Kingston SSD Sale: 64GB for $60, 96GB for $110, 128GB for $150
If you’ve been waiting for a good deal on an SSD upgrade, don’t miss these Kingston 2.5″ SSD’s from Buy.com. Each drive comes with free shipping and a huge discount after sending in a mail-in rebate, but the offer is only valid until 7/10/2011.
- Kingston 64GB SSD v100 Series for $59.89 with free shipping from Buy.com
- Kingston 96GB SSD v100 Series for $109.95 from Buy.com
- Kingston 128GB SSD v100 Series for $149.95 with free shipping from Buy.com
The prices are after the Kingston & Buy.com mail-in rebate so don’t forget to send it in. Redeeming the rebate is easy, just print out the form and fill it out, along with the original sales receipt from Buy.com and the original UPC code from the box. The deal appears to be valid for US customers only.
This is the rebate form from Buy.com (PDF file)
A 2.5″ drive will fit directly into any MacBook or MacBook Pro, and can be placed into a caddy to fit into other Mac hardware. SSD’s are probably one of the best bang-for-the-buck upgrades you can get for any computer, as they offer a huge speed increase that is directly noticeable by the user for everyday tasks.
The read/write performance on these is rated as the following on Buy.com’s product page:
Sequential read throughput:
256GB – 250MB/sec. read
128GB – 250MB/sec. read
64GB – 250MB/sec. readSequential write throughput:
256GB – 230MB/sec write
128GB – 230MB/sec write
64GB – 145MB/sec write
For comparison, most 5400 and 7200rpm standard hard drives will read and write between 40MB and 70MB a second. In other words, SSD’s are super fast.
Isn’t the V+ series better than these V series? I heard that these V series models have serious failure issues.
Bought 4 of these about 6 months ago. 2 died so far. After the second one died, I found out there’s a “don’t fail catastrophically” firmware update out there.
Please specify when offers are for US customers only, as this one is.
SO MUCH WANT!
For those who need more space there’s a 256GB version for about $360 after rebate.
Don’t forget to enable TRIM on your own either, OSX and even Lion won’t support third party SSD TRIM.
Thanks! You answered my question before I asked it. :)