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Again, Mushkin Chronos Deluxe 240GB $249.69 @ directcanada.ca

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Just bought one. I got the automaticated telephone call for pin verification and for some reason, when I typed it in, says it was incorrect. Anyone have any experience with ordering from this company before?
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ZxExN wrote: Just bought one. I got the automaticated telephone call for pin verification and for some reason, when I typed it in, says it was incorrect. Anyone have any experience with ordering from this company before?

DirectCanada is a legit company
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Feb 25, 2011
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ZxExN wrote: ... I got the automaticated telephone call for pin verification...

ordered from them a few times and had a good experience.

for the verification... they told me to ignore it, if my shipping address was the same as my credit card address.
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Might as well price match NCIX if it's easier for a local pick up. Since DC is a sister company, they usually accept the PM easily.
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Yeah my gf offered to buy it for me so the billing/shipping addresses are different. I guess I'll give them a ring Monday.
Good to know they're legit.
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hastur wrote: This OCZ is on sale at NCIX (I don't know which is better myself).

OCZ Agility 3 240GB 2.5IN SATA3 $239 or $219 after mail in rebate.

http://ncix.com/products/?sku=61052&vpn ... omoid=1101

The Muskhin is "better."

But honestly, I don't see any real difference between my revodrive 3 and my last-gen Intel 320.

Go with the less expensive option.
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wouldn't it be better to buy 2 120gb than 1 240gb?

if you raid 1 two 120gb it should be faster than 1 240gb with same available space
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fd3styperz wrote: wouldn't it be better to buy 2 120gb than 1 240gb?

if you raid 1 two 120gb it should be faster than 1 240gb with same available space

No TRIM support in a RAID configuration. RAID 1 is for mirroring and would only give you the capacity of one drive to save data. If you meant RAID 0 then you increase the likelihood of losing your data since if one drive fails, you lose everything. Getting a 240GB drive like this Mushkin is around the same price and gives you great performance without the need for RAID.
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ASharp wrote: If you meant RAID 0 then you increase the likelihood of losing your data since if one drive fails, you lose everything.

Either way, if a drive fails you lose everything (1x240 vs 2x120). Having two drives doesn't double your odds of failure either.
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generaltao99 wrote: Either way, if a drive fails you lose everything (1x240 vs 2x120). Having two drives doesn't double your odds of failure either.

Not exactly true..

When SSD drives fail, depending on the failure, it could become read-only only.. And don't know what happens to raid volume when one drive fails.. it may not have the same read-only state.. who knows.. I suppose that would depend on the raid controller / raid software.

And, with 2x120, that's twice the chances of failure, since you only need one drive to fail before it becomes unusable.
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zevnux wrote: Might as well price match NCIX if it's easier for a local pick up. Since DC is a sister company, they usually accept the PM easily.

Hmm.. I was about to say, for us outside of BC, we should get it tax free ordering from DC.. but I noticed they're charging me the 13% HST.. Another fallout of the HST vs PST+GST? :(

Edit: Wow.. for kicks, I did an ASPM, and it came back successful already.. which is not really what I wanted since it's only good for 48 hours.. and the earliest I'd go would be wednesday.. lol
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oldskool75 wrote: Another fallout of the HST vs PST+GST? :(
Indeed it is. Even without physical presence here in Ontario, they still have to charge HST which is the full 13%.
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Vertigo wrote: Incorrect; you are in fact almost twice as likely to lose all your data: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_R ... ilure_rate

That's pretty dubious math/assumption, also not sourced. Let me ask you this:

-MTTF can roughly be understood as taking a a sample of hard drives and running them to failure, then deriving the MTTF value from the total hours of operation by the number of drives. So for example, 10 drives running at a combined 1M hours of operations til failure = 100K hrs MTTF. Or in other words, each drive should run on average 100K hrs before failing.
-a manufacturer creates only 10 hard drives and states their MTTF is "100K hrs", we'll call this MTTFbatch
-you buy them all and run them in (if it were possible) RAID-0, we'll call this MTTFgroup
-does the MTTFbatch now change simply because you're running the drives together? If it does then MTTF was never true to begin with.

MTTFbatch MUST = MTTFgroup
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generaltao99 wrote: That's pretty dubious math/assumption, also not sourced. Let me ask you this:

-MTTF can roughly be understood as taking a a sample of hard drives and running them to failure, then deriving the MTTF value from the total hours of operation by the number of drives. So for example, 10 drives running at a combined 1M hours of operations til failure = 100K hrs MTTF. Or in other words, each drive should run on average 100K hrs before failing.
-a manufacturer creates only 10 hard drives and states their MTTF is "100K hrs", we'll call this MTTFbatch
-you buy them all and run them in (if it were possible) RAID-0, we'll call this MTTFgroup
-does the MTTFbatch now change simply because you're running the drives together? If it does then MTTF was never true to begin with.

MTTFbatch MUST = MTTFgroup
I think, perhaps, you're missing the fact that for disks in a Raid 0 array, the array fails (i.e. you lose all data across all disks) if even just one disk fails.

Instead of looking directly at MTTF, it would be more intuitive to consider the chance of failure for a disk over a given period of time.

Let's say that a disk has a 5% chance of failing within 3 years. Let's put 2 of these disks into a Raid 0 array.

The simplest way to calculate the chance that the array will fail is to calculate the probability that none of the disks fail within 3 years and subtract that from all possibilities. Again, this is true because if one, the other, or both disks fail, then the entire array is toast.

So the chance of the array failing within 3 years is 1 - (0.95 * 0.95) = 0.0975

That is, the chance of a 2 disk array failing within 3 years is 9.75%, almost twice that of a single disk.

What part of this is "dubious"? :razz:
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Keep your data on thin metal punch cards
(think of the old paper punch cards with holes in them - but made of metal)
those have the lowest risk of data failure

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