As this site matures, www.solid-state-drives.com will be tracking SSD prices and new and ongoing SSD rebates a bit more clearly on the main page. Rebates are a great way to buy the best performing SDD's at the lowest cost per gigabyte.

These days SSD rebates are often very short lived, have a narrow range of purchase dates that may be limited to a singe week, and must be mailed in and postmarked rather shortly after purchase as well. And many rebates and their forms are Retailer specific. They're literally 'banking on' and hoping you WON'T submit your rebate properly, won't provide the right form and proofs of purchase, and won't do it within specified time limits. So beat 'em at their own game, read the fine print, and double-check everything before mailing it in.

Currently, rebates on SSD disks are ranging from $10 on 30gb/32gb SSDs up to $50 on the latest high-capacity 256gb SSDs. The savings can lower your solid-state drive cost from 15%-20% per gigabyte with good timing. Middle of the pack performing MLC-type SSD's are now easily had for about $2/gig with careful rebate shopping and timing. Higher performing and higher-capacity MLC SSD disks are still in the $3-$6/gb range. And the top Read/Write benchmarks you can only achieve with single-layer SLC SSD's still command $10 or more per gigabyte.

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