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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Imation ships new SSDs, upgrade kits]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/imation-ships-new-ssds-upgrade-kits/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/imation-ships-new-ssds-upgrade-kits/</guid><description><![CDATA[S class starting @ $1299.<br><br>DONOTWANT.jpg]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David Katz]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 1st 2009 6:34AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Imation ships new SSDs, upgrade kits]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/imation-ships-new-ssds-upgrade-kits/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/imation-ships-new-ssds-upgrade-kits/</guid><description><![CDATA[Just realized its only $659. Still pretty horrible. And lol at $640 kit.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[David Katz]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 1st 2009 6:36AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Imation ships new SSDs, upgrade kits]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/imation-ships-new-ssds-upgrade-kits/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/imation-ships-new-ssds-upgrade-kits/</guid><description><![CDATA[Doesn't RAID 0 make the cheap variant also faster and more spacy compared to expensive alternative?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Shinigami]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 1st 2009 4:36PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Imation ships new SSDs, upgrade kits]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/imation-ships-new-ssds-upgrade-kits/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/imation-ships-new-ssds-upgrade-kits/</guid><description><![CDATA[What are they Building??? Mercedes--what's with the S Class, M class. They forgot the E class and C class. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Anand]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 1st 2009 7:56AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Imation ships new SSDs, upgrade kits]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/imation-ships-new-ssds-upgrade-kits/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/imation-ships-new-ssds-upgrade-kits/</guid><description><![CDATA[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?<br><br>Who would not buy the parts separately, or is there something proprietary about the power brick?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kwikit]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 1st 2009 7:54AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Imation ships new SSDs, upgrade kits]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/imation-ships-new-ssds-upgrade-kits/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/imation-ships-new-ssds-upgrade-kits/</guid><description><![CDATA[Why does the (cheaper) M-Class read at a higher bit rate?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Static]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 1st 2009 8:44AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Imation ships new SSDs, upgrade kits]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/imation-ships-new-ssds-upgrade-kits/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/imation-ships-new-ssds-upgrade-kits/</guid><description><![CDATA[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.<br><br>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.<br><br>It's like shopping for a car to buy to haul your family around in by looking at the Quarter mile drag strip time.<br>It's neat information, but totally useless in the real world.<br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[mikeg]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 1st 2009 9:31PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Imation ships new SSDs, upgrade kits]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/imation-ships-new-ssds-upgrade-kits/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/imation-ships-new-ssds-upgrade-kits/</guid><description><![CDATA[Not bad, but it's no SuperDisk.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[hexydes]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 1st 2009 12:09PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Imation ships new SSDs, upgrade kits]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/imation-ships-new-ssds-upgrade-kits/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/imation-ships-new-ssds-upgrade-kits/</guid><description><![CDATA[Has anyone looked at defragmentation and how it all works on SSDs? I'd love to know.<br>The days of 1TB SSDs is soon upon us all !]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[P2Labs]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 1st 2009 12:53PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Imation ships new SSDs, upgrade kits]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/imation-ships-new-ssds-upgrade-kits/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/imation-ships-new-ssds-upgrade-kits/</guid><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Matt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 1st 2009 2:41PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Imation ships new SSDs, upgrade kits]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/imation-ships-new-ssds-upgrade-kits/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/imation-ships-new-ssds-upgrade-kits/</guid><description><![CDATA[@ Matt; thanks for that info. Useful comment. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[granny down east]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 2nd 2009 12:19AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Imation ships new SSDs, upgrade kits]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/imation-ships-new-ssds-upgrade-kits/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/imation-ships-new-ssds-upgrade-kits/</guid><description><![CDATA[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?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Timerider]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 1st 2009 3:37PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Imation ships new SSDs, upgrade kits]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/imation-ships-new-ssds-upgrade-kits/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/imation-ships-new-ssds-upgrade-kits/</guid><description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=3531" rel="nofollow">http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=3531</a><br><br>read and enjoy.<br><br><br>and the single most important bit of information is missing.<br>What controller does it use.<br><br>JMicron?<br><br>DO NOT WANT SH!TTY STUTTERING CONTROLLER!!!!!!!<br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[mikeg]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 1st 2009 9:25PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Imation ships new SSDs, upgrade kits]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/imation-ships-new-ssds-upgrade-kits/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/imation-ships-new-ssds-upgrade-kits/</guid><description><![CDATA[<a href="htp://www.storagereview.com" rel="nofollow">htp://www.storagereview.com</a><br><br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Kwikit]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 2nd 2009 6:19PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Imation ships new SSDs, upgrade kits]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/imation-ships-new-ssds-upgrade-kits/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/01/imation-ships-new-ssds-upgrade-kits/</guid><description><![CDATA[mikeg: You're reading my mind.  Without info on the controller, and on random write speeds, all other data is useless.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Nogami]]></dc:creator><pubDate>May 2nd 2009 12:30AM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
