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The Intel SSD Holiday Contest

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Intel really, really likes giving out solid state drives - and to get us through the end of the year, you've got yet another chance to win one!
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Up for grabs this time are Intel's 520 Series SSDs, 3 120gb drives in total, for 3 lucky winners to be drawn shortly after the contest ends on December 31st, 2012.

You're probably familiar with the entry process by now; all you need to do is post your answer to the following two questions in this thread:
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1. Do you currently own an SSD and are you planning on purchasing one in the near
future? If so, which brands are you considering (Intel, OCZ, Crucial, Kingston, Patriot
Memory, Samsung, or other)?

2. What is the most important consideration you make when you purchase an SSD
(price, performance, brand, other)?
Full terms and conditions can be found here (and for our international friends, you'll note any restrictions on residency have been removed - if it is legal for you to participate in a contest like this where you live, you can!) :

http://www.overclock.net/a/intel-ssd-holiday-contest-terms-and-conditions

Good luck, get your entries in!

Winners Announced !
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Hello OCN,

Apologies for the delay in announcing the winners. I am however pleased to announce our Winners of the Intel SSD contest below.

TwilightEscape

jimmerk

cytoSiN


Winners please PM me your shipping information and Title the PM ''Winner of Intel SSD'' and we will get your prizes off to you.

Thank you to our sponsors and thank you to the community for participating. We hope you enjoy your new SSD

Regards,
ENTERPRISE
 
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#3 ·
I own 2 ssd crucial m4

other- reputation
 
#4 ·
1. Do you currently own an SSD and are you planning on purchasing one in the near
future? If so, which brands are you considering (Intel, OCZ, Crucial, Kingston, Patriot
Memory, Samsung, or other)?


I currently own a Crucial M4 256GB SSD and a Kingston HyperX 3k 120GB. I plan on purchasing another 256GB SSD, either Crucial or Plextor.

2. What is the most important consideration you make when you purchase an SSD
(price, performance, brand, other)?


Reliability
 
#5 ·
1. Do you currently own an SSD and are you planning on purchasing one in the near
future? If so, which brands are you considering (Intel, OCZ, Crucial, Kingston, Patriot
Memory, Samsung, or other)?

I own an OCZ Vertex 2 60GB. Getting long in the tooth now so I'll be upgrading that some time in the next 3 months. As far as brands go; I'm not really "in love" with any brand; I'll go with what has good performance to price ratio. Most likely OCZ Vetex 4 or Samsung 840.

2. What is the most important consideration you make when you purchase an SSD
(price, performance, brand, other)?

Price to performance ratio and reliability.
 
#7 ·
1. Do you currently own an SSD and are you planning on purchasing one in the near
future? If so, which brands are you considering (Intel, OCZ, Crucial, Kingston, Patriot
Memory, Samsung, or other)?

I don't own any SSD yet buy im planning to buy SSD's like Intel,Crucial, Kingston brands.

2. What is the most important consideration you make when you purchase an SSD
(price, performance, brand, other)?

Definitely its the price next is the performance.
 
#8 ·
1. Do you currently own an SSD and are you planning on purchasing one in the near
future? If so, which brands are you considering (Intel, OCZ, Crucial, Kingston, Patriot
Memory, Samsung, or other)?

I currently have a OCZ Agility 4 256GB for my boot drive and I'm considering grabbing a few more as prices go down. I'm looking at OCZ, Intel, Samsung and Patriot Memory in that order.

2. What is the most important consideration you make when you purchase an SSD
(price, performance, brand, other)?

Price>Performance>Brand is the order of things I considered before buying my Agility and I'll probably follow the same formula again.
 
#9 ·
1. Do you currently own an SSD and are you planning on purchasing one in the near
future? If so, which brands are you considering (Intel, OCZ, Crucial, Kingston, Patriot
Memory, Samsung, or other)?


I own both a Intel and a OCZ ssd. I would consider Intel, OCZ, Crucial, Plextor and Samsung.

2. What is the most important consideration you make when you purchase an SSD
(price, performance, brand, other)?

Price to performance ratio and reliability is very important to me.
 
#11 ·
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Full terms and conditions can be found here (and for our international friends, you'll note any restrictions on residency have been removed - if it is legal for you to participate in a contest like this where you live, you can!) :
Excellent and yes where i live this is no problem
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1. Do you currently own an SSD and are you planning on purchasing one in the near
future? If so, which brands are you considering (Intel, OCZ, Crucial, Kingston, Patriot
Memory, Samsung, or other)?

i own;
1: Samsung 830 128GB
2: Crucial M4 64GB

Intel or Plextor is other brands i would consider.

2. What is the most important consideration you make when you purchase an SSD
(price, performance, brand, other)?

Performance and reliability.

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#12 ·
1. Do you currently own an SSD and are you planning on purchasing one in the near
future? If so, which brands are you considering (Intel, OCZ, Crucial, Kingston, Patriot
Memory, Samsung, or other)?


Yes, I own a Intel 320 80GB SSD. I was considering getting another one for some RAID0
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2. What is the most important consideration you make when you purchase an SSD
(price, performance, brand, other)?


Being a student I'm always after the best deal but usually the most important consideration is bang for buck.
I owned a original OCZ Vertex since they came down in price and never looked back, after it died so my consideration changed.
Reliability and the price are my most important considerations.

