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RetiredChief   10-12-2009 at 05:34:14 PM

If some one else posted, please forgive ( looked didn't see)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Comb [...] mbo.273745

1. Thermaltake VK60001N2Z: $119.99
2. Intel SSDSA2MH080G2R5: $239.99

Combo Discount: -$89.99
Combo Price: $269.99
$30.00 Mail-In Rebate Card
Price After Mail-In Rebate(s): $239.99


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Bronze Storage badge sub mesa   10-12-2009 at 05:50:08 PM

Sounds like a nice deal. :)

And its the new X25-M G2 so not an older version or something.

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wuzy   10-12-2009 at 09:40:44 PM

[EDITED]I was looking at the Shell shocker deal which has now expired, nm.
80GB X25-M G2 were on Zipzoomfly's eBay shop for $199 a week ago.


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RetiredChief   10-12-2009 at 10:00:02 PM

^ +1 - Maybe just modify and put two (raid0) in one bay.

NewEgg Finally came down from their Overpriced mid $300 for the 80 gig G2 (Glad I didn't bite). And they threw in a free case (after MIR) which I need Like another Hole in the head.


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Bronze Storage badge sub mesa   10-12-2009 at 10:07:56 PM

What about euro prices, most lists i see have EUR 175 as bottom price, with 140-145 as purchasing price ex VAT.

Concerning the X25-M 80GB G2.

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RetiredChief   10-12-2009 at 10:51:04 PM

Sorry - no help there. Only help is not buying until they drop price.

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Bronze Storage badge cjl   10-12-2009 at 11:26:50 PM

Or get them here:

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/prod [...] _SATA.html

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Bronze Storage badge sub mesa   10-13-2009 at 12:31:21 AM

RetiredChief wrote :

Sorry - no help there. Only help is not buying until they drop price.


That's somewhat strange, since the price of the product is linked to the volume of the sales of the product. The more you sell, the more you'll have to produce and the cost per unit to manufacture will drop.

So ironically, we as consumers must first buy enough of these products that warrant the manufacturers to increase production and lower the costs.

Aside from those economics, if there were more and higher quality third party flash controllers, the diversity of the industry and its products will increase with general benefit to the consumer. Then you might also see more PCI-express based SSDs that are affordable and connect with PCIe x1 (which provides 500MB/s bandwidth in the second generation PCI-express) or PCIe x4. I think i might prefer such a solution as opposed to an SSD connected by SATA. It also gives your PCI-express slots something to do, as unfortunately they are not that widely used yet, and generally makes sense to place a high-performance device close to the rest of the system connected by a modern full-duplex interface directly to the chipset.

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daship   10-13-2009 at 02:19:53 AM

Wanted to hop on the shell shocker one, but my xbox 360 died today. I got to get that baby replaced. Damn red ring of death. Gonna buy a new one, but I also bought a rrod repair kit in hopes of fixing this one. I have fixed many others before, so I'm confident mine can be fixed as well.

Got to be running by the time Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 is out.

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wuzy   10-13-2009 at 03:16:40 AM

I'm running out of PCIe slots here on my home server. :(
1x Intel Pro/1000 PT Dual
2x HVR-2200 (DVB-T)
1x Dell PERC 5/i

Luckily it only needs a PCI gfx card (when not using console management).

Modern mobos should really have just one PCI slot for studio grade sound card which a lot are still using PCI.

OT:
I thought MSRP of X25-M G2 were priced at ~$2.8/GB, no?

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RetiredChief   10-13-2009 at 06:07:33 AM

sub mesa wrote :

That's somewhat strange, since the price of the product is linked to the volume of the sales of the product. The more you sell, the more you'll have to produce and the cost per unit to manufacture will drop.

So ironically, we as consumers must first buy enough of these products that warrant the manufacturers to increase production and lower the costs.

Aside from those economics, if there were more and higher quality third party flash controllers, the diversity of the industry and its products will increase with general benefit to the consumer. Then you might also see more PCI-express based SSDs that are affordable and connect with PCIe x1 (which provides 500MB/s bandwidth in the second generation PCI-express) or PCIe x4. I think i might prefer such a solution as opposed to an SSD connected by SATA. It also gives your PCI-express slots something to do, as unfortunately they are not that widely used yet, and generally makes sense to place a high-performance device close to the rest of the system connected by a modern full-duplex interface directly to the chipset.



I do know some economics and what you said is correct - BUT NOT applicable in this case. We were dealing with the middle man jacking up prices NOT the manuf. The units were bought at a given price - that price did not jump, but the middle man knew that the demand was there and jacked his price up considerably, than as demand dropped off he lowered the price to close what it should have been. In this case the Manuf did not get the benefit of the price increase to develop new products or to improve existing products. Almost like selling gas you bought for $2.50 for $10.00 due to a localized shortage, but that is price gouging and a criminal offence. In This case if the Middleman did not get the bite he would have dropped the price to orginal price.

If I’m not mistaken the new SATA Specification will allow for two SATA SSD in Raid0 to run fine.


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