Get Kingston's Intel G2 SSD for Just $85

[ssalim]

For me, I'd choose 1 TB or 1.5 TB myself. I don't need fast boot drive. I need storage, baby.

 

[Shadow703793]

[citation][nom]dhowie[/nom]these drives are fairly impressive, there are benchmarks.http://anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3667while they arent as great in certain task as others (this is the case with all ssd) they shine for how much you spend on them.[/citation]
Yeah, saw that earlier today. Looks pretty good, considering it passes the Intel G1 SSDs in most benches.

 

[Shadow703793]

Sure wish it had more capacity (60GB or more). Win 7 and games take up a LOT of space.

 

[dhowie]

[citation][nom]Shadow703793[/nom]Yeah, saw that earlier today. Looks pretty good, considering it passes the Intel G1 SSDs in most benches.[/citation]

For just an OS and few programs, or even some low key business use, like photoshop or other productivity apps, this little ssd would shine. Nice move kingston

I wonder if this will then destroy the upcoming entry level ssd by intel, it shooting for the same audience but i wonder how it will fare considering the kingston does so well compared to the drives already out, and the intel drive will be a trimmed down, capped speed ssd.

 

[mitchmeister03]

Oh snap, looks like I need to add two of these (RAID 0) to my list of stuff to buy with tax return $$.

So far its a Q9550, antec nine hundred two case, and a zalmann 9900, and two of these bad boys.

 

[amdgamer666]

Now this is a SSD that I can get excited about! Assuming it still outperforms the OCZ vertex's, I will definitely be getting one of these

 

[Guest]

This is exactly what I'm looking for!
How are the IOPS compared to an Intel drive?
Do they have a good controller?

 

[nicklasd87]

realistically with this you are paying 85 bucks for a faster boot time. My windows 7 build takes a little less than 20 gigs right off the bat which limits the amount of programs you could install if this was your system drive. From a gamers perspective this hdd is pointless, especially since my system is on almost 24/7, I would barely ever see the performance gains.

 

[buwish]

For $85, I'll take it. Trouble is, I just bought a V. Raptor...o what to use it for...?

 

[liquidsnake718]

Too small for boot, programs and games. I think a 256GB is perfect for now but the price is way to high..... they should make SSd prices cheaper in order to market the product... I guess companies are still trying to squeeze out the standard HDDs and extend their life spans unit they can perminently become secondary drives and as storage instead of boot drives/master.....

I hope next year will bring prices of SSds down! I would get a 256GB for $200... hell if they made them $180 thatd be perfect...

 

[anamaniac]

You should add a little something Marcus...

It uses 5 channel memory instead of 10 channel (as the G2 X25-M's use), giving a little better than half the performance...

Boot drive for a desktop, or main drive for a extremely lightly used notebook only.

 

[jabliese]

@smlong

These drives don't vibrate, skip the mounting kit, 2 screws should be fine. Or maybe velcro. But agree that case manufacturers should start including 2.5" bays.

 

[Guest]

I dont boot that often. My PC is mostly on standby, so I can resume in 2-3 seconds

 

[socrates047]

For me boot times are least are the last of my worries.

 

[dark_lord69]

SWEEEEET!!!
I will buy one if I can convince the wifie!

 

[Guest]

I hope i can fit Win7 and adobe suite on it :/

 

[ryokinshin]

Do I dare swap out my 500gb in the PS3?

 

[xizel]

do you think they will sell an IDE version os these... my notebook only had IDE and the only bottlenec in it is really the hard drive.

 

[deadlockedworld]

hmmm.. A clean install of windows 7 on this would be fantastic..

 

[jecastej]

Its a SSD price point when I really start to think about it
But 40 Gbs may still be to little for my needs (video, 3D and design) I don't want to install an OS and all applications I use to see the drive fill at a very fast pace with temporary files and to close to its limits. So I need to calculate how much I really need. I may not be able to use a portion as a scratch disk, so the benefits are there but the drive may be to short to early for me.

On the other hand I could always wait 6 moths and see the prices go down and the capacities go up.

 

[zads]

What the didn't mention in the press release: 170MB/sec read, 40 MB/sec write! Pass..

 

[kutark]

Looks to me like the price/gb isn't really all that much better than most other SSD's out there, including intel's g2's. The advantage here is that they're selling it in a 40gb version which is perfect for a boot drive for non gamers.

For a gamer, on the other hand, i'd really need a minimum of 128gb, preferrably 256gb so that i could keep various games installed. With MMO's coming out at 15-20gb installs, and regular single player games in the range of 5-10gb per, 40gb is borderline useless to a gamer, well, rather a gamer who isnt patient enough to constantly uninstall/install games every time he wants to play.

 

[brando56894]

Im about a nanometer away from buying one, I barely use windows 7 and would most likely keep it installed on my 150gb raptor just for the sake of space (I don't even use all of the 150gb anyway as it is with 2 installs of Arch and one of windows 7!). My main OS is Arch Linux so 40gb is more than enough for me as a boot drive. I also have 2x500GB WD drives so Im set with storage!

 

[techguy378]

Does this drive use the same controller as Intel's? An Intel branded 34nm MLC flash chip performs just as good as an Acme brand 34nm MLC flash chip.

 

[amlman]

nice prediction. almost.

newegg are selling for 129.99, with a 20$ rebate- 109.99.
25$ more then stated.

in my opinion, it's still worth it.