Price Research: Our research indicates that this 240GB Intel 520 Series 2.5" SATA III 6Gb/s Internal Solid State Drive SSD is $55 lower (24% savings) than the next best available price from a reputable merchant with prices starting from $225. - brisar
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Or only intel 520 which ships as 9mm is the 480gb..
removing the spacer prob not good for wty purposes
edit: looks like those screws may only be for the spacer
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Also, they seem to be 7mm from some other forum discussions, but appear thicker in the picture. I'll stick to the 830s on my waiting list until this gets verified.
Looks like tigerdirect & circuitcity websites are run by the same guys? Layout, pricing, info exactly same... just styling is different?
Looks like tigerdirect & circuitcity websites are run by the same guys? Layout, pricing, info exactly same... just styling is different?
Thanks for the info. Didn't know that works that way. Thought if a company has a store front in the state(regardless of the name of the website), there going to be tax.
I am in Florida, when I see a deal on tigerdirect. The tax and shipping kills the deal or sometime I bite the bullet and pays for both.
Some notes on why SSD capacities are different between product lines
The design of the SandForce chipset uses on-the-fly compression and extra flash memory to keep things running fast. That is why all SandForce designs are listed as lower capacity than the actual amount of flash memory in the SSD. For example, a SandForce-based SSD will actually have 256GB of flash memory but will be listed as 240GB because the extra flash memory is used by the chipset to attain the amazing performance levels and provide garbage collection even on systems where TRIM is not supported.
The Crucial M4 line follows the more traditional route (essentially before SandForce) of using all of the available flash memory. An SSD with 256GB of flash memory will be listed as a 256GB SSD. TRIM support (Wikipedia article [wikipedia.org]) is more important on a Crucial M4 SSD than on a SandForce-based SSD because of this.
BTW - anyone have an issue with TigerDirect charging $199.99 even though it says it should be $199.00? Wondering if it's worth my time to pursue a $0.99...