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The drives offer a 1.5Gbps or 3Gbps SATA interface and will be available as either standalone or in upgrade bundle kits, with the latter offering cloning software, SATA and power cables and either a 3.5-inch hard drive mounting bracket in the desktop bundle, or an external enclosure in the notebook package to use the replaced hard drive as additional storage. In terms of power consumption the new V100 SSDs will use up 6.4W during operation and 1.0W at idle. All three have a life expectancy of 1 million hours mean time before failure (MTBF) and come with a three-year warranty.
The 64GB, 128GB and 256GB versions will set you back $120, $225 and $490, respectively, while you'll need to shell out an additional $10 if you're purchasing the notebook or desktop bundles.
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Puiu said:
i wonder how much the prices will drop in 2011-2012. 2010 is still not affordable for the average Joe.
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these drives are still high IMO but if we wait within the next 2 years we should see a nice drop in price and a small leap in capacity for a better end user experience.
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Too pricey at the moment. I'd give it a year or so more.
Expensive computer parts today turns to garbage in a year or so.
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Guest said:
$96 for 64 GB is not affordable, but it would be ok,
$128 for 128 GB is affordable, and
$192 for 256 GB is very affordable and a just price.
You're confusing "affordable" with "good value for money". $96 is less than $192 and therefore more affordable.
I think I'll wait some more. 64GB is a reasonable (though borderline) size for a boot drive, so it may be worth buying a drive once it drops some more.
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Leeky said:
I must be alone in thinking those prices are actually quite good. I wish I'd held off buying my SSD now, I could have had two of them for what I paid!
Hopefully I can get a SSD for my lappy soon.
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The price of an Intel 160 GB SSD at my favorite computer shop is equivalent to the price of a pair of Western Digital 2-Terabyte Caviar Black 7200 RPM HDDs. Do the math. SSDs can only be considered affordable in a sort of "bang for buck" manner if speed really matters and also relative to the size of your wallet.
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Kingston must be doing their market researching to some very wealthy people. They should include a glossary with the meaning of the words they are using xD
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Today, there are more affordable hdtvs (plasma, lcd, led) than SSDs.
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I don't see that much progress in the pricing or it's just me
Probably the drop off will go very very slowly :P
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The price of an Intel 160 GB SSD at my favorite computer shop is equivalent to the price of a pair of Western Digital 2-Terabyte Caviar Black 7200 RPM HDDs. Do the math. SSDs can only be considered affordable in a sort of "bang for buck" manner if speed really matters and also relative to the size of your wallet.
yes 2 of those HDDs would be nice but 1 ssd destroys it in every single benchmark i personally am building a nice rig in november and i will be putting a 120GB ssd in my rig but i have a nice 1TB WD as my backup drive for storage and such.
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All (and I mean all) professional reviews of kingston drives have been less than bad. Kingston shouldn't even be mentioned amongst the other top SSD offerings.
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