New Price announcements

[Convergent Systems SG]

Crucial M500 new pricing announcement.

120GB @ $115
240Gb @ $189
480GB @ $379
960GB @ $745

now available at most major retailers in SLS and our online retailers.

Your Online Electronics Store in Singapore | Crucial

 

[zetken]

wow good pricing. lol

 

[royfrosty]

Can recommend more 240gb to people le.

 

[gaoxing84]

haha finally take the hit from amazon!

nice pricing. haha people can enjoy the local warranty.

 

[shadow84]

Wanna ask, was there a price diff for m500 120gb?

 

[cephelix]

looks good......now tempted to get the 240gb or maybe the 480

 

[delson_tan]

Those people still trying to sell those Amazon Intel SSD suck thumb already.

 

[Convergent Systems SG]

it was at SGD$125 previously, before dropping to $115.

the 240GB had the greatest drop, from $215 to $189.

it seems that not all SLS shops had update their pricelist with the new pricing. thus, please do check with them, as some might be slower in updating their pricelist as they would prefer to exhaust out the older pricelist before printing new ones.

 

[trenzterra]

I'm interested in the Crucial 500 for my laptop. However I realise the idle power consumption is damn high, at like 1W. Is there any firmware update that can solve this?

 

[crystalnox]

I'm interested in the Crucial 500 for my laptop. However I realise the idle power consumption is damn high, at like 1W. Is there any firmware update that can solve this?

1W not going to make much of a difference on your battery life considering how much more the other components draw.

 

[trenzterra]

1W not going to make much of a difference on your battery life considering how much more the other components draw.

Yup but one reason I wanted to buy an SSD is to improve my laptop's battery life (currently only about 3.5 hours but I want to push it to 4). Right now my HDD idles at around 0.74W. But I wonder if on average the power consumption of the SSD will be better? I do mainly MS word and website browsing on battery.

 

[crystalnox]

Yup but one reason I wanted to buy an SSD is to improve my laptop's battery life (currently only about 3.5 hours but I want to push it to 4). Right now my HDD idles at around 0.74W. But I wonder if on average the power consumption of the SSD will be better? I do mainly MS word and website browsing on battery.

Buy a ssd even though it might not improve your battery life, the speed bump alone is worth getting one.

 

[shadow84]

Since when adding in a ssd will improve battery life of a laptop by a lot...

 

[eliteFX]

things load faster on the ssd. you get increased speed therefore higher productivity. time taken to finish the task is shorter.

 

[sglords]

Good price quite tempt . My ssd going full liao.

Got people keep idle on laptop one meh
Anyway with short battery span on laptop. Isn't ssd better? Can multi task then lag

 

[trenzterra]

If I'm not wrong if you surf the net and read stuff the SSD is considered idling. Not too sure though.

 

[Convergent Systems SG]

SSD is definitely much better than a HDD on a notebook usage, due to the following.

1. faster read/ write on FLASH as compared to a mechanical HDD
2. slightly better battery life due to the above
3. SSD are cooler in operating temps

as for battery life with SSD, it actually would differs among different individual usage, as there might be loads of background programs running which is consuming your battery too. however, in our own usage, we do experience slightly longer battery life when using SSD in the same scenario.

 

[magix]

Price also vaild for M-SATA SSD?

 

[Convergent Systems SG]

Price also vaild for M-SATA SSD?

yup. have just confirmed that the M500 series M-SATA SSD are on the same pricing too.

 

[magix]

yup. have just confirmed that the M500 series M-SATA SSD are on the same pricing too.

Seems like eplanetworld has only update the SATA price.

The M-SATA is @ $ 215.00 (is this the discount price?)


Crucial M500 240GB mSATA SSD 240GB SATA 6Gbps mSATA Internal SSD
$ 215.00