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Rumors of an Intel SSD price drop on April 26th?
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Yes, it is probably the biggest and best upgrade you can make in any computer today. Hard drives has been the slowest bottleneck for any PCs and Macs for the past decade. Now with SSDs getting better at probably Moore's Law rate, the slowest bottleneck will be the SATA interface itself.
10.5.7 first though!
6.0 Gb/s SATA is already appearing in products.
Yeah! I saw that! Great new standard aye?!!
6.0 Gb/s SATA is already appearing in products.
.....What products? i expect to see first product by fall if not early 2010.
Sounds good.I can only hope this is true... It would be great to be rewarded for my procrastination in ordering a pair.
Great to see SSD becoming more accessible!
Now if we can just get drives that can produce that level of throughput...
Atto Technology has a few products, such as the EXPRESSSAS H608. Others in the family, so look at the other PCIe 2.0 models. So far, they're HBA only, but the RAID models will follow.
I presume they're after a head start in terms of SSD's for an enterprise environment, as mechanical drives can't come close to that level of throughput. SSD's can't either. Yet.
But should be able to exceed the current 3.0 Gb/s in the not too distant future. Now if we can just get drives that can produce that level of throughput...
Atto Technology has a few products, such as the EXPRESSSAS H608. Others in the family, so look at the other PCIe 2.0 models. So far, they're HBA only, but the RAID models will follow.
I presume they're after a head start in terms of SSD's for an enterprise environment, as mechanical drives can't come close to that level of throughput. SSD's can't either. Yet.
That's about it, a 500$ host adaptor cards that has no SSDs with SATA 6gbps connection.
Vertex II SSDs are expected to arrive with SATA 6Gbps interface but nobody knows when it'll arrive, last check shows end of may. Either way, I still don't expect to see any laptops nor pc to come with SATA 6Gbps by standard til Fall/Winter.
As I said, they're early with the release of a 6.0Gb/s HBA.
Rather useless ATM, as there aren't any 6.0Gb/s drives of any type, nor are there any PM chips/enclosures that could utilize it AFAIK. The only advantage I can think of for end users (enterprise), is they can test the card out for behavior, albiet only with 3.0Gb/s drives. As far as the particular product, ATTO may have the time to get any kinks worked out by the time the drives actually arrive from multiple manufacturers, including the RAID versions yet to make an appearance.
I agree that it will be some time yet before 6.0Gb/s ports make an appearance in systems. No pressing motivation due to the lack of drives.
UuupsWhatever price drop there was, NewEgg just upped the price of the 160GB drive by $110, back to its previous price
But a mistake I guess / hope They did the same with the price of the 80GB version...
Uuups
They did the same with the price of the 80GB version...
Yikes... 80GB has gone back to $363 too!
Probably because of supply shortage. They'll jack up the price as the supply tighten up, once Newegg orders new stock, it'll drop back down to the normal price.
Just Supply vs. Demand Laws at work.
(it shows 320$ now)
Owc
FWIW,...
I purchased the Intel 80GB SSD from OWC on friday of last week even though i heard rumors of a price decrease.
Well, because of Shane at OWC and their spot-on customer service, they gave me a rebate of for my Intel drive based on the newly lowered price. That is why i like working with OWC. I could have gone with Newegg and gotten the item cheaper to begin with but sometimes customer service and support is worth a little more.
IMO.
FWIW,...
I purchased the Intel 80GB SSD from OWC on friday of last week even though i heard rumors of a price decrease.
Well, because of Shane at OWC and their spot-on customer service, they gave me a rebate of for my Intel drive based on the newly lowered price. That is why i like working with OWC. I could have gone with Newegg and gotten the item cheaper to begin with but sometimes customer service and support is worth a little more.
IMO.
These things are so addictive.
First I got one..... then I just had to get another for raid0. Now I'm already thinking of getting two more. Not now at current prices but somewhere down the road when the price for one is 200 euros or less.
for some people, they decided to never return to HDDs for boot drives.
Thanks for the tip! Would you happen to know that can a 7.0 mm thick drive be fitted securely in the MBP? I noticed that the correct replacement drives are 9.5 mm thick.
The height is irrelevant in the old MacBook Pro (as long as the drive does not exceed 9.5mm).
The drive is secured by rubber-screws as can be seen on this picture.