Details of Intel's Next Round of SSDs Leak Out

I still prefer Kingston SSD's.

Kingston doesn't make SSDs.

And they used to sell intel SSDDs.

SSDs are cool

I would love to see a Sata 3 solution with an Intel controller in it

and probably cost my left arm

^^^ At least you still have your right arm. I have an SSD and it is well worth it!

Yeah i got two of the 120 gig sata 6 intel ssd's in a raid 0 array and i love them i couldnt ask for faster proformance without going to a retarded pcie ssd

Yeah, when they cost an arm and a leg, they ought to be!

Already out there.

I want them to bring out something reliable that I can afford. Prices on SSD's have not come down in the past 6 months like they should have.

120GB high performance SSD's are in the 150-200$ range, if 'an arm and a leg' is only worth $200 to you, then ill take 'em both!

P.S. get a job

"Prices on SSD's have not come down in the past 6 months like they should have."

Says who? Tech prices generally come down over time, but that can be counteracted when demand is increasing much faster than production levels, which is probably the case right now.

Buy a new keyboard. Your Shift and '.' keys are broken.

Intel and Crucial SSD's in that size range are typically closer to $250. I have seen an occasional sale on other brand SSD's that will dip below $200 after rebate, but if you check the ratings on these products they are usually pretty poor. An example- I go to newegg.com and look at the 120GB range. Picking a name brand even, such as the OCZ that newegg says is "voted best of the best". Newegg has 322 reviews, and 31% of the reviews are for 1 or 2 eggs only. A full 1/3 of the buyers didn't like the product. Corsair and G.Skill are marginally better. You have to get to the Crucial or Intel products starting at $245 before the user ratings start to look much better.




Yes apparently the demand is keeping the prices up, which is what I said earlier when I said that prices were not coming down. I know that generally prices do come down and they have been steadily coming down on mechanical hard drives, but SSD's have been much slower.

I wish they'd quit making these small useless SSDs and start beefing up the capacity to at least 1 TB. Yes, they'd be very costly but that will eventually change.

Yeah, good luck paying >$1000 for your 1TB SSD. There's a good reason why SSDs are currently available in mainly these "useless" small sizes, cost. Personally I think a lot of people overestimate the amount of hard drive space they need. I see plenty of people getting computers with 640GB+ hard drives and only using about 100-200GB worth of space. If you think about it, unless you store lots of movies, pictures, or music 128-256GB is more than enough space for all of your programs and the OS. If you do have loads of data files then just put them on a cheap data HDD.

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What?... idiot.
http://www.newegg.com

Even if you do have 100s of GB of movies and music, a secondard traditional HDD handles them quite well, so it probably doesn't make a whole lot of sense to throw $1.50/GB at a problem with a $0.10/GB solution [unless you are well-off enough that you don't care about money at all and just want that movie to start within 1 sec of when you click on it rather than like 3 sec]...

The chart is new but the information was leaked quite a while ago.

Really? What's so cool about them? If overpriced for what there worth is cool, then yes they are VERY cool. I'd take a 7200rpm large capacity RAID setup anyday over these.

SSDs will remain high/over $1 / GB for the next two years at the very least. Also prices have actually recently increased, and not decreased. If you want deals, shop for Vertex2 drives, as they are now discontinued. Vertex 3 is around the corner. you can find 120GB vertex2 for apprix $1/GB . Otherwise lower SSD Prices will destroy the mechanical HDD market.

SSDs are so much faster than HDDs... and there are plenty of options under $160. Running an 80 GB SSD with an External HDD for my unimportant files.

SSDs haven't decreased in price? Maybe not the item price, but the price-capacity has.

http://arstechnica.com/hardware/ne [...] e-cuts.ars

It used to cost 500 bucks for a 32GB. now 500 gets you a 256GB at least.

I have a 32GB X-25 that I payed $250 for. For that price now I could get a 120gb easy.

The machines in my house that are candidates for SSD's are all laptops, they don't have room for two drives. They will have to get a single SSD with a capacity that is a compromise between price and what is stored on the drives now.
We built machines for our office using 64GB SSD's, well when you format them they come out less than 60GB. OS and program installs take over 40GB, then you add the swap file, and we needed to install virtual XP so you need room for that swap file, and now the 64GB drive is full, and you are supposed to leave some spare room on the drive for its own housekeeping.



They have decreased in price but very slowly. I decided that my laptops needed 120GB drives, and I would buy one when the prices dropped below $200. I did a lot of research on newegg this morning and the cheapest 120GB with decent reviews was the Crucial at $250. When I started looking at them 12 months ago this size drive was under $300. That isn't much price drop in 12 months.

I'll consider buying one when it's $100 for 500 gb. Until then I'll stick with my 2x 1TB Caviar blacks in Raid 0.

> I'd take a 7200rpm large capacity RAID setup anyday over these.

That's silly. Even 14 SAS 15k disks in RAID10 cannot compete with a pair of SSDs (Intel X25-M 160 Gb in my case) in latency and small random reads/writes. And the sequental performance is... just irrelevant.

Research "supply and demand" please. Most SSDs are made using MLC, which there is a limited amount of. As prices drop, demand goes up, which maintains a level cost between manufacturers who all rely on the same resource to make SSDs. Until the market becomes more saturated with SSDs or unless MLC becomes cheaper due to new manufacturing technologies (ie smaller nm processes) we won't be seeing any real price drop. The cost is not as related to the manufacturing of SSDs themselves but of the MLC memory used within almost all SSDs.

I patiently await the day when SSD's will come in the terabytes.

I hate all of these terabyte comments, unless you are a pirator or have a substantial movie collection (like $1000 worth, also in Blu-Ray format) that you have to have where ever you go most GAMERS don't even need 200GB of space, and your average Joe could probably do fine on 50GB. Yes solid-state drives are expensive but if you really examine how much space you need you might find that you don't need 4 TB to live hapilly. (Note- I have 1TB of space but only because I wanted to do a RAID 0 setup with Caviar Blacks and 500GB is basically the lowest size high-speed drive you can get.)

Even with laptops being the primary machines in my home, I'd still rather have the small fast drive in my laptop and a USB3 HDD plugged into my N-router to stream music and movies, than one bigger and slower HDD...

Also, not sure if it is common among laptops, but in my two dell leptops I can swap out [but not hotswap] my optical drive for a hard drive or extra battery. Granted, it is a bit of a pain, esp if you use your optical drive alot, but you still may have that option.

I have a 120 gb intel ssd, and love it. intel makes a great product