Holy moly intel 730 SSD 60% off at new egg 219$ for 480GB!!!!1

WOW insane price 60% off intel ssd at newegg!!!

Intel 730 Series SSDSC2BP480G4R5 2.5" 480GB SATA 6Gb/s MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) - Newegg.ca


this is crazy awesome and those SSD are rock solid!

 

I would stay away from those in laptops. They have stupid high power draw for relatively mediocre performance when compared to the M550 or 850, which pretty much stomp all over the 730 with much less power draw.

 

I used have an Intel ssd and it wasn't that faster. It never performed as advertised! Never buy ssd from Intel.

 

Well intel ssd do take more watts ... they are modified data center ssd for the masses ...
they get around 30C inside my laptop 2 of them in sandwitch... and i had zero problem with them , and they are the only ssd for the masses with a capacitor for flush in flight data write in the event of a suden power loss

and the benchmark are okay for me... especially the iops ... i really don't care about the mb / secs ...

here is some number on my system after a couple month main system drive of 2x480gb ssd's
Raw speed (remember its the system drive so it sa a bit lower number as windows access drive while you bench)
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and those IOPS .. i think is the most important!!!
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Intel offer a range of devices and the speeds/power consumption will depend entirely on the model you are talking about.

 

actually,this is not that great performance wise. Maybe 4-5 years ago this would have been standard.