Samsung 830 ssd 128gb 69.99 shipped

THANK YOU! Great deal, in for one. There is a tigerdirect 15 minutes away so hoping they ship it from there :)
 
It is a good deal, but every time I have bought a smallish SSD, I have realized I wanted a larger one.
 
Thanks HaX...

These have been on sale a few times lately for $70, but I seem to be a little too late. Not this time...finally nabbed one!

:)

LC
 
Hmm, wonder if this one's still alive, seeing as Tiger Direct lists it out of stock.
 
Well, I bit, even though I'll have to ship it to my sister's place since they don't ship to Puerto Rico... She'll be here soon for Thanksgiving anyway. I've missed like four of these deals already, starting to get annoying. Hopefully it goes thru, otherwise I'm gonna kick myself if I could've gotten it at Newegg for $80 right now and end up missing out on that too.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147137
 
I almost bought two last night to replace my RAID, but realized I really want to hold out for some cheap 256gb or 512gb models. Here's hoping for black Friday.
 
TheGamerZ said:
I almost bought two last night to replace my RAID, but realized I really want to hold out for some cheap 256gb or 512gb models. Here's hoping for black Friday.
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Me too. Looking to upgrade from my little 64 gb.
 
Does buy.com charge sales tax like TD does? In particular, since it is shipping from TD?
 
I see. That means here in Texas I will be charged sales tax, as I have been in the past from TD. Which makes this purchase $75.76. I think I will hold off. Still, not a bad deal though.
 
*facepalm* Lol.

Not necessarily by default. It's on a per state basis PER VENDOR. There are different reasons for why a vendor has to pay sales tax in a specific state, but the most common reason for charging sales tax in a specific state is because they have a physical location (i.e. warehouse, distribution center, corporate center, etc.) in that state.

Just because TD charged sales tax doesn't mean Buy.com would.
 
Newegg has it at $80, if it hasn't sold out. Hopefully Buy.com's not planning on canceling my order... Price was live half the day.
 
Damn. I don't have the money to spare, but I wish I had gotten in on that one even if it hurt me later. I need an SSD to serve as an OS drive. I'm building a HTPC with old parts and the only thing I'm lacking is storage. I was going to move my 128gb Raptor to the htpc and throw the SSD in my main rig.
 
Should i jump on this and add it to my current 128gb 830 for a nice raid, or hold off for a smokin deal on a 256? Decisions, decisions. Grrrrr..holding out!!! Come on black Friday.
 
SpeedBump613 said:
Should i jump on this and add it to my current 128gb 830 for a nice raid, or hold off for a smokin deal on a 256? Decisions, decisions. Grrrrr..holding out!!! Come on black Friday.
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It's not a hard decision when the deal is dead.... :p
 
Yeah, deal is quite DEAD. (for the benefit of those skimming the thread late)

SpeedBump613 said:
Should i jump on this and add it to my current 128gb 830 for a nice raid, or hold off for a smokin deal on a 256? Decisions, decisions. Grrrrr..holding out!!! Come on black Friday.
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I've got two of them now (if my order ever gets past processing, grr) but I'm not even gonna bother with RAID unless I upgrade my mobo to something that supports TRIM over RAID (rocking a P67, probably for another year or two)... I'm sure they'd be fine without TRIM for a while due to their own GC, but it's not like RAID's gonna give me a huge performance boost either, you'd have to be transferring stuff over from another pretty high end SDD or array array to take advantage of the sky high sequential speeds, RAID wouldn't help with random access.

So I'm just using them as separate volumes fore peace of mind of having TRIM and never having to break an array to TRIM it. I went with a second 128GB regardless because of cost and my particular space needs. I figured that even if I got a 256GB for double the cost (during a hot deal on the latter) and actually kept both it and the 128GB, I still wouldn't be able to have every game on flash (which is rather pointless anyway)...

128+128 is easily enough to hold every single game I'll currently be playing at any given time tho (plus the OS/apps), so why overspend and get more than I need? Plus if I end up keeping the drives a long time I could eventually RAID them and have them in a setup next to a future third SSD where I can actually take advantage of the sequential transfers between the array and that drive...

Anyway, I dunno why average users obsess over having a huge flash volume that can hold several dozen games, stuff like Steam Mover makes it trivial to shift stuff in and out of flash storage.
 
beowulf7 said:
How low can it go? I predict $0.50/GB by Black Fri. and/or Cyber Mon. :cool:
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I don't know, the Samsung 840 has been released, so I don't know how much longer the 830 will be available. Then again it seems like there are always sales going on for older SSDs, I guess it just depends on whether they will clear out the remaining stock of 830s or if they will keep producing them.
 
JapaneseGorilla said:
I don't know, the Samsung 840 has been released, so I don't know how much longer the 830 will be available. Then again it seems like there are always sales going on for older SSDs, I guess it just depends on whether they will clear out the remaining stock of 830s or if they will keep producing them.
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That's why I jumped on a 256gb 830 for $150 deal. Sure, there's a chance that it will be cheaper in a month, but there's also a chance that there won't be any available anymore since the 840 is out.
 
beowulf7 said:
How low can it go? I predict $0.50/GB by Black Fri. and/or Cyber Mon. :cool:
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They've already been damn close to that, $70 for this one puts it at $0.55 and the 256GB has been going for $150 during sales. I'd be willing to bet it won't go any lower, you might not even see any 830's left by the time BF rolls around since they're obviously trying to clear them out for the 840 & 840 Pro, which won't see as deep of a discount so soon (and the 840 is a side grade at best).

