Anyone know when Intel's SSDs are appearing?

NickK · 30 Apr 2008 at 09:42

Intel are promising 200MB/sec (theoretical) and 80/120GB sizes..

interesting linky

I've noticed that the OCZ 64GB SATAII has dropped in price too..

AMDPower · 30 Apr 2008 at 10:24

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=701&catid=14&subid=910

just out of curiosity, why such a huge price difference between the samsung 64GB and the OCZ 64GB? i am seriously considering a 32GB drive just for the heck of it or maybe two in raid 0.

Elric · 30 Apr 2008 at 12:49

I'm running two 32GB ones in raid 0. Very nice.

NickK · 30 Apr 2008 at 13:11

Elric said:
I'm running two 32GB ones in raid 0. Very nice.

What blocksize did you use?

Elric · 30 Apr 2008 at 15:34

The default block size for an ICH9R.

I'll be testing the two SSD's against a pair of SAS drives later, all running off a nice 8 port SAS card, so will do some stat collecting then.

NickK · 30 Apr 2008 at 16:37

Excellent

I look forward to the results

I assume you have SATAII variant?

Elric · 30 Apr 2008 at 16:57

Sata II variant of?

NickK · 30 Apr 2008 at 18:09

Elric said:
Sata II variant of?

The first set of OCZ drives were just SATA I, the newer II. This made up for the initial I reviews giving cool responses due to the slow transfer times (standard drives beat them).

Elric · 30 Apr 2008 at 18:25

ahh, soz, my bad. When I siad I'm running 2 of them, I forgot to add that they're not OCZ units.

NickK · 30 Apr 2008 at 18:47

AMDPower said:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/productlist.php?groupid=701&catid=14&subid=910

just out of curiosity, why such a huge price difference between the samsung 64GB and the OCZ 64GB? i am seriously considering a 32GB drive just for the heck of it or maybe two in raid 0.

The samsung doesn't state it's SATAII perhaps.

One limitation of the initial generation is that it's a PATA-SATA I bridged so the transfer rates suffered and they were beaten by normal HDDs. The SATA II have shown better transfer rates and return better rates compared to notebook drives although drives such as the F1 seem still to sustain a very good transfer rate.

Jokester · 30 Apr 2008 at 18:49

The reviews of the OCZ model I've seen are identical to the Samsung model, it even has the Samsung part number on the back of it.

Edit: Saying that, a quick check of it shows they actually reviewed the SATA-1 model.

cavemanoc · 1 May 2008 at 21:26

Finally some solid progress on the HDD front - as in the article, hopefully Intel wading in will spark the market and get some decent price/performance products in the SSD market. Even the small ones would be great for OS/Scratch disks! (Bet superfetch will love them as well!)