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Intel's budget-conscious 40GB X25-V SSD appears online
Previous information indicated the 40GB X25-V would target a $120 price point, and some premature online retailer listings have more or less confirmed this. An 80GB X25-V is also reportedly on the table, and Intel's upcoming 20-something-nanometer fabrication process should help with reducing costs, but whether or not the X25-V drives will launch with this technology remains to be seen.
Fudzilla reports that Intel's X25-M and X25-E drives will continue to be produced, and the former may scale all the way up to 600GB -- imagine the price on that drive. While Intel has not officially confirmed most of these nuggets, the 40GB X25-V's retail listing is enough evidence for us. Hopefully CES will reveal all.
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slh28
on December 18, 2009 3:52 PM |
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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9Nails
on December 18, 2009 8:40 PM |
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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Guest
on December 18, 2009 9:01 PM |
@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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Puiu
on December 19, 2009 2:04 AM |
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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compdata
on December 19, 2009 12:18 PM |
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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Guest
on December 19, 2009 7:41 PM |
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 Or Kingston "Boot Drive".. |
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Guest
on February 13, 2010 9:32 PM |
Kinston and Intel aren't the same company, knucklehead. |
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Guest
on February 17, 2010 10:10 PM |
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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Guest
on February 17, 2010 10:12 PM |
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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Punkid
on February 19, 2010 2:17 PM |
even though its a budget consious ssd, it still costs more than HDDs |
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