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Deal seams to be dead. Price rocketed up to $319.99

---- This is dead too ----
AMAZON HAS PRICE MATCHED!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B009NB8WRU

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Newegg

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Pro...6820147193

FWIW: Worth every penny.

Paid $220 for it, don't regret one bit.

20 cheaper within a week damn

Finally hit the magic number that I've been waiting for ever since the 840 Pro came on the market. 256GB for $200.

this is THE best SSD you can get.

DAMMMMNNN THIS SHIT IS GETTING MAD CHEAP. thank god i didnt get the 830 .

If you had, you could sell it for more than you paid. :)

Great deal! Too bad I just bought the 250GB 840.

BTW....This will hit FP! Now how long until it sells out?

If only they had these for dell.com... I have some gc to use it on.

This is now at a price I would really consider

Yay! I'm so excited if this is my first FP :D

Finally! IN!

you gotta' be shittin' me
I bought this last month :ninja:

This is an excellent price!!! Just bought it for $220 at B&H with no tax, but I would rather buy it here with the tax because I would get it within a day or 2. The speed on this thing is really nice, but like many has said it will not really be noticed by the majority as a daily OS drive.

As long as it doesn't sell out before it's promoted.:bounce:

Early Congrats!

Forget it. Finally hit a resonable price considering where SSDs were last summer/fall, but I will be waiting for $600 1TB SSDs from Crucial. ETA is sometime this year.

Please tell Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Ele...B009NB8WRU

Not sold by Amazon.

Is this worth an upgrade from the Crucial M4 256 GB? (mostly boot up times and loading apps for me, not much writing)

I'd say it's a highly noticeable difference, especially coming from a previous mechanical hdd. Day to day use between different ssd's there isn't much difference mind you.

waiting till 160~
lol its going to take months

Finally in for an SSD

I know this will go down even more if I wait a little longer, but i want this drive so badly and the $200 price point is my breaking point. Bought one. Thanks and repped.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/...PDKIKX0DER

Ships from and sold by Amazon.com

I got 830 models last fall at $165 during the low price point with no regrets. But I agree with you, those who were paying extra recently and lamenting the demise of 830 models, forgot how these things tend to drop in price. This is a great price for the pro 840. But general rule with SSDs is buy when you actually need it for an install, because the price generally goes down.

Just bought 2 of them. I bought 1 from Amazon three days ago for $220...returning it and picked up 2 from Newegg. Thanks!

Excellent drive at what I believe is the lowest price it has been so far.

* In 3 to 5 weeks.

i got one noob question: it's this one worth $50 then regular 840 250 at $150?

i am noob about the ssd
Thanks for answers!

Oh wow, this got FP a lot quicker than I thought. This is strangely very satisfying to watch.

Not really. http://www.tomshardware.com/chart...5856%5D=on It's certainly better, but not $200 better.

I almost bought the regular 840, but cancelled the order.
I read some reviews and really I don't think its right for my situation.

Not sure if I should get this or wait for the 128gb version to go down to ~$100.
Either that or Vertex 4 128gb.
I gotta buy something this week.

Thanks for the input! And love the chart.. didn't even know Tom's hardware even had those comparisons.
I'll sit on my $200 SSD upgrade for another year or so. Crucial M4 is just too damn reliable :heart:

In real world usage I would say no, especially if you're not using an SSD at all currently.

The 840 PRO uses MLC NAND flash memory as opposed to TLC NAND. Basically MLC is the sweet spot for consumers who want performance/value/longevity in their hard drives. TLC doesn't last as long so that's why it is worth less.

ill wait until it reaches 100 :O

haha, in4one :D

A little tech help, if some of you wouldn't mind. I'm pretty tech savvy (enough so to install this badboy myself), but can anyone clarify to me exactly what advantages I would have installing this in my 2012 15" Macbook Pro (non-retina), over my stock 500GB, so that I can decide if this is worth the $200 to me.

