Intel's 34nm NAND SSDs launch in two weeks

[Spoiler]

now thats REALLY SOME BULLLLLLLLL SHIIIIIITTTT !!!!!!!

what upsets me most is I have bought TONS of stuff at reasonable prices and this is utter price gouging.

the G1s they even raised to over 300.00 and the 160g to 997.00 LMAO

I sure hope everyone boycots Newegg for the next 30 days

+1 Agreed. I'm done with them for a while.

[Kanzy]

now thats REALLY SOME BULLLLLLLLL SHIIIIIITTTT !!!!!!!

what upsets me most is I have bought TONS of stuff at reasonable prices and this is utter price gouging.

the G1s they even raised to over 300.00 and the 160g to 997.00 LMAO

I sure hope everyone boycots Newegg for the next 30 days

+1 Gonna avoid them for some time

[Griff805]

Glad I picked up a G1 last week at 190.00 after some cashback stuff. Newlow for Newegg. They can charge what they want, nothing illegal about it, but to not offer a better price for their customer's is very telling of what their priorities are.

[MoMo_RT]

Meh and NewEgg removed them once again... So their either about to put them back up for sale at a different price or their pulling random ****

Oh and note the advanced search price ranges.... They don't list an exact price but even the 80gb falls in the $400-$500 range.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...5-m+g2&x=0&y=0

Oh and WTF is up with this price?!

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820167005

SSDSA2MH080G1 $359.00... That's COMPLETE BS

[boostdfd3s]

I really want a single 80GB G2 to put in my new 13" MBP but I got tired of waiting so I picked up a 60GB Vertex Turbo. Should do the job just fine until the G2's are readily in stock and I can buy one along with a second 60GB Vertex Turbo and RAID the VT's in my Mac Pro.

Certainly will be looking places besides Newegg though. I *hate* price gouging.

[BulldogPO]

I did do some testing with my two new 80GB Intel SSD´s.



Single drive connected to Intel ICH10R




Then two drives on RAID 0 and with stripe size set on default 128KB.



Best performing stripe setting seems to be 32KB one.

Than read tests:


Again single Intel 80GB 34nm SSD.


RAID 0 with stripe set to default 128KB.


RAID 0 with stripe set to 32KB.

So my conclusion is that testing those different stripe sizes did pay off fine
32KB Stripe size is winner in every aspect, at least when using ICH10R.

Rest of my test results are here.(CrystalDishBench, HD Tach and PCMark05 HDD Suite.

[neonblingbling]

Nice benchmarks! Really tempting now, since my laptop's harddrive only averages 52 MB/s, and of course seek time is a slow 14.6 ms.

[One_Hertz]

BulldogPO - you are testing with flawed benchmarks and with the cache off. They can not test RAID setups properly.

[CrimInalA]

I just got my 2 160 drives in .
@ BulldogPO : Thanks for the tip on 32k stripesize , because i wanted to go 128k at first .

[dum]

I really want a single 80GB G2 to put in my new 13" MBP but I got tired of waiting so I picked up a 60GB Vertex Turbo. Should do the job just fine until the G2's are readily in stock and I can buy one along with a second 60GB Vertex Turbo and RAID the VT's in my Mac Pro.

Certainly will be looking places besides Newegg though. I *hate* price gouging.

yea that was bs, they sold out again in a day though

[Kanzy]

Got my two 80G, haven't install them

[MoMo_RT]

Got my two 80G, haven't install them

Ha sell them to me... I think I'm going to harass you in PM

[TankGuys]

I've got 5 160Gb drives in stock (and I'm not gouging )

Had some 80's, sold out quick, but I'm working in getting more ASAP!

[BulldogPO]

BulldogPO - you are testing with flawed benchmarks and with the cache off. They can not test RAID setups properly.

How they are flawed?
So what software do you recommend?

[Brahmzy]

The stripe size is absolutely meaningless the way you're "benching" it. WAY, WAY, WAY more things to consider than an HDTach screen.

[dum]

I've got 5 160Gb drives in stock (and I'm not gouging )

Had some 80's, sold out quick, but I'm working in getting more ASAP!

man you are straight up, newegg was charging 499.00 for an 80 gig, you have a 160 for less, to be honest I forgot about you, bought my e6600 from u about 3 years ago

[zalbard]

I've got 5 160Gb drives in stock (and I'm not gouging )

Had some 80's, sold out quick, but I'm working in getting more ASAP!

I might need a 80 Gb drive soon, so I'll keep checking your site. Thanks for letting us know!

[Armitage]

350$ at newegg for the 80gb btw

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820167016

[Rhys]

350$ at newegg for the 80gb btw

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820167016

WTF Lol! I don't believe how much cheaper these things are in the uk!

[lowfat]

Lol @ the people who buy them for this price. That is disgusting.

[BulldogPO]

Brahmzy: That´s funny as all other programs that I used tell similar results (CrystalDiskBench, HD Tune and PCMark05).

[ACS]

Hello guys,
Ive got a question about TRIM. I just managed to purchase a x25m 160gb gen2 drive, while im waiting for it i read around that there will be some firmware update from intel to actually enable TRIM?
Is there a way to use TRIM already , im planning to install a fresh w7 64bit on that drive, on Anandtech they say to use trim you must use the microsoft default driver instead of intel matrix/chipset. Is that the case or i must wait for intel to release their firmware update.
Thanks !

[ownage]

Anyone noticed huge performance drops when the disk is full? My system became real laggy. I had to delete a few ISO's, to make it stable again.
I heard you have to keep empty disk space when using an SSD, but is it really that important?

[Ao1]

Hello guys,
Ive got a question about TRIM. I just managed to purchase a x25m 160gb gen2 drive, while im waiting for it i read around that there will be some firmware update from intel to actually enable TRIM?
Is there a way to use TRIM already , im planning to install a fresh w7 64bit on that drive, on Anandtech they say to use trim you must use the microsoft default driver instead of intel matrix/chipset. Is that the case or i must wait for intel to release their firmware update.
Thanks !

Win 7 is already TRIM enabled, but it will not work until Intel update the G2 firmware. It seems that only G2 drives will be updated to become TRIM enabled.

[Anemic]

Got two drives for $290 a piece! One for me and one for my friend. Stores here in Swedonia are getting them in stock finally.