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    Kingston SSDNow V+ 96GB 2.5" Internal N.book SDD - $98.95 AR, Shipped @buy.com & amazon

    Discussion in 'Notebook and Tech Bargains' started by Cin', May 31, 2011.

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    LOL! I guess they were whining too much that Newegg had the $50 MIR. Go to eBates.com and get 2.5-5% off too. They don't clarify how much exactly though.
     
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    Well, they just prolly price matched. Amazon seems to do it for that latter on newegg products & buy.com comes in third (and slower) for price matching.

    FYI, ebates will only work for buy.com, not Amazon. : )
     
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    Oh yeah forgot to mention eBates is for Buy.com only... I guess my mind farted or something.
     
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    Awww, I wish I waited a week. This is $13 cheaper than NewEgg.
    :fistsintheair:
     
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    still for us only i still hate you guys :mad:

    at least it does not mak me feel bad for jumping on it at amazon
     
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    Finally made up my mind to buy another one of these, but the Amazon deal is over.
     
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    ^^looks like the buy.com deal is still going. : )
     
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    Tax. I'm in Cali.
     
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    Ahh...the unavoidable Cali' tax factor :(
     
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    I'm doing a battery test comparison between my Intel X25-M G2 80GB, WD Caviar Blue 5400RPM, and this drive. So far not looking as promising as thought against my Intel, about the same. In any case still an excellent bargain especially for netbooks or ULV CPU's. Either way it's worlds faster than what any 5400RPM or 7200RPM HDD can offer and battery life is still better than the HDD.
     
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    This code gives you $5 or $10 off the order. Takes the sting out of the tax or it's even better if you don't live in Cali.
     
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    the thing is great i got around 10 additional minutes going from a raid to this and a separate mecanical drive while booting faster then my raid how ever i don't fell that my system is more "snappy" but it might be my 2.0 c2q that bottleneck it or that my raid was adrealy fast enough

    (when you got 1 hours of batterie life 10 additional minutes if great ;p)
     
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    I just bought a couple to replace my Intel X25-m actually. It's for the desktop so no battery concerns and oh yeah, raid 0. Adobe Premiere is EXTRA snappy. Over provisioned, I'm using 150GB vs. 120GB on the Intel. Same price, faster speeds, more memory.

    30 minutes can be kind of a big deal. I don't notice it all that much because I'm running an undervolted Lenovo and I still clear 6 hours easy.
     
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    I'm realizing my "Hannspree Hannsbook" isn't the most efficient. My M11x can get close to 8 hours with an Intel 120GB and it essentially is the same setup as the Hannspree, SU7300, 4500MHD, 4GB DDR3, of course the M11x has the nVidia GPU but once you disable it, the machines have close to same specs.

    As someone noted in the SSD thread, maybe GC was excessively active while the drive is new. I'm going to let it idle and see how it fares. All in all though I'm happy with this drive. Solid performer, 96GB, for less than $100!
     
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    well if you read the spec of the dive it got 1/3 less mtbf then other drives seemingly because of the over agressive GC that write and re write stuf all across the drive

    and the power consumsion for the drive with trim running was even higher then it's usage consumsion so it all seem to point to this
     
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    Well for the most part GC will be at a minimum once you use the drive normally. Very few writes. With my battery test, the SSD will get very little writes, so TRIM and GC are minimal. Even when they are active, the drive is still at "idle" state for 90% of the time or more.
     
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    A few days into using my RAID 0 Kingstons. Wow. I don't think I can go back to regular and makes me think that SATA III might be worth it. At least for Adobe Premiere it seems so. For everything else, I don't notice a speed increase at all. Afterall, it's hard to make "fast" even "faster."

    When I was using the Intel X25-M as my OS drive, I was wondering where my bottleneck was: either CPU or drives. Now, I know. It was the drives. CPU power is pointless unless you need to encode/render quickly. I've confirmed it for myself at least.
     
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