$99 120GB SAMSUNG 840 EVO SSD

[samwisekoi]

Plus free shipping at NewEgg and Amazon (Prime).  Less than $1/GB for a Samsung SSD.  $40 savings.  5-egg rating on NewEgg.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147247
http://www.neweggbusiness.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9B-20-147-247
http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Electronics-EVO-Series-2-5-Inch-MZ-7TE120BW/dp/B00E3W15P0

I am buying a couple to upgrade netbooks.

 - Ron | samwisekoi

[SpAmRaY]

My favorite part is that amazon has a 1Tb option!

[samwisekoi]

My favorite part is that amazon has a 1Tb option!

At 63¢ per GB as well!

Slap those in as cache for your multi-TB NAS device!

 - Ron | samwisekoi

[bazemk1979]

Waiting for the regular 840 250gb version to be on sale, crossing fingers thanks for posting this great deal

[dragonxx21]

how good are SSDs? How much do they actually help?

[mkawa]

the primary bottleneck in the average personal computer is random access latency to spinning disk, period. this has been true since the very first personal computer and is even more true now that everything else has gotten so frickin fast. here's the scale: the average computational or memory access operation on a computer takes on the order of 1-10ns. the average disk seek takes about 10-20ms

ns, ms

yes, 6 orders of magnitude.

ssds bring that down to 1 or 2 orders of magnitude at the _absolute worst_. in optimal cases their operations can be measured on the same order as other comp and mem ops.

[mkawa]

don't get me wrong. there are many problems with flash memory, and especially flash memory that is emulating a spinning disk. but don't reject "darned good" for "oh my god so slow" just because "darned good" isn't quite as great as it could theoretically be.

[JPG]

For the past 15 years, every time I got a new computer I had high expectations. Going from a 386 to a Pentium 166 was a hell of a difference, but later, every time I changed, I was always a little sad some things were still not as fast as I expected. Almost 2 year ago, when I got my first ssd, it has been the first time in a long time where I have seen a HUGE difference. Everything loads faster, but also, the whole computer is much smoother and fast.

SSD's are worth it all the way. At least, get a 120g and install your os and main applications on it. Personally, I only have a 12g right now, and the only difference is that I must clean it on a more regular basis instead of waiting 2-3 years until I flush the things I could have flushed years before, not needing them anymore.

[quake4mhg]

It worth every penny in my 5 yrs old quad core system. Boots machine form win7 logo to working desktop in 15 sec, instead of 3 mins with a 7200 rpm hard disk.
Every program runs faster, not talking about I'm always the first 5 player loaded on every map, to choose which vehicle I want in BF3.
It feels like I had upgraded my machine

[1391406]

I have an 80GB Intel SSD as my system drive and it's helped loading times tremendously. From loading Windows and applications, to doing system searches, it's just a major improvement in speed. That's no exaggeration. There's no way I'd go back to a platter based drive as my system HD.

[xmagusx]

Storage is always the biggest bottleneck in every system. Over the years I've gotten better performance and much greater longevity out of my builds by simply making sure that they had the fastest consumer grade drives in them. I was thrilled when the WD raptors came out (meant that I could give up SCSI), and was a huge fan until SSD hit less than $1 per gig and I picked up a 64gb model for my media machine and a 512gb model for my main rig. The difference floored me, even compared to raptors.

In 15 years of building, SSD is the best value upgrade I've put in any system, by an order of magnitude.