A-DATA's G2

[Collider]

Intel's 80GB G2 for only $229? Is this too good to be true?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...0211412&guid=23475eb1b018486598cd4f3f324874d9

 

[jjmIII]

I pd $212 after Bing and a Paypal promo from Tiger Direct. That was for a full Intel branded G2 drive.

This is a good price, but I think new SSD tech is around the corner, and prices are coming down on the 'old' stuff.

As far as too good to be true......it is OOS .

 

[Collider]

Yeah I saw it on sale last week but hesitated to buy... now its sold out

I was also reading about Intel doubling their SSD capacities later this year, so that should drive the prices down.

Any opinions? Buy one now or wait ?

 

[jjmIII]

I think the 80gb drives will hit less than $200....jump then.
If you have two 640 Blacks raided, your doing fine anyhow.

 

[sxr7171]

If you've been following the prices on those drives, they have been going up instead of down. There was a point when they were first introduced and they were $220. But stocks were hard to find and then they had their FW fiasco and that didn't help matter. The prices shot up into the $250-280 range. For a short period I was able to score one for $230 in late Nov. Since then the prices have been kept high by some sort of supply/demand game.

If you are seeing $229 then we are back to what they cost at launch. I expect them to get even cheaper over time but clearly it benefits Intel to keep the price high and capture some consumer surplus.

But the competition is heating up this year so I doubt we'll allow any one manufacturer to control prices later this year.

Then again everything rests on that colluding industry of Flash NAND makers. They keep getting nailed for collusion and they keep doing it. But then again you can't really blame them when after investing $billions into plants they find the supply/demand situation won't allow them to recover their investment. I suppose one would have to look deeper into it to start assigning blame.

Bottomline: That price does not surprise me one bit.

 

[Engineer]

If you've been following the prices on those drives, they have been going up instead of down.

During the recent few weeks, I think they have peaked and are on the way back down again. OCZ drives have nearly hit the $2 per GB price on several sizes lately. New drives around the corner might help this (unless they cause an even bigger shortage of NAND chips, lol).

 

[Collider]

If you've been following the prices on those drives, they have been going up instead of down. There was a point when they were first introduced and they were $220. But stocks were hard to find and then they had their FW fiasco and that didn't help matter. The prices shot up into the $250-280 range. For a short period I was able to score one for $230 in late Nov. Since then the prices have been kept high by some sort of supply/demand game.

If you are seeing $229 then we are back to what they cost at launch. I expect them to get even cheaper over time but clearly it benefits Intel to keep the price high and capture some consumer surplus.

But the competition is heating up this year so I doubt we'll allow any one manufacturer to control prices later this year.

Then again everything rests on that colluding industry of Flash NAND makers. They keep getting nailed for collusion and they keep doing it. But then again you can't really blame them when after investing $billions into plants they find the supply/demand situation won't allow them to recover their investment. I suppose one would have to look deeper into it to start assigning blame.

Bottomline: That price does not surprise me one bit.

Thanks for giving a good overview. I also remember the price being lower at launch and watched it rise over past year. The thought of paying almost $300 for only 80GB and not even able to fit all my apps on it made me go with WB blacks raided. But $229 sounds reasonable enough for an OS drive at the moment.