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Newegg's Labor Day Sale has an Adata 256GB SSD for $149.99 shipped (after $10.- MIR).
And a Corsair Neutron 128GB SSD for $104.99 shipped.
And an OCZ Vertex 3 120GB SSD for $74.99 shipped (after $10.- MIR).
And an OCZ Vertex Plus R2 60GB for an unbelievable $29.99 shipped (after $20.- MIR).

And to top it off: a 2TB 2.5" SATA 3 rotational hard drive with 64MB cache for $209.99
Plus another boatload of cheap goodies!

RealBlackStuff wrote:Newegg's Labor Day Sale has an Adata 256GB SSD for $149.99 shipped (after $10.- MIR).
And a Corsair Neutron 128GB SSD for $104.99 shipped.
And an OCZ Vertex 3 120GB SSD for $74.99 shipped (after $10.- MIR).
And an OCZ Vertex Plus R2 60GB for an unbelievable $29.99 shipped (after $20.- MIR).

And to top it off: a 2TB 2.5" SATA 3 rotational hard drive with 64MB cache for $209.99
Plus another boatload of cheap goodies!

Morning!

Have you had any experience with the OCZ Vertex Plus R2 60GB?


Thanks!!!

Thanks for the heads up, RBS. Guess I'm going to head over to newegg.com and see what I don't need, but can't resist buying.

Lucky for me...the 60GB SSD is already sold out! Haven't seen anything else yet that was as tempting...

Dang it!
OCZ Vertex Plus R2 60GB is already sold out!

SSD prices are on a steady decline. Moore's law is still in effect.

kge420 wrote:SSD prices are on a steady decline. Moore's law is still in effect.

Please correct me if I am mistaken, but Moore's Law predicts that the number of transistors on a CPU will double every two years?

^true, that was what moores law was originally, now it is more you can buy twice the transistors for the same money every two years

"Moore's Law to roll on for another decade". Retrieved 2011-11-27. "Moore also affirmed he never said transistor count would double every 18 months, as is commonly said. Initially, he said transistors on a chip would double every year. He then recalibrated it to every five years in 1975. David House, an Intel executive at the time, noted that the changes would cause computer performance to double every 18 months."

RRHODY wrote:"Moore's Law to roll on for another decade". Retrieved 2011-11-27. "Moore also affirmed he never said transistor count would double every 18 months, as is commonly said. Initially, he said transistors on a chip would double every year. He then recalibrated it to every five years in 1975. David House, an Intel executive at the time, noted that the changes would cause computer performance to double every 18 months."

Double the amount of transistors on a given cheap in principles mean double the amount of calculations that the chip can do, so that means double the performance. Of course there are a lot of technical difficulties involved in getting the chip to work than just doubling the number of transistor in it, and there is advancement made in what one can do with a given number of transistors.

But then, Moore's Law isn't backed by exact science, and it isn't something precisely stated nor is it something that can be proved mathematically. It's simply a statement describing how the semiconductor industry have been evolving. There is no need to take it too seriously, but it's always a good starting point to predict what's to come.

Moore's law is not a law per se. I loosely apply this 'law' whenever I see tech items that are costly for early adopters come tumbling down in price while rising in performance. I think he basically said things will get faster smaller and less costly every 18 months. In my opinion he has been fairly spot on. Just my loose interpretation

Since this thread has expired, and is now going off-course, I'll lock it.
Thank you all for your contributions.