Batman: Arkham City free with Samsung 830 SSD drives

Promising faster game loads than conventional hard drives, Samsung's newly released 830 series of SSDs, 128GB and above, will come with a special bonus: a free PC download of Batman: Arkham City.

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Samsung is seriously trying to push its new SSD drives to gamers. Promising faster game loads than conventional hard drives, Samsung's newly released 830 series of SSDs, 128GB and above, will come with a special bonus: a free PC download of Batman: Arkham City.

But don't think of this as a way of getting Arkham City early. Because of the PC version's delay, the drives will ship with a download code, which can be redeemed once the game is available.

128GB drives cost $229.99, while 256GB drives cost $429.99. The largest model, 512GB, maxes out at $849.99. The asking price is quite significant, but hopefully the inclusion of Arkham City (usually worth $49.99) softens the blow.

According to a Samsung-sponsored study, research firm Hit Detection said that the SSD drives can provide up to a 30% decrease in boot times, making it perfect for "impatient gamers."

Andrew Yoon was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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    October 25, 2011 9:30 AM

    Andrew Yoon posted a new article, Batman: Arkham City free with Samsung 830 SSD drives.

    Promising faster game loads than conventional hard drives, Samsung's newly released 830 series of SSDs, 128GB and above, will come with a special bonus: a free PC download of Batman: Arkham City.

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      October 25, 2011 9:53 AM

      You know what would increase sales of ssds for gamers more than anything? Get Steam to support multiple hard drives. Once I can select the drive I want to install to from the steam client my ssd order will be placed.

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        October 25, 2011 9:55 AM

        Yeah. Being able to set one drive for performance, and another for just storage, would make things a lot easier.

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        October 25, 2011 10:09 AM

        You can do it with junctions in a NTFS file system. Windows thinks your game is still on your steam drive but you point it to a folder on your SSD.

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        October 25, 2011 10:10 AM

        http://www.traynier.com/software/steammover is pretty sweet

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      October 25, 2011 10:11 AM

      impatient gamers like myself never actually shut the computer down, the article doesn't mention any other significant benefits.

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      October 25, 2011 11:30 AM

      Cheaper to buy a NVIDIA GPU and get the same free code :)

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