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Samsung announces that customers who purchase one of their 250 GB 840-series SSDs between Black Friday and Cyber Monday will get a downloadable copy of Far Cry 3 as a bonus:

Samsung Electronics America, Inc., a market leader and award-winning innovator in consumer electronics, announced today that for a limited time over this Black Friday weekend, its new 250 gigabyte (GB) SSD 840 solid-state drives will be available at a special discounted price and will include a download of the new “Far Cry® 3” video game from Ubisoft Entertainment at no additional cost.

“This limited time Black Friday offer allows consumers to dramatically increase their PC’s performance at an unbeatable price” From Black Friday through Cyber Monday (11/22 – 11/26), or while supplies last, consumers will be able to purchase the 250 GB version of Samsung’s SSD 840 drive for just $169.99, $20 less than the usual minimum advertised price. They also will receive a code enabling them to download the full PC version of “Far Cry 3,” normally priced at $59.99.

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Re: Free Far Cry 3 with SSD Offer

Nov 20, 2012, 00:04

Creston

Dades wrote on Nov 19, 2012, 21:33: Creston wrote on Nov 19, 2012, 20:57: The triple cell drives so far have not been reliable, so I'd just stick with a Sandforce 2 SATA3 drive for now. Sandforce 2 ssds were the buggiest this generation, they only got sorted out in the past six months. I still don't trust them, they had so many controller and firmware issues. Intel usually beats the piss of their third party controllers to catch all problems and even their Sandforce 2 drives had major problems. - *DADES* - This is a signature of my name, enjoy! I've rarely had problems with mine, other than the occasional time (once every two months or so) where my motherboard doesn't recognize it for some reason. Just powering off and back on tends to fix that. But I guess it's possible others haven't been so fortunate. I just like the SF2's because they are SO.INSANELY.FAST. Creston

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Comment [quote="Creston"Nov 20, 2012, 00:04][quote="Dades"Nov 19, 2012, 21:33][quote="Creston"Nov 19, 2012, 20:57]The triple cell drives so far have not been reliable, so I'd just stick with a Sandforce 2 SATA3 drive for now.[/quote] Sandforce 2 ssds were the buggiest this generation, they only got sorted out in the past six months. I still don't trust them, they had so many controller and firmware issues. Intel usually beats the piss of their third party controllers to catch all problems and even their Sandforce 2 drives had major problems. - b[i[u[DADES]u]i]b - This is a signature of my name, enjoy! [/quote] I've rarely had problems with mine, other than the occasional time (once every two months or so) where my motherboard doesn't recognize it for some reason. Just powering off and back on tends to fix that. But I guess it's possible others haven't been so fortunate. I just like the SF2's because they are SO.INSANELY.FAST. Creston [/quote]

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