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Give us 1GB per dollar SSD...

tweakboy

tweakboy

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I mean for a 500GB you pay 500 dollars,, that seems fair.

WTF is this techhinology of SSD doing,, the prices are way high. I bet you in few years you can grab a 500gb for 100 dollars.. stupid,,, they just suckin our moneys....

I want a 320GB SSD when the price goes down from 500 dollars to 350 or 400

They dont even have 320GB SSD,, its all 300GB ssd ,, 🙄

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Anyone who can't find <= $1/GB SSDs right now, fails big time.

That said NAND is way over priced. It's like the easiest thing to fab on silicon ever, it's like printing money.

It's in high demand (all mobile devices, memory cards, etc, not just SSDs) and it's relatively "new", so it will be milked for quite some time before solid state becomes an ubiquitous commodity.
 
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Wow, that m4 for $1.15/gb is very tempting. I've been planning 2 x 256gb ssd's, but a single 512gb ssd for around the same price would be tough to pass up. I'm in no rush, however, and I think that the m4's will get even cheaper before all is said and done.
 
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Wow, that m4 for $1.15/gb is very tempting. I've been planning 2 x 256gb ssd's, but a single 512gb ssd for around the same price would be tough to pass up. I'm in no rush, however, and I think that the m4's will get even cheaper before all is said and done.
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Very true, but if you're looking for the best bang-for-buck for a very high-performance drive the best choice is the Mushkin Chronos Deluxe 240GB. It's only $274 per-drive and it uses top of the line toggle-mode NAND and is one of the fastest SSDs on the market.
 
No Sandforce for me, even a 520, until I see the reliability data show a marked improvement. I would possibly consider a 520 in a few months if nothing rears its ugly head. I would MUCH rather have something like that 512gb m4 for $589, it's extremely fast and a LOT more reliable. Plus, with 2 sandforce drives in raid 0 I'd be constantly worried about when it would end. And nothing against Mushkin, but they're not intel, samsung, or crucial.
 
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No Sandforce for me, even a 520, until I see the reliability data show a marked improvement. I would possibly consider a 520 in a few months if nothing rears its ugly head. I would MUCH rather have something like that 512gb m4 for $589, it's extremely fast and a LOT more reliable. Plus, with 2 sandforce drives in raid 0 I'd be constantly worried about when it would end. And nothing against Mushkin, but they're not intel, samsung, or crucial.
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Those are some valid concerns, some of which I shared some months ago.

The thing with SandForce controllers is, SandForce and OCZ in particular expect early adopters to be Beta testers, and as they're reporting issues they go about solving them. After around six months of their release, most SandForce drives are on-par with others when it comes to reliability because of newer firmwares. I wouldn't expect any problems with any of the current SF drives because of it.

I did have some issues with my Vertex 3, but after installing firmware 2.15 they'd all gone away and I've been problem-free for months now.
 
The day tweakboy manages to demonstrate he has an IQ of over 75 is the day I will buy him an SSD. Nothing over $1/gb, of course.

You can find plenty of great SSD sales near that price tier. A couple of days ago an M4 128GB was $130 with coupon, and the next day Newegg had a Samsung 830 128GB for $140 shipped. Not too shabby.
 
Not even worth the time to comment on such a silly thread other than to say... I think someone didn't get enough attention as a child. 😛

And the useless thread award goes to.. :whiste:
 
I'm interested in how we would end up with non power of 2 sizes myself (over provisioning aside). 😛

5 x 64 GB or 10 x 32GB NAND seems weird.
 
exdeath said:
I'm interested in how we would end up with non power of 2 sizes myself (over provisioning aside). 😛

5 x 64 GB or 10 x 32GB NAND seems weird.
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You get a 256GB SSD and add a 64GB SSD onto it and that gives you 320GB SSD,,,,,,,,gl
 
lol tweakboy. You just need to do some shopping around 😀 GL,,,GB
 
Respectfully, "fair" has nothing to do with it.

Items are priced where the manufacturer feels they can make the best profit. SSD's are expensive because they are simply expensive to produce. As production methods become more efficient and economies of scale come into place prices will come down.

With all that said, yes it is frustrating. We want these things, we want them cheap and we want them now. Find a deal for a boot drive. In 5 years we'll be paying 25 cents/GB. That's my educated guess.
 
Hulk said:
Respectfully, "fair" has nothing to do with it.

Items are priced where the manufacturer feels they can make the best profit. SSD's are expensive because they are simply expensive to produce. As production methods become more efficient and economies of scale come into place prices will come down.

With all that said, yes it is frustrating. We want these things, we want them cheap and we want them now. Find a deal for a boot drive. In 5 years we'll be paying 25 cents/GB. That's my educated guess.
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You're wasting your time mate. The OP has no appreciation for the technical or logistical inner-workings of whats going on.
 
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I'm looking forward to the day SSDs are no more than 50 cents per Gb. Won't be this year unfortunately. I would love to start using 512Gb SSDs in my builds. Some day...some day... 🙂
 
Give us 1GB per dollar SSD...
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No, as a limited resource each one that is given to you in such a manner deprives another person of theirs.
People are willing to pay more for this very limited resource. Not only that, it is a manufactured resource and the fact that people are paying more is subsidizing the development of future versions that are cheaper and benefit all. So not only is giving it to you depriving another whose dollar vote says he needs it more (because he paid more), you are also depriving several others too because you reduce the rate of investment into the development of this artificial resource.
 
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