im in the market for ssd and saw directron has x25 on sale
http://www.directron.com/ssdsa2mh080g2c.html
http://www.directron.com/ssdsa2mh080g2c.html
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I bought this from Direction on Saturday. I actually live a few miles from this place so I do local pickup all the time. I don't pay tax because I'm a reseller, so it works out pretty well.
They are a good company and on the rare occasion that I have trouble with an order they always resolve it to my satisfaction.
Tiger seems to have the best current price with that 12.8% cashback. Mwave's ebay store sometimes has the best price on them (new, not refurbished btw)FYI, search Bing.com for Tiger Direct and get 12.8% cash back. It been like that for about a week now.
Intel G2 80GB OEM is $254.99 - $32.64 = $222.35.
3 Year Manufacture warranty.
Tiger seems to have the best current price with that 12.8% cashback. Mwave's ebay store sometimes has the best price on them (new, not refurbished btw)
Unfortunately Ebay cashback is at 8% right now, and i'm pretty sure Mwave's ebay store jacked the prices a little bit.Don't forget there's also BCB at eBay. The last I checked it was at about 10%.
mwave ebay said:In original box and packing, with all accessories!
Condition: 100% Brand New
Beware, I ordered my X25 from mwave and it was used according to intel SSD Toolbox: 12 unsafe poweroffs, 9 hours total used time, 22 power ons. I've sent them a message on ebay to ask for an explanation before I rate them.
States on their eBay page:
why ask for an explanation when it obviously isn't going to help, even if you get an honest answer? Let them exchange it for a brand new one as they should.Beware, I ordered my X25 from mwave and it was used according to intel SSD Toolbox: 12 unsafe poweroffs, 9 hours total used time, 22 power ons. I've sent them a message on ebay to ask for an explanation before I rate them.
States on their eBay page:
Some dumb employee probably mixed it with new stock.Wouldn't normally defend them but they're a highly rated merchant otherwise (reselleratings + ebay feedback)Wow that sounds shady.
Not with SSDs - they have limited write cycles and you suggest to pick one up AFTER someone made god knows how many writes on it?And yeah, it's refurbished, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Sometimes products are actually better after being refurbished.
It's normal for all NEW Intel SSDs - they are factory tested. Instead of # of power off, look at how many GBs were written - they are about 70, right? It's just factory testing, all new 80gb have ~70 gb written on them and 160s - ~140Beware, I ordered my X25 from mwave and it was used according to intel SSD Toolbox: 12 unsafe poweroffs, 9 hours total used time, 22 power ons. I've sent them a message on ebay to ask for an explanation before I rate them.
States on their eBay page:
Not with SSDs - they have limited write cycles and you suggest to pick one up AFTER someone made god knows how many writes on it?
Isn't that kind of specious, since the number of writes required to brick a modern SSD is, uh, a lot?
http://www.storagesearch.com/ssdmyths-endurance.html
Be as it may, would you rather use up part of your SSD's life yourself or let someone else do it for you first? I mean, you are not wearing second-hand underwear, do you? There are things that you don't want used because you don't know where it's been, and SSDs is among them because you can't be sure if only 1% of its life was used up or 50%.
I can also provide links for modern SSDs being destroyed after a day of extremely heavy use. Links mean nothing - SSD technology is still new and nothing is 100% certain. Yes, you might be fine if you get a used SSD but won't you be rather covered with manufacturer's warranty and not have to worry about how your brand-spanking new refurb SSD will behave? Or do you like taking chances while paying pretty much the same money a new drive costs? I dunno about you but I don't want to be paying new item price for a used one.
thats refurbished right?
thats why used is cheaper
FYI, search Bing.com for Tiger Direct and get 12.8% cash back. It been like that for about a week now.
Intel G2 80GB OEM is $254.99 - $32.64 = $222.35.
3 Year Manufacture warranty.
Is there a trick to get 12.8%? I'm only seeing 8% when I search for an x25 and choose tiger.