Details of Intel's Next Round of SSDs Leak Out

[Guest]

> 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.

 

[JonnyDough]

[citation][nom]cadder[/nom]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.[/citation]

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.

 

[Brandon_R]

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

 

[11796pcs]

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.)

 

[rosen380]

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.

 

[David 617]

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

 

[David 617]

[citation][nom]Brandon_R[/nom]I patiently await the day when SSD's will come in the terabytes.[/citation]

http://www.pcrush.com/product/Solid-State-Drives/659285/OCZ-Technology-Z-Drive-R2-p88-2-TB-Internal-Solid-State-Drive
2TB SSD for ...(drum roll)... $8551.35 HELL YAH!