Mushkin Ships Sandforce SF-1200-powered SSDs
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Mushkin enlists Sandforce.
Memory maker Mushkin today released its new solid state drive series, called Callisto.
Packing the speedy Sandforce SF-1200 controller, the Callisto SSDs can hit read speeds of up to 285MB/s and write speeds of up to 275MB/s.
The Callisto Solid State Drive is available immediately online at the Mushkin Enhanced website and is backed by a 3-year warranty.
Part Numbers: | Web Price |
MKNSSDCL60GB – 60GB Callisto SSD | $218.49 |
MKNSSDCL120GB – 120GB Callisto SSD | $369.99 |
MKNSSDCL240GB – 240GB Callisto SSD | $666.49 |
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I know these arent using the sandforce chips but still dont you think we can get a big memory company like mushkin or corsair to help get the prices of these things down?
What the hell do you need Sata III for? These things are fast as hell, and still don't even max out Sata II's sustained 300mb bandwidth. Sata III would only make them MORE un-affordable.
Because 300 MBps will max out SATAII. That's why you need SATA 3 now on SSDs.
1. I notice even in Hard Drives w/ the same platter and heads.... in a SATA III configuration, there is some improvement, mostly it appears due to cache transfers being able to take advantage of the extra bandwidth.
2. Why use one storage medium, when you can use two ? Many people still want to use RAID 0 and for about 5% of them, it has real tangible benefits.
Cheers!
The worst thing is it probably only costs them in the region on 20 bucks to make
Everyday that passes is one day closer...
In a market where older products are quickly replaced by newer products that mimic the best features of the market leaders, every product quickly becomes a commodity. When a market full of commodity items exists, the only way to entice consumers to buy their product over that of a competitor is to lower the price. However, when a new product is released to market that features a new and highly desirable feature (SandForce 1200 controller) it gets set apart from the herd; it is, for a short time, not a commodity item. This is why these new drives are so expensive: they have something you want that no one else has. As other manufacturers introduce drives with this controller prices will drop because it will become a commodity again.
If I can sell you a 120GB flash drive once or a 4GB flash drive 10+ times I'll make more money selling you the item 10 or more times than just one retail sale of a very large drive.
It's a catch-22 for these manufacturers and they are holding the prices high to keep another part of their business alive and well. Eventually someone with no stake in the smaller sized units will come in and run away with the SSD market.
In the long run SSD will be cheaper to make than current magnetic platter drives.
$369.99
Wow, it's really on par with Intel's X25-m which costs 400ish, and having the new Sandforce controller, I'm pretty that it'll deliver the actual speeds advertised.
Actually out of those, only samsung actually makes memory chips. Their is only about 5 big memory manufacturers (die fabs) in the world. Let me see if I can recall: Micron, Samsung, Infineon, hynix... anyway all other memory BRANDS use their chips. Some of the premium brands such as Corsair and Mushkin pick the cream of the crop chips, but they do not make them.