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    News - Intel drops the prices of its SSDs

    X25 solid state drives for notebooks and for enterprise are given a big price cut, is it enough?
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    Re: News - Intel drops the prices of its SSDs

    Still far too much money. SSDs need to either match HDDs in longevity, or prices.
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    Re: News - Intel drops the prices of its SSDs

    Prices are still too high, but they are getting to a range I could think about (the OCZ and Samsung Drives that is, not the intel drives).

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    Re: News - Intel drops the prices of its SSDs

    I'm almost tempted. Knock another £50 off and I'd buy. I think there's a die-shrink set of Intel SSDs coming out at the end of the year - perhaps they will be cheaper.

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    Re: News - Intel drops the prices of its SSDs

    Too expensive for me. Maybe in a year or so...

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    Re: News - Intel drops the prices of its SSDs

    The performance is there, maybe iron out a few areas to pull even further away from standard drives.
    If anyone has even used a good SSD you'll know why it commands such a high price (I do agree its too high right now)

    If the lowest end was higher capacity, at least 200GB I'd snap it up at its current price, 80GB doesn't give you much leeway for anything,
    Once it gets to about WD Velociraptor in pricing then things will get really interesting.

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    Re: News - Intel drops the prices of its SSDs

    Until they get to 500gb for less than £150 I'm not going to be interested.

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    Re: News - Intel drops the prices of its SSDs

    I think the £150 price point is about right for me too, but I think I'd settle for a much lower size - probably 120gb.

    That's the size of the (one) drive I had a few years back. I'd be more than happy with that as a system drive, for the OS and selected apps (for me most likely to be games). I tend to play one game, finish it, then move on to the next so I don't need loads of space for lots of installed games. And for more general storage, I can't see the SSD's catching up to the 10p or less per GB that the HDD's anytime soon. I'm pretty sure my inpatience for one as a system drive will force a purchase long before then

    On a side point, I'm sure I've read something about the intel MLC drive (i.e. the X-25M one) having problems with writes the second time?? i.e first write to a cell on a fresh drive, the cell is empty and it only needs to write, for all subsequent writes it needs to clear what's in the cell before it can write again?

    The more I think about that, the more I think that surely the testing in any of the reviews would have used all the drive after several test runs, but maybe not with an 80gb drive and wear level algorithms???? Anybody else heard anything about this?

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    Re: News - Intel drops the prices of its SSDs

    I'm pretty intent on getting an SSD in my next laptop. The price isn't an issue when you consider the advantages in portability. But when it comes to a desktop upgrade I have to agree with the above comments. Unless they start to significantly outperform HDs, they are still far too expensive and I have no problems with my current heavy, noisy and hot but cheap HD.

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    Re: News - Intel drops the prices of its SSDs

    Intel SSD pricing still too high - but luckily, the competition's prices are much more reasonable, e.g. :
    http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Compo...roductId=34983

    It's getting to the (price) point where one of these would make a great system drive, it's certainly quicker than any HDD around. (Read: up to 230 MB/sec, Write: up to 110 MB/sec)

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