While we're always looking for a way to shave precious milliseconds off of our boot time, and Vista's ReadyBoost feature has proven somewhat effective at this task, it's not likely that you'll find us spending over a thousand bucks to add Transcend's 16GB
SSD ExpressCard to our laptop anytime soon. Obviously you can also use the new card for storage, but unless you really have mission critical apps that need blazing fast access times, you're probably better off spending that $1,337 (ya, really!) on a 10,000 RPM HDD or bags and bags of delicious candy. And if you really need to scratch that ReadyBoost itch, a $30 thumb drive should do you just right.
Update: Transcend just wrote us a rather angry note claiming that the price we quote here is way off. Straight out of the horse's mouth, this 16 gigger will only set you back $256.45, with a 2GB version available for as little as $50.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
james @ Apr 3rd 2007 10:34AM
ha, 1337. 7H3y VV15H
Eric @ Apr 3rd 2007 11:07AM
Once the price comes down ( significantly ) something like this would be perfect for a MBP and Adobe Creative Suites. Being able to throw one of these in and use it as scratch a scratch disk would improve the performance by several fold when dealing with larger and complex images/video.
v_dogg @ Apr 3rd 2007 11:40AM
i want a bag of candy
Jeff @ Apr 3rd 2007 11:55AM
$1337? Lick Satchel. You can't boot from it / use it at a primary boot device anyway right? Someone tell SanDisk to hurry the F- up.
wraith808 @ Apr 3rd 2007 1:25PM
1337? Are we sure this announcement didn't hit on April 1 instead of today?
patchmonkey @ Apr 3rd 2007 2:03PM
What I'm still trying to find out is - can I put a SD card into a cardreader, stick it into my D620's ExpressCard(i think) slot, and use that for readyboost? Does anyone know?
Ayle @ Apr 3rd 2007 2:51PM
That solution works fine for me but be careful with the card you choose some are not fast enough....
Andrew H. @ Apr 3rd 2007 3:57PM
id rather buy a 13.37 thumb drive
Ender78 @ Apr 3rd 2007 5:14PM
I can buy an 8GB CF [compact flash] card for $85. How is this price justified.
ssd1 @ Apr 6th 2007 12:08AM
Available at http://www.dvnation.com/nand-flash-ssd.html . Pricing is good. This site seems to report pricing that OEMs would get if they bought 100,000 units at a time. The 16GB is half the price of the other 16GB SSDs on the site. They got about 100 different SSDs there. Never seen anything like it!
kds2012 @ May 5th 2007 6:59PM
I bought a 4G Transcend SSD (about $125), and it's fine...
EXCEPT -- I can't get my system to boot from it. I understand all the problems with getting a USB drive to boot, but this is supposed to be a one-to-one HDD replacement, isn't it? The drive shows up in my BIOS info, and I can select it in my HD boot priority list... I can use it as a secondary drive... I can partition it & set it active with Partition Expert; I can install a bootable partition to it with True Image... But it will NOT boot.
What could be the problem? Is it damaged? Or is it something in the specs -- the way most PC's can't use high density RAM?
Thoughts...?