G3 listed in intels tool box

[rgallant]

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?p=4546961

-not much , but it's a start.

 

[Qbah]

600GB! :awe:

 

[lsv]

I hope they're affordable, $300 for 80gigs when I bought this puppy was high but I'd def spend say $500 for 600gigs 😀

 

[Makaveli]

lmao 600GBs SSD for $500 maybe on the next planet 😛

 

[CurseTheSky]

I'm just hoping for something in the 120-250 GB range for around $200-250. We're already seeing some Indilinx and even Sandforce drives dropping near that price range, so I'm keeping my hopes up.

2011 should be the year of SSDs, IMO. I'd say by this time next year, we'll see SSDs affordable enough to be in nearly every new computer.

 

[mv2devnull]

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?p=4546961-not much , but it's a start.

That is a page from a manual. Who in sane/manly state of mind (a) reads manuals and (b) believes that they correspond to any existing or future product?🙄

 

[bad_monkey]

I hope they're affordable, $300 for 80gigs when I bought this puppy was high but I'd def spend say $500 for 600gigs 😀

That's about $1.20/GB. We are still a ways a way from that price range. $2/GB is getting close (Kingston 64GB is around that I think) but for the top performers (C300, vertex 2, x-25M, etc) we won't see prices near $1.20/GB for a while.

 

[FishAk]

While I highly doubt Intel's G3 drives will be "affordable", I'm hopeful their introduction will cause the other top performers to start pushing the $1.20/Gb zone. Prices can't realisticly drop too much though, till the price of flash chips drop.

 

[bad_monkey]

I hear ya! I'm waiting until the G3's are out till I buy but I hope and think that it will push down the price a fair amount.

 

[fleshconsumed]

I'm hoping 300GB drive will sell for a reasonable amount, but chances are it will cost at least $450.

 

[FishAk]

A 300Gb drive would have a lot of channels. It should easily saturate a SATA II port, and the 4k opps should be pretty good too. For that kind of performance, I think $450 is quite reasonable, considering the alternatives.

 

[taltamir]

using 25nm should reduce manufacturing cost to less than half what it is with 32nm (one of the biggest cost increases is due to die stacking, each "chip" you see on your drive actually contains multiple die)... BUT, the 32nm manufacturing process ALSO reduced costs to less than half to make the drives, yet prices did not go down as much...

While I highly doubt Intel's G3 drives will be "affordable", I'm hopeful their introduction will cause the other top performers to start pushing the $1.20/Gb zone. Prices can't realisticly drop too much though, till the price of flash chips drop.

the G3 controller main feature is that it has been modified to work only with intel/microns new 25nm chips, while the G2 only works with the 32nm chips.
And the MLC 25nm chips manufacture schedule is actually ahead of the controller.
So the intel G3 will involve a price drop on flash chip. (or rather, a manufacturing price drop... whether their actual SALE price drops as well...)