Finally! $200 was the breakpoint for me. Feels good that I restrained myself last week when it was lowest at $210 lol.

I wouldn't have minded getting the non-pro version if that went near $140. I'm not really worried about the TLC of the non-pro version, but the write speed which is almost half of the pro version. Anyways, I'm glad I ended up with the pro version.

i try to get one ssd for my x230t, and just ordered 256gb 840 at 150 yesterday.

Thank you for your answer! repped!:)

DAMN IM 20$ SHORT lol my life

I created an account just to thank you! I've been waiting for this a long long time.

Awesome, in for 1

A major speed increase in system boot time and app load time. If you are using various installed apps, not websites, your overall workflow will be smoother.

Thank you for your valued information.
i just cancel 256gb 840 that i ordered yesterday,get this.
Thanks! repped!:)

Many much big differences. Do buy. :bounce:

Your macbook will feel magnitudes faster. But you're going to lose a lot of usable diskspace. Boot up and loading applications will feel almost instant (do not have to wait for things to "happen").

i'm thinking about trying to get this price matched over at ncix to try to use the $20 off coupon (similar to what was performed in this thread. The main fear I think would be that newegg runs oos before a price match could be verified

I'll give you my experience ...

I have an old unibody macbook, a 2009 model. It was starting to show its age. I typically have 20-30 browser windows open, 3-4 virtual desktops with a virtual machine in VMWare running on one of them. For me, the usability of my machine had dropped so much that I was finally considering getting a new machine. I hate spending money though, so I thought it might be time to get my first SSD. I put a Crucial 128GB M4 in there and I'm very, very happy. WIth all the same load on the system, it responds so much better. I can't remember how it responded when I first got the system, but I imagine it's at least as good at that, if not better.

Now the only complaint I have is the battery life and that will be thing that pushes me to get a new laptop.

HTH!

Submit for Amazon PM people.

I just bought this for $215 on the 15th. Knew I should have waited. Wonder if they will do a price adjustment.

Just an FYI, this model does not come with a 3.5" caddy. Luckily I had a spare one sitting around.

$215 after tax in California. I'll wait until black friday. It will be $150 by then.

OCZ agility is MLC also, MLC means nothing. This is a terrible $/GB based on prices from last fall. However, it's a top of the line drive and this is a good price for RIGHT NOW. Meh

Boot speed, app open speed, very low (close to none) heat from the hdd area, no vibrations from the hdd, no noise except the main fan if it is running, instant resume from standby. The primary boost you get is from the very low access time. Everyone would be able to tell the difference because of this. Secondary benefit is the file read/write speed. And then there's all the other extra's. You should really try a SSD. Even the non-pro samsung 840 would be very good.

not sure if trolling or serious. 5400 rpm 500 gb is the slowest drive around. This is the FASTEST drive out of ssd and hdd. Boot time will be practically zero with this with no startup apps. I have an 840 in my hack and it would take almost no time from bios to desktop if I didn't have a pass screen.

This pretty much sums it up.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_1...last-year/

It makes everything faster. Anything that involves loading. You will not be disappointed (with the performance, tho not necessarily ROI, still too expensive for "most people"). You will definitely notice the difference, vs. RAM upgrade which some non-power useres may not notice.

Though if you're the type of person that has lots of patience, lots of time on your hands, then maybe (just maybe) the SSD is not for you.

just bought Intel 520 240GB for $169. should I return and buy this one instead?

I tend to agree. I just built my new system with $160ish 830's (RAID 0) and haven't even put it in place yet. Was tempted to "upgrade it" before even really using it. Decided to wait. Don't need this, especially right now (daughter's tuition, etc). Need to focus on savings/retirement and less of this kind of thing.

Still, thumbsup and reps to the OP.

You are seriously mistakenly, the price from last fall of this drive has never been lower than 250 dollars for 256 GB. This SSD at 200 bucks is the lowest price ever, not just right now.

