isn't this a good deal? prices are around $1/GB, and go higher for larger SSDs, for examples OWC sells a 480 GB models for $650

[slickdeals.net]

That is a good deal! However, it's also still $396.

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Got the Crucial 256 for $200 last week... just installed it in my hackintosh.
Now, what to do with the 64GB? Would make a nice small external to shuttle
to and from work. Any best cases for SSDs?

p.s. Carbon Copy Cloner rocks!

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Got the Crucial 256 for $200 last week... just installed it in my hackintosh.
Now, what to do with the 64GB? Would make a nice small external to shuttle
to and from work. Any best cases for SSDs?

p.s. Carbon Copy Cloner rocks!

Yeah it does! (and it's supported by OWC ads )

Do you have eSATA (re: your external case request)? If you run out of ideas, i sure could use an SSD to put in my mini - donations appreciated!

Congrats on your Crucial deal - that's a great price for the 256. As i noted a couple days ago, the Samsung 830 just made it down to $220.

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miK.
Got the Crucial 256 for $200 last week... just installed it in my hackintosh.
Now, what to do with the 64GB? Would make a nice small external to shuttle
to and from work. Any best cases for SSDs?

p.s. Carbon Copy Cloner rocks!

Yeah it does! (and it's supported by OWC ads )

Do you have eSATA (re: your external case request)? If you run out of ideas, i sure could use an SSD to put in my mini - donations appreciated!

Congrats on your Crucial deal - that's a great price for the 256. As i noted a couple days ago, the Samsung 830 just made it down to $220.

For shuttling files it would be silly to buy anything but a basic case.
I'm booting from two SSDs in these cases:
[www.amazon.com]
And have been very happy with them (plus they've come down about $3 since I bought )
--But for that usage I'd probably just go with any $10 USB case.
Would make more sense to sell it to someone who would want to boot from it and really benefit, IMO.

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And oh yeah, very pleased with CCC here and not sure why anyone would want to use anything else.

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....is this beef or chicken SATA[y].....????

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That is a good deal! However, it's also still $396.

Agreed.

More than I want to spend on a drive, even though that's still a great price.

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Mister, that's a ten-gallon hat on a twenty-gallon head.

I *love* Sigs. It's Glocks I hate.

@rjmacs: Yes, I do have eSATA on my hack case. Also, I'll keep you in mind if I end up stalling out.

@Black: Was thinking of something smaller like this: [www.amazon.com]
It's even got USB 3.0, which I can use on my hack.

Or maybe this (from our sponsor!): [eshop.macsales.com]

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Many moons ago, I remember paying $400 for 2GB 7200RPM Quantum Atlas UWSCSI2 drives... Now, 256 X capacity and about 5 X the RAID'ed throughput, plus way faster seek times, and $400 seems expesnive. Actually, that's $3 cheaper than the lowest I've seen the M4 for, but given current costs and, and productivity gains, it still seems like the sweet spot for SSD's is for the 120GB - 256GB drives to use as a startup/OS/apps/scratch drive(s) and use higher capacity, good quality 7200RPM platter drives for storage/everything else. Anything bigger than 256GB is for rich people... there are no real productivity gains to be had versus using a cheaper multi-drive SSD/7.2K setup; basically it's just bragging rights (not that that's an entirely bad thing)...


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I would gladly take that 64 off your hands, say for $25 =)

would be perfect in my wifes 6 year old MB.

Really hoping to score something like this on free item Monday...

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