Intel's 320 GB 'Postville' SSD May Arrive Soon

[exfileme]

More information has surfaced in regards to the unannounced Postville SSDs from Intel.

Intel's 320 GB 'Postville' SSD May Arrive Soon : Read more

 

[Shnur]

This may end up in my computer if it's really going down, price-wise

 

[Master Exon]

I might give in later this year. $250~ seems like such a waste for 80GB... but the power... must have precious...

 

[neon neophyte]

DO WANT.

 

[one-shot]

This may be the SSD for me. An 80GB should be fine for OS and a few games and other frequently used programs. I hope it's ~$200-250.

 

[rcpratt]

I just took my old X25-M out of my comp, got newegg to give me a refund since a) I want the 160GB instead of 80GB, and b) I want the new tech

Holy crap is a Caviar Black noticeably slow compared to the X25-M. Not that anybody needed me to tell them that.

 

[the_one111]

Awww... man. That ain't right.


Now I have technological lust again!

DAMN YOU SILICON!!!!!!!!

 

[redgarl]

Is that a 3.5 inch SSD!!!!!????

 

[descendency]

Advanced Smart Support... great acronym.

 

[fabolous]

[citation][nom]redgarl[/nom]Is that a 3.5 inch SSD!!!!!????[/citation]

No, it's a 2.5" SSD. The smaller one is 1.8".

Well, this is great news...except I just bought a X-25M. Oh well.

 

[deputc26]

34nm not 32nm, several of these news articles have reported the wrong process node, Micron does not make 32nm flash.

 

[Regulas]

Last time I checked, the memory chips in these will wear out about as fast as a traditional HD even faster before they came out with wear leveling buffers. If these drives never wore out then the extra cash would be worth it.
No thank you, I will save my cash and buy a traditionl drive. You can pick 1Tb drives for under $100 now. 500Gb for just over $50 at Newegg.

 

[dawgma]

@Regulas

You do realize that people buy these for the performance, not the capacity right? Or did you deliberately miss the point? The best combo is SSD for OS and programs + high capacity HDD for miscellaneous data.

 

[eximious]

@dawgma

Agree, but I'd add that the best combo is SSD for OS and programs + redundant HDD array for miscellaneous data / back-up.

 

[Guest]

Where is the author of this article getting those prices for the 80GB? I clicked the link and searched for X25 - clicked one of the links and the price was $358???

 

[tipoo]

Cant wait to see benchmarks. Can wait to see the price.

 

[Master Exon]

[citation][nom]deputc26[/nom]34nm not 32nm, several of these news articles have reported the wrong process node, Micron does not make 32nm flash.[/citation]

It's been a whole day and they still haven't fixed that one.

 

[alert101]

And still only 90MB/s write speed... *sigh*