Kingston Launches SSDNow V+100 With 96GB

I always wanted something larger than 96gb. Maybe a 96gb will fit the bill :-)

I know I'm not alone when I say that a 96gb will fit the bill when it's $1/gb or less

I can usually overlook spelling and grammatical errors, but come on Marcus, this is just careless!

SandForce based SSD's can be bought for under $2 a GB. These SSD's are more expensive and slower.
In one word, yawn.

Prices are so ridiculous...

I'm still waiting for a SSD at 100bucks for 64GB

I crapped myself...

Seriously guys... its cheap. Get into the time-machine. In 2000, $200 bought you a 40GB HD.

i agree.

lol imagine the dumb folks who only got 96gb

$69 for my tiny 30gb Kingston SSD is ok and only bought it because of it's decent random 4k read and write performance which made it ideal as a paging drive. My personal needs for a boot drive would cost me $10k due space and performance requirements.

Don't expect SSD technology to drop in price significantly over the next few years. As long as there is demand for HDD technology, SSD's will come at a premium. SSD tech is evolving every quarter in terms of controller implementation. Sorry.

Thanks to the "Spectacular Black friday Month Deal!" on newegg, or whatever it's called, I might get the 120gb SSD for under 250$.
Still wish the price was lower, paying over 250$ for a 96gb storage device seems pretty...terrible actually.

Yes, but here in 2010, and for that same $200, I can buy 4TB of storage and still have cash to spare.

However, we're not in 2000.

i would much rather hear if win98 supports these drives asa more people still use win98 then all the people using every mac OS.



this is the product of socialist education systems, get used to it as it's going to be part of obamanation, but if the basketball/football team learns how to read and write, i guess i will call it progress!

$220 for 64GB is still too much!

No way I'd pay more than $120 for 64GB!

"this is the product of socialist education systems" - not true . It's a very wrong stereotype.
I come from socialist education system and I speak/write a couple of languages, including English and I know very well how to write complete and meaningful sentence.
However, newer generations in my country - do not know it and they are all "formed" in modern, western-alike, "non-socialist" schooling.

And as for the SSDNow.. nice thing, I'm thinking of throwing it in for my database.. but still way too expensive. I guess when profit margin falls below 200% it will be better

"I guess when profit margin falls below 200% it will be better"

Profit margins are in the single digits, and some products are sold at a loss in times of market saturation. The competition between silicon fabs is very intense.

"The global market environment of the flash memory industry has undergone fundamental changes. The decline in growth of traditional NAND flash applications and further miniaturization of the NAND flash technology has made the global flash memory market intensely competitive. The leading payers in the flash memory market are Samsung, Toshiba, Intel, Spansion, SanDisk and Micron Technologies. The flash manufacturing companies compete mainly on the basis of price and constant technological developments. "

http://marketpublishers.com/report [...] ition.html

Are storage manufacturers advertising the formatted capacity yet in the same mathematical system that the OS uses? When you have a small drive and you lose 5% just by formatting, they should state that as the capacity. It peaves me to no end, just like an LCD with a "class" size that rounds up the measurement.

What a joke G.Skill Phoenix Pro 120GB is 249$ with 287/275 read/write and they selling this crap 96Gb for 220$ with 230/180
they are insane

You are wrong. The 64 GB is $220 but the 96 GB is $290!

Ok first of all, over 70% of users worldwide still us Windows XP, not Windows 98.

Secondly, the "socialist" educational system is the best in the world, in fact even here in the US we've always used it. All that means is that our government is paying for people's education with their tax dollars, in the US it happens to be from property taxes. If you look at the top 20 countries in the education department, they all have a socialist system.

Socialism has been around in the US since its origin, and it became even more prevalent with Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt's administrations, then later JFK, LBJ, etc.

Without it, you wouldn't be able to drive around hardly anywhere, you wouldn't have food, military, police, education, healthcare, etc.

On topic, this is a positive development if you look at the bigger picture. With more types of SSD on the market with more affordable prices, you'll see more and more consumers slowly but surely buy them, and the more people that buy them, the cheaper they will become in the long run, eventually to the point where they're popular enough that their prices will be more comparable to SATA HDD.

The point that Belardo made and many missed is that if you go back far enough, regular HDD (ATA, Ultra-ATA, IDE and EIDE back then) cost a small fortune, and it took years before they came down in price. It wasn't until around 2004 that HDD prices dropped significantly to where people could buy 100s of GB of storage for a fair price, so for about 12 years people were paying through the nose for even small HDD. We're so spoiled by cheap HDD these days that we forget that they used to be like these SSD for the majority of their existence, really expensive. The point is that eventually the prices will drop, as all tech does, it's simply taking longer because the SATA tech is still very popular and has larger capacity.

When SSD get larger capacities and become more ubiquitous, you'll start to see a drop in prices.

This is true for any tech, look at Blu-ray players/burners, when they first came out they cost around $800 or higher, now you can get one for right around $100, in a few years they'll be $50. Same thing happened to DVD players/burners, initially they sold for around $700-800, now you can buy them for $25 on average.

When it comes to tech pricing, patience is a virtue, which apparently is an uncommon trait in this age of the Internet and instant gratification.

I have one & works great!

Just wish they had a 240 GB SSD for a similar price....

funny you say that today...go look at newegg's shell shocker good brand no less.

I want to agree with you, but the problem is that one can get 1TB for around $60.

If you go back in time, everything is crappier and more expensive relative to today. Case and point, Seagate ST-225 20 MEGABYTE HDD for $299 in 1987. So the $250 I spent in 1995 for a 1.2GB drive was a pretty good deal? Relative to TODAY, SSD's expensive as hell.

All you really need is 32GB to install the OS (Win7 or linux). With that small amount you will experience a performance boost not match by upgrading memory or CPU. This happens because many big application tend to write to disk often, and that slows down the application.

So, my advice, if you have the money, get a 32GB which is the cheapest. Use the SSD for the OS only. And wait until prices come down. If what you need is large space, then go with the HDD. At the moment, comparing HDD and SSD is misguided.

Belardo 11/04/2010 3:04 PM

I crapped myself...

Seriously guys... its cheap. Get into the time-machine. In 2000, $200
bought you a 40GB HD.

In 2000 they didnt had 15gb sized games
in 2000 they didnt have 20gb windows
and in 2000 next user contiune the rant

I will try building a PC with this SSD.

The Plextor 64GB is for 85$.....

With SSD's your not just paying for the capacity, your paying for the speed. SSD's will eventually come down in price in the next couple of years. I'm also guessing that the SSD's capacity will catch up to HDD's in a couple of years time.

I don't know, got a HDD with a 200gb capacity for around 250$. That was about...2003 I think? Hell, when they had 200gb HDD's it was amazing, especially when the average pc owner only had 40-80gb to store things on.