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Intel releases laptop, desktop SSDs

Tim Parker

..and the laptop ?..... 

Posted Monday 8th September 2008 22:09 GMT

(come on, the suspense is killing me...)

Tim Parker

Re: ..and the laptop ?..... 

Posted Monday 8th September 2008 22:09 GMT

(missed using the humour icon... this may help)

http://childrensbooks.about.com/od/productreviews/fr/eats_shoots.htm

Gary F

Expensive... 

Posted Monday 8th September 2008 22:09 GMT

Stop

£4 per GB vs £2.60 per GB for the new OCX Core V2. The OCX V2 boats 170MB/sec read against Intel's 250GB (not proved by punters/reviewers yet) but the OCX trumps Intel's 70MB/sec write with 98MB/sec write, plus it has a USB mini port for firmware upgrades.

I don't see how Intel will compete without a massive price drop soon after launch.

Andy Barber

WTF... 

Posted Monday 8th September 2008 22:09 GMT

Unhappy

... is "write amplification"

Simon Mirsh

@ Andy Barber 

Posted Tuesday 9th September 2008 08:45 GMT

Go

Write amplification explained...

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2329594,00.asp

Arnold Lieberman

Has been reviewed 

Posted Tuesday 9th September 2008 10:17 GMT

Heart

Seems to be very good at database-type applications, not so hot for write performance. But look at the IO performance ;-)

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/Intel-x25-m-SSD,review-31316.html

Now to get the boss to buy a few for "testing" purposes...

b

YUMMY more competition in the SSD space, please! 

Posted Tuesday 9th September 2008 16:02 GMT

Thumb Up

the more the merrier..

bring it on, SSD's are about 5 years behind schedule, imo..:)