Monday, September 10, 2012

Get a 128GB Crucial solid-state drive for $79.99



The Crucial CT128M4SSD2.


(Credit: Amazon)

It's weird to get excited about a 128GB Crucial CT128M4SSD2 solid-state drive for $79.99 shipped when you can also buy a 1TB portable USB 3.0 hard drive for the same price. (See what I did there? I snuck in an extra bonus deal.)


And, yet, it is exciting, because that same SSD sells for at least $100 everywhere else (including Newegg, where it's $109.99). So for well under $100, you can outfit your desktop or laptop with a blazing-fast drive that has enough space to actually be practical.


The CT128M4SSD2 is a 2.5-inch drive that provides 128GB of solid-state storage. You know, the kind that has no mechanical parts and therefore will never suffer the dreaded "click of death." SSDs also consume less power (read: your laptop's battery will run longer between charges) and generally run a helluva lot faster than traditional drives.


If you're into specs, the drive has a SATA III interface and supports sequential read/write rates of up to 500/175MB per second. Crucial promises a mean-time between failure (MTBF) of... [Read more]



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