Also, don't compare this drive with the cheap one like Crucial M4 or Agility since they are not even in the same league. This drive blows away all other SSDs except for the OCZ Vector.

your priorities make me :vomit:


lol, jk

and you know by using your crystal ball or your own "hairy balls"? :lmao:

I just bought the B&H $220 deal. :( Well, no sense in returning it.

This is a good deal!

That's a tough one. You got a good deal. Intel has proven reliability (I'm talking about write endurance) with 5-year warranty as well. This is faster but reliability is not proven yet (because it's new). Also Intel is Sandforce so I think it will handle server/high queue type loads better.

Where did u get it for $170 btw?

9 out of 10 dentists who recommend gum to their patients agree! :D

Wait...what?


:wave:

Ok so I need everyone to submit a "seen a lower price" at Amazon (I have a lot of GCs plus no tax). Anyone with me?

(P.S. I rep freely)

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B009NB8WRU
Scrolll all the way down to Feedback
Would you like to update product info, give feedback on images, or tell us about a lower price?

http://slickdeals.net/f/5803418-I...170AC-NCIX

used above link. thanks for the info!

Yeah man, I can wait cz" in the morning, I turn on my desktop which uses (2) 5400RPM HDDs in RAID 0 in my HP Firebird 802 and go into the bathroom to take a piss. When I come back, the desktop is ready to go. Loading Lightroom 4 takes a few seconds of frustration though. I'm still waiting for the day when I can get a 256GB SSD for about $100 but it seems like instead of getting cheaper, these SDDs are getting faster but the prices dont move down much. We want cheaper SSD and not necessarily faster SSD dammit!

Does anyone know if B&H will price match?

Can't believe I have to wait longer for it to be shipped here & pay more!

Most people sorta "tried" SSD already even though they might not know it. It's in their tablets, smartphones and MP3 players. Solid state memory, no?

Oh nice the Firebird. Been a while since I've seen one of those. Hopefully one day HP will bring them back...

Yea cheaper SSDs come when they shrink them down. For example the 840 non-Pro, which is TLC and 21nm. But the write endurance is shorter, so that worries me...

Bought the 256GB 830 last year for about this price, no regrets at all.

Waiting for the 500GB 840 Pros to come down in price to upgrade...here's hoping!

Not really, that nand is extremely slow in comparison w/ crappy IOPS. I'd rather run an OS & games off of a 7200rpm drive.


It's not really comparable.

Here goes $200 out of my wallet:) great deal

WTF? The m4 is probably the most reliable drive out there. Not sure why you're knocking it.

On a side note, according to the three camels, the Vertex 4 has been as low as $160 in late Nov of last year... If you can find me any evidence it's not on par with this drive, let's see it.

So... yeah, this price is STILL terrible. It's a good price for this drive as I said, but it WILL be cheaper.

More than I wanted to spend, but still a great price. Got one...thx

Just got it for $215 last week. Oh well, company pays for it anyway :).

almost got the 840 yesterday, glad that I waited, thanks OP!

hard to believe but 67% of voting feedback for that NCIX deal is "not a good price" and not a single comment!

Saved $50 and got the 840 reg instead. Worth the savings for me.

Phew!

You could say this about most computer parts though, pay to stay on top of things.

Almost there.

If you can wait 3 more years you can get it for $80. You can wait, I'll enjoy it now.

im just an avg joe who watches movies and was thinking of ploping a ssd into a mac mini is it worth it to get this one over the regular 840 that was posted yesterday since this is $50 more

So this and the intel 520 and great prices. The 520 is a little better IMO I have the 120gb. I plan on picking one up when I get paid next week. They seem to be on sale every week or so, so hoping I can grab another nice deal.

wait a few more years then you'll get twice the storage for half the cost.
but you just keep on waitin' computer parts always gets cheaper.

Nope save the 50$ the 840 is good in the mini

Everyone, submit this for a price match on Amazon so that those of us that have to pay nearly 10% sales tax (at least here in TN) might be able to get in on this deal on Amazon

Not if that $50 can be spent better elsewhere.

