This is a sweet piece of kit that will outperform high end HDs in RAID 0. Will really mark the end of the desktop, since 2.5 storage has been the mobile bottleneck for a long time.
All the people complaining about the price; don't buy one. You either don't need it or can't afford it. High performance SSDs won't be a "mainstream" product for at least another year - this is for performance enthusiasts or people who can get real value from having fast storage on a mobile platform.
For anyone doing server development on a laptop, this thing will pay for itself in a matter of months. How many hours are wasted looking at the HD light on your machine over 6 months when your daily routine is running multiple virtual servers all hitting the disk?
As for the comparisons with cheapo flash disks - ROFL. MLC flash without an advanced controller and wear-leveling algorithms is a recipe for disaster. Not a good backup solution, and not something that is going to last long at all with high daily usage. Anyone who would trash Intel's new product, which is a real breakthrough, either doesn't understand the basics of SSD/MLC or is seriously underpaid. ( lost productivity due to inevitable failure > $600, not to mention the huge performance gap)
I've been watching SSDs for the past year waiting for a mature product. Until now Samsung has been doing the best, but with this product Intel just took the crown and I'm ready to purchase. I haven't run the numbers but 2 of these in Raid0 might saturate the SATA2 controller, which is enough to make a geek like me say "schwing!"
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This is a sweet piece of kit that will outperform high end HDs in RAID 0. Will really mark the end of the desktop, since 2.5 storage has been the mobile bottleneck for a long time.
All the people complaining about the price; don't buy one. You either don't need it or can't afford it.
High performance SSDs won't be a "mainstream" product for at least another year - this is for performance enthusiasts or people who can get real value from having fast storage on a mobile platform.
For anyone doing server development on a laptop, this thing will pay for itself in a matter of months. How many hours are wasted looking at the HD light on your machine over 6 months when your daily routine is running multiple virtual servers all hitting the disk?
As for the comparisons with cheapo flash disks - ROFL. MLC flash without an advanced controller and wear-leveling algorithms is a recipe for disaster. Not a good backup solution, and not something that is going to last long at all with high daily usage. Anyone who would trash Intel's new product, which is a real breakthrough, either doesn't understand the basics of SSD/MLC or is seriously underpaid. ( lost productivity due to inevitable failure > $600, not to mention the huge performance gap)
I've been watching SSDs for the past year waiting for a mature product. Until now Samsung has been doing the best, but with this product Intel just took the crown and I'm ready to purchase. I haven't run the numbers but 2 of these in Raid0 might saturate the SATA2 controller, which is enough to make a geek like me say "schwing!"