Intel's 40GB Value SSD Selling at $129.99

For $129.99, I can get the same read/write speeds in a RAID 0 array of two 500GB drives. The only difference is I get ~960GB more storage.

I don't really see this as being a good product for a notebook. Most people are going to need more than 40GB of space. It might work ok for a netbook though. It also might work well for enthusiasts that only want to boot windows and a few programs or games off this drive and use a secondary raid array for everything else.

ahhh...but its the access times that make SSDs so good, not really there thoughput

Is this the same as Kingston's S125/G2 40GB SSD??? Can I use the Firmware update program from Intel to Kingston????

With 129 for 40 gig, ill wait a year or so when the 80gig one will be $129.99. By then we will be used to 1tb and 2tb HDDs as the norm. Perhaps even 2.5-5tbs!

OCZ sells faster drives for the same price, just slightly less storage (but with twice the speed, 32GB instead of 40GB is nothing to worry about

What about the x18-m?
80GB and $200.
If I remember correctly, it's G2.
1.8" drive would be a hell of a lot better for a netbook in the first place (if one of the goals of netbooks is light/slim).

Yea i don't see the point in spending 130$ for a measly 40Gb... I mean what can you do with 40Gb?? OS and maybe a game or two? No thanks, I have dual 640's in raid0.. the best 150$ I have spent in years....Not to mention that I have over a TB in space....

Yah... Still to steep for me too. I salivate at the thought of having a blazzing fast drive, but can't afford it.

I have a Kingston branded version of these in a typical netbook with Win7 and they make a huge difference in useability (grabbed it for

It could be used as a boot drive. It could be used in a netbook. For that matter my wife's laptop that is beyond a netbook probably doesn't have more than 30GB used on its hard drive.

Nevertheless we're still not there. It will be great when the 60GB class of drives gets close to $100 and the 128's are below $200. Lots of people could get by with 64 or 128 in a notebook, or even a desktop if the have alternate storage available. Even the high performance CAD workstation I'm using right now only has 57GB used on C:. Maybe they'll get there the second half of this year.

40GB is WAYYYY too small imo. With a few games and other programs and OS this thing will fill up fast.

I'm putting together an i5-750 build with this SSD as the boot drive. The only reason I'm using it is because (build is for my friend) my friend demands an SSD boot drive. I was going to go with the OCZ drive that's a bit more expensive but faster, a lot of the reviews on newegg say there's a lot of fiddling to get it to work in a new build.

Last year in early 2009 bought a corsair 80 gb ssd for ~$180 cdn. Wow is it fast. I mean as a primary partition for your OS it's the way to go. However it's still not fast enough for some applications(ie compiling source code in very large software projects). For that I would recommend a ram drive and pick up at least 8gb with at least 3-4gb as a ramdrive. Actually I find myself the 3gb ramdrive is a bit too small and probably gonna expand to 10gb+ for a ramdrive. So maybe 24-32gb ram is the next goal.

Anyways going back to intel for $120 that's roughly the same speed as other SSD on the market a year ago so I'm not sure how competitive that really is. I think if your going to get a ramdrive SSD you may want to get a PCI expresss as your primary partition due to more bandwidth. Bandwidth is a huge problem and you want to really compare it on the market.

Cheers,

I'm still waiting for a super fast 80gig drive for under $100. I will use it as my app and boot drive and store all my data on my cheapo 1.5TB spinning drive.

40gb @ 149 is a value..... humm.... never mind.

can't type... 40gb at $129 is a value.... last I checked 1000gb for $99 was a better value, and it has a longer life span (maybe)