Imation ships new SSDs, upgrade kits
By Joseph L. Flatley 
posted May 1st 2009 6:06AM
posted May 1st 2009 6:06AM
The gang at Imation have just announced two new lines of SSDs for your computing pleasure (though, sadly, we have yet to see an iCarly-branded model). Both the S-Class and the M-Class drives are available in 32GB, 64GB, and 128GB capacities, and both are available in 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch form factors. For the budget-minded consumer, the M-Class boasts a 150MB/s read speed and 90MB/s write speed, and sports a black oxide finish -- starting at $189.99. For those of you with a little more cash to throw around, the S-Class reads at 130MB/s and writes 120MB/s speeds and sports a stainless steel finish. This bad boy starts at $659.99. Also available as part of a laptop upgrade kit (2.5-inch SSD drive, Acronis True Image HD imaging software, USB-to-SATA or SATA-to-SATA connector cable, power cable or power adapter) or desktop kit (3.5-inch SSD drive, Acronis True Image HD, a SATA connector and power cable or adapter), with M-Class kits starting at $299.99 and S-Class kits at $1299.99. Peep the M-Class drive after the break.
[Via iTech News]
[Via iTech News]
S class starting @ $1299.
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Just realized its only $659. Still pretty horrible. And lol at $640 kit.
Doesn't RAID 0 make the cheap variant also faster and more spacy compared to expensive alternative?
What are they Building??? Mercedes--what's with the S Class, M class. They forgot the E class and C class.
Is there something wrong with the Kit pricing? 1299 for a 660 drive, 100 worth of cabling if I'm being generous, and 100 for Acronis?
Who would not buy the parts separately, or is there something proprietary about the power brick?
Why does the (cheaper) M-Class read at a higher bit rate?
Because you can optimize SSD drives to perform awesomely fast Sequential Read speeds, which is a totally useless metric in the real world, but sells drives to people who are numbers only buyers.
Ask OCZ about that and you'll find out that their Vertex line was specifically designed to be a "better" drive for real world use by not going for all out top numbers.
It's like shopping for a car to buy to haul your family around in by looking at the Quarter mile drag strip time.
It's neat information, but totally useless in the real world.
Not bad, but it's no SuperDisk.
Has anyone looked at defragmentation and how it all works on SSDs? I'd love to know.
The days of 1TB SSDs is soon upon us all !
Defrag extremely marginally increases SSD performance, if any, but greatly hurts the lifetime of the SSD because of all the writing and re-writing, so it's best just not to defrag at all.
@ Matt; thanks for that info. Useful comment.
What's the normal read-write speeds of a 2.5in 7200-rpm HDD? Is the overall lifetime of a SSD greater than a hard drive?
http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=3531
read and enjoy.
and the single most important bit of information is missing.
What controller does it use.
JMicron?
DO NOT WANT SH!TTY STUTTERING CONTROLLER!!!!!!!
htp://www.storagereview.com
mikeg: You're reading my mind. Without info on the controller, and on random write speeds, all other data is useless.