90GB OCZ Agility 3 2.5" SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive SSD (AGT3-25SAT3-90G) $49AR + FS // 60GB OCZ Agility 3 2.5'' SATA III SSD (MAGT3-25SAT3-60G) $43AR + FS

so how reliable are these drives in particular? should I wait for another deal? Just want to run the OS on an SSD so size dolesnt matter

90GB version has decent reviews at Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Pro...6820227757

Quote from amoghthegamer : In for 3 90GB SSD's. rebate limit is 3 right?

better to figure out what your limit for frustration is

Quote from lucill22 : You are correct. Seagate apparently has backed out of the deal. Even with OCZ getting financing I do not see them staying independent for long. The Company lost $30 M in 2011 & $17M in 2012 The big thing is the negative Cash Flow which has accelerated year to year. This is one banged up Company! Period Ending Feb 29, 2012 Feb 28, 2011 Total Cash Flow From Operating Activities ( 90,126) (26,614) 400% increase in negative cash flow year to year!!! Someone has to clean up this mess. It is more than obviuos that OCZ's current Leadership is not capable!

No, Seagate hasn't backed out of anything. LOL, first you make up that they have been bought then you make up that they have backed out. What's next in Mergers and Acquisitions of Your Mind (tm)?

They have said they are looking to acquire SSD companies, though, so they may yet buy OCZ, who knows.

Quote from lucill22 : You are correct. Seagate apparently has backed out of the deal. Even with OCZ getting financing I do not see them staying independent for long. The Company lost $30 M in 2011 & $17M in 2012 The big thing is the negative Cash Flow which has accelerated year to year. This is one banged up Company! Period Ending Feb 29, 2012 Feb 28, 2011 Total Cash Flow From Operating Activities ( 90,126) (26,614) 400% increase in negative cash flow year to year!!! Someone has to clean up this mess. It is more than obviuos that OCZ's current Leadership is not capable!

I think they are trying, but not sure if they're doing it correctly.

I haven't posted much so you can look up my post history. I believe SSD prices are going to fall, partly due to OCZ, partly due to cost as there's more fat to be cut.

Here is some interesting info
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=OCZ
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/cf?s=OCZ
For May 30, 2012 Total Cash Flow From Operating Activities (55,948)
OCZ period ends at end of August. So, that explains quite a bit.

OCZ is clearing inventory by slashing prices. They only have another week left before their period ends, I expect to see more OCZ deals unless they believe they have met their target. Keep you eyes out for the next week and see what OCZ has to offer. Offering rebate is good for business.

1. They can potentially book the revenue now for selling to consumer. They can then sit on their hands and wait for consumer to submit rebate = next quarter That makes their current quarter look good.

2. Not everyone submit rebate, furthermore, $10 or even $20, redemption rate is likely to be lower than say rebate amount of $40. If you look at the past 1 month OCZ deals, prices after rebate is trending down and latest rebate amounts are small, $10 or $20, counting on not as many people will bother with rebates.

Personally, I am still waiting for SSD price falls to 50 cents / GB without rebate, as stated in one of my previous post in another thread. I will also take out a discount "premium" on OCZ product as I am very troubled by its past history and current Agility & Vertex 4 drives needs more history before I feel I can treat OCZ SSD as something I can probably buy without worry of lost data and time.

I am sticking to Intel/Crucial/Samsung/Plextor and followed closely with Sandisk/Mushkin/Kingston SSD for now. I'm willing to pay a premium for those brands but no premium on other brands. OCZ requires a discount in order to entice me. I can no longer tolerate potentially faulty drive, take a risk due to cheap price, then wasting hours on trouble shooting, RMA, etc. Sorry, no time for that anymore and certainly not worth say $40 cheaper than Intel, etc. drives. $40 premium from Intel, etc. is worth it to me if I know I can count on them to be reliable (as a probability, no brand is 100% reliable, after reliability, it's customer service that really plays a role, I'm sick and tired of dealing with clueless, incompetent, and even rude service rep)

Quote from satanslover : No, Seagate hasn't backed out of anything. LOL, first you make up that they have been bought then you make up that they have backed out. What's next in Mergers and Acquisitions of Your Mind (tm)? They have said they are looking to acquire SSD companies, though, so they may yet buy OCZ, who knows.

