Hands-on with SanDisk's 72GB SSD (and friends)

Hungry to take a peek at that 72GB SSD we mentioned just moments ago? We hear ya, and we're delivering. We swung by SanDisk's booth and snapped a few shots of the capacious new drive along with a few relatives that were hangin', so go on and dig into the gallery while wishing on your lucky stars to eventually own one.

Gallery: Hands-on with the Sandisk 72GB SSD (and friends)

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[kojo87 @ Jan 7th 2008 9:54PM]

not big enough

[Lazerface @ Jan 7th 2008 9:54PM]

but why 72? go 128 already!

[Russell @ Jan 7th 2008 10:14PM]

So they can trickle them out at high prices for early adopters, of course.

They can make 128gb 1.8's right now, but aren't ready to blow out the pricing on the 32/64's right now.

[Grant @ Jan 7th 2008 11:23PM]

why charge only $100 for that 8GB of flash when you can slap it on top of a 64GB drive and charge $200 more for it.

[jay.viz @ Jan 7th 2008 9:54PM]

That's probably an empty drive case with a sticker on it. :P

[Fernando @ Jan 7th 2008 9:56PM]

I'm all for SSDs, but is hard to be excited with photos, they're just like every other hard drive...

[Jm @ Jan 7th 2008 10:00PM]

nice...

[joseraulnova @ Jan 7th 2008 10:00PM]

Hmmm I thought they were smaller...

[Miles @ Jan 7th 2008 10:11PM]

Apple will comeout with a larger, faster, and cheaper alternative for their new macbook with multi-touch.

[Guzzie @ Jan 7th 2008 10:14PM]

Right, because Apple makes batteries.

[Miles @ Jan 7th 2008 10:16PM]

It's not a battery!
It's a SSD, aka the future of Hard Drives.
And yes, Apple makes their hardware.

[SeditioN VII @ Jan 7th 2008 10:17PM]

I'm sorry, batteries? wtf are you talking about?

[SeditioN VII @ Jan 7th 2008 10:19PM]

Yes Apple makes their hardware, but not drives or batteries. My current MacBook Pro has a Fujitsu HDD.

[Guzzie @ Jan 7th 2008 10:19PM]

Sorry, my mind was somewhere else on that one.

[Wolfticket @ Jan 7th 2008 10:31PM]

Clarification:
(As much as I love confusion)
SSDs consume less power than HDDs, giving you longer battery life.

[helloUser @ Jan 7th 2008 10:42PM]

Since when does apple make hardware?

[daliminator2000 @ Jan 7th 2008 11:47PM]

Sorry, Apple does NOT make hardware.

ASUS/Quanta/other companies make the hardware for them. Apple's not going to be coming out with any kind of hard drive in the foreseeable future. You fail.

[Mike @ Jan 7th 2008 10:12PM]

hey need to make these cheaper, not bigger. i can deal with 32GB. i can't deal with a $1k added to the price of my laptop.

[Flashpoint @ Jan 7th 2008 10:12PM]

This means that by next year, more consumer laptops will be offering SSD's and the next console war will be fought by Sony and Microsoft who will each have competing SSD sizes. Nintendo will finally add a 120GB Hard Disk Drive to the Wii.

I predict however that as soon as the Chinese produce plants that can copy and bootleg entire SSD hard drives:
more no named Chinese companies will pop up out of nowhere selling OSX and Vista computers/laptops at a fraction of the cost of a trustworhty brand.

[Flashpoint @ Jan 7th 2008 10:18PM]

Imagine how much money a Chinese company could make if they had a simple device which could copy an entire SSD Drive (with its operating system) and then plug that SSD into a cheaply made laptop to sell.

You could damn near sell those for $ 300. (2400Yuan)

[Miles @ Jan 7th 2008 10:23PM]

Oh I think they call those the EEEPC from ASUS

[Sam Winter @ Jan 8th 2008 1:39AM]

Both your posts are totally irrelevant...

[XGM @ Jan 7th 2008 10:39PM]

OMG wheres the 500+GB ones ? I mean these are cool for laptops (id love to have one in my MBP), but my gaming rig would also like one.

[Bhavananda Nadimpally @ Jan 7th 2008 11:33PM]

seems kinda small considering a no name bitmicro came up with 800 odd gigger less than a week back!!!

[jivetrky @ Jan 8th 2008 3:07AM]

Do they give any kind of info like read and write speeds?

[James Richard @ Jan 8th 2008 4:00AM]

I was at the SanDisk booth today, looking at the SSDs. They had a 2.0Ghz Core 2 Duo MacBook with a 64GB SSD in place of the standard 2.5" HDD. The SSD equipped MacBook booted from COLD in less than 15 seconds (14.7 seconds).

It was SWEET.

I want one.

-Jamie

[KC @ Jan 8th 2008 5:27AM]

Why can't they ship cheaper 8gb or 16 gb ssd with sata or ata interface now? If something was available for under $150, I'd be all over it for my old notebook here.