Solid State Drive (SSD) Black Friday Deals

Quote from SlickDealJosh : I'm sold. Most innovative laptop I have seen in nearly 3 years. I dont wanna void the warranty by upgrading when I get it, but its nice that I can upgrade it easily unlike most ultrabooks

Innovative, really? Hardly. While I understand the idea behind the Yoga, I think it'll be another failure from Lenovo--and I love Lenovo. Think about how many busted keys people will have from sliding the thing around on their lap. Not to mention the wide range of movement the hinges offer. Reality is: those hinges will wear over time and won't have that great, crisp feeling.

Just sayin.

/offtopic

Quote from jeremym : Innovative, really? Hardly. While I understand the idea behind the Yoga, I think it'll be another failure from Lenovo--and I love Lenovo. Think about how many busted keys people will have from sliding the thing around on their lap. Not to mention the wide range of movement the hinges offer. Reality is: those hinges will wear over time and won't have that great, crisp feeling. Just sayin. /offtopic

Haters gonna hate

SSDs saved me so much time they worth their weight in gold.

Quote from SlickDealJosh : Haters gonna hate

I'm not hating, I'm just facing a very real reality. As I said in my original reply to you, I love Lenovo products. I use them daily. In fact, recommend them almost daily. I just don't see this design holding up as well as a normal tablet or a normal laptop. Because I have an opinion about the design and engineering of something, I'm a hater? Don't be so naive.

In for a good deal on an SSD for the OS (128gb) and a 256gb one for steam games plus some applications. Everything else will remain on my 640gb WD HDD.

Quote from SlickDealJosh : I'm sold. Most innovative laptop I have seen in nearly 3 years. I dont wanna void the warranty by upgrading when I get it, but its nice that I can upgrade it easily unlike most ultrabooks

yea, it's really nice. the one guy that did the upgrade said he didnt have to cut any void tape or anything. not sure how they would know if you swapped the ram and added another drive. on the lenovo forums, there's some good talk about it.

Need one for a basic custom built PC that desperately needs a drive.

My primary gaming rig doesn't have an SSD but I would like to get one. But how difficult is the upgrade process? I hear it's better to just install fresh without any kind of restore, but I am definitely concerned about losing some data. All of my media is stored on 2 hdds (1 drive has 3 partitions and one of the paritions currently has windows 7 on it but I imagine the other 2 partitions would be unaffected)

any thoughts on hybrid drives: e.g. Seagate hybrid drives?
These have 32GB of SSD cache + HDD.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Pro...6822148591

Quote from occasional7 : any thoughts on hybrid drives: e.g. Seagate hybrid drives? These have 32GB of SSD cache + HDD. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Pro...6822148591

32MB*
They are nothing compared to an actual SSD. They are an improvement on tasks that you repeat regularly, but are limited to how much data they can speed up. Take the plunge, even if you can only afford a 64gig to put your operating system on, you won't regret it.

A lot of places, such as tigerdirect and newegg have no stock of the 256gb model samsung 830...Do you think they will restock for deep discounts like we hope for? Maybe the $150 price range was really the best we were gonna get?

Like many on the thread, hoping to lay hands on a 256GB SSD.

Quote from hemorrdroid : 32MB* They are nothing compared to an actual SSD. They are an improvement on tasks that you repeat regularly, but are limited to how much data they can speed up. Take the plunge, even if you can only afford a 64gig to put your operating system on, you won't regret it.

Actually, I had the 500gb one and that had 4gb...not sure why you said 32mb...perhaps you're confusing cache with SSD?

Edit to add: it worked very well in my u350...

Prepost. Why not start a thread of BF SSD deals AFTER having at least one deal to put in the OP or WIKI???? Just read through 3 pages, and not 1 actual deal, good or bad.

How much do you think the 512GBs will go? I really need the space. It'll be going into a 13" MBP.