Tell me about it. When this thread kicked off I looked at the deals and thought "Great! When I can get a decent 240/250 under $50 I'll bite. That can't be more than a month or two tops." Ooops.
To be honest, I've not monitored the prices enough to see what direction they are going in other than they aren't below where I expected them to be. lol.
Man I feel the same way I should have loaded up on the CS1211 240GB when it was 59 at both newegg and Amazon. I've competed on fleabay for 120GB mSATAs just to replace difficult-to-work-on spinners in other peoples machines. I blame the damn phones and tablets for constraining NAND supply..Tell me about it. When this thread kicked off I looked at the deals and thought "Great! When I can get a decent 240/250 under $50 I'll bite. That can't be more than a month or two tops." Ooops.
Mushkin Enhanced Reactor LT 2.5" 500GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Mushkin-En...State-Drive-/302202473332?hash=item465cabcb74
$119.99 FS
Unknown brand to me !
Never was heard of this brand. to my surprise it is nothing less than Samsung and price is good too.. The only reason I am not giving it a 5 star is because I have it for 2 days only.
Newegg has been worthless as a source of at least moderately intelligent reviews for a number of years now, so those really aren't surprising (and the negative ones aren't any more insightful than many of the good ones.) Especially since I myself am far from an "early adopter" (but nonetheless have been using an SSD for 6 years now), (ETA: Not to mention that SSD prices are comparatively higher now than they were 1.5 years ago...) I'm routinely shocked by how many people are only now "discovering" that "SSDs are so-o-o much faster than my old hard drive"… (Especially the ones who come across as true braintrust-types. who're probably comparing them to old, probably full, probably never-defragged 5400RPM drives…)Oh my, the Newegg reviews
Newegg has been worthless as a source of at least moderately intelligent reviews for a number of years now, so those really aren't surprising (and the negative ones aren't any more insightful than many of the good ones.) Especially since I myself am far from an "early adopter" (but nonetheless have been using an SSD for 6 years now), I'm routinely shocked by how many people are only now "discovering" that "SSDs are so-o-o much faster than my old hard drive"… (Especially the ones who come across as true braintrust-types. who're probably comparing them to old, probably full, probably never-defragged 5400RPM drives…)
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Some cheap MLC SSDs, courtesy of Newegg on ebay:
Mushkin Enhanced Reactor LT 2.5" 500GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Mushkin-En...State-Drive-/302202473332?hash=item465cabcb74
$119.99 FS
I "got" that samsung 850 EVO 500GB deal for $118 on black Friday. Except its "back ordered" and I have no idea when it will ship. I'm not dying for it. Do you think I should cancel that and get the the Mushkin Enhanced Reactor LT? The only reason I haven't is the samsung's 5 year warranty.
I've had a lot of experience with Mushkin, Crucial, Samsung, and Sandisk drives. I can honestly say that out of the 200+ drives i've sold at work, the Samsung 850 EVO's have never died and are faster and snappier than all of the other brands.
Unless your budget is super tight, spend the extra money on the Samsung.
Tough call there.
Amazon still has the BX300 on sale. I'd lean that way for value, or $5 more the 850 EVO.
I just can't put my trust in Mushkin SSDs. No personal experience, just see a lot of user reviews on them dying relativity quick.
You had NAND-wearout on an 850 PRO, in 2 years?
On a consumer system?
That makes no sense.
(With apologies to the memory of Stanley Kubrick,,,) which brand of superglue did you use to keep your eyes open 24/7 for those two years?<g,d&r>As I said chrome-browser writes lots of useless data.