Samsung 840 EVO 250GB $183 at Amazon

[Jeggs101]

Saw this: Amazon.com: Samsung Electronics 840 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5-Inch SATA III Single Unit Version Internal Solid State Drive MZ-7TE250BW: Computers & Accessories

Fairly decent price as these are supposed to be great drives. Prices scale nicely because the 500GB is basically 2x that price and the 750GB is just under 3x.

We are approaching the point where you can have big SSDs for local storage. I'd much rather have a 500GB SSD and not have to deal with partitions.

 

[dba]

Saw this: Amazon.com: Samsung Electronics 840 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5-Inch SATA III Single Unit Version Internal Solid State Drive MZ-7TE250BW: Computers & Accessories

Fairly decent price as these are supposed to be great drives. Prices scale nicely because the 500GB is basically 2x that price and the 750GB is just under 3x.

We are approaching the point where you can have big SSDs for local storage. I'd much rather have a 500GB SSD and not have to deal with partitions.

Has anyone used the EVO drives yet? The 750GB is $505 at Provantage, which is pretty tempting as a light usage VM storage drive.

 

[shindo]

Newegg has it for the same price.

 

[Patrick]

Has anyone used the EVO drives yet? The 750GB is $505 at Provantage, which is pretty tempting as a light usage VM storage drive.

I need to. The thing is that at the $500-600 range I'm buying the 960GB M500. Not as fancy but a massive drive. The Samsung 840 EVO 1TB is a bit more.

Amazon.com: Crucial M500 960GB SATA 2.5-Inch 7mm (with 9.5mm adapter/spacer) Internal Solid State Drive CT960M500SSD1: Computers & Accessories

Realistically, for light VM usage there is so much spare NAND on there that I wouldn't even be worried.

 

[jtreble]

Samsung 840 Evo = no capacitors. Crucial M500 = capacitors. This might be important for some users.

 

[Jeggs101]

Samsung 840 Evo = no capacitors. Crucial M500 = capacitors. This might be important for some users.

Great point on that. Can't even find multiple sources in stock. We need to competitive if we don't buy through our preferred vendor and need to beat that vendor's price.