ETA on the 80gb Intel X25-M G2?
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Yes I'd like to know this too..........
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I'll add my voice to that query too
All other UK stores I know are out of stock...And I though there was an economical crisis going around
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Presumably we have to wait until the supply's outstripping demand sufficiently in the US for Intel to start shipping major batches to Europe. To do so cheaply you still have to use actual ships, which do take a while to get over here...
Still, I would like to know when my pre-order's going to be fulfilled, or at least how far down the list I come!
Still, I would like to know when my pre-order's going to be fulfilled, or at least how far down the list I come!
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I feel for you,
I had to wait 4 weeks for mine, these are like star dust!
I had to wait 4 weeks for mine, these are like star dust!
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There might also be an intentional delay by Intel atm as we're getting close to Win7 release. I'm guessing that they'd like to ship volumes of drives with TRIM support on release day as a competative edge perhaps?
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Yeah, I'm tempted to get one (or two?) of the 160Gb drives. So anyone who knows when intel will be shipping their drives again in volume, speak up!
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Got a webnote from OC last week stating that they didn't have an ETA.
Also tried another supplier who had an expected date of 30th September which came and went with no stock available. They said that their distributor didn't even have a date for the distributor getting deliveries. Some other sites have an ETA posted of the 5/6th October.
Also tried another supplier who had an expected date of 30th September which came and went with no stock available. They said that their distributor didn't even have a date for the distributor getting deliveries. Some other sites have an ETA posted of the 5/6th October.
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Damnable soft launches!
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Stupid question time, but can someone explain the draw of such a small drive? What do you intend to use it for?
A Vista home install+Office and a few bits `n`n bobs easily comes to 60gb? I`m also concerned about all the writing to disk Windows does and the moving of large files frequently to the drive, do you intend to run the page file elsewhere?
I`ve looked at a few 256gb options but I think we need a few more years of development on SSD. I`ve come to the conclusion Intel leads the way, despite the seemingly low write performance.
A Vista home install+Office and a few bits `n`n bobs easily comes to 60gb? I`m also concerned about all the writing to disk Windows does and the moving of large files frequently to the drive, do you intend to run the page file elsewhere?
I`ve looked at a few 256gb options but I think we need a few more years of development on SSD. I`ve come to the conclusion Intel leads the way, despite the seemingly low write performance.
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My plan is to get a 160GB G2 when they're available... I'll have it as my primary C: Volume - then install Windows7 & my core apps on that, all other apps that I don't consider core, movies & mp3's will go on my USB drive. I think having the swap file on the SSD would be much more beneficial than on a standard HDD too.
Personally I think I'll see a massive performance difference because my current laptop HDD is the bottleneck for my machine - everything else I'm happy with.
Windows 7 is much smaller, once you disable hibernation and shrink the pagefile a bit you can get Win7+ Office and other apps in under 20GB.
that leaves 60GB for games, which is enough for me to have 5 or 6 big games installed at a time. When i need more space to play something else i just cut and paste the game install folder to a mechanical drive, that way it takes much less time to reinstall (just copy the folder back - even the biggest games only take around 2 minutes to move across).
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I'm a graphic designer so it'll be win7, adobe suite and whatever project files I'm working on. It'd be nice, I'm sure, to have your games start up a few seconds faster but when you're working on half-gigabyte .psd files, or .indd files with a few hundred links in them the difference between ssd and mechanical is stunningly big.
I want an 80Gb SSD drive for OS+office+AV and all those small programs! Games, movies, tv shows, etc will be on a HDD
So, for me 80Gb is more than enough.
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80Gb wouldn't be enough for me, but that's only because I have an assload of games. For OS + various office-type applications and a couple of games, 80Gb is more than enough.