Vertex 4 512gb

thanks for the info bro, is the price right? any other cheaper alternative am missing out here?

There are 2 axioms at work right now:
1) yes, the price is right for the moment, in that for the performance and reliability everything seems pretty well stacked right now

2) just know that in a little while the price will drop, and drop, and drop. I got my frist 240GB SSD ~6mo ago for $200. Fast forward to a month ago when I got my 2nd drive, and I got the exact same drive for $120. Both of these were found from reputable sellers (Microcenter and NCIX) on sale plus a rebate. That is an $80 drop in just 5 months, and I fully expect this trend to continue over the next year or two before things start to slow down a bit. So buy it now, but don't kick yourself too hard if you can get the same drive for less than 1/2 of what you pay now within the next year.

Good point, you made me think now...

The Vertex 4 256gigs is available in India itself for about $273... no shipping and import duty issues... maybe have it for a year and then when prices drop get something else... my problem is that my hdd bay is full (2x 1.5 tb and 2x 2.0 tb + 96gb kingston ssd)

Do 2.5" to 5.25" mounts exist?

no, but thankfully SSDs are very light. For the first several months I had my SSDs just screwed into one side of a 5.25 bay, and that was just fine.
They do make 2.5" to 3.5" adapter bays, and they make 3.5" to 5.25" adapters that you could mount onto that, but because there are no moving parts like there are in a HDD, it is just a matter of having a ground, which only takes 1 screw technically.

I work at a nonprofit that refurbishes computers for low income families, and we have a few computer doners who give us these older, but insanely high end machines. So what I did was take a few old Raptor HDDs that failed our HDD test, removed the drive, and used the massive heatsink as my 2.5 to 3.5 adapters for my 2 SSDs. It makes them look pretty cool, and they are quite effective as heat sinks as well lol.

Thanks for the reply bro   I actually found mounts on ebay... 5.25" mount that can hold 2 ssds for about $6... seemed awesome ($5 for shipping to India tho  )

Link? I am curious as I am about to add some extra HDDs to my system and will be moving my SSDs to the 5.25 slots.


This morning, right after my last post to you, I had a drive fail on me   , it was old, and I knew it was going to happen sooner or later, so thankfully I had the foresight to make it part of a RAID1 array and there was no data loss. But now it looks like I will be jumping on my RAID5 array earlier than I wanted to, which means the SSDs will be moved to a different area as they do not need the same airflow that the HDDs require.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/160802563519?ssPageName=STRK:ME...

check it out bro

like I said, they don't make a 2.5 to 5.25 adapter. That is just a normal 2.5 to 3.5 adapter with 3.5 to 5.25 adapters pre-attached

oh ya you're right... I didnt even notice   anyway bro am gonna sell it once I get it   Am getting a cosmos 2  

I would go with the Sammy, it is reliable and fast enough!

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Samsung 830 ordered   Thanks guys