OWC Introduces Fast, Cheap 275MB/s SSD for $68

[alcalde]

[citation][nom]drwho1[/nom]I really need a 500GB SSD to replace my 500GB boot drive.But at this prices....I pass.I think that it might be 5 years down the road before I make the switch.I just won't pay an arm an a leg for an SSD.[/citation]

No, you really need one of these 30GB SSDs to replace your boot drive with a drive that... boots. Keep the 500GB drive for data and such.

 

[alcalde]

Ok, for everyone who keeps saying it's not cheap... it is. We're not talking about price per gigabyte; we're talking about total price. It's like bragging you paid half as much per roll of paper towels, but you had to buy a pallet-full for $200 to get that unit price. The fact is you couldn't enter the SSD market for $68 before (sale-clearance-rebate-type combos don't count). Now you can. That's a good thing and a cheap thing. It puts an SSD boot drive within the range of almost everybody now.

 

[iam2thecrowe]

fast, cheap and completely useless with only 30GB. WOW you will have enough HDD space to install Windows 98 and quake 3 superfast!!! this is frigging rediculous, no more news about 30gb hard drives please. Less than 128mb and its completely useless.

 

[eddieroolz]

40GB for $68 - not bad! Enough for Windows and a few intensive applications.

 

[velaskon]

YO 30 gb .... YOU LOL WITH THIS COMMENT !!!!!! WIN 7 NEED ALMOST 15GB-20GB THIS SHIT ISNOT WORKING ,.... useless !!! GET A CRUCIAL SSD 128 GB minimum ... and please dude dont put rediculous comments like this !!!

 

[velaskon]

YO 30 gb .... YOU LOL WITH THIS COMMENT !!!!!! WIN 7 NEED ALMOST 15GB-20GB THIS SHIT ISNOT WORKING ,.... useless !!! GET A CRUCIAL SSD 128 GB minimum ... and please dude dont put rediculous comments like this !!!

 

[halcyon]

30GB is plenty for Mac OS X and these are targeted at Mac Users (OWC). For anyone that may not know, Mac OS X is ~10GB.

 

[pacioli]

40GB for $68 - not bad! Enough for Windows and a few intensive applications.

It's 30 Gb for $68. Which is not that great of a price...

 

[pacioli]

Ok, for everyone who keeps saying it's not cheap... it is. We're not talking about price per gigabyte; we're talking about total price. It's like bragging you paid half as much per roll of paper towels, but you had to buy a pallet-full for $200 to get that unit price. The fact is you couldn't enter the SSD market for $68 before (sale-clearance-rebate-type combos don't count). Now you can. That's a good thing and a cheap thing. It puts an SSD boot drive within the range of almost everybody now.

I can buy a Kingston SSD Now 64 Gb for $105 on newegg right now... $105 for that drive is about $1.50/gb...

It comes with a $40 rebate too!!! So $65 for 64 gb is $1/Gb!

That is way cheaper more than $2/Gb for a 30 Gb drive.

 

[halcyon]

OWC's prices are never low. I'm not sure why this even showed up on THG. They typically sell a high-quality product, but not at a low price.

 

[lashabane]

Hello. Are you from the past?

SSD prices are actually very reasonable for what they offer, hardly what I would call "an arm and a leg".