Kingston A400 2.5" 240GB SATA III TLC SSD at ...

Kingston A400 2.5" 240GB SATA III TLC SSD $33 at Amazon

$33 $85

$33 retail: $85

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Posted by DrBatman
10/22/2018 at 06:32 AM PT

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golfpro

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Posted 10/22/2018 at 08:47 PM PT

This is probably the lowest price for a brand-name SSD.

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Myself

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Posted 10/23/2018 at 06:29 AM PT

Aww yeah, sub-$40. This is awesome.

Because of the cost of bearings and motors and stuff, HDDs have a 'price floor' of about $40. Having the regular retail price of an SSD dip below this, in a useful size, is the tipping point we've been waiting for.

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manolakis

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Posted 10/23/2018 at 02:36 PM PT

350MB/s Write. I'll pass.

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dave_c

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Posted 10/23/2018 at 03:01 PM PT

^ Look at the reviewer uploaded images, some were scoring nearer 500MB/s writes. Granted some if not all of those were for the 960GB version, in cases like this it is annoying that lumps together reviews for several products on the same page.

On the other hand it could be a matter of which SATA version their motherboard supports, and/or whether it's a decent mobo chipset or an aftermarket chipset on a PCIe card.

It IS slower than many, but would be a good cost effective upgrade for an older SATA 1 or 2 system, or I could see buying a refurb laptop and tossing one of these in for a cheap way to do most common things.

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dupton

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Posted 10/23/2018 at 04:32 PM PT

In for one. Cheap enough to throw in an old laptop to play around with Ubuntu.

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