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Nice, that's a damn good deal, and one I wish had existed just 2 1/2 months ago when I got mine! It's been great in my PC, and I also shoved a 64GB one in my dad's old iMac, which needed an upgrade badly. It really breathed new life into that machine.
@Ravenlight: 'cause it's a good year and a half old now, and they're probably winding down production or clearing stock for a forthcoming newer model. Or it's just Amazon having crazy deals like they're wont to do.
Why is it so cheap? I'm inherently distrustful of this deal.
Probably try to sell off old stock, I think the M4 was one of the first Sata 3 drives (I probably made that up) so they might be getting ready to roll out a new model?
Why is it so cheap? I'm inherently distrustful of this deal.
Just moving old stock. They're slower SSDs, which are still blazingly fast. The Crucial M4s are on my top 3 SSD list. Not for speed, but for reliability. I've been using two 128's since they first came out. The only issue was that at 5000 hours, you wouldn't see your files anymore. Which was promptly resolved in a firmware update - no data was actually lost. An issue that Sandforce driven drives wish they had. On the stock installation of Skyrim, I didn't even know there were interactive load screens. Loads usually faded to black and then faded back into the game. Now? With a few dozen gigs of mods and textures, the initial load is kinda long.
The 256 gig model is $165. I'm very tempted to pick up another two.
I have been using this for my netbook for the last 6 months and it's a great improvement so far. However I would recommend getting the 256GB version if you want to store an OS, games and Adobe stuff on it. I am using the 256GB one as a primary HD on my desktop PC and even in SATA II the difference is extraordinary. I can only imagine how good this will be on SATA III.
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