Solid State Drive Sale

[Todesengel]

Just a friendly public announcement for anbody that may want to upgrade their mame cabinet for some serious boot/load times.
And no, I am in no way affiliated with crucial nor endorse their product. But for the money, you can't really go wrong.

Recertified 256GB Crucial M4 2.5" SATA III MLC Internal SSD (CT256M4SSD1) $49.99
 Recertified 128GB Crucial M4 2.5" SATA III MLC Internal SSD (CT128M4SSD1) $29.99

[yotsuya]

Ordered a 128 for a project last night, thanks for the heads up!

[Crazy Cooter]

out of stock
 

[Admiral688]

I threw one into my WMC machine. Best move I ever made.

[Yenome]

of course after i spend 100 at bestbuy for two 120gb pny ssd this sale happens

[DeLuSioNal29]

Recertified scares me.  How reliable are they?

[yotsuya]

Recertified scares me.  How reliable are they?

I'm not keeping my tax returns on them, so for $32 shipped to my home, I'm good.... 

[Yenome]

Recertified scares me.  How reliable are they?

That should mean the company tested them and they passed the tests. If im right that company is the biggest player in the memory business. so i would say pretty reliable.

[Todesengel]

Recertified scares me.  How reliable are they?

I'm not keeping my tax returns on them, so for $32 shipped to my home, I'm good.... 

This is pretty much that I thought. You won't be doing much writing to the disk, so theoretically it should last a very long time. SSD's can read all day, but they lose their lifespan when you're constantly rewriting sectors. For those that are getting the sold out notice, them seem to come and go periodically. So keep checking and you may get lucky.

[JDFan]

Recertified scares me.  How reliable are they?

Since these are factory recertified they are probably fairly safe as most likely are drives that failed the initial factory certification rather than customer used drives that failed and were recertified after perhaps months/years of use. I'd agree to avoid recertified coming from third parties as the SSDs do have a limited write cycle lifetime so getting used chips could cause limited lifetime but coming direct from Crucial they are probably as good if not better than new drives (figure they had some work done to get them certified after initially failing the certification process so have actually been tested even more thoroughly than new drives. )

[lilshawn]

recertified drives are often just old larger drives with the bad parts programmed out of the controller.

larger sizes (say 512gb)... those that fail or don't have enough good slack at 512gb and get rebranded as 500gb...or 250gb drives that fail are rebranded as 200 or 128gb drives, and so on.

i wouldn't worry too much about the drive being "worn out"... if the drive detects the flash bit is wore out, it'll re-write data to a slack area. recertified drives would likely have a heap load of slack since they were formerly much bigger drives.

who knows, perhaps their recertification process involves replacing the bad NAND 

all kinds of shenanigans go on with companies. i used to get recertified drives as warranty replacements if smaller sizes were not available...and I'd get them in all sorts of weird sizes not commonly seen. (450gb 340gb etc) these are obviously larger drives with firmware ID'ing them as a smaller drive to "write out" the bad areas so they don't get used.

as long as you aren't trying to keep your kids baby photos safe on it, give 'er... otherwise buy new.