250GB Samsung 840 Series 2.5" SATA Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) w/ Notebook/Desktop Installation Kit (MZ-7TD250KW) $150 + Free Shipping

Quote from JabberWockey : This is for the 250 gb version. There's another deal going on for the 500 gb version: http://slickdeals.net/permadeal/8...mz7td500bw Note that the 840 series is TLC SSD memory, which works well for normal/personal use (>5 years) but may die sooner if used for enterprise (2 years).

No one should ever use a TLC drive for enterprise. MLC is bad enough.

Quote from tennis8363 : Unfortunately I don't have a clean copy of Win 7, only the one that came with the Dell laptop. I bought a few copies of Windows 8 for $14.99, but am hesitant to give it a run based on reviews.

download from here...make usb bootable disk and you are good to go with WIN7

http://en.community.dell.com/supp...river.aspx

Quote from Ion Control : Thanks for sharing your plans for 2015.

Quote from strhrn : My Windows 8 "killed" (took second HDD off line and overwrote a boot partition) all operations systems (XP & Win7) on my computer recently so I had to reinstall Win 7 to a separate 320Gb drive to disable Windows 8 installation. I'm just wondering if is it possible to migrate Win 7 from 320 Gb HDD to 250Gb SSD or I have to reinstall everything again? P.S Got already my shipping confirmation and a tracking number. Just 40 min later after I ordered it.

as long as the used space you want to mirror over is less than ~235GB (the actual usable space on the 250GB), I think you'd be fine. I've manually transferred windows many times... that will always work. If I recall, there is 1 file you have to transfer outside of Windows... won't let you copy while in windows (I probably did it in Dos mode).

Quote from emjlr3 : i will bite @ $.50/GB seems to be trending there

Seriously, it is time for these to come down in price. Been holding at 150-170 for a while.

Can this even be considered a deal anymore? This thing is fp every week.

Quote from tennisplayer888 : Wat makes it feel like 3?

For you? If they are both Asian apparently.

Quote from stickycash : Trim with RAID 0?

for next to zero benefit, but sure...

Ok so I really need an SSD... I have been waiting for prices to come down, and I see these drives on here daily. Can I get some expert opinions on what would be my best way to go?

I do alot of 3D work, graphic design, motion graphics, rendering, and gaming on my machine. I am running off a 1TB drive, and have 2 other 1TB drives for storage.

I was thinking of getting 2 of these drives and doing a RAID set up, but then I heard if 1 of the drives dies, I would loose it all.

Then I saw this 500GB SSD for $295, but some people say its got slow write speed. Im ready to pull the trigger, just not sure what route to go. Thanks guys.

Quote from maddoggyusa : as long as the used space you want to mirror over is less than ~235GB (the actual usable space on the 250GB), I think you'd be fine. I've manually transferred windows many times... that will always work. If I recall, there is 1 file you have to transfer outside of Windows... won't let you copy while in windows (I probably did it in Dos mode).

Thanks. But WIN 7 has two partitions:System Reserved & OS (the same like Win8). Will see how it work. I' ll try to restore it from a backup image.

Awful TLC NAND.

At 2xnm, it may have a P/E life of only 750 cycles. A lot of MLC is being made at 19nm, which makes the lifespan even more suspect for TLC.

Quote from LiquidSmoke420 : Ok so I really need an SSD... I have been waiting for prices to come down, and I see these drives on here daily. Can I get some expert opinions on what would be my best way to go? I do alot of 3D work, graphic design, motion graphics, rendering, and gaming on my machine. I am running off a 1TB drive, and have 2 other 1TB drives for storage. I was thinking of getting 2 of these drives and doing a RAID set up, but then I heard if 1 of the drives dies, I would loose it all. Then I saw this 500GB SSD for $295, but some people say its got slow write speed. Im ready to pull the trigger, just not sure what route to go. Thanks guys.

for someone in your situation, i would stick with the crucial m4 or samsung 840 PRO (i repeat. PRO.)

Quote from strhrn : My Windows 8 "killed" (took second HDD off line and overwrote a boot partition) all operations systems (XP & Win7) on my computer recently so I had to reinstall Win 7 to a separate 320Gb drive to disable Windows 8 installation. I'm just wondering if is it possible to migrate Win 7 from 320 Gb HDD to 250Gb SSD or I have to reinstall everything again? P.S Got already my shipping confirmation and a tracking number. Just 40 min later after I ordered it.

The following is the easiest way to proceed. but it depends on two things.
One, that you can shrink your 320 gig hard drive to around 230 gigs and that you have an external hard drive available for the image.
It goes like this.
Control Panel, Backup and restore, Make a system image.
After making the image, it will offer you to burn a repair/restore DVD, which you do.
Then you install your SSD, boot up from the DVD, direct it to installing the image you just made, sit back and watch the show.
The next time it boots, it'll be identical to your 320 HD, only a lot faster.

If you decide to do it this way and you don't happen to know how to shrink a HD, just say so and I'll post the instructions.

oops bad copy pasta