Micro Center - WEB DEAL (EVERYONE!): PNY OPTIMA 240G $109.99-$30 MIR = $89.99

They are usually really good with their website but damn I think Frys has them beat with information. They don't have a thing down for actual specs.
 
I saw a deal on these the other day from TD, but I was unsure about its durability since they were only offering a 1-year warranty on them. PNY offers 3 - 5 years on some of their other SSDs and the XLR8 was only $10 more a couple weeks ago.

I read a review somewhere for the XLR8 that claimed that it was using Intel NAND with a SandForce controller. What are the Optima series using and is it able to be considered as reliable?
 
MrCaffeineX said:
I read a review somewhere for the XLR8 that claimed that it was using Intel NAND with a SandForce controller. What are the Optima series using and is it able to be considered as reliable?
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Controller: Silicon Motion
Memory: Micron 20nm flash packages with 128Gbit die

I don't know anything about the reliability.
 
MrCaffeineX said:
I saw a deal on these the other day from TD, but I was unsure about its durability since they were only offering a 1-year warranty on them. PNY offers 3 - 5 years on some of their other SSDs and the XLR8 was only $10 more a couple weeks ago.

I read a review somewhere for the XLR8 that claimed that it was using Intel NAND with a SandForce controller. What are the Optima series using and is it able to be considered as reliable?
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I just looked at the link and it shows that this drive has a 3 year warranty.
 
cyclone3d said:
I just looked at the link and it shows that this drive has a 3 year warranty.
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You are correct. I did not even look at the warranty terms linked by MC, I just remembered seeing the terms on the TD sale a little while ago. It seems that they were both correct. Here is the Warranty description directly from PNY's product support page for this drive:

3-Year Limited Warranty (1 Year plus 2 additional years with registration at www.pny.com)
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scgt1 said:
They are usually really good with their website but damn I think Frys has them beat with information. They don't have a thing down for actual specs.
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Irrelevant. Microcenter is where you go to buy Intel/MB deals and thats it. That's their whole identity.
 
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I am trying to decide between this and the EVO 500gb D:
Either one would be my first SSD and I really dont know much about them
 
Thanks, got the evo early this morning. Thanks for the advice.
 
Noo noo more SSD deals - i'm out of ports!

480GB m500, 2 256GB adata, 2 256gb m5s, 3 120gb vtx+r2

I ghetto routed my internal BDR to an external sata port along w/ external esata backup drive.

System flies though..
 
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