The new SSD Thread (Benchmarks, Brands, News and Advice)

yuio · 07-23-2009, 05:22 PM

any one know where to get one of these in Canada?

Mr. Wonderful · 07-23-2009, 07:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by davepermen

wow, you filled your drive fast!!!

I have 15GB left, and I'm not in too much of a hurry to reinstall Boot Camp, at least until Windows 7 is on store shelves.

I'm also in the process of shuffling all my things around to my network drive and so on and so on. I went through yesterday and cleaned all my unneeded music from my computer and moved/deleted my 35GB of movies and moved 8GB of PSP files to a flash drive. People made fun of us when we were saying that a 128GB or whatever drive would be perfect for whatever scenario, but it is true. And migrating my music off my laptop is not an option.

Sponsi · 07-23-2009, 08:26 PM

New Intel X25-M 34nm SSD's are now available:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...157&name=Intel

http://www.pugetsystems.com/store/?c...que=X25-M+34nm

Can't wait to get my hands on the 160GB version

!

jcll03 · 07-23-2009, 08:29 PM

i hate that newegg charges CA tax.

sgogeta4 · 07-23-2009, 08:57 PM

Seems like the G2 1.8" models have turned up though:

http://www.colamco.com/store/product...product=873706
http://www.colamco.com/store/product...product=873707

Pretty cheap! $223 and $461.

edit: weird, I swear it wasn't on Newegg a minute ago...

jcll03 · 07-23-2009, 08:59 PM

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820167016

goofball · 07-23-2009, 09:54 PM

Showed up on Newegg.ca. Good pricing!

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product...82E16820167016

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product...82E16820167017

I see that OCZ has lowered their pricing for Indilinx drives. Interesting also.

dsknight · 07-23-2009, 10:47 PM

So from what I've read, is it that we're just hoping that Intel gives us a firmware update for the G2 drives to enable TRIM-ing? This looks like the perfect drive to get but I don't want to get burned by vaporware

LaptopGun · 07-23-2009, 10:57 PM

goofball is right, sort of. OCZ is lowering the cost, but since retailers have all the stock bought at the old prices it is up to them to change prices. I guess Newegg has already seen the writing on the wall and has adjusted prices. Note the cost per gig numbers: the Intel drive is better than the Vertex

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3608

(I hope no one has already posted this and I missed it)

chris-m · 07-23-2009, 11:05 PM

For the most part, yes. But if you want more than 64-80GB, that 128GB Vertex still looks tempting.