Vertex 3 Ship Date/Pricing

[Syne]

Pulled from here:

http://forums.storagereview.com/index.php/topic/29739-ocz-vertex-3-prices-and-ship-date/

Direct from the admin of storagereview, so it should be legit

Ship date is 1-2 weeks, and pricing is $280 for 120GB and $540 for 240GB. This is up from the $250 / $ 500 pricing listed in Anand's article. From the post:

"These prices are up slightly from originally expected due to NAND price fluctuations"

It doesn't look like these G3 drives will be any improvement pricewise, at least initially

 

[GrandPixel]

They are in stock currently at Newegg (probably not for long). But I want to bring up the pricing. A couple of sources have said pricing will be $249/$499 for 120GB/240GB respectively. They are selling for $299/$549.

Is this really because of NAND price fluctuations, or is it because these drives are in huge demand and short supply? Expected to come down to $249/$499? What do you think?

 

[RaistlinZ]

It sucks you have to pay $500+ to get the full performance the Vertex 3 has to offer.

 

[GrandPixel]

I'm still reading the review. I presume 240GB is a good amount faster than 120GB.

EDIT: Finished reading. Looks like 240GB Vertex 3 is the only real high-performance option (Intel's 510 looks good too perhaps), or wait for Anand to review other drives of similar capacity.