INTEL SOLID STATE PRICE DROPS

80Gb for £100 would actually be a very good deal, your looking at just enough storage capacity to fit in a reasonable amount of programs & games without constantly having to reinstall software. Lets hope the technology matures to the point where we will see SSDs a standard component in most builds. I'd say your price prediction is wishful thinking though, that said I know nothing about how the technology is developing in terms of production cost efficiency.
 
randal24 said:
Any chance of these price drops spreading across the SSD range Slackworth? i.e Crucial drives?

Is this price drop down to exchange rate conditions?
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Nope. Intel have dropped their $ purchase price.

Meaker said:
Oh its going to be late this year but with something like this they want a more gradual transition so they are not left with a lot of old stock.
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Correct. Very good business sense by them to be fair.

You have to remember though that when Gen. 3 comes out, Gen.4 will be x amount of time away. Unless you have a LOT of money, you will never be able to keep up with the market 100%.

colzboppo said:
80Gb for £100 would actually be a very good deal, your looking at just enough storage capacity to fit in a reasonable amount of programs & games without constantly having to reinstall software. Lets hope the technology matures to the point where we will see SSDs a standard component in most builds. I'd say your price prediction is wishful thinking though, that said I know nothing about how the technology is developing in terms of production cost efficiency.
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Going to be a while before we see a good SSD anywhere near that price. Cheaper SSD's are appearing on the market but the specification I would say is actually taking a backwards step. Anything remotely decent and the price is on the increase.
 
I'm quite looking forward to the Intel Gen.3 SSDs. From reading about the process on Anandtech, they can fit double the storage in the same amount of space. In theory this means double the current storage for the same price, but that doesn't take into account demand, taxes, etc.

It's a step in the right direction though.
 
Tute said:
I'm quite looking forward to the Intel Gen.3 SSDs. From reading about the process on Anandtech, they can fit double the storage in the same amount of space. In theory this means double the current storage for the same price, but that doesn't take into account demand, taxes, etc.

It's a step in the right direction though.
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The only problem is that as NAND gets smaller the number of writes each cell can take gets lower, though that is kind of offset by the fact they can increase sizes for the same price so they should last around the same amount of time in the end.
 
BigBruiserAl said:
whats the average life span of a intel ssd approx please?
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Intel state that the drive will last a minimum of 5 years if you write 20GB a day to them, but state realisticly you can write 100GB a day to them and still last the 5 years.

"The drive will have a minimum of 5 years of useful life under typical client workloads with up to 20 GB of host writes per day."
 
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Broken Hope said:
Intel state that the drive will last a minimum of 5 years if you write 20GB a day to them, but state realisticly you can write 100GB a day to them and still last the 5 years.

"The drive will have a minimum of 5 years of useful life under typical client workloads with up to 20 GB of host writes per day."
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thank you kind sir.....dont think i have kept anything 5 yrs except the wife so ill pop one in me basket :D
 
damn, the 160gb costs more than my netbook itself, can't justfy buying one... tempted to get an 80gb and downgrade heavily on my space usage (only 1 drive slot in my system)
 
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