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OWC Mercury up to 400GB now!

I'm still waiting for OWC to release the firmware upgrade to fix the sleeping issues for those who are their first batch of customers...:rolleyes:
 
Are they crazy with those prices?!

Tried and true Intel 160 GB for $450, OWC 200 GB drive for $730? lol?

They do look like very good drives from their benchmarks and I know they've gotten good recommendations, but their prices are just absurd.
 
MBHockey said:
Are they crazy with those prices?!

Tried and true Intel 160 GB for $450, OWC 200 GB drive for $730? lol?

They do look like very good drives from their benchmarks and I know they've gotten good recommendations, but their prices are just absurd.
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I agree that those prices are "crazy;" $1,800 for any hard drive is nuts. Consider that you can buy an entry level, latest model, 13 inch MBP for less than two-thirds of the price of the OWC 400Gb SSD. What's wrong with this picture?
 
Sneakz said:
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/140?vs=152 The numbers are close obviously but the OCZ still wins almost all of them. In addition, OCZ is a Tier 1 partner with SandForce and are able too hook up firmware updates for its Vertex 2 and Agility 2 SSDs that other manufacturer wont get their hands on.
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Those tests also show Corsair F200 to be faster, in real life it was much
slower and it was crashing my MBP. So don't always trust all those tests...
 
snowboarder said:
and why would I need that?
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Why do you need a 400GB SSD? Nevermind that it costs almost as much as a 15" MBP.

SSDs in their current state are mainly for fast boot storage. It will be like that for the next few years.

Smaller SSDs + External HD/Network Attached Storage are a much more cost effective/safer option.

snowboarder said:
Those tests also show Corsair F200 to be faster, in real life it was much
slower and it was crashing my MBP. So don't always trust all those tests...
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Fact is OCZ has hookups on SandForce FW updates that others may or simply wont get.
 
snowboarder said:
and why would I need that?
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I considered buying an entry level 13 inch MBP, upgrading to 8Gb of RAM, and adding a 200 or 256Bb SSD, both from OWC. I used the base 13 inch MBP as an example because of that and because I thought it was apt.

As long as we are considering the OWC 400Gb drive's, to me at least, grossly excessive price, consider also that the OWC 200Gb SSD costs less than half as much. I am a long time customer of OWC and have a high regard for their products but the introductory price for the 400Gb SSD shocked my conscience.
 
gwsat said:
I agree that those prices are "crazy;" $1,800 for any hard drive is nuts. Consider that you can buy an entry level, latest model, 13 inch MBP for less than two-thirds of the price of the OWC 400Gb SSD. What's wrong with this picture?
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Oh no, you have your facts wrong: the 400GB SSD is only $1600. That changes your whole argument [sarcasm alert]
 
MBHockey said:
Are they crazy with those prices?!

Tried and true Intel 160 GB for $450, OWC 200 GB drive for $730? lol?

They do look like very good drives from their benchmarks and I know they've gotten good recommendations, but their prices are just absurd.
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You'll be amazed how much the top end Compact Flash cards are for cameras… $600 for 64GB!

After my last purchase it put a whole new perspective on the price of solid state memory and drives.
 
The OWCs are great drives, but I went ahead and got one of the new OCZ Vertex 2's released last week.
 
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