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Gen 2 Intel's are called 'Postville'
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SSDSA2MH080G2C1 vs SSDSA2MH080G1C1 ?

The next series of Intel SSD's are apparently available from a variety of e-tailers in Europe.

http://geizhals.at/eu/?fs=intel+ssd&in=

I had just finished putting together my new system which included the Intel X25-M 80g SSD and then was notified from NE they sold out on that very popular SSD. I can imagine the new replacement for it will be out shortly.

Item #:N82E16820167005

...and counting... :(

It's been 17 days and there's no sign of these drives... I'm holding off my purchase too! If there's any chance of a launch until, say, mid-august, I'd love to know about it...

I want one SSD for my Windows 7 system.
It's incredible hard to wait but we don't wanna throw money out of the window either.
After having mechanical HHDs for as long as computer exist, the replacement for SSDs is going to be a big deal.

I hate to break it to you internet geniuses, but Intel can undercut everyone now.

THE SMALLER NAND IS CHEAPER AND FASTER! NOT MORE EXPENSIVE!

If Intel wanted they could ship a new ssd that is CHEAPER, FASTER, AND BIGGER than the competition.

I always check the inquirer to find news about everything, keep reading about SSDs for a while, but I remember in some place I saw price/mb lines for HDD and SDD on 2012/13. So... We're almost there. Let's just wait a little more!

When the optimizations and improvements come for these little devices and when the microcode for writing/reading sectors gets a few more steps of optimization, we should see a 2x to 5x increase of speed out of these devices.

Windows 7 and everything else on the horizon will take advantage SSD's.

And yes, the price will be expensive at first but the demand is there. People want them.

When an SSD can leave a 15krpm drive in the dust performance wise, it will be all over for the old mechanical hard disk.

Response to tessy: The thing about ssd:s is seek time not mb/s! mb/s is nice when writing large files to an harddrive (storage of movies etc) seektime is nice when you read alot of small files (like your main OS disk).

It's like saying "ferraris suck because a pickup is better at pulling my trailor!"

Sorry about my english, its not my native language! :)

Well all this talk about price reduction. I dunno. I'll believe it when I see it! So far SSD prices on ALL units without exception are priced for fools or Laptop owners.

For the same price as JUST ONE Intel 80 GB SSD you could have a 4.5 TERABYTE RAID0 consisting of three drives and it's twice as fast and ANY SSD currently available. And those are ECOGreen 1.5TB HD154UI drives! Wait till the 500 GB per platter drives with 7200 RPM start shipping!

So for me it's $350 for 80 GB @ 250 MB/s or 4.5 TB @ 500 MB/s. I think the choice is obvious unless you're on a laptop.

When SSDs are 500 GB for about $100 to $200 each I'll bite. Till then it's good for laughs watching people blow their hard earned money on really nothing more than marketing hype.

is it unreasonable to [desire]expect[/desire] that the same chem-trails spewing from business development's effervescent performance smoke signals might rain down a bit of generational duty-cycle comparisons?

black friday bargains, or whatever baby wants, baby gets...

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re: "...waiting for 500 GB because of my movie collection"
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watch for the [corp type:fascists]riaa[/corp] at a home near you

in December 2008 I got an OZC core series 250 GB for my then very new MacBook unibody 2.4.
The only issue: I am desperatly waiting for 500 GB because of my movie collection.
Apart from that. significant gain in felt speed - no noise, never a problem when travelling,...
Just the way it should be, I am completely happy with this technology, No Problem at all in seven months running severel hours every day.

if the performance slow down is not solved right now with these its never gonna be taken serious by serveradmins as a real alternative to SAS/SCSI

re: "no mention of reliability"

Just what kind of data are you expecting from a story about a rumor of an announced product ?

160gb 7200rpm sata hd notebook is from:

$55-59 dollars on newegg, all brands.

I severely doubt any price drop is going to get within that ranger for a LONG time.

I think you mean lower prices i per Megabyte /i . They're more likely to just stop selling the smallest models.

That's odd, seeing as Intel don't do a 120GB X25M. :p
And their 80GB X25M is barely more expensize per GB than the 60GB Vertex.. though admittedly that needs to come down in price now too.

I'm sure with 34nm flash, the prices will come down somewhat, but I will be very surprised if they can match new drives from OCZ, Corsair, Patriot, SuperTalent, etc.

Now that the majority of those 3rd party brands are using Indilinx's controller or the new Samsung controller, they are all competitive with Intel's X25M.

The new Corsair P128 (128GB), which uses the brand new Samsung controller, is now just $299 on newegg with a $40 rebate.
Similarly, the G Skill Falcon 256GB, which is identical to the OCZ Vertex drives (Indilinx controller), is only $579 on Newegg! And the Corsair P256 (256GB) and Vertex 256GB are only about $100 more! All are excellent drives.

To compare, even after their recent price cut, Intel's 120GB X25M is $620.

So far HDD are the main thing in my PCs to break down and the most frustrating when they do cos unless your mirroring them your going to lose stuff, files programs settings etc.
The Vertex has a 3 year warranty now, so that's longer than Ive ever kept a hard drive for before.

I don't consider myself a greedy person. All I want from SSDs is the ability to truly use my laptop "on the go." I had a MacBook's HDD go kablooey due to an attempt to watch a movie from it on a cross-country Greyhound bus that was particularly bumpy. Ever since then I've treated my laptops with even finer kid gloves. If SSDs can help reduce the propensity for storage to go south under less than stable conditions and give me back/increase the freedom of laptops, without removing any of the benefits we currently enjoy with HDDs, that'll satisfy me…

re: "...users can expect higher performance, higher capacities, and most importantly, lower prices..."
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no mention of reliability

My new SSD just arrived from Newegg not 30 minutes ago. I shoulda waited, but then if we applied that logic to all our technology purchases we would all be sitting with ZX Spectrums, the 16k variety at that.