I imagine we might see some $0.50 deals for the M4; it's getting long in the tooth as well, even tho Crucial doesn't have a replacement yet... More than likely we'll just see a ton of deals on Sandforce drives that people aren't favoring much anymore. Same situation as last year, where most of the deals were for last gen drives and stuff like Intel's 320 (hot deal at the time, going for $1/GB, lol).

M4's probably the one to watch for a deal on BF, or Plextor's M5S... Though a SF drive wouldn't be a terrible buy as a game drive if you score some ridiculous sub-$0.50/GB deal. Personally I still wouldn't bother with one for an OS drive.
 
Heard on not bothering with one for an OS drive. It'll save me money that I can put towards a 3 tb media/os drive for my HTPC.
 
Finally convinced myself to bite on the Newegg deal. Figured with 3 deals in the last week I should quit pressing my luck before stock dries up.
Here's hoping the wife doesn't kill me since I just upgraded to an IB Xeon a few weeks ago. :eek:
 
one swell foop said:
Heard on not bothering with one for an OS drive. It'll save me money that I can put towards a 3 tb media/os drive for my HTPC.
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what? In an HTPC go with a small SSD and a server/NAS for media. The clicking and spinning of the HDD was too annoying
 
JapaneseGorilla said:
I don't know, the Samsung 840 has been released, so I don't know how much longer the 830 will be available. Then again it seems like there are always sales going on for older SSDs, I guess it just depends on whether they will clear out the remaining stock of 830s or if they will keep producing them.
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Impulse said:
They've already been damn close to that, $70 for this one puts it at $0.55 and the 256GB has been going for $150 during sales. I'd be willing to bet it won't go any lower, you might not even see any 830's left by the time BF rolls around since they're obviously trying to clear them out for the 840 & 840 Pro, which won't see as deep of a discount so soon (and the 840 is a side grade at best).

I imagine we might see some $0.50 deals for the M4; it's getting long in the tooth as well, even tho Crucial doesn't have a replacement yet... More than likely we'll just see a ton of deals on Sandforce drives that people aren't favoring much anymore. Same situation as last year, where most of the deals were for last gen drives and stuff like Intel's 320 (hot deal at the time, going for $1/GB, lol).

M4's probably the one to watch for a deal on BF, or Plextor's M5S... Though a SF drive wouldn't be a terrible buy as a game drive if you score some ridiculous sub-$0.50/GB deal. Personally I still wouldn't bother with one for an OS drive.
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Yes, I agree the main reason that Samsung is dropping prices on the 830 is to make way for the 840 series. But I recall other vendors supporting older and new generations of SSDs for a while (months), so I'm hoping that Samsung does the same with 830s. That's why I made my prediction for 50 cents/GB for 830s in BF/CM, most likely AR.

I'll have to read up on the performance upgrades of the 840 and 840 Pro with respect to the 830. TH did a review of the 840 Pro that I'll read up on soon.
 
Has anyone had their order get past processing? 3 days now and still no shipping notification. I have a TD down the street, and I know their customer service sucks, but it would be nice to have some idea if this thing is on the way. I don't see any way of getting a hold of them short of the e-mail link.
 
Are people getting shipment confirmation from buy.com?

I ordered on the evening of the 29th and haven't gotten shipment conf yet.
 
I didn't order one personally, but a relative of mine has. Still no shipping notification. hopes it goes through
 
I got two for RAID 0 as well!

About a week ago, I did a gaming build for a client with two of the 256GB Samsung 830s in a RAID 0; the performance was amazing! I can't wait to put these in my personal rig.
 
Negative Decibel said:
I got two for RAID 0 as well!

About a week ago, I did a gaming build for a client with two of the 256GB Samsung 830s in a RAID 0; the performance was amazing! I can't wait to put these in my personal rig.
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I can promise you, the performance, even on a SATA 3Gb/s controller is insane.

Old System HDD (WD Black 500GB) - 62MB/s Read, 55MB/s Write
New System SSD RAID - 701MB/s Read, 552MB/s Write
 
Reanimation_LP said:
I can promise you, the performance, even on a SATA 3Gb/s controller is insane.

Old System HDD (WD Black 500GB) - 62MB/s Read, 55MB/s Write
New System SSD RAID - 701MB/s Read, 552MB/s Write
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Oh, well, I'm actually in the process of upgrading to SATA 6Gb/s anyway. you should see the benchmark from that build i did... it was crazy.....looking for it now.,,,

here it is!:
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I purchased at Buy.com on the 29th of October like others did and still no shipping notification. Although, my order said it would be shipping from Circuit City(not TD).

I logged into my account and the order says - Status: processing

I'm in no rush, I guess we'll see what happens.

Best,

LC

ND: Those are pretty serious numbers right there...WOW!
 
circuitcity, tigerdirect, compusa pretty much all the same company and owned by Systemax

looks like someone posted this on slickdeals after my post here, someone did receive a cancellation notice, others still in processing stage. might not want to get your hopes up. I've ordered through buy.com before and received plenty of orders, but there have been a few occasions when a nice deal came up and my order were cancelled.
 
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