Pro/Deluxe editions are big money makers for companies for slight real world gains for end users.


Not everyone. Amazon only has 4 in stock.

What if you only have sata 2 Ports, is this too much drive? Should I stock with a cheaper non pro?

Wish I had a need for this :D

Not planning on buying but submitted the Amazon "Found a Lower Price" to help others.

I recently recommended the regular 840 250GB drive to a friend with SATA II and he says it feels like a new PC so he didn't need to upgrade. Personally I wouldn't buy a 840 Pro in your situation because by the time you upgrade your PC down the line, better SSD's will be out by then making the 840 Pro outdated most likely.

^^^^

Repped

Got the 240gb Aglity 3 for $140 many months back. Still going strong. I got 3. Why pay more?

it's a steal at this price, and I thought I was getting a deal for $220 just last week. I wanna buy another so bad, but what am I gonna do with two? kekeke

NCIX will never let you price match AND use a coupon fyi - they stopped doing that since the nexus 7 32gb loophole

:smack: To have a statement with such a negative connotation about the Crucial M4, just makes you look asinine.
M4 has probably one of the best, if not the best, reliability in the SSD industry. Along with fantastic read speeds. (Up to 500 MB/s in Sustained Sequential Read speeds)

"drive blows away all other SSDs"..? Anandtech states otherwise. The grouping of new SSD's are barely noticeable, unless you're using the SSD for heavy use.

The Samsung 840 256GB PRO, is probably one of the fastest and highly recommended SSD out there. But does it "blow away all other SSDs?"... No. Difference is negligible in normal use case scenarios.

How is this such a good deal? 128gb is less than half this price AND raid 0 is free

Agreed except a group of m4s had some issues at the 1 year mark IIRC

If you hadn't had any issues with those Agility 3 drives then hats off to you sir, you have lady luck on your side. I've had so many OCZ drives fail on me which doesn't warrant the cost savings with my time spend troubleshooting/migrating data/fixing peoples computers (Including the Agility 3 and their flagship Vertex 3 drive at the time).

Given the experience i'd rather spend more on a brand with a higher reliability rating.

Is the 840 PRO worth it over an 830 or even a crucial m4? Or is it basically just epeen?

I have an 830, and can't tell the difference in general use between it and an 840 Pro. Where you will see the biggest difference is in benchmarks. And everyone knows that benchmarks are everything.

ocz is hit and miss

try and buy DDR2 memory these days. I should have bought out all remaining stock when DDR3 came mainstream. Had to throw away several MoBos as it was cheaper going with DDR3 ones. Not everything goes down if the demand is still there and no backward compatibility in the replacement.

Some users would probably use this drive to replace their HDD's from their laptops. Not to mention some users may not have the hardware that can support RAID 0 with proper Trim support...which I believe is currently officially limited to Intels 7x chipset series and only on Windows 7.

Ordered, and paid the extra 3 bucks for 3 day shipping because my build is happening in under two weeks. Yay for progress.

I know, right? haven't seen such lower price IMHO

Really? With the M4's for $179? That much better?

I was really on the fence for the 840 (non pro) for $150 from the other day

Is this a slim drive that will fit in ultraportables?

Agree with you there, sir. I work in IT and a lot of our clients still run DDR/DDR2 machines which we had to upgrade to a minimum of 2gb per machine to run a new POS system. Talk about depressing to see that bill vs what they could've gotten DDR3 for.

you know what, come to think of it, I should just list all my DDR and DDR2 on ebay and see what happens! I could probably pay for this drive and some after ebay and paypal fees.

