The SSD Price Wars has Started?!?!?!

[exdeath]

:'( I'll miss the charm of spinning platters.

If your idea of "charm" is a file transfer progress bar with the caption "267 hours remaining..." or a flash light spinning in an Explorer folder while being blinded by a solid access light...

 

[bradley]

Umm...?

What are you on about? USB Flash Drives and Solid State Drives aren't the same thing, though some of the fundamentals are identical.

I fail to see the controversy. Flash technology was adapted to SSD, only the controller in SDD is much more robust and sophisticated (more channels) and the NAND of much higher quality.

 

[LOL_Wut_Axel]

I fail to see the controversy. Flash technology was adapted to SSD, only the controller in SDD is much more robust and sophisticated (more channels) and the NAND of much higher quality.

Yeah, that and SanDisk is using multi-level cell NAND like all the others, not triple-level. I don't know what his whole ordeal about TLC NAND is when there are no current SSDs on the market using it (at least to my knowledge).

 

[bryanW1995]

256 GB Crucial M4 for $219.99 (no rebate - free) shipping @ Buy.com. 5% more off using discover cash back.

Dropping like a rock!

I couldn't resist that. Bought 2 for Raid 0. Looks like my x25m g2 is going into my work rig...

 

[cmdrdredd]

Just grabbed up a Crucial M4 (128GB) today off amazon. Yeah Newegg was $5 cheaper but not with Amazon Prime I got better shipping.

Anyway I know some SSDs are better deals on a price per GB ratio but I am not risking my data. I've done a ton of reading and many people have SSD issues or failures *shrug*. Crucial & Samsung seem to be the best ones right now aside from the Intel drives with Intel controllers. So having said that I would recommend people check out the forums around the net for user reports on the drives they're looking at and get an idea for the reliability.

 

[jhansman]

Imagine a day when, like today with rotational media, SSDs hit the $50/TB level (ala the recent deal on the 3TB external at Costco). Could happen. OK, maybe not that cheap, but when the gee whiz factor wears off of SSDs (and it won't be long), large drives should become affordable.

 

[cmdrdredd]

I've waited a long time before going to SSD myself because of pricing and capacity. Now that it's pretty reasonable for a 120GB or larger SSD I went for it.