256 GB Serial ATA Solid State Hard Drive Manufacturer Part# J246M Dell Part# 341-9999 Price: $479.99
256 GB Encrypted Serial ATA Solid State Hard Drive for Dell Latitude E6400 Laptop Manufacturer Part# VG2N2 Dell Part# 341-8981 Price: $749.99
256 GB Encrypted Serial ATA Solid State Hard Drive for Dell Latitude E6400 Laptop Manufacturer Part# VG2N2 Dell Part# 341-9942 Price: $479.99
Not sure what the difference between the last two, except for the price, but I placed two separate orders for 341-9999 and 341-9942 using NQVX4R5XXSVD0T coupon for $15 off. By my calculations this would make this drive cost less that $400 before taxes. I think it's a pretty decent price for 256GB SSD.
I'm not 100% sure what those drives actually are right now, but according to this post http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=352730 they very well may be the Samsung drives. If anyone knows more about these please post.
UPDATE:
Apperently this Dell drive is actually Samsung MMDOE56G5MXP-0VB (PM800/PB22-J), which according to reviews is faster than Intel X-25M drive.
Message edited by: zopa on 2009-09-26 12:32:48 CDT
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Hmm. This is a very good point. According to Bing's FAQ: (http://www.bing.com/shopping/pages/faq.aspx#WhatsTheDealWithCouponsOrSpecialsAtTheStore)
What's the deal with coupons or specials at the store? The CashBack program terms and conditions state that coupons could void your CashBack rewards. Some stores may allow purchases made using coupons to earn CashBack. Your best bet is to check with the store before making a purchase. We need to comply with the policies of stores that ask us to cancel a CashBack reward because a coupon was used.
Does anyone know if Dell enforces this policy? How can one even tell if they did?
* Offer applies to purchases on Dell Home & Home Office and Small & Medium Business on this visit only. * Purchases from Dell Outlet, Dell Public or Large Enterprise stores are NOT eligible for this offer. * Dell reserves the right to end or change this offer at any time. * View all Bing.com CashBack terms and conditions.
They can tell if you used Bing and a coupon. Seen plenty of people complaining about getting their Bing CashBack 86ed when they used a coupon as well. No room to complain when you don't play by the rules.
Well, true that Dell can enforce the terms, but I can always return the item. So I was trying to find out if you can find out if CashBack got nixed due to a coupon used. I presume if I don't see it as pending in a few days, it's a good sign that it didn't work. I wonder if I should re-order without the $15 coupon, or try to play chicken with Dell and MS later.
Coupons stacking regardless, it still seen to be a decent deal for and SSD drive, even at full price of $480. If only we knew for a fact which drives those actually are, but I guess I'll find out one way or the other when I receive it from Dell.
According to the discussion at the link in the OP, this may be a Samsung drive, but then Dell could've easily changed the drives since that discussion took place.
According to Dell rep I'm chatting with right now the specs are 130 mb/sec read, 90 mb/sec write. Now I would take it with a grain of salt, because the rep was not able to point me to any actual data sheet he got this information from. I was also told that the specs are the same for both drives and that the 341-9999 is the newer batch of drives Dell stocks. (Whatever that means)
These are the specs that a rep provided me: 341-9999/341-9942 (encrypted): 240 MBps read/170 MBps write, 64MB cache - Samsung/Corsair Rebranded? 341-8981: 150 MBps read/150 MBps write, ?? cache
These prices are tempting ... how do they compare to the Intel X25-M G2 drives in terms of 4K Random Read/Write? Do they behave like the OCZ Summit 256GB / OCZ Vertex Turbo as shown here?
BTW, I emailed Bing today and sure enough they posted all the CashBack due to me. So I have paid $383.28+tax for 256GB 2.5" SSD, which is a great price in my book even if it's the crappiest SSD in the world.
Once I get these drives, I'll to figure out what they really are and post the test results. What is the test tool of choice to quickly test SSD?
I placed an order at 1am PST yesterday and its already shipped. I just checked my Bing CashBack and the $69.xx has already posted. Now if only drive is a rebranded version of Corsair P256 and SATA-II. If not, i'll have to return it or Craigslist it
I just got it. Its got firmware VBM19D1Q. Manufactured in 9/13/2009. Model is MMDOE56G5MXP-0VBD1. As per this page on Anandtech - http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3631&p=19 - you want your drive to have firmware 18C1Q or later since that supports background garbage collection. Maybe this version supports the TRIM command. If so, this is an awesome deal for this SSD drive. Looking around some more. If someone finds something, let me know.
Message edited by: andy318 on 2009-09-28 19:37:23 CDT
Confirmed (via fsquery command) that this firmware version supports TRIM!
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