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Intel SSD price drop on April 26
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Yeah if you have a Mac pro and multiple internal drives then thats different for us laptop-only individuals.
I don't have an optibay in my Macbook Pro, but I may consider the homebrew solution posted earlier. Anyway, external interfaces are robust enough for single and even raid configurations (eSata, FW800), so even though we have superfast SSDs such as the intel x25-m, it makes more sense to keep just the OS and Apps on the drive and keep the rest clean for additional updates or whatever else, and keep media on eSATA and FW800 drives. Backups reserved for USB. I work with more than than thirty gigs of images on a daily basis (cataloging) so the remaining space on my x25 would be eaten up quickly.
Unforutantely, I'm not even getting the fastest speed out of my machine. I have the Penryn Macbook Pro which only uses a 1.5 Gbps SATA interface.
Sigh. Oh well. This thing will be usable for years to come.
NewEgg has been pretty good about these stuff; although their official statement is that they don't do that, if you ask nice enough they do it sometimes.
Oh yes they do. SATA I is 1.5Gbps theoretical which is around 192MB/s; realistically it's about two-thirds that, so yes SSDs are approaching if not about to exceed SATA II speeds.
I just came across this article:
http://vr-zone.com/forums/421608/intel-ssd-price-cut-on-april-26th.html
"Intel plans to cut the prices of their SSDs ranging from $50 to $100 this coming Monday on the 26th of April. This is their second price cut on SSDs just two months after they conducted their first price cut in early February. Intel 80GB X18-M and X25-M will see their prices dropped from $385 to $335 while 160GB versions will be lowered from $760 to $660. However, the prices of the SLC models remain unchanged at $410 for 32GB and $790 for the 64GB."
Yay!
http://vr-zone.com/forums/421608/intel-ssd-price-cut-on-april-26th.html
"Intel plans to cut the prices of their SSDs ranging from $50 to $100 this coming Monday on the 26th of April. This is their second price cut on SSDs just two months after they conducted their first price cut in early February. Intel 80GB X18-M and X25-M will see their prices dropped from $385 to $335 while 160GB versions will be lowered from $760 to $660. However, the prices of the SLC models remain unchanged at $410 for 32GB and $790 for the 64GB."
Yay!
Darn the E class i was hoping for the price drop. I actually got lucky one day at Newegg on my Intel M SSD the 80gb I got for 363. each. Hopefully they will get down to closer to the 300 hundred mark for folks. Guess we wait 5 more days to find out. Nice info thanks
I don't know about the other SSD drives out there much but I will say the Intels are working great and very stable so far. Something to be said for that.
Corsair is decent, I think it is Samsung OEM. (same as Apple)
But nothing touches the Intels except the Vertex, and they are only close in one area. The Intel SSD is absolutely dominating the competition right now.
But nothing touches the Intels except the Vertex, and they are only close in one area. The Intel SSD is absolutely dominating the competition right now.
I always thing of that! Making software on a thumb drive would be sooo much easier. I never ever use my optical drive anymore; I am thinking of taking it out for another hard drive.
how do you guys go about migrating your data and os x accounts from the older drive to the new one?
Intel's the fastest in random read/write operations by a good margin over anyone. Samsung makes a very stable SSD but they cannot match the speed of Intel but they can match the reliability. Corsair hasn't been tested so I cannot speak on that and it sounds like you ran into a Corsair fanboy.
Intel is the obvious premium choice for those that need a basic boot drive which will present a lot of random reads and random writes.
The OCZ Vertex series has very fast sequential reads/writes but cannot match the Intel for random so for daily computing it won't be as fast.
Called, Newegg; couldn't get a full refund on the difference, but they did offer $50 back, which I believe is their maximum.
But, by then, we'd be looking at 320GB drives for $800, and some of us would still be stuck spending a ton on them
But, by then, we'd be looking at 320GB drives for $800, and some of us would still be stuck spending a ton on them