I also got the 120 Agility for $60 back in the summer of SSD's price wars. No problem so far. But running a 240 Intel 330 on my main rig. Probably wouldn't notice a difference in everyday use. Maybe when this drops to $160 I'll get one

EDIT: Who says OCZ needs to go away? Look what's happening now to ssd prices since OCZ hasn't been financially stable

Yes these drives are 7mm in height. Laptop drives are normally 9.5mm in height. However make sure you Ultrabook can fit a 7mm drive...some can't even fit these and they might be using mSATA (e.g. HP Envy Ultrabook)

From what I read, it was a botched firmware issue. It lasted two-three weeks, but Crucial is quite fast at updating firmware. But I heard that Crucial denied it at first.

Nonetheless, the general consensus is that it's one of the most reliable SSD's out there. :)

I built my first computer in '92 and have done at least one major upgrade a year since then (yeah I've wasted a crapload of money) and I can say that without a doubt the most noticeable upgrade was when I moved from a 10k raptor as my OS to a 90gb OCZ vertex stripe (30gb 3x drives).

Do it and never look back.

Still using the 256 830 in my Alienware m17xR4 as a game drive. If you are a gamer, a SSD is a must! World of difference.

Thanks OP!! In for 3 for a iscsi build!!

thanks
planning on getting this and and a mac mini (which comes with 5400rpm hdd) and replacing the hdd with this

Everyone spam Amazon with price match requests! WE CAN DO THIS!

Those are supposedly supporting hardware AES256 encryption. Anyone knows how to enable?

And before people say they won't match with promo codes, they did the other day on the WD 2TB Red ;)

Probably, but the 850 Series will be out by then. The 840 will be outdated junk. :shake:

I got the 250gb 840 yesterday :( It shipped already and Newegg doesn't take returns on it. Realistically speaking how much better is the Pro as the main drive in a laptop if all I do on it is program, use photoshop/illustrator/indesign, browse the web? No serious gaming, no video editing.

Not very. It will boot from a cold start slightly faster and in the long run provide more consistent performance (less degredation). But the 840 is still a high tier SSD, just not top tier like the 840 pro.

you won't really notice the difference performance wise. the big deal about the PRO version (bad choice of naming on their part) is that the PRO uses the 'better' memory chips (MLC) and the 'regular' uses the TLC. MLC are rated to last about twice as long i believe.

According to Newegg its $50 better.


According to Samsung its 2 years better.

According to me $50/24 months better.

Its like getting replacement plan billed by Verizon every month. Or extended warranty from BB.

So not worth it.

By the time you wear out the 840 regular, you'll be able to use that $50 savings and buy whatever the best or near best SSD is at the time for not that much more.

People on here dwell on minutiae and I'm not saying that it isn't important, but realistically, 90% of users won't know the difference. Honestly, if you ran a blind trial of an 840 and 840 Pro and were not allowed to use benchmark tools, I'd like to see someone pick out the difference in regular use.

This or the M4 @ 170 somewhere that I have GCs...hrmm

In for 2. Love it when a product hits my price. Side note, I'm LMFAO at a dude that inferred I would always complain about a price. It was in the last 840 pro 256gb thread.

This is so worth 30 more. 5 year warranty vs 3, better performance.

Errr you're forgetting it's also faster too.

You enable the onboard full drive encryption by going into your BIOS and turning on the hard drive password. You have to have a fairly recent BIOS (e.g. it worked in a thinkpad t410 and not in an x200) and maybe have to have the TPM (security chip) turned on.

So I was looking at the Tom's Hardware 2012 chart. 840-pro looks good. Almost too good.
http://www.tomshardware.com/chart...5856%5D=on

I read the review at Max PC. They said it's tops for everything except 32-command-queue tests (which Tom's doesn't show), which I assume is more used in server loads.
http://www.maximumpc.com/article/...e/best_ssd

Anyway I caved, but still hoping Amazon will come through. But not sure if this Newegg deal will last much longer, or may auto-end at 11:59pm PST?