Thanks for the giveaway OCN & Intel
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#14 ·
1. Do you currently own an SSD and are you planning on purchasing one in the near
future? If so, which brands are you considering (Intel, OCZ, Crucial, Kingston, Patriot
Memory, Samsung, or other)?
Yes, Corsair Force 3 120GB.

Want to upgrade from this for something a bit faster.

2. What is the most important consideration you make when you purchase an SSD
(price, performance, brand, other)?


Performance first, Brand second, price 3rd.
 
#15 ·
1. Do you currently own an SSD and are you planning on purchasing one in the near
future? If so, which brands are you considering (Intel, OCZ, Crucial, Kingston, Patriot
Memory, Samsung, or other)?

I currently own a Crucial M4 128GB, I plan on purchasing another SSD for my laptop.

2. What is the most important consideration you make when you purchase an SSD
(price, performance, brand, other)?

Reliability
 
#16 ·
1. Do you currently own an SSD and are you planning on purchasing one in the near
future? If so, which brands are you considering (Intel, OCZ, Crucial, Kingston, Patriot
Memory, Samsung, or other)?

I am currently looking at getting my first SSD (prices are insane in my country) ... I am currently looking at either the Intel 520 180gb or the Corsair Force GT 180gb ... leaning towards the cleaner look at more reliability of the 520 though

2. What is the most important consideration you make when you purchase an SSD
(price, performance, brand, other)?

Performance and Brand (Reliability) ... ... All SSD's in my country are terribly priced so price isn't a factor but you need to make sure you get a fast drive from a brand that backs their name with quality ...
 
#17 ·
1) Yes, own Intel, OCZ, Corsair currently. Considering Samsung and OCZ in future

2. Price
 
#18 ·
1. Do you currently own an SSD and are you planning on purchasing one in the near
future? If so, which brands are you considering (Intel, OCZ, Crucial, Kingston, Patriot
Memory, Samsung, or other)?

I currently own two 240 Intel 520 SSD's. Prior to my purchase decision, I considered the OCZ Vertex 4 and the Samsung 840 Pro.

2. What is the most important consideration you make when you purchase an SSD
(price, performance, brand, other)?

The reliability of the overall unit (Firmware and NAND.) Speed was not a huge consideration.
 
#19 ·
1. I own 2 SSDs, 1 crucial m4 and 1 Mushkin. I plan on buying more SSDs in the future.

2. The most important to me is price since most SSDs blow HDDs out of the water.
 
#20 ·
1. Do you currently own an SSD and are you planning on purchasing one in the near
future? If so, which brands are you considering (Intel, OCZ, Crucial, Kingston, Patriot
Memory, Samsung, or other)?
Don't currently own an ssd, Do plan to get one, any of the above.

2. What is the most important consideration you make when you purchase an SSD
(price, performance, brand, other)?

Price, performance
 
#21 ·
1. Do you currently own an SSD and are you planning on purchasing one in the near
future? If so, which brands are you considering (Intel, OCZ, Crucial, Kingston, Patriot
Memory, Samsung, or other)?


I have never owned a good one, I had a first gen 32gb that was on its last leg and the newer hard drive still beat it in benchmarks and boot up time. Plus the ssd was very glitchy, freezes, the system would stall for a bit, then lag when trying to browse around. I don't know if I didn't have it set up right or if the drive was going bad. I am thinking about getting either a Intel, OCZ, Samsung, or Crucial for my next drive. They all seem like great brands.

2. What is the most important consideration you make when you purchase an SSD
(price, performance, brand, other)?


I would like reliability for the most part. I hear a lot of older gen drives tend to fail or get slower over time. I want a drive that will stay strong for as long as I own it. I don't want to drop a bunch of money on a drive, then have it fail a year later. Another thing is the price, I won't pay half the price of what I payed for my laptop for the drive either when I am doing fine with my hard drives.

Thanks for the opportunity!
 
#23 ·
1} I currently own 2 SSDs, and an unused at the moment, cache ssd. I would like to replace the ssd I purchased as a boot drive on my desktop because I ended up getting a "lesser" SSD due to a sale and they were all sold out of the Intel's. I was a bit shocked at the difference between it and the generation or 2 older one in my laptop. I would like to replace it with an Intel, Samsung or Corsair.

2} Now having purchased a "lesser" SSD the most important factors would be reputation then price vs performance.
 
#25 ·
1. Do you currently own an SSD and are you planning on purchasing one in the near
future? If so, which brands are you considering (Intel, OCZ, Crucial, Kingston, Patriot
Memory, Samsung, or other)?


Own: Corsair Force GT, Corsair Force 3, Samsung 470, Corsair Nova
Plans: Intel, Corsair, Samsung, Mushkin or A-data

2. What is the most important consideration you make when you purchase an SSD
(price, performance, brand, other)?


Performance first, Price Second, Power Draw third (laptops only)

Thanks to Intel and OCN!
 
#26 ·
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1. Do you currently own an SSD and are you planning on purchasing one in the near
future? If so, which brands are you considering (Intel, OCZ, Crucial, Kingston, Patriot
Memory, Samsung, or other)?
I own a SSD. I plan on getting any brand at the best value in the near future.
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2. What is the most important consideration you make when you purchase an SSD
(price, performance, brand, other)?
price and performance
 
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