Hands-on with SanDisk's 72GB SSD (and friends)
By Darren Murph 
posted Jan 7th 2008 9:45PM
posted Jan 7th 2008 9:45PM
posted Jan 7th 2008 9:45PM
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not big enough
but why 72? go 128 already!
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.
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.
That's probably an empty drive case with a sticker on it. :P
I'm all for SSDs, but is hard to be excited with photos, they're just like every other hard drive...
Hmmm I thought they were smaller...
nice...
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.
Apple will comeout with a larger, faster, and cheaper alternative for their new macbook with multi-touch.
Right, because Apple makes batteries.
It's not a battery!
It's a SSD, aka the future of Hard Drives.
And yes, Apple makes their hardware.
I'm sorry, batteries? wtf are you talking about?
Yes Apple makes their hardware, but not drives or batteries. My current MacBook Pro has a Fujitsu HDD.
Sorry, my mind was somewhere else on that one.
Clarification:
(As much as I love confusion)
SSDs consume less power than HDDs, giving you longer battery life.
Since when does apple make hardware?
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.
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.
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)
Oh I think they call those the EEEPC from ASUS
Both your posts are totally irrelevant...
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.
seems kinda small considering a no name bitmicro came up with 800 odd gigger less than a week back!!!
Do they give any kind of info like read and write speeds?
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
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.