Refurbed Corsair 128gb SSD $129.99 at tigerdirect.com

This would be great as a drive for games. 1 year warranty is awesome for a refurb.
 
kdu said:
great price, practically $1 per gb
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Aren't we splitting hairs here @ $1.01 per GB? For a 128GB drive this is a lock. If I hadn't gotten a 80GB GX2 recently I would have hopped on this. Damn good price for the money, and you will easily be able to get $85-$100 resale out of down the road I'd bet on CraigsList:D.
 
Thank you! Ordered on if it's still here payday I'll buy another.
 
Wow this is an incredibly tempting deal. I was just about to pick up the Corsair Force GT that is on sale @ the egg for $255 right now, but for the same price I could get two of these and throw them in a RAID-0 setup and get around the same speeds. Not to mention twice the capacity.

Anyone think this is a good idea? I saw there was one review on the egg of someone doing just that claiming 550/500 read/write speeds, seems about right. Most of the reviews seemed pretty positive, though there were 3 or 4 out of about 30 that said it failed within weeks.

Does anyone have experience with these drives? Think raid would be a good idea? Cause I would LOVE to be able to get 256 GB of SSD storage with speeds in the ~500 range for $260. That is an insane deal!
 
Been using 2x 128GB Vertex drives for a long time (before the SF drives hit) in RAID 0. Even with the 6.0gbps newer drives, the SF-1200 drives (I had like 8x 64GB drives in RAID 0 at one point), I still use these two drives on a daily basis. At some point I will upgrade to dual drives but realistically, I don't bench the rig often and couldn't tell the difference with the 2GB/s SF setup in everyday usage.
 
I'd love to see two of them in raid0, lol :)
If these are there on Friday I'll get me one :)
 
Bought 2 myself and since Chicago is just 3 hour drive away I will have thursday. They are replacing my 2 kingston 64gb drives. I will update when I get my rig back up and running with these.
 
What is the process for "refurbishing" an SSD? Do they just fix bad firmware or something?
 
this is a hell of a price. I actually have the v32 in my file server. Great value drive.

And I would definitely take this over the faster force series. Indilinx drives like this have proven to be more reliable in my eyes then anything using sandforce.
 
Paypal paid for 2 this morning.
256GB of RAID0 waiting for a new home.
 
That's more like 128GB of RAID 0. Why is it even called RAID when it's not even redundant, again?
 
Matrices said:
That's more like 128GB of RAID 0. Why is it even called RAID when it's not even redundant, again?
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It's often called fake RAID because of that. But it's easier to assign it a RAID level, makes it easier for people to learn the RAID array types. And why did you say "more like 128GB of RAID 0?"
 
It would be better if they didn't randomly start charging tax in SD and shipping was free. Seriously I have never seen a Tiger Direct building here or heard of one. This is on ebay as well in case anyone has ebay bucks. Tiger also has cashback through Discover, or use Mr.Rebates or Fatwallet.

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Matrices said:
That's more like 128GB of RAID 0. Why is it even called RAID when it's not even redundant, again?
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naw.. more like 256GB of raid action. The word redundant is not really synonomous with "fault tolerance". I think you might be thinking of RAID 1
 
i ordered 2 for raid-0 action on my ancient P35 chipset, but will really run fast when i upgrade to either bulldozer or sandybridge.

i wonder what i can get for my SCSI setup now a days :(
 
So again, what is the process for refurbishing these drives? I'd be interested in buying two at this price... but what is the performance of them?
 
Well add me to the list of those who just ordered 2 to throw in a RAID0 setup, lets hope we can get some good numbers! Although honestly for the price, I was just excited to get 256GB of SSD storage period. I've only tried out a a few SSDs, though in my experience any of them are leaps and bounds better than any mechanical drive, so I shouldn't be disappointed.

These will be used strictly for game installs, right now the only SSD in my system is a 64GB so I can't afford to have all my games on it. I have a few, but I can really tell the difference with load times when I go to play my other games that aren't on it. Gonna be sweet getting those kinds of loads for ALL my games. :D Can you tell I'm excited?:D

Should be here Friday, I have to work till late Friday, but you can bet I will have them installed that night after work. I will update with my results.
 
refraxion said:
So again, what is the process for refurbishing these drives? I'd be interested in buying two at this price... but what is the performance of them?
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There's not many different parts to go wrong in an SSD but I'd imagine most are returned because of controller problems and I'll bet much of that repair is done electronically.

The performance you get depends upon your MB's chipset which can be easily Googled.
 
I'm intrigued and might take the plunge with 2 for RAID0. What do people do for backups with these? On my mechanical drives I take a backup once a week automagically. How quickly would these degrade the drive?
 
ir0nw0lf said:
It's often called fake RAID because of that. But it's easier to assign it a RAID level, makes it easier for people to learn the RAID array types. And why did you say "more like 128GB of RAID 0?"
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I mean that it's like saying you have 3GB of vRAM on a GTX 590. Cumulatively and technically, yes, but in reality, the vRAM is 1.5GB x 2 used concurrently in SLI mode, so games will only have access to 1.5GB total vRAM space.

Similarly, you're only going to be have access to128GB of storage in RAID 0.
 
I bit, thanks OP. This will be my first SSD. Need to read up on how to enable TRIM and all that.
 
Matrices said:
I mean that it's like saying you have 3GB of vRAM on a GTX 590. Cumulatively and technically, yes, but in reality, the vRAM is 1.5GB x 2 used concurrently in SLI mode, so games will only have access to 1.5GB total vRAM space.

Similarly, you're only going to be have access to128GB of storage in RAID 0.
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It provides improved performance and additional storage but no fault tolerance. Hence simple stripe sets are normally referred to as RAID 0.
 
Matrices said:
I mean that it's like saying you have 3GB of vRAM on a GTX 590. Cumulatively and technically, yes, but in reality, the vRAM is 1.5GB x 2 used concurrently in SLI mode, so games will only have access to 1.5GB total vRAM space.

Similarly, you're only going to be have access to128GB of storage in RAID 0.
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Do you know what RAID is ? ;)
 
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