Release dates for C400, Vertex 3, G3

gilljoy · 4 Mar 2011 at 15:37

just seen this : intel 320 series to launch in april

damn I really picked a bad time to try and decide which SSD to buy,

Corsaif F60, Crucial C300 64gb or now wait for the intel 320 decisions

gropingmantis · 4 Mar 2011 at 15:59

gilljoy said:
just seen this : intel 320 series to launch in april

Yay! 40-50k IOPS at under £100 for 80GB and I will be a very happy bunny. Come on Intel time to deliver the goods.

gilljoy · 4 Mar 2011 at 16:14

gropingmantis said:
Yay! 40-50k IOPS at under £100 for 80GB and I will be a very happy bunny. Come on Intel time to deliver the goods.

yea im definately holding off for a few weeks now

Mr Krugga · 4 Mar 2011 at 17:15

I hope these news are true and the drives will live up to the expectations. The C300 won't be wasted in my notebook and the new Intel drive would be more than welcome addition to my desktop.

160GB for £150 ish would be a dream price

gropingmantis · 4 Mar 2011 at 18:46

160GB for £150 might be pushing it but when you look at the price drop between G1 and G2 its not impossible. I really am hoping that the differences between G2 and G3 is close to G1 to G2.

Tute · 4 Mar 2011 at 19:28

I'll believe it when I see it. After all, these "G2 successors" were meant to be out Q4 last year going by first rumours.

I won't be stung waiting around for Intel to release price competitive drives again, they seem to be content wasting time for some reason.

gropingmantis · 4 Mar 2011 at 19:39

Wasting time or getting it right?

Tute · 4 Mar 2011 at 20:57

Wasting time.

Spyhop · 4 Mar 2011 at 21:26

Tute said:
I won't be stung waiting around for Intel to release price competitive drives again

I'll be waiting

I don't *need* an SSD now so I'm sticking with my gut that the G3 is the one I'll be happiest to drop some coin on.

gilljoy · 4 Mar 2011 at 21:58

gropingmantis said:
160GB for £150 might be pushing it but when you look at the price drop between G1 and G2 its not impossible. I really am hoping that the differences between G2 and G3 is close to G1 to G2.

any idea what the price drop was from G1 to G2, im tempted just to drop some money and get a C300 64gb

gropingmantis · 4 Mar 2011 at 23:05

It was more than 50%. The highest capacity went from $1000 to $440 and similar for the other capacities.

Adrianr · 5 Mar 2011 at 12:02

They'll launch 'mid april', so at the rate we've been going, May. Then factor in another month for the price to settle from the gouging and you're looking at June before we see these available, and even then they may not hit the price point we're all after.

In the meantime I've installed a C300 64gb, getting 3 months of SSD goodness, at the end of which I'l throw it in the laptop and buy a G3

All for the sake of about £20. Works for me! If These had come out in Feb, or even early March, I would have held off on the C300. But summer just seems that little bit too long to be missing out.

Spyhop · 5 Mar 2011 at 15:18

Adrianr said:
They'll launch 'mid april', so at the rate we've been going, May. Then factor in another month for the price to settle from the gouging and you're looking at June before we see these available

Cool. Just in time for a clean install of OS X 10.7

Duke · 5 Mar 2011 at 18:22

Add Corsair to the list - their new drive uses the Sandforce controller too.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/04/behold-corsairs-force-gt-ssd-flaming-red-shell-and-500-mb-s/

Meridiusuk · 5 Mar 2011 at 19:05

Hi all

I have an asus P7P55D-E Pro that has 2 Sata 3 6gb ports would these drives be good to use on my system ?

I know the ports can handle 5gb and not the full 6gb but wanted to know if the OCZ 3 drives owul be a good choise to use as i have been wating for the new drives to come out.

any info or help would be helpfull

thanks

Duke · 5 Mar 2011 at 19:49

Yep will be fine, I have the same board (P7P55D).

Meridiusuk · 6 Mar 2011 at 08:25

Duke said:
Yep will be fine, I have the same board (P7P55D).

which drive are you getting for your motherboard i was thinking ok the OCZ V 3 as it is very fast and has a very good long life or is there a better drive with teh same sort of specs ? as a lot of people seem to say these drives have a high faliure rate as i want to get anout 7 years out of it maybe a couple more.

cheers

Meridiusuk · 6 Mar 2011 at 08:28

I own windoes 7 pro 64bit and wanted to know can i just make an image of my drive now and then restore the image on the ssd drive and that will be it ? or do i still need to format it first.

also my windows 7 is installed as AHCI i would need to enable this first in the bios when i format or install th image to the drive ?

any tips would be helpfull

cheers

Duke · 6 Mar 2011 at 10:47

Meridiusuk said:
which drive are you getting for your motherboard

I'm going to wait to see the pricing of the C400 and Crucial GT first before deciding.

RSR · 16 Mar 2011 at 12:46

Does anyone have any futher updates on release dates?

As I have been thinking about ordering the C300.