Personally, if I'm Seagate, I would rather purchase an SSD controller company with enough patent portfolio. Establish a longer term strategic relationship with some flash memory firm to secure good quality and cheap flash. As far as I know, not all flash are made equal, just like CPU, where Intel bins them from the same wafer, higher quality ones gets higher Ghz rating and ones that failed the high end validation goes down to be i3 or whatever lower priced offering.

I have posted in another thread of some of the stuff I know. SSD controller market is moving still. Even recently, Phison is moving to 55 nm process with TSMC (I think, not 100% on the foundry they picked) for their next generation controller. Seagate needs a good controller company, or at least obtain a good patent portfolio through licensing or whatever method. SSD is a commodity business. Pick a good controller, pick good quality flash, put on some DRAM, slap them together on a PCB, you got an SSD. You can put a turtle shell around it and make it 2.5 or 3.5" SSD, or you can just use the PCB alone like mSATA (I know I know interface differ but I hope you get my point) SSD is not "complex" compare to say CPU. You control the cost by sourcing cheap. You control the quality if you own the fab or has strategic partnership, keep the higher quality flash, sell the junk on open market for bargain hunters

controller is another issue but that's another potentially long post, which I don't have time for.

Quote from blitzdonner : I think they are trying, but not sure if they're doing it correctly. I haven't posted much so you can look up my post history. I believe SSD prices are going to fall, partly due to OCZ, partly due to cost as there's more fat to be cut. Here is some interesting info http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=OCZ http://finance.yahoo.com/q/cf?s=OCZ For May 30, 2012 Total Cash Flow From Operating Activities (55,948) OCZ period ends at end of August. So, that explains quite a bit. OCZ is clearing inventory by slashing prices. They only have another week left before their period ends, I expect to see more OCZ deals unless they believe they have met their target. Keep you eyes out for the next week and see what OCZ has to offer. Offering rebate is good for business. 1. They can potentially book the revenue now for selling to consumer. They can then sit on their hands and wait for consumer to submit rebate = next quarter That makes their current quarter look good. 2. Not everyone submit rebate, furthermore, $10 or even $20, redemption rate is likely to be lower than say rebate amount of $40. If you look at the past 1 month OCZ deals, prices after rebate is trending down and latest rebate amounts are small, $10 or $20, counting on not as many people will bother with rebates. Personally, I am still waiting for SSD price falls to 50 cents / GB without rebate, as stated in one of my previous post in another thread. I will also take out a discount "premium" on OCZ product as I am very troubled by its past history and current Agility & Vertex 4 drives needs more history before I feel I can treat OCZ SSD as something I can probably buy without worry of lost data and time. I am sticking to Intel/Crucial/Samsung/Plextor and followed closely with Sandisk/Mushkin/Kingston SSD for now. I'm willing to pay a premium for those brands but no premium on other brands. OCZ requires a discount in order to entice me. I can no longer tolerate potentially faulty drive, take a risk due to cheap price, then wasting hours on trouble shooting, RMA, etc. Sorry, no time for that anymore and certainly not worth say $40 cheaper than Intel, etc. drives. $40 premium from Intel, etc. is worth it to me if I know I can count on them to be reliable (as a probability, no brand is 100% reliable, after reliability, it's customer service that really plays a role, I'm sick and tired of dealing with clueless, incompetent, and even rude service rep)

Could not agree with you more for you choice of Brands.
We use mainly Samsung & Crucial, but with recent price cuts we are going to be deploying Plextor & Intel Drives. We did try OCZ but they were a total failure.
We went 0 for 5 within two weeks of deployment. Fortunatly they were purchased from a Vendor who refunded our purchase. If we had bought them from Newegg we would have SOL since they only exchange SSDs.

The 128gb Agility 4 that was on the front page is back in stock btw. $55 AR

Why not 180GB @ $99 not an attractive price without rebate / no tax to california just for another 3 more weeks? Faster than 90GB/60GB.

If Seagate wants OCZ, its because they can acquire Indlillinx and zero out OCZ's negative brand equity by relabeling Indillinx products as Seagate.
Not a bad move....

Pretty sure the uptick in tablets and ultrabooks is driving the supply and price of of SSDs downwards.

Quote from blueberrymac : Why not 180GB @ $99 not an attractive price without rebate / no tax to california just for another 3 more weeks? Faster than 90GB/60GB.

Exactly. OP, this could be a deal in itself, but it should definitely be in your original post.

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