Western Digital Announces New Consumer SSDs

[dogofwars]

Actualy I would buy an SSD for somewhere around a 1$ per GB but not higher than that.

 

[retirepresident]

Pro.....Western Digital SSD,More competition bring cost down

Con.....No SATA 6.0Gb/s interface,Cost

 

[pelomixa]

Seems kinda pricey? Are you kidding me? Thats ridiculous, I mean serious who can afford a 256 GB drive that costs 1000 dollars?! No thank you.

 

[buwish]

SSD's in general are far too pricey yet, at least for me. Hopefully, prices will drop more as time passes.

 

[steiner666]

I can think of literally a dozen other things id rather spend 300+ than shaving up a couple ms of hdd seek times and such.

 

[falchard]

[citation][nom]hakesterman[/nom]I don't believe the PCI -SSD is bootable, therefore it can not replace your Hard Drive but rather be a second storage device.[/citation]
They are bootable now, atleast according to the description on newegg.com. I also thought they werent bootable until I price checked it.

 

[DXRick]

I checked NewEgg, and you can get the new (much better) Crucial C300 128M drive for $30 more than the WD. WD's drives are mediocre and way over priced.

 

[jojesa]

I don't know why people will buy WD since OCZ, Corsair, Patriot and Crucial to name a few, have equally or better SSD with the same capacity and better pricing. Sometimes even $100 less than WD SSD.

 

[sublifer]

Yay! kinda... I knew WD would get into SSD. I also knew they wouldn't do it before they were ready. (e.g. all those crappy jmicron based drives) I'm also disappointed with the prices though... I was hoping they'd actually bring performance ssd's to an affordable level

 

[hok]

like everyone i was waiting for a storage "market leader" to come with an SSD offering... with this garbage I ask WD why did you even try in the first place... this is crap. I'll stick with my overpriced Intel thanks...

 

[mayne92]

...still waiting for SSDs to come down more in price

 

[one-shot]

[citation][nom]mayne92[/nom]...still waiting for SSDs to come down more in price[/citation]

refer to this.

[citation][nom]one-shot[/nom]WAAAHHHHHH WAAAAAAHHHHHH WHY CAN'T THEY BE CHEAPER.If it costs too much, don't buy it. It's simple. Whining about high prices on every SSD news post isn't going to change the prices.[/citation]

 

[m-manla]

I love WD, but think the price should be dropped a little. You can get an OCZ Solid 2 SSD for under $190. They just need some time to get their foot in the door I believe.

 

[The Greater Good]

Yeah, the price is too high. BUT!!! I'm glad to see WD enter the market. I was wondering when they were gonna embrace Solid State goodness.

 

[AdamB5000]

I'm actually beginning to grow tired of the SSD news and updates as long as it's not even at a consumer price point. $1,000 for a 256Gb drive is not interesting to me.

 

[cjl]

[citation][nom]El_Capitan[/nom]Price will never drop for SSD's until everyone stops buying at these ridiculous prices.[/citation]
Clearly you don't have a clue about economics.

 

[bison88]

$999 for a 256GB hard drive isn't "Consumer" friendly lol

 

[RADIO_ACTIVE]

Lets face it, SSD tech has been here long enough drop the prices some more already. I see no point in updating my traditional hard drive.

 

[Guest]

Half that 64GB's price would be acceptable for a 48GB SSD.
$128 for 32-48GB seems good enough for netbooks and laptops to me.

 

[OvrClkr]

32-48GB is nothing specially when you have an OS like Win 7, once you load the OS and a few apps/games you basically max out the drive, then what?