250GB Samsung 840 Series 2.5" SATA III Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) $150 + Free Shipping

mine arrived today as well. how to check/update firmware?

Quote from Codesmith : SSD are no more reliable that HDD, they both work for a handful of years then die. Buy two large HDD's with 5 year warranties. Regularly copy drive 1 to drive 2 using Free File Sync. When a drive dies, simply have it replaced under warranty with no data lost.

I go even further ...

I back up my personal pictures/docs, etc onto a drive that is on a mobile rack. Then I lock that drive up in a safe. It doesnt matter matter if u do backup but your whole computer is stolen.

Quote from noobody : mine arrived today as well. how to check/update firmware?

Install the Samsung software on the disc. It prompted me to download the firmware which I did.

Then from within the software go to the Firmware tab. Direct it to the file that downloaded. Make sure to unzip it first.

Update it. And your done.

It was real easy and worked nicely

Sammy did a good job with their software.

EDIT: Nm, still going.

Quote from fquick : Deal is dead.. well, glad I ordered one yesterday.

Still alive for me

Really? I tried Chrome and IE over here... perhaps the code won't let you order two separate times on one account.

EDIT: Yep, my bad. Didn't know they lock it down even though it allows 3 per customer.

Still alive and well. I'm finally biting the bullet on an SSD. Seems like a good price for 250GB, on a reputable brand.

Quote from asu0610 : waiting for amazon or i'm not doing it... sorry newegg

Maybe I am missing something, but why is amazon price matching a better option? if they match the price, then where is the gain?

Quote from jcs225 : Maybe I am missing something, but why is amazon price matching a better option? if they match the price, then where is the gain?

To help us folks here in NJ and other states where Newegg charges sales tax while Amazon does not.

Quote from jcs225 : Maybe I am missing something, but why is amazon price matching a better option? if they match the price, then where is the gain?

The member might have Amazon Prime, which offers free 2 day shipping. In case there is any problem, Amazon also has better customer service than Newegg.

got mine yesterday.
installed ssd magician and updated firmware
downloaded norton ghost via the link but turns out samsung does not provide the license key anymore.
got samsung data migration but it is unable to clone from bigger hard drive.
tried easeus, but cloned ssd does not boot.
finally used acronis migrate and got the ssd working

this is my first ssd, and I can see it is faster, but nowhere close to the (now obviously over optimistic and exaggerated) claims people make in the reviews, lol. my windows experience index disk transfer score went from 5.9 to 7.9, so its about 30% faster than hdd.

Does this drive have problems with coming out of sleep mode? I bought one to replace the dead hard drive in my mom's MSI A6000 laptop, and when I try to wake the PC up from sleep mode, the screen is just blue (not a BSOD) flickering screen. The blue flickering screen looks like the screen in the background when windows is loading after the black Windows 7 splash screen.

I did some research, and the only results I could find were two year old discussion board threads about how SSD's have problems with sleep mode, and you should always disable sleep mode with SSD's. Is that still the case?

Quote from j3rry5y : got mine yesterday. installed ssd magician and updated firmware downloaded norton ghost via the link but turns out samsung does not provide the license key anymore. got samsung data migration but it is unable to clone from bigger hard drive. tried easeus, but cloned ssd does not boot. finally used acronis migrate and got the ssd working this is my first ssd, and I can see it is faster, but nowhere close to the (now obviously over optimistic and exaggerated) claims people make in the reviews, lol. my windows experience index disk transfer score went from 5.9 to 7.9, so its about 30% faster than hdd.

Wow really? weak sauce... some people are easily impressed I guess.

Quote from j3rry5y : got mine yesterday. installed ssd magician and updated firmware downloaded norton ghost via the link but turns out samsung does not provide the license key anymore. got samsung data migration but it is unable to clone from bigger hard drive. tried easeus, but cloned ssd does not boot. finally used acronis migrate and got the ssd working this is my first ssd, and I can see it is faster, but nowhere close to the (now obviously over optimistic and exaggerated) claims people make in the reviews, lol. my windows experience index disk transfer score went from 5.9 to 7.9, so its about 30% faster than hdd.

My score is maxxed on the 830.

Did you switch to AHCI? That doubles the speed of the drive.

http://forum.crucial.com/t5/Solid...td-p/57078