Intel "mainstrean" SSD's

[ryanallan]

any one going to get one ?

Personally I would give SSD's another year to come down in price, but at least the wheels are in motion to bring these things to market.


Intel's X25-M 80GB SSD ships this week for $595

by Paul Miller, posted Sep 8th 2008 at 3:26PM

If you'll notice, HP isn't using just any SSD drive to hit 24 hours of insanity with the EliteBook 6930p -- it's all about that Intel 80GB SSD, which has new optimizations to boost speed and apparently energy usage over current flash drives. Well, Intel also picked today to get all official about the drive itself, and it's clear those improvements and Intel's brand name come at a price: the 2.5-inch 80GB "X25-M" drive will retail for $595 when it hits this week. There's also a 3.5-inch version, the X18-M, but we're less clear on infos there. PC Per put the 2.5-incher through its paces, albeit with a slightly dated firmware version, and came away impressed, calling it the "top performing storage solution" period. We want.

http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/08/intels-x25-m-80gb-ssd-ships-this-week-for-595/

[Mibz]

Shit man, I won't even spring for Raptors for my OS/games drives. No way I'm spending $600 on 80GB. It'll be nice when these things hit the affordable mark though. Probably force 10k drives outta the market.

[rage2]

I'm already using SSD drives. They're fucking fast.

My Windows 2003 box boots up before the scroll thing makes it to the end :rofl:. It's ridiculous how much faster the system is.

Basically it takes 3 seconds after the boot "beep" before I see the blue startup screen haha. I can login by the 7th second.

[punky]

i was hoping for this price to be a bit lower, but right now the OCZ core series is pretty well priced at $160/32GB, i might consider that soon.

[nobb]

Any point in even using a fast ssd on a ide motherboard, or are the speed benefits mostly from sata? This is for the car...mostly interested in fast hibernation resume times and reliability.