Super Talent Intros Value SSDs Starting at $65
Super Talent rolls an affordable SSD... in an 8GB capacity.
Super Talent today announced a new value solid state drive product line dubbed Super Talent VSSD that the company says brings performance and solid-state technology together at an affordable price.
The catch with a lower price is smaller capacity. Not only that, but the smaller capacity drives also don't perform as well as the more expensive, roomier drives.
The upper tier 64GB VSSD will be priced at around $175 and is capable of sequential read speeds up to 150 MB/sec and sequential write speeds up to 100 MB/sec. The entry-level, and comparatively puny 8GB model will be $65 and is capable of sequential read speeds up to 90 MB/sec and sequential write speeds up to 30 MB/sec.
Check out more technical details from Super Talent.
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8 GB? Not sure but I don't even think that will hold Windows 7 will it LOL. The smart option on the SSD's is to not buy and force the prices down.
8GB isn't even big enough to use as a boot drive. I'm glad to see a variety of products hitting the market place but some capacities need not apply.
lol, my microSD card is roomier.
I guess Ubuntu would fit on it, but Windows 7 won't. Would Mac OS X 10.6? I doubt it.
Wow, Super Talent: We aren't retarded.
What a joke... you can get "entry level" 30/32GB drives for $80-90 (and even those are a tough sell). Who in their right mind wants 1/4 of the capacity with lower performance at ~3/4 of the price?
8GB WTF!
I can waste that with windows 95 and a few vintage games much less any thing remotely close to modern. Also some of us are able to get 500GB+ class hard drives for that price.
Good Lord!
That beat up old drive looks like a Photo Shopped Image with the lettering super imposed over it!
Talk about a Dirty Picture
8GB REALLY!! really!! you got to be sh_tting me right what will that hold my camera card is 16GB my MP3 card is 32GB why would I or anyone else need a 8GB drive. Even windows XP would just fit on it with antivirus loaded & needed software where do you put the rest of your data oh thats right on the old 160GB you just replaced lol. Wow even 160GB seems rather small now days. most like myself have at least 4 or 5 1TB drives installed 5 for me & a 500GB as my boot sry 8GB is a fail thanks but no thanx lol.
If there is nothing else that the 8GB model offers, then I just lost all respect for Super Talent storage.
I could understand a 8GB SSD that was as fast as the bigger drives, but one that's close to a regular disk drive that's like x1000 bigger in capacity at the same price point is absurd what's the point.
What a joke... you can get "entry level" 30/32GB drives for $80-90 (and even those are a tough sell). Who in their right mind wants 1/4 of the capacity with lower performance at ~3/4 of the price?
Exactly what I was thinking and not to mention the much more questionable reliability of SSD's over HD's.
Yeah 8GB is pretty bad for a hard drive that permanently takes up space your computer. An 8GB USB 3 thumb drive would be more useful.
It's more like a belated April Fools joke reading this article!
I just hope that no one Mollied their Monitor and Keyboard!
Mollied = Sees or reads something funny and spontaneously sprays computer monitor with what ever they happen to be drinking at the time.
my thumb-drive is bigger than that..
what do I do with 8Gb?
Forget the 8 GB drive. We all know it's a joke. The 64 GB, however, is just merely competitive with other drives of the same size. Nothing special, but not necessarily bad, either.
uhhh, most hard drives reach higher than 90mb/s read and 30mb/s write. hell i think my 500 gb caviar green writes faster than that...
Again... what is up with the bullshite stories? A pendrive is technically an SSD and they want $65 (What's that, £50/£55?) for it? I am sorry but tech articles for the last six months really have hit a desperate bottom.
8GB REALLY!! really!! you got to be sh_tting me right what will that hold my camera card is 16GB my MP3 card is 32GB why would I or anyone else need a 8GB drive. Even windows XP would just fit on it with antivirus loaded & needed software where do you put the rest of your data oh thats right on the old 160GB you just replaced lol. Wow even 160GB seems rather small now days. most like myself have at least 4 or 5 1TB drives installed 5 for me & a 500GB as my boot sry 8GB is a fail thanks but no thanx lol.
Who the hell has 4 or 5 terrabyte drives? I only have a 300gb and an 120gb external.
How about make it a free bundle when you buy a mouse. Hehehehe
Motherboards are rolling out with USB 3.0 which has a maximum throughput of 5 gb/s http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unive [...] s#Features . Considering how cheap existing flash drives are at 8 gb I'd shop and compare SSD to flash drives at this price range.
Who the hell has 4 or 5 terrabyte drives? I only have a 300gb and an 120gb external.
I easily have somewhere between 4 & 5 TB of Hard drive space.
Of that, three of my drives are "1" TB each.
Then I have a 750GB, two 500GB and my laptop has an 80GB drive.
That doesn't even take into consideration flash drives and memory cards.
I expect there's others out there who easily have two or three times more than what I have
Good Lord! That beat up old drive looks like a Photo Shopped Image with the lettering super imposed over it!Talk about a Dirty Picture
I always use ISO 6400 and a dirty lens to take professional product photos, don't you? Nothing a lens flare can't fix though.
Super Talented Idiots. They must be thinking like M$FT with that kind of pricing scheme. They are either really Super Mentally Challenged, or they think we are.
Super Talent = Super Fail
As for 4 or 5 TB drives. Dude I thought I would a geek, I have 1 TB drive, and 3 500 GB drives.
"Super Talented Idiots" - I like that..
Fail. Maybe shrink it and apple will buy it for the entry level ipad. Us computer guys need lots more then 8G.
8 GIGS?! At half the cost of a 64GB... that's a total RIP. What are they thinking?!
it is clear that the controller on these cheap SSD's are still keeping the prices up.. so they will never get a fair GB:$ value like larger SSDs.. not like anybody would buy these anyways..
i'm in the market for one, but 30 GB is my lower limit. no way would i buy an 8 GB
Who the hell has 4 or 5 terrabyte drives? I only have a 300gb and an 120gb external.
I've got 6tb at the moment spread out over six drives, 5.75tb in data and 250gb in SSD.
8GB is far too little for any kind of practical use. Even if you just put your OS on it, it'll be pretty much full and SSDs don't like being full one bit. These manufacturers seem to have an odd idea about the meaning of "value". Value means bang for bucks. Similar capacity to normal drives but slightly slower but much cheaper. Take Celerons, they were value and had clock speeds similar to their Pentium brothers. A value graphics card has superb bang for your money too. A value SSD, however, is close to useless and you get much worse value for money than the mid and high end tier SSDs. They're comparatively poor value!
slow and too small even for a bootdrive. WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY THINKING???
YES a lot of customers are willing to buy a smaller drive and YES we are all waiting for prices to drop a bit, but this capacity is REDICULOUS, especially since it cripples the performance severely.
SuperTalent: just focus on getting the prices of the sub-100GB models below 100$, and you'll have something people care about, but this thing is just ridiculous.