240GB Intel 330 Series 2.5" SATA III 6Gb/s Internal Solid State Drive SSD (SSDSC2CT240A3K5) $140 + Free Shipping

Do a search for SSD write endurance. Depending on the drive this varies but typical MLC cells can be written to 3,000 times. This is where drives like Kingston differentiate their models like the HyperX 3k where the 3k designates the flash is good for 3000 writes (Intel cherry picks all their nand so they are all rated at 5k or more). Depending on the size of the drive and the amount you write to it will give you the total write endurance. Theoretically you can take the capacity of the drive and multiply by 3k and that will be the total amount of writable data (120gb * 3000 = 360TB) there is probably overhead as the drive does things like internal reallocation of data, garbage collection, partial writes, etc but it's still a large number, so write endurance isn't a major concern for most of us. By the time you write 200TB of data to a 120gb ssd it's probably outlived it's usefulness anyway.

Where write endurance is a concern is for things like busy database servers that generate large temp tables. One of my company's SQL servers writes over 300TB a month. A 120gb MLC SSD used for that would be fast for 1 month and then then die, turning into a SSD-ROM.

Deals dead on Amazon, still available on Newegg

lol yea. I'm wondering whether I want to get the one on amazon and risk them taking forever to send, but being able to use my 50$ gift card, or getting off newegg with shoprunner and having it in 2 days. 2 days v. 3-6 weeks....50 bucks...hmm

lol yea. I'm wondering whether I want to get the one on amazon and risk them taking forever to send, but being able to use my 50$ gift card, or getting off newegg with shoprunner and having it in 2 days. 2 days v. 3-6 weeks....50 bucks...hmm

How does this one compare to Sandisk SDSSDX-240G-G25 which I got from Amazon for $154.99 last week?

TRIM does not work on this drive unless they release a new firmware, period.

A bit ridiculous that the issue has surfaced online for more than a month yet it seems sandisk still has not acknowledged it yet. Apparently they are waiting for 5.0.4 which may take a while...what's the point of getting a nice SSD if it's full features cant be used until many months in...by then faster/cheaper SSD will be around.

Something about Sandisk being very slow at releasing updated firmware has me looking into other products
http://slickdeals.net/newsearch.p...q=firmware
**TRIM not working properly