Crucial M4 256GB SATA III MLC 2.5" Internal SSD 6Gb/s (CT256M4SSD2) - Price War Thread!

how about $189

http://forum.notebookreview.com/not...-sata-iii-189-shipped-hurrry.html#post8497593




Buy.com - Crucial M4 256GB 2.5" SATA III Solid State Drive (SSD)


$10 off new customer...derp use a new email

Coupons - Buy.com

 

They don't ship internationally.

 

For $205 after Tax + Shipping not bad! $190 Before Tax/Shipping. What a deal. Going to throw this in my P150EM. Now I'm poor, w.e. hahaha.

 

Choose free budget shipping and save $$$

 

I paid $5 extra to get it shipped within 3 days. Still totally worth it. Lol. Putting this in a P150EM Clevo with 7970m and i7 3610.

 

I used free shipping and got it in two days

Ordered sunday night last week, and received it tueday afternoon.

By the way, discover cashback worked on this as well. Received my cashback confirmation of $11. Therefor my final total was $179. Thats a steal for this drive.

 

the Crucial m4 just came back in stock on newegg.com at 199.99 shipped, don't know how long it will last in stock.

Crucial M4 @ Newegg

 

Sold out already. Boy that was fast.

 

That's why these prices never go down. Whenever there's a sale they disappear in a heartbeat. Why should they put them on sale

 

Because they disappear in a heartbeat. Helps to clear out stock if they want to move it fast.

 

yeah if they have something else coming in the horizon

 

Buy.com - Crucial M4 128GB 2.5" SATA III Solid State Drive (SSD)

128GB for $99.99

minus 5 dollars if you use a new account.

 

such a great deal ^ , but I'm too lazy to maintenance SSD..

 

What maintenance? None required. Just do a clean install of Windows and you're set.

 

I meant to keep the OS and its programs from writing unnecessary stuffs onto the drive

 

There is nothing to do or worry about that at all, especially with Windows 7 at least. Clean install sets everything up. And no worries about "unnecessary stuff" it's way overblown out of proportion. There is no way an average user will kill a drive's NAND in 10 years time. The controller is sure to go before that.

Only way you could kill it is writing to it more or less continuously 24/7. In that case a hard drive would do you better anyhow, or an SLC SSD which will cost 3-4 times the consumer grade MLC SSD, but has like ten times the writes.

 

Do not worry about writing data to your SSD. It will last for 200tb or greater; there's a 40gb Intel and a 256gb Samsung that are approaching or have exceeded 1pb (1,000tb) of writes without error.

To put this in perspective, I have had the 128gb SSD in my desktop for 10 months. It is at 98% estimated lifetime remaining, and based on tests in the above-referenced thread, will last at least as long after it goes to 0. That means, at the current rate, my drive will last 50+ years. I haven't treated it any different than a HDD (except making sure defrag was disabled), and have re-imaged and re-installed onto it several times.

 

Quite interesting, what's been holding me back is people keep saying this and that about wear and tear. And I even heard some paranoid ones.. (firefox cache on RAM lol..).

Let's see,I have W7, MS Words stuff, Adobe Lightroom, browsers (no need to move cache to HDD ?), iTunes (this make me worry lol I have 6Gbs of mobile apps and I really do not want to move the entire library setting folders -not mp3s- because of that folder only), IDM (I wonder if I can move the cache folder because I do download GB size stuff frequently), WinRar (similar because it extracts in temp folder), couple games (these I don't need to worry about). I need to turn Page File off too as far as I am aware.

That's pretty much all I have in my C drive atm. I keep junk programs on separate partition. Probably it's just me being lazy changing cache location on specific programs .Beside those things, I don't write onto the C drive that much, like barely.

side question: is it true that if I load OS and most used programs onto the SSD, the HDD is pretty much inactive as long as there's no activity on the HDD

 

Depends on your power settings, though generally it's true that it'll spin down when not in use.

