Kingston announces 'affordable' SSDNow V100 drives

[Puiu]

i wonder how much the prices will drop in 2011-2012. 2010 is still not affordable for the average Joe.

 

[klepto12]

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.

 

[DSparil]

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.

 

[ET3D]

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.

 

[Leeky]

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.

 

[fpsgamerJR62]

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.

 

[grvalderrama]

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

 

[Guest]

Today, there are more affordable hdtvs (plasma, lcd, led) than SSDs.

 

[zogo]

I don't see that much progress in the pricing or it's just me
Probably the drop off will go very very slowly

 

[klepto12]

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.

 

[xcelofjkl]

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.