Dane Elec 80GB SSD $190 (Intel)

[Zap]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820157021

$239.99
-50 coupon code EMCYZNT44 for Newegg Newsletter subscribers
FREE shipping

I've also heard that you can get 1% Bing cashback sometimes (try searching for "motherboards" without any adblocker).

This drive is a 1.8" version of the Intel 80GB MLC SSD (gen 1). It has the full performance of the 2.5" MLC drives, but of course will never get Trim because it isn't gen 2.

It is a "kit" consisting of a 2.5" adapter to essentially make it a normal notebook drive (but I heard spacing is off by a hair so it doesn't fit right in some notebooks like some Lenovos). It also has a copy of Acronis on a 64MB USB bootable flash drive, plus a 2.5" USB enclosure. Basically it is intended as an upgrade kit for notebooks. Just use Acronis to clone the notebook drive over, and then use the old notebook drive in the USB enclosure as an external HDD.

I bet the 1.8" drive will look mighty funny dangling behind the side window of someone's system. ^_^

 

[MagickMan]

are the manual utils as effective as TRIM?

 

[BenJeremy]

Just an FYI on SSDs... TRIM doesn't work when you RAID them. OCZ recommends Diskeeper 2010 with "Hyperfast" to handle the garbage collection on SSD drives. Not sure on the intel-based drives, but my own SSDs have internal garbage collection when idling (you have to pick the firmware, TRIM or GC).

Not sure if that coupon code works with a purchase of multiple drives... also bear in mind the write speeds are on the slow side compared to some of the competitors, but doing a striped array can alleviate some of that issue.

Oh, and RAID-0 striped arrays basically multiply your speed by however many drive you have in your array. I'm getting 7.6 WEI for my Primary drive with a dual OCZ Agility setup.

 

[xenolith]

Tony TRIM for G1's and RAID SSDs:
http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/f...-free-space-and-clean-Nand-bring-on-TONY-TRIM

 

[Zap]

also bear in mind the write speeds are on the slow side compared to some of the competitors

They are "slow" but consistent. See this article:

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3667&p=6

Note the random write speeds are much better than the Indilinx based drives, which have much higher published specs.

 

[DukeN]

Tony TRIM for G1's and RAID SSDs:
http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/f...-free-space-and-clean-Nand-bring-on-TONY-TRIM

Wow that looks great - I see that its on the OCZ forum but doesn't reference a G1 but people on the net seem to say that it will do an unofficial TRIM anyways.

Thanks, wasn't aware of that!

Also, IMO a degraded G1 will probably outperform an Indilinx/other SSD in random read/write operations and still be orders of magnitude faster than a spindle drive.

I think you would need to have an i7 with lots of RAM running something pretty intensive (like VMWare) to tell the difference between an untrimmed G1 and a trimmed G2 IMO.

 

[EarthwormJim]

Wow that looks great - I see that its on the OCZ forum but doesn't reference a G1 but people on the net seem to say that it will do an unofficial TRIM anyways.

Thanks, wasn't aware of that!

Also, IMO a degraded G1 will probably outperform an Indilinx/other SSD in random read/write operations and still be orders of magnitude faster than a spindle drive.

I think you would need to have an i7 with lots of RAM running something pretty intensive (like VMWare) to tell the difference between an untrimmed G1 and a trimmed G2 IMO.

Simply copying a large file to the drive can reveal the difference.