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Amazing, that's what I paid for my first 60GB OCZ SSD in 2008.
My first was a Crucial M4, 64GB. I think it was bought 2 years ago at $184. I got a Samsung 840EVO 240GB last November for $191.
And now the 240GBs are $120.
Mushkin Enhanced Chronos MKNSSDCR240GB 2.5" 240GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) - Newegg.com
Btw: for a backup drive, a 1TB SSHD is a better deal. For large data transfer it is nearly as fast as a SSD (I measured it) and you get 1TB for $90.
Well I actually have a 2TB drive as well, but when actively working on image edits, I download them to my 256 backup SSD drive, than move them over to the 2TB HD for temp storage until no longer needed, where they are then archived to one of many hot-swap drives.
I pretty much scanned all my negatives and slides and thus have images going all the way back to the early 80's :)
There are certainly many applications where an external SSD is very useful. I run my 6 virtual systems from a 240GB SSD that is attached via eSata. Works great because I can attach it to any of my systems either thru eSata or USB.
My point was for purely backup. For that I prefer the SSHD - much faster than a HDD.
Btw: I scanned in a lot of pictures too. The oldest ones are from 1936. That's when the house was built where I was born.
Good thing no company has come up with a way to detect where a picture has been taken without GPS tags.