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Avish: decided anything yet? :P

Intel planning price cuts across its consumer SSD lineups - TechSpot News

The lower-capacity models of the SSD 320 series will remain untouched, but the 300GB is expected to start at $464 instead of the previous $519, while the 600GB will fall almost $200 from $1,059 to $879.

The SandForce based SSD 520 series will see cuts nearly across the board: the 60GB model will go down 9% from $109 to $99, the 120GB unit goes down from $189 to $139, the 180GB variant from $279 to $199, the 240GB from $349 to $259, and finally the 480GB model gets a massive 37% cut from $809 to $594.

Meanwhile the SSD 330 series, launched just three months ago, is also bound for cuts across the board. The 60GB model goes down from $94 to $69 (26.5% cut), the 120GB unit from $149 to $104 (30.2% cut), and the 180GB variant from $234 to $154 (34.1% cut). That’s as low as $0.70-$0.85 per GB.

VR-Zone says the changes will likely take effect in August.
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^I know about this news already ;) Almost finalized on Crucial m4, but Prime is providing 2 yr warranty instead of 3. About the Intel price cuts, it'll take at least couple of months or more to affect Indian market, right?? & I'm a very impatient guy! :P Although Intel 520 @ 9-10k with 5 yr warranty does sound worth waiting for! :unsure:
 
Niks said:
^^ Are you sure about the 2 yr warranty? It says three year warranty on both the prime site as well as onlyssd, so just wondering..

Also prime has a Today's Deal on the 128GB m4 @ 8200/- :)
Crucial 128GB m4 2.5 inch SATA 6GBs SSD
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Yes, I mailed 'em about it & 2 years is what they said. Maybe they should correct it on their product pages.
Awesome deal! But I'm still unsure if I should wait for Intel 520 price drop next month or go for Crucial m4 now! :unsure:
 
I think I'm getting SanDisk Extreme 120GB! ;) I know it's sandforce, but I'm reading plenty about it & I cannot find any issues reported with it. Performance wise it's up there with Intel 520 & Plextor M3P. Also in Tom's chart it's in tier 3 along with Samsung 830 & Corsair Performance Pro.

3 years of Prime warranty @ 8.2k! :)
 
chiragsthakur said:
Sorry to hijack this thread, but is corsair force 3 reliable? Since 120gb corsair force 3 sells for 6.6k and crucial/samsung 64gb sell for 6.4k. So is it worth going with corsair force 3 120gb?
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Have a Intel 520 series
Its just awesome as corsair one
 
Sorry to say but you are not fully informed.

According to anandtech, intel 520 ssd have intel tweaked firmware for sand force controller which makes intel confident to give 5 yrs warranty.

Another point is intel uses topmost quality NAND for its ssd as it hold majority stake at imft ( company which is major NAND manufacturer ) so has better quality NAND.

So don't compare intel 520 sandforce to other company sandforce ssd.
 
Sorry to barge in, but looking to pickup a SSD today, confused between the Crucial M4 and the OCZ Vertex 4 128GB. How do these drives compare after being more than 50% full ? most likely my OS and app install would take up atleast 80GB.
 
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