120GB Samsung 840 Series 2.5" SATA III Internal Solid State Drive SSD (MZ-7TD120KW) $79.99 + Free Shipping

Still waiting for the $0.5/GB price.

Quote from Raynold101 : I wanted to know reliability not speed.... like i said I can seriously care less about 10seconds faster transfer speed on like 4gb files.

Samsung has always had good reliability but with the new 840 series noone really knows yet, since its so new.
Here are some in depth reviews on them

http://techreport.com/review/2388...d-reviewed

http://www.anandtech.com/show/633...b-review/5

just bought an 840 500gb. I only need it to last until they come out with 1TB SSD below 50 cents per gig. Probably have to wait 2 years at most. This drive should last 10 years with 30gigs or less of writes per day, per the articles mentioned in other posts. Unless you are a spec whore, this SSD has everything you need and you won't notice any real world difference. I would like to add that the 500gb version has almost 100MB/s better write speed than the lower capacity brethren of this model.

Which is a better ssd? Sandisk Extreme or the Samsung 840?

Got one for Macbook, thanks!

The Crucial M4 is still an alternative at $170 for 256gb

I put one of these in our new netbook and it's working out well so far. I went with a TigerDirect MIR for that one last month that I believe ended up at this price. I just purchased one of these, too {was too busy buying, so Discombobulated beat me to the post }, for the PC I'm building my wife. She's got me on a strict budget and doesn't need much storage space, so this was a good match for her. We always have the HD from the netbook as a data drive if she ends up needing more space. That particular model's HD doesn't get great reliability reviews, but I get her to back up regularly and it's just the data drive. She probably won't change the contents often.

Quote from Raynold101 : of the 5 SSD's here which is the better deal? I'm looking for reliability, I probably won't notice the speed difference between the drives anyways. with the M4, its ~30 more than the other 4, so is it worth the $30? or should I simply wait for better SSD to drop under $100? cause I'm not really in a hurry to buy, but I just don't want to miss a good deal. SAMSUNG 840 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Pro...6820147185 Kingston V300 http://www.staples.com/Kingston-S...uct_104020 Crucial M4 http://www.staples.com/Crucial-CT...uct_432277 Verbatim http://www.staples.com/Verbatim-1...uct_930557 SanDisk http://www.staples.com/SanDisk-SD...uct_940373

prob want to avoid the last one, it's not the Extreme version so you have a drive with less performance and track record. both the 840 and V300 are new releases so ltd data there but the mfgs have been excellent although components are new TLC in the 840 and new 19nm Toggle NAND in the V300.

Please submit lower price to Amazon guys

Quote from t0mmyr : why would anyone want a smaller drive? lol either way still a good deal, wish i could still get the 250GB for 150 though

My dad gets by on 80gb on his desktop. So he went "over the top" for his laptop at 120gb. I mean that is literally 50% more storage, huge step up!

So in these laptops that have a small SSD and larger hard drive already (some of these Lenovo deals) can you replace the SSD w/ a bigger one like this?

I assume you cannot add an SSD to a laptop w/ an existing hard drive and have both, right?

Quote from ndm2p8 : So in these laptops that have a small SSD and larger hard drive already (some of these Lenovo deals) can you replace the SSD w/ a bigger one like this? I assume you cannot add an SSD to a laptop w/ an existing hard drive and have both, right?

This bigger SSD might not fit some laptops with a small SSD and a larger hard drive. Sometimes these laptops use mSATA SSD drives. This is a SATA 2.5 inch drive that's on sale.

You're assumption is correct. In most cases, you cannot add an SSD to a laptop that only had one HDD.

Quote from Discombobulated : While bigger is always better, some may not be able to afford the price tag of $150 and may want to settle for the lesser version. I like to keep all SD'ers in mind

Nice find. There is one caveat with buying a smaller SSD. As you know, write/erase cycles slowly wear out the drive. Drives are engineered to mitigate this problem by using a wear leveling algorithm to distribute the wear across cells.

Wear leveling is less effective as the drive fills up with data. As data on the drive increases, the number of write/erase cycles also increases making wear leveling less effective. The rule of thumb is to limit the data on an SSD to 80% of capacity.

So the larger the SSD, the longer the lifespan. Doubling the size of the SSD will generally double the life expectancy of the solid state drive.

So with this in mind, you should put no more than 96 GB of data on this drive.

These are good drives
But if you really can afford it get their 840 pro series. I have one in my main PC and it's unreal how good it is.