$1 per GB! Crucial M225 refurb SSDs

256gb Crucial M225 SSD = $256
CTRFB256M225 - 256GB, Solid State Drive , from Crucial.comUS

250mb/sec read
200mb/sec write


128gb Crucial M225 SSD = $128
CTRFB128M225 - 128GB, Solid State Drive , from Crucial.comUS

250mb/sec read
190mb/sec write

 

these use what internal controller?

how would it rank next to a tried and true intel?

edit: uses barefoot

does support trim with new firmware.

 

Really good price! It's just the question of how much it has been used.... plus the disk drive is the only thing I'd really prefer brand new.

 

I read that it ranks amongst the best with others with the same controller, even beating OCZ Agilty.
I think it still doesn't compare to Intel IOPS, but still no slacker. I already have a couple of SSDs, but have a hard time passing up a good deal...

 

sold out

10 char

 

Refurb, 30days of warranty....

 

Warranty was my next question, glad you posted that.

Its ok though all these crazy SSD deals are a showing that the time is comming for them to go down in price.

Companies are just trying to be first in with lower prices to sell as many as they can before the market as a whole goes down in price.


I'll be on the lookout for some crazy good black Friday days, if there are none chances are a few months afer the Intel G3 release is going to be a good time to buy.

 

Really? I would have thought the SSD makers would hold out till the last possible moment, until they have to lower prices, due to competition.

 

You can get 1 year warranty from square trade for about $20 for the 256GB one so warranty is not a big deal. From what I read about these drives, they are great for home setups. They perform same as OCZ vertex drives and refurbs come with the new firmware that has TRIM. Especially 256GB version for $256 can not be passed. Also there is a 6% cashback from mrrebates.com which makes it even better.

 

^This.

These are excellent SSDs based on the indilinx barefoot controller, and vastly outperform first generation JMicron controller based variants (as most SSD enthusiasts know). They lose very little in real life performance against the current crop of Sandforce and Marvell based SSDs.

That said, BUY THE WARRANTY. I'll go even further and warn that even with the warranty, you should be careful about spontaneous SSD failure. You do not want unstable storage, and that skimpy 30 day warranty squicks me out quite a bit, optional 1-year added on or not.

 

dang..I was in school and missed it...

 

Had I known that I would have got one, I was there before sell out.

rebates work too?

 

Refurb SSD + square trade warranty... uh... no way. Good price but I'd pass either way.

 

mrrebates is a cashback site like ms cashback. I don't want to advertise anything an I am not affiliated with them at all but they also allow referal cashbacks which makes the cashback from crucial 9% in total. Plus you can get another 1-2% from your credit card. That should pay off CA taxes at least.

Unreal:

Now you have to pass anyways. Deal is dead.

 

yea...one thing I'd never, ever buy a refurb of is a hard drive. it's asking for trouble.

 

LOL! I just called Crucial to ask if the website was broken or if they are out of stock on those refurb SSDs. The sales guy said the caching system has the pages cached and they are trying to get them down. They are getting 100's of extra phone calls from people trying to buy those SSDs!

 

If it was a hard drive then you are right but for SSDs that is not the case. From experience memory cards, RAMs, SSDs do break quickly if they are bad (usually in the first week of usage) otherwise they last for ever. That is why they are offering 5 years warranty for the new ones.

 

These drives have a very high failure rate ( Newegg.com - Crucial CT256M225 2.5" 256GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD). Mine failed after 30 days. Crucial will only replace with the same POS, which will have a 0 days warranty. I can get the square trade warranty (~$40, not $20) but that doesn't solve the problem of an unreliable drive. I used to think Crucial was a good company but I will never buy anything from them again.

 

You pay for what you get. Many here steer away from any refurbished ssd. Why do you think the drive is a refurb in the first place? Many posts above warn of that. Crucial is still a good company, the new drives have a 3 year warranty. I would suggest you get the replacement and sell it on Ebay, some are getting good prices for them. Then, buy a new drive from whatever brand so you won't have this problem again.

 

Refurbished <> defective. Crucial Website: "Refurbished items are working parts that have been returned to crucial, often just because a customer simply ordered the wrong part." As you can see from this thread, these drives sold out very quickly. How many do you think they would have sold if people knew they would likely fail in a month or 2? Did you read the reviews on Newegg? Many failures within a month or 2. Those were new drives, not refurbs. Unless Crucial treated those customers better than they treated me, they replaced those drives with the same unreliable drive. Would you have been happy with that if you had been one of those customers? Even for the refurb, $256 is still a substantial amount of money, I don't think most people would think an expected lifespan of a month or 2 is acceptable, regardless of the warranty.

Is Crucial a good company? Not in my opinion. When a company sells a bad drive, the cost to the consumer is not just the $$$, but also the time and hassle cost. A good company would make an effort to make it up to the consumer. Crucial did the minimum they are legally required to do. It is not a good company.

Thanks for the Ebay idea, do you think I could get close to what I paid if I told the truth (i.e - poor reliability) about this drive?

 

Lots of people complaining about these drives over at slickdeals ( Crucial Refurbished 2.5" Serial ATA SSD Sale: 64GB $64, 128GB $128, 256GB $256 - Slickdeals.net).

#548
"let's temp them with this amazing $1 per gig price and claim it's just people returning the drive that they decided they didn't want. when it goes bad, we give them store credit and they purchase a new drive at nearly $2 per gig"

 

New SSD's especially in the mid-range are still plagued with unreliability. Steer clear of any refurbed SSD for at least a decade lol

In fact in my opinion if you want an SSD spend big and only get the best for a few years yet until SSD's have gained that reliabililty they desperatly need.

 

Your welcome to your opinion, and you may be right, but if there is any scientific basis for it, I haven't seen it. If you have any, please enlighten the rest of us (or at least me).

BTW, the failure rate data for conventional consumer grade spinning platter drives is pretty bad. For SSD's to be worse they'd have to be quite bad.