 

You should just throw out any fears of wear on SSDs. All I do for a clean SSD install (or if I get a new one) is:

1. Put the SATA port in AHCI mode if not already
2. Install Windows and run the WEI assessment. That will detect the drive as an SSD and automatically disable defragging as well as turn on TRIM.

Everything else like page file locations, turning off indexing, and all that is unnecessary on modern SSDs. Those setups were meant to make older SSDs do as little as possible. Nowadays, there's no reason to do all that. All you end up doing is not putting your SSD to good use.

I work with big files all the time and here's the SSDLife report of the older 240GB Sandforce drive I'm using:

10 months, 9 days of on-time (7,425 hours)
28,672 GB of data written
= 3.86 GB written for every single hour of on-time

That's probably a lot more than the average user and I still have 99% health with an estimated lifetime of 9 years. I'll be on a different SSD long before then.

 

The only thing I would do is make sure defrag is disabled for the SSD. In my dual SSD/HDD systems, I have moved the entire C:\Users folder to the HDD via symlink, that way basically everything that would take up a significant amount of space and doesn't need to be super-fast (Documents, Music, Movies, Desktop, and AppData, which included random caches, temp files, and whatnot) isn't using up space on my SSD.

Also, unless you're really running out of space, I don't know why you would turn the pagefile off. If anything ever requires it, or if you somehow go over your max RAM, it's a nice fallback, not to mention it's where crash dumps are stored. You can easily resize it so it's not more than a gig or two.

 

Crucial CT256M4SSD2 M4 2.5 Inch Solid State Drive - 256GB, SATAIII 6Gb/s at TigerDirect.com

$200 from TD, 256gb.

 

I think by now with so many of these sales, "normal" price for crucial M4 128gb is around $110, and $200 for the 256gb model.

crucial 256gb amazon
crucial 256gb newegg

 

Current Deals on the Crucial M4 as of 7/22 (or from 7/21):

@BH Photo for $169.00 with free shipping originally posted by on 7/21 mastpyk in this thread: http://forum.notebookreview.com/not...rnal-solid-state-drive-ssd-179-99-newegg.html, brand new thread made by shabs today 7/22 in this thread: http://forum.notebookreview.com/not...d-2-5-solid-state-internal-drive-169-b-h.html
Crucial Technology 256GB m4 SSD 2.5" Solid State

Also available at buy.com: as of 7/21
You can also get this right now at buy.com for $179.99
Buy.com - Crucial M4 256GB 2.5" SATA III Solid State Drive (SSD)
or $170 with new customer coupon: $10 off $150
Valid for first time Buy.com customers only.
Orders must be placed on or before 7/31/2012 11:59:00 PM PT.
**If you want the Data Transfer kit with from buy.com would be $180:
http://www.buy.com/prod/crucial-m4-...ive-ssd-with-data-transfer-kit/221150376.html

Amazon is getting "there":
$179.99 shipped
http://www.amazon.com/Crucial-2-5-Inch-Solid-State-CT256M4SSD2/dp/B004W2JL2A/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1342980234&sr=8-1&keywords=crucial+m4+256

It's also $179.99 at TD:http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=365476&CatId=5300
$189.99 if you want the Data Transfer Kit: both free ship
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1785185&CatId=5298

 

Ok posting from my cell so pls excuse any errors at buy
Com may be lukewarm but still in range of pricing with Samsung 830 right now and with $10 new customer
savings it should be about $189.99 with free ship:

Link:
Buy.com Mobile

$10 off link..valid thru 9/30/12:
Coupons - Buy.com

**be sure to read details on $10 new customer savings.

 

That's a good price, still $199 at Newegg and Amazon.

 

^^Thanks for posting that I was trying to edit my post a few minutes ago on my phone but it didn't want to scroll thru to the end so I could add that. Meh. I want to update main post also with info but yeah no way a long copy and paste is gonna work on this phone. (More user error). .

Also BH Photo is at $209 yet.