refurb Intel 320 Series 160GB SATAII SSDs would probably be a better choice, when / if they drop down to $31.99 again.

AT front-page article on AMD R3 SSDs:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/10318/amd-ssd-m2-nvme-r3-r7

 

[magomago]

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01B4NUKME without the referral link

why so cheap? am i missing something? if i picked up the 960GB am i doing a mis service to anything/anyone?

 

[DaveSimmons]

Newegg promo email has the Mushkin ECO3 480 GB for $99.99. If you need the capacity that's the price of 3 of those off-lease 120-160 GB refurbs.

Is there any reason not to use one for a light loads PC? (Music jukebox, 99% of the time spent on reads at around 1 mbit / second)

 

[sze5003]

Newegg promo email has the Mushkin ECO3 480 GB for $99.99. If you need the capacity that's the price of 3 of those off-lease 120-160 GB refurbs.

Is there any reason not to use one for a light loads PC? (Music jukebox, 99% of the time spent on reads at around 1 mbit / second)

Sounds like a good deal but I'm waiting for a 1tb drive soon.