You've got to stay on the bleeding edge of component offerings when you're trying to charge the prices that
Alienware does, so it's no surprise that the Dell subsidiary is the self-proclaimed first manufacturer on the market to stuff dual 64GB
solid state disks into a consumer PC. Of course, you'll be paying out the nose to add 128GB of un-RAIDed SSD goodness to an Area-51 m9750 gaming notebook -- just about $2,000, nearly doubling the machine's base price. Those feeling a little "stingier" or perhaps requiring more storage space can also opt for a 64GB SSD / 200GB 7,200RPM HDD combo as well, which only tacks another $1,400 onto an entry-level rig. Still, despite the steep cost, we're sure that there are more than a few folks out there who can't put a price on having the fastest read times in their guild.
posted Sep 10th 2007 11:55AM
Any other colors besides black? Pumpkin Orange, perhaps?
There doesn't seem to be any optional colors, check out the site: www.alienware.com/64SSD
Basic black, it goes with everything except bright direct sunlight! (heating)
yes, but I don't think direct sunlight will be an issue for most gamers. :-)
What is sunlight?
Unraided - don't you mean RAID 0? Atleast that's what I see at the alieware website...
RAID-0 is pretty pointless, especially for solid state storage. It gives you no redundancy (so it kinda takes the R out of "RAID"), and in this case won't even give you a performance increase. RAID-1 would be the minimum useful raid level, in which case you'd be down to 64GB storage.
why no raid?
"RAID 0 is normally used to increase performance, although it can also be used as a way to create a small number of large virtual disks out of a large number of small physical ones."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID_0#RAID_0
note the increase performance part please.... sheeeesh!
i'm pretty sure the main point of having a SSD in a laptop has nothing to do with read speed but rather to protect data in case it is dropped... it is a laptop after all