http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/ Engadget Comments for Intel announces its first SSDs, plans to ship in a month http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2010 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/Aug 19th 2008 6:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/
Geez.]]>Aug 19th 2008 6:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/Aug 19th 2008 6:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/Aug 19th 2008 6:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/
AMD just announced their intentions of competing against Intel in the SSD space. They plan on releasing a tri-core Black Phenom 80 GB SSD that consumes 8 watts and costs 50% of what the other guy charges.

{sigh} - If only....]]>Aug 19th 2008 9:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/
Of course the chief argument would be the monthly bill would be far more disastrous than raising the money, but sometimes its easier to pay incrementally.]]>Aug 19th 2008 9:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/Its a hell of a lot easier then saving 6 months for something.
Typical Engadget commenters....shooting off their mouths with NO facts behind it.]]>Aug 19th 2008 10:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/Aug 19th 2008 6:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/Hey, no kidding. Probably a dirt cheap 128MB on the way, or better yet, the 512kb unit, for every pocket.]]>Aug 19th 2008 6:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/Aug 19th 2008 6:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/Aug 20th 2008 12:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/Aug 19th 2008 6:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/Aug 19th 2008 6:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/Aug 19th 2008 7:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/Aug 19th 2008 7:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/Aug 19th 2008 8:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/Aug 19th 2008 8:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/
Sony sell their 16GB SxS flash cards for around $850. Thats $53 / GB. The are Express Card format with PCI Express interface and 800Mbps read performance.

For Sony XDCAM EX users, we can put one of these in a chassis and off load our cards to safe flash storage rather than hard drives which are much more likely to fail if moved around and dropped etc Then we can safely re-use our cards knowing out video is safe...

In fact I think the 160GB unit is already cheaper than Sonys external 60GB hard drive unit for the XDCAM EX cameras!]]>Aug 19th 2008 7:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/Aug 19th 2008 9:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/Aug 19th 2008 8:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/
"The X25-E enterprise drive is rated at 35,000 IOPS, and up to 250 Mbytes/s sequential read and 170 MB/s sequential write. Read latencies are about 75 microseconds. From a power perdpective, the drive consumes 2.4 watts in active mode, and 0.06 watts while idling. Both the X25-M and X-18M read and write data at 250 Mbytes/s and 75 Mbytes/s. respectively. Power consumption is about 0.15 watts in active mode, and 0.06 watts while in idle. "]]>Aug 19th 2008 7:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/
Doesn't sound $1,200 great to me.]]>Aug 19th 2008 7:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/Aug 19th 2008 7:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/Aug 19th 2008 7:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/Aug 19th 2008 7:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/Aug 19th 2008 7:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/Aug 19th 2008 7:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/Let's see, right now, I'm using 16.9 GB, total. Just use an external hard drive for my media, and I'll bet even just 8 GB would have me /set/.
I really wish they'd sell more hybrid systems, you know, set up with everything on the SSD except ~/Music and ~/Videos.]]>Aug 19th 2008 8:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/So scratch all that and just to do the normal mount as ~/
...wait, gahh, 2.1 GB of game art. I'd want to throw /usr/share/games on the mechanical hard drive too..
Maybe it'd be simpler to just get a separate mobile and gaming rig.]]>Aug 19th 2008 8:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/
I just love you.]]>Aug 19th 2008 9:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/No manual entry for love
ethan@home:~$

Whoa. I guess that means I don't know what to think about that, Dan.]]>Aug 19th 2008 10:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/Aug 19th 2008 8:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/that would be about $128 for a 16gb SSD, which is not unreasonable. then i would only need to limit my programs and keep my music and videos on a external drive.]]>Aug 19th 2008 8:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/
Hitachi's Travelstar 7K320 2.5 inch HDD 320 GB spins at 7200rpm and only consumes 1.8 watt while reading/writting and a 0.8 watt when idle. So yeah not much difference, oh yeah and i forgot to mention the HDD is priced at $218.]]>Aug 19th 2008 8:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/
And I though Intel would be generous enough to set the SSD price tags much lower. I was wrong.

Screw this overpriced SSDs.]]>Aug 20th 2008 3:55AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/Aug 20th 2008 5:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/19/intel-announces-its-first-ssds-plans-to-ship-in-a-month/
THEN, I would announce, when the products became almost actually AVAILABLE, whoops, here are the real prices, making them substantially lower, and therefore making everyone happy and RUN out to buy one :)

But then again I am not in charge of Intel's marketing arm. Or am I?]]>Aug 20th 2008 1:34PM