Apologies for the delayed response. This deal is still on till midnight, but it's only 64GB. But for $49.99 it is not bad. However, I am suspecting that you guys need some serious GB. I will keep an eye out and post asap.
I'll keep an eye out for that. However, I may have to swap the bottle of Corona with you for what you had chosen instead
Boli, would a 2TB suffice?. Btw, what are you using this for? I find it hard to fill my 500GB? Also, does 5400 rpm work or do you need 7200rpm+. What about SATA, 3 or 6?
Your bench mark model is on sale for $19.99 (after rebate) <img src="http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/attachment.php?s=&postid=3271150.png">
It does help keep the computer quiet. The 8600 cards I have are noisy fans. Very happy with the engt 430 for sound levels. They operate quietly and I have three in the case. I will point out though the bottom most card is close to the frame of the case so I can hear that fan, although still low there is a whir, easily silenced with case cover on it quiets lower video card fan down. Fanless is best for silent machine. Here is an image of the 8600 and 8400 cards installed the the antec 900 build. The 8600 are not all that quiet to operate.
Regarding filling SSD's up ... you don't need to if you are disciplined about disk management. I'm still using an old 32G one with no issues on W7x64 but I run core OS and Programs on the SSD, data on a ramdisk or a hard disk and non core programs on a hard disk. It does require planning though.
I am trying to build one of my boxes as a data vault. I want to put everything on it, consolidating from multiple computers. I already have a 1.5TB on it. So I want to have 3TB or (ideally 4TB) at a good price. Speed is not important. Lower rpm okay, SATA 3 okay. Hey... as one of my tangent notes... today we talk about TB this TB that. I still remember the day that I used to support Digital MicroVAX, with a RA81 disk drive... 450 MB (that's Mega byte)... the size of a washing machine... 2TB on 3.5 inch platters now... Moore's Law. Photos of RA81 drives: http://www.google.com/search?um=1&h...5640l0l5770l23l23l0l14l2l0l210l1110l1.7.1l9l0
You have a very good point Kiwi_trader. I thought I would use the SSD for faster data access and thus put all my data on it too. I need to figure out some kind of data archival process to move non-essential data off the SSD.