$250!?! Just a couple days ago Engadget surprised everyone when they announced that these could cost as little as $600. Now they are saying that they will go for $250 by next quarter?!? I think this is a situation where they are combining two separate statements. First, San Disk stated that these could impact the cost of a new laptop as little as $600 when released. That is not the same thing as saying their initial price at release will be $600. Next San Disk stated that their price will drop 60% within the first year from launch. Combine the two statements and you get a $250 price tag in Q1 2008. Not sure how they came up with Q2 2007. Even then the $600 may only be possible at OEM quantities with some subsidizing.
As far as speed goes, the previous Engadget entry stated this: "The 1.8-inch SSD delivers a sustained read-rate of 62MBps and a random read rate of 7,000 inputs/outputs per second (IOPS) for a 512-byte transfer – more than 100 times faster than most hard disk drives."
I am all over these even at a more realistic price of $1k.
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Sean @ Jan 8th 2007 10:44AM
$250!?! Just a couple days ago Engadget surprised everyone when they announced that these could cost as little as $600. Now they are saying that they will go for $250 by next quarter?!?
I think this is a situation where they are combining two separate statements. First, San Disk stated that these could impact the cost of a new laptop as little as $600 when released. That is not the same thing as saying their initial price at release will be $600.
Next San Disk stated that their price will drop 60% within the first year from launch. Combine the two statements and you get a $250 price tag in Q1 2008. Not sure how they came up with Q2 2007.
Even then the $600 may only be possible at OEM quantities with some subsidizing.
As far as speed goes, the previous Engadget entry stated this: "The 1.8-inch SSD delivers a sustained read-rate of 62MBps and a random read rate of 7,000 inputs/outputs per second (IOPS) for a 512-byte transfer – more than 100 times faster than most hard disk drives."
I am all over these even at a more realistic price of $1k.