Adata 960GB SATA 6Gbps 2.5" Internal SSD - $85 - free ship

[hal]

https://www.rakuten.com/shop/adata/produ...S-960GT-R/

$99.99 but cut to $84.99 if you become a member allow them to spam your email box. Surely not the best model, but it's $85!!

[Paul F.]

Hmm... will it, I wonder aloud, fit in a 27" iMac ( with optical drive model) that a friend has with a bad HD?

That is tempting...

[jdc]

Nice find. 2 of them would make a nice little 2 GB RAID 0 with some sweet 800 MB/s speeds... if you needed that.

Of course, a portable 2 TB HDD is only about $60...

[mikebw]

jdc wrote:
Nice find. 2 of them would make a nice little 2 GB RAID 0 with some sweet 800 MB/s speeds... if you needed that.

Of course, a portable 2 TB HDD is only about $60...

... and lucky if you get over 150 MB/s with that.

[jdc]

Paul F. wrote:
Hmm... will it, I wonder aloud, fit in a 27" iMac ( with optical drive model) that a friend has with a bad HD?

That is tempting...

Of course. Ran a SSD and HDD in my 2010 27" iMac no problem.

https://eshop.macsales.com/installvideos...10_ssddiy/

[gabester]

jdc wrote:
Ran a SSD and HDD in my 2010 27" iMac no problem.

https://eshop.macsales.com/installvideos...10_ssddiy/

Sweet - I had no idea. Now if only I can stumble across an inexpensive used iMac!

Also... grumbling because a little over 6 months ago I bought a $180 TB SSD... and a previously even more expensive SSD, and I've used neither. (The first one I had thought my current 500GB SSD was giving out, but it was just a misconfiguration.)
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[MrNoBody]

Holy silicon, how cheap are SSDs going to get??

I didn't know this but ADATA is the 2nd largest DRAM manufacturer in the world.
And of course, they're a Chinese company. source link

[jdc]

You should be able to find a 27" 2010 iMac, even with a 2.93 i7, for $500?

Mine, with a SSD and 32 GB of ram didnt feel much slower than my current 2014 iMac.

2010 iMacs do have a couple of drawbacks, but it depends on your workflow. Internal SATA III, so max SSD speed is only 300 MB/s, USB 2, and no retina screen.

for me, out of all those, only the retina screen was the big difference. USB 3 helped my change my workflow, but I could have adjusted with my old iMac.

[Buzz]

Paul F. wrote:
Hmm... will it, I wonder aloud, fit in a 27" iMac ( with optical drive model) that a friend has with a bad HD?

That is tempting...

It'll fit, plus there are nifty carriers that make for a sweet, clean install, and some that'll even let you park two drives in there... or you can use velcro or duct tape and achieve the same functionality.
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[jdc]

I didnt use anything to hold my SSD in. Its not like the iMac was mving anywhere, and SSDs are feather weight.