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Ends at 1PM PST. Newegg has the OCZ Vertex 2 Series OCZSSD2-2VTXE120G 2.5" 120GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive for $205 - $30 rebate = $175 with free shipping. Features RAID support, read speeds up to 285 MB/s, write speeds up to 275MB/s and comes with a 3 year warranty.
$175
Good deals to be had now that the Vertex 3 and Intel 510 are out. This drive is still blazing fast and this is a good price.
Be warned that some of these drives are shipping with 64Gb ICs that drop performance by 20-40% from reviews you may have seen...OCZ is doing free exchanges though - http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?84821-New-update-on-the-64Gb-IC-OCZ-SSD-drives
Good deal, but not really that much lower than the $180 I got at BF.
And for which I'm still awaiting a rebate LOL
Highly recommend...I couldn't be happier with this drive! This was purchased last year at a higher price. The rebate takes a while, but it was received. OCZ stands behind their products as well.
Now that they're doing exchanges, I'd expect all of these recently delivered as new stock (certainly at high volume sellers like 'egg) do have the higher density flash chips, are slower... any remaining inventory they had of the 34nm based product they're going to want to hold back for the exchanges when requested.
More than likely they are going to be 25nm based product. The issue is not the flash process, it is the IC's. When you have a 60GB drive with a 64GB IC, you only have one channel that the controller is going through, versus the TWO channels you'd have with two 32GB IC's. That's why performance is degraded for the newer 64GB IC drives.
34nm flash is more expensive to produce and stock is pretty much phased out already according to OCZ. Again, the issue is the arrangement of the flash on the circuit board.
I'll be buying one at the end of the year, so let the price dropping continue!
34nm flash is more expensive to produce and stock is pretty much phased out already according to OCZ. Again, the issue is the arrangement of the flash on the circuit board.
They're not gigabyte flash chips, they're gigabit... several chips and channels, though the performance decrease IS due to fewer channels from having fewer chips.
34nm is more expensive to produce per GB, but not per chip... essentially they are pocketing extra profit until their prices decline to mirror the prior component cost plus overhead plus profit for the same capacity SSDs... rebates aside since that makes prices a moving and variable target.