Kingston Joins SSD Fray With Intel Drives

[Marcus Yam]

Now shipping the first two offerings from Kingston’s new SSDNow E Series and SSDNow M Series, with the former being aimed at the enterprise server environment while the latter is for the performance-oriented notebook PC.

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[Blessedman]

so why would i buy from them when i can just buy an intel ssd?

 

[zodiacfml]

the company thinks their brand differentiates from intel, if you read the bold first paragraph in the article.
i guess they're right, they might sell ssd drives as much as intel can.

[citation][nom]Blessedman[/nom]so why would i buy from them when i can just buy an intel ssd?[/citation]

 

[apache_lives]

Its for AMD fanboi's

 

[Guest]

I guess this means that Intel doesn't have enough Flash production capacity to flood the market with those drives - and I they'd love to have more impact on HDD sales. This way they outsource production and support, but still get money from licensing. This should mean higher availability and maybe even lower prices of those drives, though I wouldn't count on the latter in short term.

 

[apache_lives]

ummmmmmmm there building these drives from the ground up, kingston only badges it, its still 100% intel

and nice one guys, my AMD fanboy joke gets me -3? its a joke, you know those things you laugh at? oh right AMD's fanies dont get it, heh.... Idiots.

 

[Kary]

Wouldn't a standard HDD with 4 - 250GB platters storing the data at different positions on each of the platters (the 1st quarter of the data store on the 1st quarter of platter 1... 2nd quarter of platter 2... 3rd platter of platter 3.......) and a gigabyte of cache be cheaper and about as fast as a SSD drive? (and with the same write penalty)

Admittedly, power consumption would be about the same and you would want to get a little fancier with the data placement, but...for $200 vs $500 it might be a nice trade off

(yes, I know...and this is why I don't design HDD for a living)

 

[apache_lives]

[citation][nom]Kary[/nom]Wouldn't a standard HDD with 4 - 250GB platters storing the data at different positions on each of the platters (the 1st quarter of the data store on the 1st quarter of platter 1... 2nd quarter of platter 2... 3rd platter of platter 3.......) and a gigabyte of cache be cheaper and about as fast as a SSD drive? (and with the same write penalty)Admittedly, power consumption would be about the same and you would want to get a little fancier with the data placement, but...for $200 vs $500 it might be a nice trade off (yes, I know...and this is why I don't design HDD for a living)[/citation]

Yeah unfortunatly its not like that, these SSD's have seek times below 0.01ms or less vs the average standard hdd with 11ms seek times - loading of apps is monstrously different etc because of seek time performance keeping that transfer speed up there.