Price Drop: Toshiba 256GB SATA III SSD Sale $149.99 + Free Shipping

Newegg.com has this Price Drop: Toshiba 256GB SATA III SSD Sale priced at $149.99 with Free Shipping. Sells for at least $20 more elsewhere. Ends soon.

Good price on a medium-level solid state drive. Good for adding a fast boot option to desktops or for HTPCs. Features Average Read speeds of 552 MB/s and 501 MB/s for writes. Includes 3-year warranty.  Not many reviews but all 5 of 5 stars at several sites. (No upgrade cable/kit included, just the drive.)

Optional Installation Kit

Tiger Direct has the VisionTek 900537 Universal SSD Cloning Installation Kit priced around $20 plus shipping.

The installation kit comes with:

• 3.5" bracket with screws
• SATA to USB adapter cable
• Data Migration software

This kit helps you make a safe and easy data migration to the SSD from an existing drive. Here are instructions on how to migrate a boot hard drive to a SSD.