Well, that's certainly the right question, but the answer (as you already see) is very personal. For me, it's worth the extra money as I just don't trust my valuable data to the first SSD on the market using the new TLC flash. Call me paranoid. Also, it's clear that the power consumption is much higher and write speed much lower on the TLC drives. Also, one of the reviews (forget whether it wasn hardocp or anandtech) mentioned that the performance of the TLC 840 seems to degrade after a while and *not* recover. Who knows. Whether this is all noticeable or important to you is, again, personal. I went with the pro.

Excellent price.

On chat with Newegg rep right now; she initially wouldn't refund me the $15 difference from last week's deal, but ultimately gave me a "one time" exception.

Now, to decide if a second 840 Pro is in order. :p

If you're a heavy user, especially writing, go with the Samsung Pro.

If you're a casual user, both the M4 and 840 PRO have pretty much similar read speeds. (840 pro still faster here though).

M4 has proven reliability. That's just a fact. I went with the M4 because I don't want to worry about losing my data. You can have all the speed in the world, but reliability weighs quite significantly for me.

With the 5 year warranty, I'm hoping it means reliability is better. The SSD/HD is the MOST valuable part of any computer system because it's the one thing that has 'value' beyond it's cost. If you have an essay, project, report, application you're working on and the HD goes toast, you lose everything. With SSD's, it may fail non-fatally, becoming read-only. Or it can fail catastrophically and you lose everything on it.

Someone above also mentioned it's faster.

If this was end of 2013 and the 840 Regular (or TLC in general) had great reliability reports, it would be the 99% correct choice as the speed improvement would be negligible for most people.

Make sure you upgrade the firmware before installing your OS:

http://www.samsung.com/us/support...Z-7PD256BW

Where can I find the 128gb 840 Pro for the price you're talking about?

I submitted on Amazon for you non-tax folks. Any non-Cali tax retailers price matching this deal?

this is a great price for a great ssd. best ssd on the market IMO. nice find!

Gift card route for sure, before you lose them or they expire, too...

One time I refused delivery from Newegg, they did refund me without any restocking fee. It did take a long time though as it took 3-4 weeks before they finally issued the refund. So you could try that if you really want the pro version. As people mentioned, it's definitely faster but not a lot of real life difference.

next month its going to be 180...

Not 100% sure but I believe you update the firmware post OS install.

Consumer tablets and smartphones use slow MMC interface so it's like using a SD card for your storage. It's 'okay' for these devices since the other parts like CPU are not that fast and there's not really huge disk disk access going on (apps are usually very small in size) to make your storage look like it's dragging the whole user experience. So I don't think people have experience with SSD unless they really tried at least a 2nd generation SSD (intel X25-m / OCZ Agility 2 / Samsung 470). The 1st gen SSDs are horrible, and I would consider this Samsung 840 pro as 4th gen.

I think most people buying this drive knows what they are getting.
I was waiting for this drive or either the regular 840 to drop cheap, and finally got this today because low power usage, writespeed/price, long warranty, durability. I'm pretty sure I can tell the difference in copy speed of huge files without any benchmarks. But if 840 non-pro was very cheap ($140 range), I could have got that instead because that's also a good drive with low power usage, and excellent read speed. I don't really mind the durability too much because after 3-5 years, I will want to upgrade to a larger drive.

Evil... ...but this is exactly what I was waiting for. :D

At least in my case, the silly Lightroom database churns enough that the higher-end SSD's *do* make a difference.

yup.. evil... I have to resist impulsive shopping... gotta control myself... please be OOS before I will pull a trigger LOL! gosh, it hit the threshold that I set for myself...

Alrready got the 512GB 830. Now need to wait for 1TB version of the Pro to go down in price. If there is going to be a 1TB version.

Finally pulled the trigger after hours of resisting.

lol
I am still trying to resist... maybe wait until morning and see if it is over
there is always this feeling that next month or the month after that it will be even cheaper

It will always get cheaper if you wait long enough. Do what I do. Set a price that you are willing to buy and wait for that price if you don't really need it. I set for $200 so I bought one. Honestly, I bought and 830 128GB last April for $140 and while it went down to as low as $85 around BF, I had no regrets because it served me well.

