Samsung 128GB SATA SSD now official

The 64GB drives are still hard enough to acquire, but Samsung's taken its next big step in MLC (multi-level cell)-based SSDs, announcing a 128GB drive. They'll start shipping en masse in the first half of this year, and will definitely cost more than enough to make you want to reexamine your obsession with solid state storage, and maybe even your life.

[Bender @ Jan 6th 2008 1:48PM]

"no, you dont want to sell me death sticks"

[bl0nde @ Jan 6th 2008 3:51PM]

I want to death stick you

[brando_commando @ Jan 6th 2008 1:57PM]

hmm i think i'm gonna be buying it anyway :)

[bl0nde @ Jan 6th 2008 2:08PM]

Quick search on google tells me that (in the UK at least), Samsung 32GB SSD retails at about £300 and their 64GB SSD at about £700. These 128GBs, once in the retail channel in a few months will hopefully push these prices down somewhat. In comparison, 250GB 2.5" SATA drives can be had for less than £80. Cmon SSDs, get competitive!

[Jake @ Jan 6th 2008 2:09PM]

It's quite clear that my next laptop will ship with something akin to this. It's hard to imagine a hard drive being sexy but...

[Craig @ Jan 6th 2008 2:17PM]

probably going to be at least $2000, probably closer to $2500. Still, as production ramps up the price will fall. My threshold will be about $2 a GB. when these can be had for around $300 to $400 I'll be buying... I'm thinking that that will take at least 3 years

[Karl Viklund @ Jan 6th 2008 2:48PM]

Give me 750 for a good price and it may be interesting. Flash drives today are too small, cost too much and how many read and writes will it stand? I beat they don't tell you.

[asphixiated @ Jan 6th 2008 4:33PM]

ok.

where do i sign up to sell my first born child for this baby?

[finnith @ Jan 6th 2008 5:47PM]

Hopefully these babies get cheaper by the time I need to buy a laptop for uni.

[Aalaap @ Jan 18th 2008 11:31PM]

I'm wondering how fast this would make my PS3 run. You know, when playing movies, music and game demos off the HDD...