[DuckieHo]

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/...launch-tuesday

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ALMOST THREE WEEKS ago the INQ revealed Intel would be launching its next generation SSD drives based on 34nm NAND chips within about two weeks. Well, as it turns out we were off by only about a week, with new information reaching us today that launch date will actually be Tuesday 21st July. The INQ has it on good authority that come close of play next Tuesday, the new and improved, cheaper, faster chips will be available for channel orders. While there is a school of thought which claims the days of SSDs may be drawing to a close before they've even fully begun, system builders don't seem to be buying into the cynicism, with UK firm Mesh telling the INQ it has big plans for implementing the new smaller NAND chips. Mesh has already launched its Slayer gaming range with SSD units in every system, but the firm's sales and marketing director, Tony Rockhardi told us "I'm looking for 100 per cent penetration with SSD." He added, "by Tuesday next week, we expect SSD to be an available upgrade for every system in our range and, if the new technologies bring the kind of savings I'm looking for, then I'd expect every Mesh machine to be booting from an SSD by Bonfire Night" [5 November]. Previously, high costs, limited capacities and sometimes questionable reliability have made SSDs something of a niche offering, but our sources tell us Intel's upcoming babies will not only be super fast and ultra dependable, but will be able to undercut everyone else in the market price wise. We already know there will be 320GB, 160GB and 80GB capacities of the new drives, but we've also got our fingers crossed for a 500GB version to show up. µ

Note: " will be able to undercut everyone else in the market price wise."

Original rumors: http://www.overclock.net/hardware-ne...sd-coming.html

 

[ritchwell]

That is great news, let the price wars begin...This will definately benefit us in our pocket.

 

[rRav3n]

at last a decent size for me macbook ...

hopefully they wont be priced to high though .. has price been annouced

 

[DuckieHo]

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Originally Posted by rRav3n has price been annouced

Since the drives haven't been announced... the prices are still unknown.

 

[SyncMaster753]

they CAN undercut the competition, but chances are they won't and just enjoy larger profit margins on these faster "premium" ssd's

vendors will see lower prices, but the end retail SSD's will probably be priced similarly to current models.

 

[DuckieHo]

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Originally Posted by SyncMaster753 they CAN undercut the competition, but chances are they won't and just enjoy larger profit margins on these faster "premium" ssd's vendors will see lower prices, but the end retail SSD's will probably be priced similarly to current models.

The Samsung IC + Indilinx Barefoot combo are definitely hurting Intel's sales. If anything, their new pricing point would at least complete with them.

 

[nardox]

Most 80GB SSDs are about $320-350 now, so I wonder how much cheaper and how much faster the new Intel drives will be

 

[Poppinj]

I would love to see a cheap 500 GB SSD by Jan/Feb when I plan on my next build. Cant wait to see the opening prices.

 

[mardon]

If there is one out around the time windows 7 is delivered i'll be getting one for my system drive. It has to be under £1500 though.

 

[rRav3n]

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Originally Posted by DuckieHo Since the drives haven't been announced... the prices are still unknown.

yeh i ment like a speculated ball park figure ... but yeh i know a little early

 

[DuckieHo]

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Originally Posted by Poppinj I would love to see a cheap 500 GB SSD by Jan/Feb when I plan on my next build. Cant wait to see the opening prices.

I rather have some low-priced, high performance 30-40GB SSDs for RAID...

 

[mothergoose729]

An 80gb SSD would be pretty sweet for less then three hundred. Intel has done a lot of good things with firmware updates to decrease losses in performance over time when filling up the drives. People who say that the SSD will die before it even starts are kidding themselves I think...

 

[iota]

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Tony Rockhardi told us "I'm looking for 100 per cent penetration with SSD."

I had to stop at this point in the article to suppress giggling.

Anyway....

I certainly hope this improves pricing for us human-folk.

 

[ChielScape]

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Originally Posted by DuckieHo I rather have some low-priced, high performance 30-40GB SSDs for RAID...

RAID on SSDs is pointless...it wont do much for your boot times compared to a single SSD, nor for any other app handling unless you do some b**ching video editing normally done on large farms.

 

[specops]

right now i can't record with fraps at over 720 resolution without lagging. I was thinking it was my 7200 rpm hard drive that was killing my recording performance. If i was to get one of these new SSD's do you think i would be able to record video with fraps at 720 or 1080 without lagging? With my system in my sig of coarse

 

[danielwaldron]

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Originally Posted by specops right now i can't record with fraps at over 720 resolution without lagging. I was thinking it was my 7200 rpm hard drive that was killing my recording performance. If i was to get one of these new SSD's do you think i would be able to record video with fraps at 720 or 1080 without lagging? With my system in my sig of coarse

An SSD should enable you to record with fraps at over 720p or 1080 without Lag. 7200RPM isnt all that slow, but it is probably the 'let down' of your system if you get what I mean? An SSD or a VelociRaptor should both have a similar effect. it just depends on how much you have to spend

 

[Exidous]

If they come out with 160GB for under 400 sign me up for two

 

[DuckieHo]

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Originally Posted by specops right now i can't record with fraps at over 720 resolution without lagging. I was thinking it was my 7200 rpm hard drive that was killing my recording performance. If i was to get one of these new SSD's do you think i would be able to record video with fraps at 720 or 1080 without lagging? With my system in my sig of coarse

Try writing to separate HD... it should help.

 

[markatto]

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Originally Posted by specops right now i can't record with fraps at over 720 resolution without lagging. I was thinking it was my 7200 rpm hard drive that was killing my recording performance. If i was to get one of these new SSD's do you think i would be able to record video with fraps at 720 or 1080 without lagging? With my system in my sig of coarse

If you're only recording a few minutes at a time, you could make a ramdisk and write to that. Raw uncompressed video will get big fast though.

 

[specops]

i only have 1 hard drive atm so i cant write to a seperate. Do you guys think a velraptor 160gb hard drive would be enough to let me record at 720 or 1080? How much faster do you think the new intel SSD's will be compared to the raptor? 2x? 4x? 10?