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Intel SSDs to launch on Tuesday
ALMOST THREE WEEKS ago the INQ revealed Intel would be launching its next generation SSD drives based on 34nm NAND chips within about two weeks. Well, as it turns out we were off by only about a week, with new information reaching us today that launch date will actually be Tuesday 21st July.
The INQ has it on good authority that come close of play next Tuesday, the new and improved, cheaper, faster chips will be available for channel orders.
While there is a school of thought which claims the days of SSDs may be drawing to a close before they've even fully begun, system builders don't seem to be buying into the cynicism, with UK firm Mesh telling the INQ it has big plans for implementing the new smaller NAND chips.
Mesh has already launched its Slayer gaming range with SSD units in every system, but the firm's sales and marketing director, Tony Rockhardi told us "I'm looking for 100 per cent penetration with SSD."
He added, "by Tuesday next week, we expect SSD to be an available upgrade for every system in our range and, if the new technologies bring the kind of savings I'm looking for, then I'd expect every Mesh machine to be booting from an SSD by Bonfire Night" [5 November].
Previously, high costs, limited capacities and sometimes questionable reliability have made SSDs something of a niche offering, but our sources tell us Intel's upcoming babies will not only be super fast and ultra dependable, but will be able to undercut everyone else in the market price wise.
We already know there will be 320GB, 160GB and 80GB capacities of the new drives, but we've also got our fingers crossed for a 500GB version to show up. µ
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I'm going to have to keep an eye out for them on prices I was going to get 1 of the 64BG Kingston SSD's but for a little more I'd rather buy something that can give me better performance for my £ these might do it.
Knowning INTEL the 80GB will be £200 thou.
Expect pricing at $225 for an 80GB, $440 for 160GB. Probably going to sell out fast.
Good to see a local player stepping up to the mark and leading the way. Bought a Matrix machine in 2002 and was pleasantly surprised with the performance. Last box was a Dell. Not bad, but not great. Will look at this new offer on Tuesday to see if it's kosher/halal.
Unless they can deliver large capacities in prices reasonably competitive with normal hard drives, they're doomed. These things are simply too expensive, and, currently, drives are simply too small to replace hard drives.
the most entertaining part of any SSD story is when they get to the price
i just cant help myself laughing hysterically at the foolish amount of money they expect people to part with for a miniscule amount of storage
a fool and their money...
What exactly qualifies a business as a channel partner?
Would Newegg.com be one of these channel partners?
Bonfire night?, have we started celebrating the art of making bonfires on Nov 5th.
Its 'Guy Fawkes' night.
Tony Rockhardi told us "I'm looking for 100 per cent penetration with SSD."
That's what she said...
I hope they have improved the terrible issue of random writes and decereasing performance over time currently plauging all SSDs. Pricing is irelevent while that issue remains. I would happily pay £100 for a 16GB drive that performs at an actual 100MB/s+ random read and write speed without any performance degragation. Though for all my programs and operating system I'de really need around 60GB.
anyone wanna buy a 20gb harddrive for £100?
i'm sure i have a couple kicking around somewhere...
i'll even throw in a 64mb flash drive for an extra fiver