Intel pushes solid state

I want one.... will sell my super-laptop, get a Celeron and pop one of these babies in.... :D
 
I've got two OCZ 64GB SATA SSD's and I picked em up at around $600 on EBAY for both - Running them RAID 0 in my rig at home - 143MByte/s read and 93MByte/s write with Seek Time of <0.35ms - Vista boots 1/3rd of the speed it did with my U320 15,000 RPM drive which has been shelved sadly.
 
HavocXphere said:
The chips they use are far higher quality than the flash stick type...has to be for the speed.
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Yes - for sure. Think about it. SD or CF cards - the high end ones - do, what, maybe 30-40MB/sec read/write? Well, the memory in this SSD will do 250MB/sec read and 70MB/sec write. Also, I don't know how sophisticated the memory inside SD/CF cards is - but SSDs have to do fancy stuff like wear-leveling too.
 
quovadis said:
I've got two OCZ 64GB SATA SSD's and I picked em up at around $600 on EBAY for both - Running them RAID 0 in my rig at home - 143MByte/s read and 93MByte/s write with Seek Time of <0.35ms - Vista boots 1/3rd of the speed it did with my U320 15,000 RPM drive which has been shelved sadly.
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Awesome! Are they the Core version? Or the Samsung-based version (SLC)?
 
Anyone in South Africa selling this yet?

I'm hearing strange noises from my Seagate Momentus 320G 7200rpm and I can't help but feel that terrible feeling that (yet another) crash is on its way soon.
 
Well i have a 128gb samsung ssd and let me tell you guys something, this drive is fast, lightning fast.

Cannot wait for prices to drop so i can buy the intel ones which are said to be the best ssd drives and fastest on the market. Also they run very cool, not heat at all, use next no power and you can drop them from a 3 story building :).
 
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