Intel's budget-conscious 40GB X25-V SSD appears online

User Comments: 10

1. December 18, 2009 3:52 PM
   

   slh28, TechSpot Paladin, said:

   Nice! When such a monopolistic company like Intel cuts their prices to affordable levels, you know the technology is about to go mainstream. Let's hope there aren't any performance bugs or anything like that though.

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2. December 18, 2009 8:40 PM
   9Nails, TechSpot Paladin, said:

   I've once read that anything under 120 GB doesn't have a good lifespan since the read/writes in an MLC SSD will wear a drive out after 10,000 writes. And a small disk like this doesn't allow a good wear leveling algorithm enough space to share the wear.

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3. December 18, 2009 9:01 PM
   Guest said:

   @slh28: Intel's whole business model follows Moore's law from which cascading lower prices follow as a law of nature. Monopolistic or not, anyone who cares to follow this industry can imply that Intel has hurt consumers by raising prices.

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4. December 19, 2009 2:04 AM
   

   Puiu said:

   i just want to know what performance this drive will have. From what i've seen small SSD's aren't that fast when it come to read/write speeds..

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5. December 19, 2009 12:18 PM
   

   compdata, TechSpot Paladin, said:

   Puiu said:

   i just want to know what performance this drive will have. From what i've seen small SSD's aren't that fast when it come to read/write speeds..

   Yeah, it all depends on the controller and how many raid channels of flash it uses (efficiently). It would be logical to assume that the smaller drives will have less channels available and that they will use a less expensive (and less powerful) controller as well.

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6. December 19, 2009 7:41 PM
   Guest said:

   Intel already has a budget 40GB SSD on the market, it's called the Kingston SSDNow V Series SNV125-S2BD... (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E1682013
   079)

   Or Kingston "Boot Drive"..

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7. February 13, 2010 9:32 PM
   Guest said:

   Kinston and Intel aren't the same company, knucklehead.

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8. February 17, 2010 10:10 PM
   Guest said:

   if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck.

   then there's a good chance that it's a duck.

   give your old trusty search engine a go and you'll see that the kingston 40gb-v is a intel x25-v

   who's the KH now.

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9. February 17, 2010 10:12 PM
   Guest said:

   if it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck.

   then there's a good chance that it's a duck.

   give your old trusty search engine a go and you'll see that the kingston 40gb-v is a intel x25-v

   who's the KH now.

   http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1111/3/

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10. February 19, 2010 2:17 PM
    Punkid said:

    even though its a budget consious ssd, it still costs more than HDDs

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