http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/ Engadget Comments for Intel's 34nm SSDs go official, no 320GB model in sight http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/Jul 21st 2009 12:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/
For all those complaining about how expensive they still are, just ~2 years ago people were buying 64GB drives with poor flash controllers for $900. Now you can get a blazing fast drive with twice the capacity for less than half the price. We were dreaming of the day when good SSDs would reach under $5/GB,

Now even the best MLC drive on the market, the expensive Intel X25-M, is $2.75/GB! ($440/160GB = 2.75). SO STOP YER' BITCHING!]]>Jul 21st 2009 5:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/
i wish]]>Jul 21st 2009 12:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/Jul 21st 2009 12:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/Jul 21st 2009 12:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/Jul 21st 2009 12:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/Jul 21st 2009 12:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/Jul 21st 2009 12:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/Jul 21st 2009 12:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/Jul 21st 2009 12:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/Engadget errors are fun.
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There's a real difference for you buy for what you need and just buying out of impulse. Note I'm not saying you bought out of impulse but I thought I should mention it.]]>Jul 21st 2009 1:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/
@Entourage - Not taking it harshly, but this new drive came out of the blue and the x25-m just had a price cut in April. As far as buying what you need and impulse... This is technology, you never *need* it, but it makes your life easier. Speeding up my work computer 5x of what it was last week to me is something that made my life easier.

It just sucks to buy something new and get blindsided with something newer/better/CHEAPER than the thing you just bought. I could understand if these drives cost more than the "black" ones, but they are everything better and come in at a lower price point.]]>Jul 21st 2009 1:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/
Until that time, I'll stick to my raptors.]]>Jul 21st 2009 12:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/Jul 21st 2009 12:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/Jul 21st 2009 12:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/
For me, I'm not waiting until SSDs reach some imaginary price point where I think they'll be "OK". If the retail price for the 160GB is really around ~$450 and TRIM comes around, it'll be time. ]]>Jul 21st 2009 12:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/
Yup I'm screwed. My x25-m isn't even a week old and they say that it's not going to be flashable for TRIM?! Not only that, the new drives are cheaper.

*epic sigh*]]>Jul 21st 2009 12:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/Jul 21st 2009 1:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/Jul 21st 2009 1:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/Jul 21st 2009 2:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/Jul 21st 2009 12:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/Jul 21st 2009 2:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/Jul 22nd 2009 3:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/Jul 21st 2009 12:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/Jul 21st 2009 12:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/Jul 21st 2009 1:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/Jul 21st 2009 1:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/Jul 21st 2009 1:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/..or an Air.]]>Jul 21st 2009 1:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/Jul 21st 2009 3:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/
SSDs (even at 320GB capacity) are not well suited as data/media drives. TRIM features will help, but you'll still experience long term performance degradation. If you use it for apps and as your system disk it will last a long time before you need to do a safe erase on the drive.

I can easily fit Windows 7, all of my dev tools and one game in a 80GB drive. All data goes onto a standard HDD.]]>Jul 21st 2009 1:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/Jul 21st 2009 1:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/Jul 21st 2009 2:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/Jul 21st 2009 3:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/Jul 21st 2009 1:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/Jul 21st 2009 2:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/Jul 21st 2009 2:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/Jul 21st 2009 2:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/Jul 21st 2009 3:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/Jul 21st 2009 4:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/
The price DIFFERENCE will always be there as the price drops on BOTH technologies at the same time.
You get more space with the HDs and more performance, reliability and silence from SSds.

The determining factor is how much are you willing to spend on a component that will UNDENIABLY improve the performance of your computing experience?

100$ You are still gonna wait...
250$ It's time baby
400$+ You probably did the plunge already

To all saying you are "still waiting", then you are not serious in performance computing and are nothing but pretenders.

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TAZ427]]>Jul 21st 2009 4:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/Jul 21st 2009 5:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/21/intels-34nm-ssds-go-official-no-320gb-model-in-sight/
16GB 1.8" version for my netbook.
also i need a REAL culv cpu to go in there too, and 2gb of ddr3...
also preferably running a 9400M chipset (or whatever the next line nvidia brings out is)

cmon intel!]]>Jul 21st 2009 8:00PM