SanDisk ships 60GB / 120GB G3 SSD to North America and Europe
By Darren Murph 
posted February 23rd 2010 11:31AM
posted February 23rd 2010 11:31AM
posted February 23rd 2010 11:31AM
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120MB/sec writes? Must be MLC..mehz.
What the hell is a 60GB SSD good for. You can't even install Windows on it. It'll run out of space within a month as the installer cache grows.
@Kurian
People regularly install Windows 7 on 30GB and 40GB drives.
@Kurian
Strange that, I roll with a 80GB SSD and I'm using about 20GB all said. That's just Win7 and select applications.
@Kurian your crazy 60 is plenty for windows even bloated vista takes less than 30. granted 60 is small but its the price you pay for fast ssd speeds at a decent price
If you install apps that use Windows Installer, it has a cache in the system drive that WILL fill up no matter where the program is installed. If you delete the cache the installation gets phucked and can't be uninstalled or updated.
@Kurian
60gb SSD here, 82 programs listed in Programs and Features including MS Office, Visual Studio and Creative Suite, and I currently have 10.7GB spare and 9GB taken up by media files.
@Kurian
Maybe Windows Installer is your problem, I ran W7 beta then RC for a year on a 20 gig partition with no problems.
@Kurian WTF? I'm running W7 ultimate on a 16GB SSD on my netbook without issue.
Combined w/ a regular 2TB platter storage drive, there is no need for anything larger. Put your hands up and step away from the crack pipe sir!
@Kurian Well, you can run Linux if Windows consumes too much space.
I have 159 programs installed on W7 and its 41GB already. There is NOTHING else on the system drive. I've even relocated all the User\* folders to other drives.
By the time I install Office 2010 and VS2010 when they release in the next couple of months, I'm sure it'll be full.
@Kurian
Maybe your son is telling you that's why the hard drive is full so you won't try to find his pr0n collection!
@gfar
Nah, all the pr0n is in a TrueCrypt volume on another drive.
@Kurian its probably the system restore it can get really out of control if you don't delete it
@SchultzMD
Sheesh, why do you noobs keep coming up with stupid ideas. Almost 14GB of it is the Winsxs folder. On Vista/7 this stores historical versions of every every dll/system file installed on your PC to allow backwards compatibility with programs that use common dlls in case a new program updates them and breaks an old one.
If you install a lot of "system" software especially Microsoft products that have thousands of shared libraries, there will be multiple copies of these files. There is nothing that can be done about this. You need 100GB to be safe if you have a lot of software.
@Kurian You might be interested that I've got VS 2008 (Pro) and Eclipse 3.4 installed on my Windows 7 laptop, along with a bunch of smaller software and I'm using 25.2 GB. Stock backup/recovery settings AFAIR. I find it hard to believe installing Office will use up another 30 GB.
@jarek Ugh, grammar. Sorry.
@Kurian
"Sheesh, why do you noobs keep coming up with stupid ideas."
Perhaps, they see you making the ignorant assumption that everyone's needs are the same as yours, and assume you're ignorant about other things as well.
See what assuming gets us?
Still milking those prices. Someone should slap the greed out of these companies.
@broli Ya pricey. I'm waiting to go the SSD route.
@broli
Someone should slap the greed out of broli. Total sales might not cover R&D plus production even at that selling price, in simple words, a loss making product, thus are they greedy or you?
So I've got to ask.
Do companies not give you guys random R/W speeds, or do you not understand that that's what's important about SSDs?
@jon, really the fact that I drop my laptop from time to time while sitting on the couch is my incentive.
Portable device with a hard disk is not a good match.
@jon AFAIK, the press releases only use the big numbers because those sound good and are easy to fake. Server-class drives do sometimes quote IOPS. Generally the 'real' numbers have to wait for reviews, if somebody ever does them.
(I also note this doesn't say which controller chip is used, which is presumably the most important factor.)
Are they ever gonna drop prices on SSD'S... and also, I currently have a regular 250 GB sata drive in my desktop, but SSD's are sata II right? can I use a SATA II drive in my system? i have an ASUS P5DH Motherboard.
@deepen03
me thinks so, but since sata I is only 1,5gbit you are probably stuck somewhere under 150mbyte/s
@fokka well anything better than my current disc based hard drive is an upgrade.. I don't even know what speed it is, but lets just say it is pretty slow. it takes a minute to copy a couple of gigs of files to a USB drive, so that tells you right there.
@deepen03 and nvm, i just checked my motherboard specs.. I do have SATA 2 and four slots too! so im good to go:
this is my motherboard: http://www.pugetsystems.com/store/item.php?cat=Motherboard&id=3915&com=75435b24
@deepen03
"it takes a minute to copy a couple of gigs of files to a USB drive"
A new SSD probably won't change that. The NAND inside the USB stick and the USB connection itself are likely worse bottlenecks than your HDD.
@jon well also, I hear a little humming noise sometimes from the hard drive. It only happens once or twice a day, but does that mean my hard drive is dying? I have had the computer since Feb. 2007 and it has run with no problems so far. The humming noise has been coming since a year now, but I figured the computer is running fine, so screw it. But do you think I am due for a new hard drive?
@deepen03
I couldn't tell you, HDDs make noise some times.
As long as your data is backed up, you just have to decide which is a bigger hassle, replacing the drive because it might fail, or letting it fail(if it does) and replacing it then.
Personally, at this point unless you need a new drive I'd wait until Intel releases their G3 SSDs in 8 months or so.
That or buy a 40GB X25-V, if it's big enough for your needs.
@jon yea I mean my data is all backed up on DVD's, so if I were to replace it it wouldn't be a hassle. just plug and play and reinstall windows 7. I probably need atleast 80GB's for an SSD.. But is it good to buy a disc hard drive if I choose to replace mine? or is SSD the way to go?
@deepen03
If you are comfortable with the price I think that the G2 80GB Intel SSD is the way to go. They're around $250-270 online. Newegg currently has them for $220.
For that price however, you can get a lot more storage with an HDD.
I recommend reading some of the SSD articles on Anandtech.
Then decide which way you want to go.
Looking at this, it makes me think we could fit sata ports on more consumer devices and get rid of the speed issues of USB 2.0, and the compatibility issues of USB 3.0 entirely. The only caveat is that USB carries power as well as data.
Which is a Samsung SSD, by the way
Is this worth getting to load Windows 7 on a HTPC if I am going to be streaming the content from a WHS?
I mean, will the boot time increase a lot?
@LeeBongSmith
Sorry for the double post but by "the boot time increase", I actually mean will the boot time DECREASE.
Forgive my idiocy.
That is one of the sexiest SSD's I've seen though
Since I've never bought one nor do I know anyone using one, could someone tell me what the life expectancy of a SSD and is the dollar per gig ratio the same as a HD that are mass produced?