What happened to Gigabytes Solid State Storage??

[CalamitySymphony]

I was really excited when I read the article on Anandtech, I mean finally we are getting a SERIOUS upgrade in speed on the slowest part of EVERYONE's computer!

But it doesn't seem like its out and no one is talking about it.

Is anyone else seeing much potential here or am i just missing something/

 

[Hacp]

Right now, the max it can do is sata150, which frankly isn't much of an improvement considering its cost. Also, it can only accept 4Gb. Too much cost per GB to be usefull.

 

[n0cmonkey]

I'm waiting for it. I've got plenty of extra ram.

 

[CalamitySymphony]

I think the Cost/Gigabyte should be high, but the speed increase should offset that quite a bit.

I guess 4 GBs would cost you about $300 dollars, and you can probably put 2 cards in (for 8 gbs). Which to me is plenty for boot/applications/1 or 2 games...

 

[ribbon13]

You can get SSDs from other companies still. Gigabyte would have to compete with M-systems and BitMicro

 

[imported_Kensai]

It's on a slow connection.. They should've picked SATAII or PCI-E.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Kensai
It's on a slow connection.. They should've picked SATAII or PCI-E.

While throwing more buzzwords into a product might make geeks hard, I think it might be fine as is for a gen 1 product. Although, I'm not sure how useful it would be for most people, even if it was SATA2 compliant.

 

[Jiggz]

It's the access time that matters the most. True high transfer rate will also be nice but if we can just make existing mechanical hdd to access to even half of those SSD it will be very nice. The I-Ram just started selling last week. It should be available by this time. I might get me one for paging purposes, or even as an OS drive.