Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB SSD - $579 after Bing cashback

$659 before Bing at Tiger Direct

$679 at Newegg right now, so this is a good deal at $100 cheaper if you can wait the 60 days for your cashback. For me in CA where tax is charged by ZZF and Newegg I save another $50.

$659.99
-$81.18 cashback
$578.81 (and no tax in CA!)

Sequential Read
355MB/sec (SATA 6Gb/s)
265MB/sec (SATA 3Gb/s)
Sequential Write
215MB/sec (SATA 6Gb/s)
215MB/sec (SATA 3Gb/s)
Random 4k READ 60,000 IOPS
Random 4k WRITE 45,000 IOPS
3 year warranty

 

lol, I'm the opposite. I get taxed if I buy from Tiger Direct not Newegg. One of Tiger Direct's locations is about 15 minutes from here.

 

We can work something out.
I also work and live next to 2 Fry's. I think there needs to be a network of us to get in on the B&M deals!

 

Zipp and I feel the pain of Kalifornia taxes. Sigh. Good to know about Tigerdirect, though.

I managed to obtain a different Crucial--256GB M225--for just under $400, and I'm confused again. Ha.

So, the 256GB is going to be used for mostly gaming files. (OS and other programs are handled by the 160GB Intel G2; I have two HDD bays). I'm wondering if there's some crazy awesome advantage the C300 has over the M255.

 

Can't find a quick review of the C300 vs M255, but using Anandtech's SSD comparison you can compare your X25 to the C300.
C300 wins in almost all tests

 

Heh. Wouldn't seem to be worth the upgrade. Hell, I'm almost doubting the worth of moving from a Hitachi 7k500 to a Crucial 256M255.

 

The C300 is SATA III 6gb/s and the other is SATA II 3gb/s with read speeds of 355 i believe and the other is about 100mb less and junk. I had the previous version and firmware updates were nonexistent. I got the C300 in my desktop and it is great.

It's not really worth getting the C300 unless you can use SATA III because it will only go as fast as SATA II allows.

 

Will be very much appreciated if you can share some benchmark tests.

I'm interested on getting this long ago

 

Anandtech has some benchmarks ( http://www.anandtech.com/show/2944/9 and the next few pages). From the benchmarks, I reiterate that while it would certainly be beneficial to have SATA 6 Gb/s if you deal with large files, for the average user, you probably wouldn't notice the difference. It's also worth noting that there seems to be a problem with the C300 and TRIM ( http://www.anandtech.com/show/2974/crucial-s-realssd-c300-an-update-on-my-drive)

 

@Judicator

Thanks saw that too but can't find 4K and 4K QD32 bench which is what I'm looking for.

 

4K random read/writes is on the page right after the one I linked, although I have no idea what QD32 is...

 

If it's the same QD with SANs it means Queue Depth. The higher the number the better the performance for the disk but it will use more resources from the system. I believe 32 is default.