I bought mine for $70 at TigerDirect, I wish I had bought few more :D But mine is Made in China, and I have another 256GB 830 version which is Made in Korea. That's weird. Anyone of you know in where the 840 Pro is made?

Fusion! Fusion! Fusion!

If you actually read what I wrote, you would know that I said M4 is cheap, I didn't write M4 is not reliable. I only stated the fact. M4 is cheap even compared to the Sandforce SSD. M4 speed is slower as compared to this Samsung 840 pro according to multiple professional reviews. These are facts whether you like it or not. Your statement of "M4 is the most reliable SSD" is inaccurate since M4 suffered a similar BSOD issue with their SSD that required firmware fixed just like Sandforce SSD. The only difference is that Crucial released the firmware fix within a month or so instead of many months wait time in the Sandforce case.

The speed of the M4 lacks far behind the speed of this Samsung 840 Pro as stated by many professional reviews including Anandtech. The graphs speak for themselves, there is no need for me to say anything further.

Your statement of "Anandtech states otherwise" is extremely misleading to novice users because you imply that Anandtech doesn't conclude the Samsung 840 pro is the fastest consumer SSD on the market but in fact they did.

Lastly, nobody would argue that novice users would be able to notice the difference between the new SSDs that are out in the market if all their daily usage include only facebook, movies or webs browsing. This Samsung 840 Pro SSD is geared toward the highest performance seekers and the price tag reflects that position. If all you are doing is browsing webs and facebook/chat, then you don't really need a SSD at all. In fact, you don't need a desktop for that matter, get a much cheaper tablet/netbook and you will be just fine.

Does anybody know if Samsung has a good RMA service? I've been kind of spoiled by Corsair and EVGA :)

I bought one last week and another today. Let the new build begin haha

Well, I decided to buy two of these and put them in RAID 0. I can't wait!

Really really tempted by tax is turning me off. I wish Amazon would PM and then I'm in! Already submitted the price match request.

oos :(:(:(

Does this come with decent migration software? Free?

Fusion is the combination of SSD and conventional HDD. If he gets a solid state drive it will make his computer much faster, but it has absolutely nothing to do with Fusion. Clearly Apple's marketing has worked on you.

Can someone please advise why is this a better deal than the 830 I just picked up from newegg for $150? just wondering?

yikes.. I bought the 840 yesterday at newegg for $150. For a new build on my teenage son's PC which he mostly games on. I hesitated buying it the 840. I actually just got the delivery this morning since I am so near the newegg facilty. yikes. oh well. I considered trying to contact newegg via chat and ask if I could ship it back to them at my cost since I would be buying the more expensive 840 pro.. but am thinking it might not be worth it considering what it will be used for. I tend to upgrade a computer every two years.

to be clear.. the version that was on sale yesterday was the Samsung 840 non pro version, 250gb, @ 150.00.

I just picked up the Intel 330 Series 240GB last month, is the Samsung 840 Pro much better than the Intel or should I pick up the pro

Not when I just checked. Still available.

Perfect. Picked one up for a failing SSD in my laptop. OP is my Ace in the Hole.

In stock and purchased as of 9:25am 1/25/13.

How easy is it to install an SSD, physicall and software-wise?

I've never used SSD before, but I'm pretty sure my mobo can support it (asus px58d-e), but what kind of cables (data and power) does it use? Will I need to get a 3.5" mounting rails/kit?

And once I have it physically installed, when I install Win7 on it, is there anything I need to do to it before popping in the CD and installing?

Thanks.

Other than the physical size and some installation tweaks (ensuring ACHI for example), there is very little difference in installing an SSD from a regular drive.

Most SSDs use SATA for the data and the power connectors which many modern hard drives also use, so they should be the same as well.

You may need a mounting kit, but it also depends on your case configuration. My case didn't have it, but I know some newer cases do.

