G2 Intel SSD $220 shipped @ newegg

[OILFIELDTRASH]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167016

made sure to have bought mine before posting this

 

[jinduy]

is this the latest and greatest offering from intel? does this thing live as long as a regular hard drive?

 

[her209]

Man, this is so tempting.

 

[LittleNemoNES]

tempting

 

[Miramonti]

I'm anxiously waiting for one of these faster ssd's to drop to roughly 60gb for $100, then I'll pounce.

Patience is a b!tch.

 

[ksheets]

This is by far the best "feels fast" upgrade that Ive done to my computer since I bought my first 3dfx Voodoo card...wish I had the money(And that intel supported trim) for a 2 drive raid setup

 

[nuprotocol]

Its another world using this SSD. However, I now have that stupid Windows 7 sleep bug where I cant get video after coming out of sleep. lol

 

[superHARD]

Its another world using this SSD. However, I now have that stupid Windows 7 sleep bug where I cant get video after coming out of sleep. lol

I have that same problem with 1 of my 2 monitor setup...

Know how I fixed it? I turned off sleep mode and just manually turn monitors off

 

[DukeN]

This is by far the best "feels fast" upgrade that Ive done to my computer since I bought my first 3dfx Voodoo card...wish I had the money(And that intel supported trim) for a 2 drive raid setup

Hate to break it to you but I don't think 2 drive RAID would do you much good - the randoms are where the performance lies here and they don't change with RAID on SSDs.

 

[DukeN]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820167016

made sure to have bought mine before posting this

About time this reached the price that was announced back in July (http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3605)

 

[mdockter]

I was going to buy one yesterday, but for some reason I waited. I sold an old OCZ Core SSD (First Generation) and a WD1500ADFD on eShortBus recently, and that covered it. OP, you saved me $60, I am greatful.

 

[Termie]

Jumped on one of these in December when TigerDirect had a great deal with bing. Newegg was $50 more at the time. Replacing my Raptor-150 with the 80GBG2 was the single greatest improvement to computer performance I have experienced since I replaced the floppy drive boot disk with a 50MB SCSI hard drive on my Apple IIGS in 1989.

 

[jjmIII]

Jumped on one of these in December when TigerDirect had a great deal with bing....

Me too . After Bing and a $10 Paypal promo I pd $212 .

I run the 80gb G2 in my lappy, but have the bug to get another, and replace my Kingston SSD w/ no Trim.

 

[nuprotocol]

I have that same problem with 1 of my 2 monitor setup...

Know how I fixed it? I turned off sleep mode and just manually turn monitors off

I like to save power and put the whole computer to sleep, so just turning the monitors off wont be good enough. I'm also running dual monitors. lol

 

[finbarqs]

on my laptop I never had the "can't wake up from sleep mode" on a G2 80GB... but I don't have the new firmware as well... my bios can't flash the drive..

 

[smartadze]

Here's a related question: does TRIM support increase performance, or only extend drive life?
The reason I ask is that I have a popular Abit I35-E mainboard, which does not support AHCI (no AHCI = no TRIM). Is an SSD a wise choice for a rig that doesn't have AHCI?

 

[Zap]

Hate to break it to you but I don't think 2 drive RAID would do you much good - the randoms are where the performance lies here and they don't change with RAID on SSDs.

I thought SSDs see more benefits from RAID than spindle drives DUE TO the low access times?

 

[nuprotocol]

Here's a related question: does TRIM support increase performance, or only extend drive life?
The reason I ask is that I have a popular Abit I35-E mainboard, which does not support AHCI (no AHCI = no TRIM). Is an SSD a wise choice for a rig that doesn't have AHCI?

It extends the drive life, and AHCI increases performance. I wouldn't buy the SSD for that rig since it doesn't support TRIM. one of the first things I did was flash the TRIM firmware to ensure my drive would last longer. This deal is a steal though, so if your going to be building a new rig or going to another mobo, then I would say pick it up.

 

[xboxist]

Am I the only one that wants to jump on the SSD train, but can't bring themselves to do so with all these random SSD issues you hear about in various forums?

Bricked drives, unable to flash, won't wake up from sleep mode, TRIM not working, etc. I think I'll wait a bit until these complaints become less widespread, and hopefully that will mean the costs come down too in the meantime.

 

[nuprotocol]

Flashing TRIM support almost resolves all of those issues. My sleep problem is common for Win 7 in general, not b/c of my drive. As long as your mobo supports AHCI, then you should be able to flash. If you meet those requirements, its a steal. Even with my sleep issue, I'll never go back to a regular drive as my OS drive.

 

[JBT]

Here's a related question: does TRIM support increase performance, or only extend drive life?
The reason I ask is that I have a popular Abit I35-E mainboard, which does not support AHCI (no AHCI = no TRIM). Is an SSD a wise choice for a rig that doesn't have AHCI?

crap it doesn't??? Should I even both with this drive then?

 

[her209]

The 160GB one is $430

 

[will792]

It extends the drive life, and AHCI increases performance. I wouldn't buy the SSD for that rig since it doesn't support TRIM. one of the first things I did was flash the TRIM firmware to ensure my drive would last longer. This deal is a steal though, so if your going to be building a new rig or going to another mobo, then I would say pick it up.

Trim improves performance but does not do anything with drive life. In a nutshell Trim makes unused by a file system blocks of flash memory empty so next write does not require moving existing data, releasing a block and finally a write. See SSD Relapse article, http://anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3631 for more info.

There is wear leveling in the controller that affects drive life by spreading writes across all cells. A number of writes for each cell is limited so by using all cells at similar rate would maximize period of time when most of the drive capacity is available for writing.

 

[nuprotocol]

TRIM has ALOT to do with Drive life. That's coming from Intel directly. lol

 

[xenolith]

TRIM maintains drive performance, it does not really "increase" or "improve" performance. Think of it as a kind of "garbage collection" where the leftover bits and bytes are cleaned away to maintain seq. read and random write speeds to the drive's new state.

TRIM doesn't extend drive life AFAIK... wear leveling does that by preventing the rewriting of the same cells constantly... which is a completely separate firmware feature than TRIM.