Crucial M500 480GB - $160

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Amazon Cyber Monday Deal

Crucial M500 480GB for $159.99 - Link

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Holy fuck. Wish I'd held off on the SSD I bought on Friday, haha.
 
Thanks OP. I'm not sure I should have bought it (I really wanted to wait for 1TB drives to drop, but I can always use some more fast HDs to load large files from :) )
 
For those who missed this deal. Appears the Sandisk Ultra II is currently $84.99, most benchmarks show the Sandisk Ultra II outperforming the Crucial M500. Buy two Sandisk Ultra II's ~$170.00, possibly better performance, and upgrade other rigs down the road with boot drives?

Thanks.
 
nilepez said:
Thanks OP. I'm not sure I should have bought it (I really wanted to wait for 1TB drives to drop, but I can always use some more fast HDs to load large files from :) )
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Same boat, waiting for 1TB to get below $300 and in for 2!
 
I think the 1TB drives will be my next level where I buy


would love to get my laptop 100% SATA -- it has two M.2 slots and a regular SATA3 internal laptop size hdd..

2X 256 in raid with a 1TB SSD backup drive... too bad that will probably not happen for a long long time lol
 
collegeboy69us said:
I think the 1TB drives will be my next level where I buy


would love to get my laptop 100% SATA -- it has two M.2 slots and a regular SATA3 internal laptop size hdd..

2X 256 in raid with a 1TB SSD backup drive... too bad that will probably not happen for a long long time lol
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I could be wrong, but I think it's harder for you, as a consumer, to recover data from an SSD than a mechanical drive. I know I've always been able to recover using tools like Get Data Back from mechanical drives. The one time I lost a SSD, the drive was dead to Windows :eek:

I didn't lose much, since it was an OS drive (I thought OS only, but turned out some recent data files were written there/lost)

Just something to think about.
 
nilepez said:
I could be wrong, but I think it's harder for you, as a consumer, to recover data from an SSD than a mechanical drive. I know I've always been able to recover using tools like Get Data Back from mechanical drives. The one time I lost a SSD, the drive was dead to Windows :eek:

I didn't lose much, since it was an OS drive (I thought OS only, but turned out some recent data files were written there/lost)

Just something to think about.
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Backups are a wonderful thing.

The only reason I would get a 1TB SSD is for it to be my game drive. Otherwise 256GB ssds are just fine for basic OS and other software you run. (IMO.)
 
nilepez said:
I could be wrong, but I think it's harder for you, as a consumer, to recover data from an SSD than a mechanical drive. I know I've always been able to recover using tools like Get Data Back from mechanical drives. The one time I lost a SSD, the drive was dead to Windows :eek:

I didn't lose much, since it was an OS drive (I thought OS only, but turned out some recent data files were written there/lost)

Just something to think about.
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You don't lose drives very often do you? :p
Hard drives often become 'dead to windows'.
 
Darakian said:
You don't lose drives very often do you? :p
Hard drives often become 'dead to windows'.
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There are normally warning signs when a drive dies. Files become corrupt or the drive starts clicking. And I could have just as easilly said the BIOS didn't detect the drive...and AFAIK, none of my mechanical drives completely died over the the last 25 or so years.
 
nilepez said:
There are normally warning signs when a drive dies. Files become corrupt or the drive starts clicking. And I could have just as easilly said the BIOS didn't detect the drive...and AFAIK, none of my mechanical drives completely died over the the last 25 or so years.
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My point was more that hard drives can do the same thing. Also SSDs seem to have longer lives than hard drives (minus a few older OCZs).
Here's an example of something hard drives can do that ssds cant.
 
Darakian said:
My point was more that hard drives can do the same thing. Also SSDs seem to have longer lives than hard drives (minus a few older OCZs).
Here's an example of something hard drives can do that ssds cant.
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Not disagreeing with that. What I'm saying is that most platter drives show signs of dying before they go belly up. Please note, I'm talking about this from a consumer POV. In a enterprise situation, nobody is listening to HD's, but they're also massively redundant.
I'm not against backing up to SSD. I'd just want a back up on a mechanical drive too (or keep the SSD backup drive disconnected from power/PC when not backing up).
Damn I'm getting paranoid. Maybe I need to get a cloud backup ;)
 
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