The only thing I needed to do when I installed Win7 was to make sure that I had set ACHI on my mobo and (to make it easier on myself) made sure it was the only hard drive installed at the time I installed windows. I added the additional drives on afterwards.

lol. thats what I did this time as well - 200 was my bar.
It is just SD causes me to want something I do not really need.
I got Crucial M4, which is a bit inferior in terms of speed, but I can "survive"
but thanks for the good advice. I managed to not buy and save for i7 CPU

Will this fit on laptops?

Just checked again. TY!!!!

Note: (was oos when i got into work at ~8AM EST)

I have the intel 320 series, is it worth upgrading from that to this 256GB Samsung 840 Pro?

I am however.. in dire need of more space

if you need more space than go for it. The 840 PRO is the best out there now

Yes.... all SSD's do since they're all 2.5".

But, some drives are 7mm thick, others are 9 mm. It makes a difference in some lappys which clouds everything.

So tempting but i hate newegg. Their return policy sucks and tax for nj :(

Amazon price matched. Theres only 7 more in stock though.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00...slickdeals

I have a question, im replacing my current laptop hard drive with this ssd, my first ssd, do I just install it and boot to dvd rom to install my windows and thats all?

thank you!!! I'm all in now! :)

Oh my word I'm in thanks repped.

So awesome, this is going to rock with the ~$300 Dell XPS 8500 I am getting in on Tuesday :D~

Taxes kill it for NYC.

Got one from Amazon ... Thanks!!!

it says ships 1 to 2 months on the 199.99 amazon price

My delivery estimate is the first week of Feb. I might have gotten in before the estimate went up.

probably i checked after you had posted

In for 3

amazon is oos? I'm getting another seller with $3.17 shipping

Apples fusion drive is the most exciting idea for storage since the advent of 10k rpm drives. It's not just two hard drives on computer. There's a layer of software that works between the two drives that actively keeps the most oftenly used programs on the SSD so that you get the storage capacity of a HDD with the speed of an SSD.

It's an idea that's been used on enterprise computers for years but is finally coming to consumers. Since MSFT simply copies whatever Apple does PC users will actually be able to use this technology eventually.

I was partially joking with my response because I am not sure if you can convert the 2010 MacBook to a fusion drive. I've read about other people doing it with older Macs. I just don't how old can you go? The process is not terribly difficult from what I've read.

isn't that what Seagate has been doing with their Momentus XT drives for a while?

lol. yea, isn't this really old?

pretty sure that's kinda what readyboost does.

What are the major speed differences between this SSD and the sandisk ssd that was on sale for $149 recently?

Both the readyboost and Momentus hybrid drives use flash memory as a cache. With the Momentus it's only 8GB written to NAND memory. While it can help speed up performance it's not nearly as dramatic as fusion drive which uses a much bigger SSD.

With this setup you are writing and reading from memory twice as it's mirroring what's already on your hard drive. With fusion drive, programs and files are actually getting shifted from drive to the other, there's no duplication.

If I was a Mac owner I'd definitely look into this cause it can make your system fly without too much effort. The software is already there on the Macs which is why Mac owners can take advantage of this. Both drives are combined into one logical drive so all you see is the total memory available. The program shifting takes place in the background without any input from the user required.

Awesome ...did some research as to which one to choose from.....Samsung 840 Pro or OCZ Vector and i figured its almost the same but this one has a little less read and write speed, but this is almost $40 less....so it was the obvious choice......Got one !!

Thanks and Cheers !!

This is nice and all but what about us in California? Hoping TigerDirect or some tax haven price matches.

$215 after tax in California. I'll wait until it drops to $185 or a $200 tax-free deal.

Which SSD is better to use as the OS drive and a video game data drive (assuming modern video games have large file sizes)?

Samsung 830 256GB or Samsung 840 PRO 256GB?

840 Pro.

Good review article: http://techreport.com/review/2399...d-reviewed