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Sandisk is shipping 'reasonably priced' G3 solid state disks
FLASH STORAGE manufacturer Sandisk has begun shipping its G3 solid state drives (SSDs) to retailers.
Sandisk claimed that the G3 SSD will be a "compelling alternative" to 7200RPM hard drives, especially for IT managers seeking increased durability and performance with high reliability. No mention though of compelling price points to bring solid state in line with how many Megabytes you get per buck in traditional hard drive storage.
"Our rugged drive enables a superior customer experience by delivering extended endurance and fast performance in a resilient SSD design," said Eric Bone, vice president of retail product marketing at SanDisk. "SanDisk believes in an uncompromising development approach which insists that an SSD's long term reliability and durability are just as important as its overall speed. We're leveraging our long history of flash memory and retail expertise to bring the SanDisk G3 SSD to market."
The write speeds are faster than a bat out of hell so users can boot up in minimal time and the benefits of solid state are many. SanDisk's recommended retail price are about £150 for the 60GB and £260 for the 120GB capacity. No great shakes but reasonably competitive for SDDs. µ
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The private person does not need 500GB or 2TB SSDs. That market is perfectly covered by the normal HDD.
What we need is SSD in sizes 60-120GB to come to a price level of no more than 2.5$ (1.7£)pr GB so we can get a fast, low access time primary disk.
"Sandisk claimed that the G3 SSD will be a "compelling alternative" to 7200RPM hard drives"
*recommended retail price are 60GB for £150, and 120GB for £260.*
how is it a compelling alternative when there are no 500GB, 1TB, 1.5TB or 2TB drives ?
The inquirer has really gone downhill, this layout really sucks. I hope they fix it! There are more ads on the first page of this site then all of engadget + tomshardware combined. This site reminds me of what happened to tomshardware. When they changed over to the layout I stopped going to their site. I guess it's time to move on.
The competition already has 128GB SSDs for ~$375USD.
£260 = ~$400USD
They should re-evaluate their value proposition, because it is definitely not price.
Considering that you can buy 3 1TB HDs for the price of one 60GB SSD, I hardly would call it competitive.
Yeah, great read/write speeds, but you can get pretty close to it with 2 short stroked 1TB drives RAID 0 array, and for much less.
Why SSD's are more reliable than HD's? They eliminated the cell wearing problem?
To drive the price down!
Theyre too expensive!!
@hoohoo
Read/Write 220/120
No info about controller :(
Perhaps my entire understanding of what is going at boot up is wrong. I would think boot time is more dependent on read speed than write speed.