Intel G3 SSDs now "320 Series", Coming March

mrbios said:
Don't presume i'd be lucky enough that the 40GB 25nm drives will be around £1 per/gb?

I assume no one has any ideas on price yet?
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The new 25nm Sandforce drives will be retailing at around $1.65/Gb. That would work out at around £1.25/Gb, taking into account VAT (but perhaps may turn out to be a little higher, due to UK / EU price inflation).

I would expect the intel drives to be slightly cheaper, but I haven't heard anything concrete yet. I think that hoping for £1/Gb might be a bit optimistic though, especially for a 40Gb drive.
 
Will be interesting to see some benchmarks. OCZ are already coming in for some stick for switching to 25nm in their vertex 2 range without making any assocaited model number change, because sequential write speeds have suffered quite badly (~30MB/s for the smaller drives. That's not a difference, it's a total).
 
drifting said:
My 34nm has degraded seriously and I have lost 40% performance in 4k random :(
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That's strange as my 2 x 80GB G2's, which are both around 16 months old gained some performance with the last Intel firmware update...

Also, how much data is on them?

Is "write caching" enabled in Device manager?

What OS are you using?

You could try doing a "secure erase" after doing a backup image and then after the erase is done replace image onto it...
 
Out of curiosity, was there a generally accepted opinion as to when SSDs would hit £1/gb? Was this supposed to be it? I would bite Intels arm off for the 120GB for £120.
 
Depends on market factors I guess. They might think it's not in their interest to drive down prices too far.

I'm going to pick up the 300gigger as long as its less than £400 at launch. That should serve forever in my laptop.
 
Adrianr said:
Out of curiosity, was there a generally accepted opinion as to when SSDs would hit £1/gb? Was this supposed to be it? I would bite Intels arm off for the 120GB for £120.
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You might be able to pick up something EOL for close to £1/gb once these new ones come out.

That's what I did when the OCZ vertex 2's were released: I got a 100gb older model for £140.

Anyways, stop being such a cheapskate and upgrade already. Having a SSD will make computer awesome.:cool:
 
madindehead said:
However, the talk was that the new Intel drives would be good price/performance drives, not crazy performance drives. As far as I know, the performance upgrade from the G2's isn't that massive.
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That's pretty much par for the course anyway. The Intel drives are nice and quick, but the advantage you have over Sandforce is that it's less likely to wet it's pants and never work again.

I'm happy to lose performance for the peace of mind that these drives will bring.
 
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