I apologize that there isn’t much time left, but for what’s left of March 21, you can snag a Samsung 830 SSD from Newegg for $140.
It’s the best deal I’ve seen on a highly regarded modern SSD.
I don’t have personal experience with this drive yet, but I’ve ordered mine. Every review I’ve seen has been overwhelmingly positive. Most telling: Its random write speed clocks in at 100 megabytes per second, which isn’t much slower than the sustained sequential read speeds of many conventional HDDs. That’s what an SSD does worst, versus what an HDD does best. If you have a SATA 3 bus to connect it to, the Samsung 830 can deliver over 400 MB per second in sequential reads.
David Farquhar is a computer security professional, entrepreneur, and author. He has written professionally about computers since 1991, so he was writing about retro computers when they were still new. He has been working in IT professionally since 1994 and has specialized in vulnerability management since 2013. He holds Security+ and CISSP certifications. Today he blogs five times a week, mostly about retro computers and retro gaming covering the time period from 1975 to 2000.