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New Coupons good until 2/12/2012
Netgear ReadyNAS NV+ 4-Bay Gigabit Desktop Network Storage, Model: RND4000-100NAS
Normally: $314.99
On Sale: $289.99
Coupon: hard2212a ($40 off!)
$249.99

Patriot Warp 128GB 2.5in SATA II Solid State Drive (SSD), Model: PE128GS25SSDR
Normally: $129.99
On Sale: $119.99
Coupon: hard2212b ($10 off)
$109.99

Black Patriot Gauntlet 2 USB 3.0 Enclosure for 2.5in SATA I/II HDD or SSD, P/N: PCGTII25S
Normally: $19.99
On Sale: $14.99
Coupon: hard2212c ($9 off)
$5.99

Patriot Signature 16GB Class 10 MicroSD High Capacity (MicroSDHC) Flash Memory Card, w/ SD Adaptor, Model: PSF16GMCSDHC10
Normally: $22.99
On Sale: $18.99
Coupon: hard2212d (10.5% off)
~$16.99 each

Dark Brown ASUS K52N-A1 15.6in WXGA LED Notebook, AMD Athlon II P320 2.1GHz, 4GB DDR3 1066, 320GB HDD, DVD-Writer, ATI Radeon HD 4250
Was: $599.99
On Sale: $549.00
Coupon: hard2212e ($15 off)
$534

Old Coupons good until 2/5/2012

Thermalright Silver Arrow Dual Fan CPU Cooler, for Intel Socket 1366/1156/1155/775 and AMD Socket AM2/AM3 CPUs
Regularly: $74.99
Coupon: $6 [ hard72211b ]
$68.99

Noctua 120mm and 140mm SSO CPU Cooler, for Intel Socket LGA1366, LGA1156, LGA775 and AMD Socket AM2, AM2+, AM3 Processors, Model: NH-D14
Regularly: $89.99
On Sale: $79.99
Coupon: hard1252011c ($6 off)
$73.99, Free shipping

General Coupon:

hard8211b - 2.25% off your entire order of $130 or more.
 
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The SSD is now $109.99 and $99.99 after coupon!

Thats 78 cents per GB!
 
The Warp uses a JMicron controller, and one of the ones that was infamous for causing stuttering problems when it first came out- in 2008 or thereabouts. Stay far, far away from the SSD.
 
not a huge deal but the promo code on the usb hub doesn't work. put a note in as a comment to my order and got a phone call + email saying that is not a valid code.
 
Great, they (you?) also fixed my order and refunded. Great service from Directron.
 
mavalpha said:
The Warp uses a JMicron controller, and one of the ones that was infamous for causing stuttering problems when it first came out- in 2008 or thereabouts. Stay far, far away from the SSD.
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I'd basically recommend saying away from Patriot, period. They release a LOT of non-standards compliant USB thumbdrives and SSDs. Most notably, their Rage XT series of thumbdrives are advertised as having high read speeds (handy when you want to, say, use it as a boot drive for a live CD image)... And it is *SPECIFICALLY* mentioned in the USB spec for it to be a USB storage device with the USB logo... that the device has to support booting.

Well. I got one of those Rage XT sticks and it stopped booting, warm or cold, after the first reboot when testing the image on the stick. Reformatting it, blasting partitions, etc... Nothing worked. I could never boot from this stick again. Writing was fine. It just would hang *EVERY* system I plugged it into when I fired the machine up. Wouldn't even get to the BIOS logo screen. I'd have to pull this stick before any system it was plugged into would start booting. I posted a review on NewEgg and detailed this. Their response? "Booting is not a supported feature for our flash drives."

Yes. Their packaging has the USB Logo on it.

On a Dockstar hacking forum, we keep a stickied thread up top listing which thumbdrives we've tested for booting Debian (or some other ARM compatible distro) on... Patriot is the one brand that consistently fails. Most unreliable brand of all the ones we've come across and we're into at least the hundreds of makes and models by now.

Patriot is a shit company that sells shit thumbdrives. Avoid at all costs.
 
Don't know about Patriot in general, but the Box Office has quite a following...
 
Supposedly the SSD was a TORX first generation according to the number they have on their website. I am running as a cache drive in a Z68X mb setup with no problems. Its a Sata II and not real fast but faster than a hard drive.
 
Sorry about. Coupons extended through 2/5 -- we'll have a full new set of deals late tonight.

-Lee
 
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