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    Samsung 830 256gb $220 free shipping

    Discussion in 'Notebook and Tech Bargains' started by s2odin, May 29, 2012.

  1. s2odin

    s2odin Merrica!

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    s2odin, May 29, 2012
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  2. HTWingNut

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    Newegg is fine. There are incidents that newegg has been somewhat shady when it comes to motherboard returns, but at least you'll get the 3 year warranty from Samsung. Sucks that it's at 12:01am PT, because that's like 3:01 ET and I refuse to get up at 3am just to buy an SSD.
     
    HTWingNut, May 29, 2012
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  3. Jarhead

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    Lol, I'm usually up until 4am EST, I'll could probably buy it for you haha.

    Seriously though, these SSD deals are freaking sweet! Waiting for my $140 Intel 330 to arrive at my door any day now from Amazon.
     
    Jarhead, May 29, 2012
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  4. Nick

    Nick Professor Carnista

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    Amazon has it for $140? I should have purchased mine there, we have Prime.

    Sent from my SGH-T959 using Tapatalk 2
     
    Nick, May 30, 2012
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  5. HTWingNut

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    $140 is for the 128GB. This is for the 256GB, and it's $235 at Amazon. Still great pricing.
     
    HTWingNut, May 30, 2012
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  6. Jarhead

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    It was $139.99 after MIR. And I had to create a second Amazon account using my community college email since I ran out of free Prime on my university email :rolleyes:
     
    Jarhead, May 30, 2012
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  7. NotEnoughMinerals

    NotEnoughMinerals Notebook Deity

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    Getting closer to $200 at which I will buy my second 830
     
    NotEnoughMinerals, May 30, 2012
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  8. GTRagnarok

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    They just keep dropping! I really want to get one to replace my outdated Sandforce SSD which has horrible sequential speeds for compressed data (99% of the data I work with) but the moment I buy, I just know the price will drop even further, lol.

    At this rate, 60/64GB drives will be phased out soon.
     
    GTRagnarok, May 30, 2012
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  9. NotEnoughMinerals

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    I wouldn't object to the industry moving to 128/256/512GB as the baseline instead of 64/128/256
     
    NotEnoughMinerals, May 31, 2012
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  10. GTRagnarok

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    Yeah. I just wish 512GB drives would drop in price. I could raid two 256GB Samsung 830's for a lot less than the 512GB one.
     
    GTRagnarok, May 31, 2012
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  11. crashnburn

    crashnburn Notebook Consultant

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    Whats its lowest price been so far? 219 at BuyDig? For very short durations?
     
    crashnburn, May 31, 2012
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  12. mastypk

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    no more order link.

    I was willing to purchase 2 more :(
     
    mastypk, Jun 2, 2012
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