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Intel releases 320 Series SSDs
CHIPMAKER Intel has released its third-generation 320 Series solid state disk (SSD) drives with 1,000 unit batch prices from $89 for 40GB parts up to the largest at $1,069.
Intel says its SSD 320 Series are for consumers and PC enthusiasts' notebooks and desktops. For those of you who like to buy your storage in batches of 1,000 the other capacity model prices are 80GB for $159, 120GB for $209, 160GB for $289, 300GB for $529 and 600GB at an attractive $1,069.
The drives all use 25nm scale NAND flash memory manufacturing technology, which Intel says delivers 30 per cent cost reduction benefits. Intel also claims the SSDs can provide 66 per cent more system responsiveness. And every drive has 128-bit encryption capabilities.
Pete Hazen, director of marketing for Intel's non-volatile memory solutions group said, "Intel's third generation of SSDs adds enhanced data security features, power-loss management and innovative data redundancy features."
The 320 Series SSDs use the 3Gbps SATA2 interface and Intel claims sequential write speeds of 220MB/sec and sequential read speeds of up to 270MB/sec. µ
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Though Samsung makes cheap 50-GB SLCs. But worst SLC controller is also from mem-maker-champion samsung... look at this page-13 (talk about cursed num)
http://www.anandtech.com/show/2738/13
Like picture is to thousand words... "random write" is to thousand other type ssd benchmarks.
This same behaviour from samsung is like for past 4-5 years they used to beat about WiBro is our native-dish/invention and Wimax is based on it... where as all Wimax xombo smartphone have used fujitsu or sequans. not until "Nexus S 4G" even that cant do GSM/Wimax combo.
Same for memories/storage ... DDR4, DDR5 all championed by samsung for 40nm, 32nm ... LowVol-DDR2 bla bla... but when comes to utilizing memory .... i.e. aka controller ... its page-13 ("pathetic").
full article: http://www.anandtech.com/print/2738
Intel and partner Micron (i guess) instead of reducing SLC prices they are upping the least available SSD size. now min available size is 64-GB. Seagate has followed that same bitchy trend.. say i have a website of barely 50-MB and 3-4 GB Database ... for me a 16-GB SLC (with OS) is sufficient. with MLC they are doing 40GB but why killing Designers, Programmers, DBAs ... we spit on MLCs.
THat 160 is almost half what I paid for my X25-M 160G not even a year ago.
The 300G is just $100 more than the 160 I bought. I might just get that...
Granted these are not retail prices..
Where the hell is *OUR* 30ish% reduction in price then? ...where the hell is our free upgrade is speed for less money as this technology becomes more mature, and the manufacturers make them for much lest cost?!? Intel=Monopoly=Charge what the hell they want. Personally I try to support AMD/OCZ or whoever it doesn't matter as long as we keep the competition kicking over there is a chance for change. Remember those halcyon days of Athlon 64 when AMD/Intel went bonkers trying to outdo each other? ...thats where Core2whatever was born. NVIDIA/AMD seem to have also got bored, but to be fair this could be a lull until TSMC sorts out 28nm. Anyone else think the quickness of progress is slowing down massively of late?!?
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Why buy those when you can buy OCZ Vertex 3 Series SATA III SSDs?