<$200: SanDisk Ultra II 2.5" 960GB SSD

[MrNoBody]

$199.99 w/ Free Shipping @ Newegg
also ShopRunner eligible

SanDisk SDSSDHII-960G-G25 Retail Internal
960GB
SATA-III
TLC NAND and Marvell Controller
2.5" x 7.0mm
3-year Warranty

[clay]

tempting. Was hoping to find a deal on a Samsung drive with the accompanying 5 year warranty. This may be worth going for for the $100 savings over the Samsung drive.

[jdc]

If it breaks after 3 hours, 3 days, 3 months or 3 years it wont really matter. All drives die. =)

The only difference is 4 years from now Crucial will replace it with a refurb drive, where Sandisk wont. You will have to spend $100* on a new 1 TB SSD. (* guessing thats what 1 TB SSDs will cost 4 years from now)

You could wait and see if it goes down at jet and use your coupon... if you still have it...

[clay]

jdc wrote:
If it breaks after 3 hours, 3 days, 3 months or 3 years it wont really matter. All drives die. =)

The only difference is 4 years from now Crucial will replace it with a refurb drive, where Sandisk wont. You will have to spend $100* on a new 1 TB SSD. (* guessing thats what 1 TB SSDs will cost 4 years from now)

You could wait and see if it goes down at jet and use your coupon... if you still have it...

jet coupon expires today at midnight...not much hope that anything there will go down before then.

newegg does have the 500 gb samsung on sale for $135 today, and comes with a download code for some PC game that most people are selling on eBay for $20-$25. $115 for a 500 gb Samsung seems like a pretty good deal. Though I'm sure you'd probably still tell me to go with the Sandisk drive :-)

[MrNoBody]

I'll agree with jdc, plus in a few weeks SanDisk will be a Western Digital subsidiary.
Also consider the NAND in SanDisk SSDs is made in a joint venture with Toshiba.

Heck, in three years SSDs will have been replaced by another technology anyway :biggrin:

[jdc]

clay wrote:
newegg does have the 500 gb samsung on sale for $135 today, and comes with a download code for some PC game that most people are selling on eBay for $20-$25. $115 for a 500 gb Samsung seems like a pretty good deal. Though I'm sure you'd probably still tell me to go with the Sandisk drive :-)

Meh, Im a cheapskate, I say go with whatever is cheapest.

But Im not a real fan or "x is better than y" arguments on things that are nearly identical. Nothing new, we have had the discussion on 'which drive is best" probably 1000 times on this forum -- and its always inconclusive.

[Black]

I would go with Sandisk simply because my first two SSDs were Sandisks and never hiccuped in several years of service. I know that's just a hair above raw superstition, but I am not subscribing to the "whatever's cheapest" sentiment here.