News - A-DATA rolls out S596-series SSDs, calls them the industry's fastest

[Funkstar]

Well I'm never in that much of a rush, and in 8-12 months prices will bottom out anyways, same as they did with 1tb traditional drives. Prices are always silly to begin with until production volume pushes costs down.

I'm not convinced it's a production cost issue, I think it's more to do with all the manufacturers being happy to sell at the current price point. I'm not saying there is any collusion or price fixing going on, but why would anyone upset the status quo and undercut everyone, reducing their profits in the mean time?

I think it will happen eventually, but not as quickly as people have been speculating. I'm surprised SSDs are as expensive as they are at the moment, I had expected them to be a lot cheaper by now.

[adam.mt]

Any updates on this release?

Likely price tag(s)? When stock will start to be available? And more importantly, does it live up to the claims (or is it just usual manufacturer's bluff)?

Not sure how the on-board addition of DDR2 RAM would help to be honest, sure it's faster than the standard NAND, but how would it actually differ from the normal caching of the computer's main RAM? Surely it would just be duplicating the same thing?

Also is this '20 second boot time' some version of Windows 7 with lots of services etc disabled or a standard install?

(Just ordered X25-M G2 and hoping I've not done the wrong thing!)

[zoomee]

erm 20 seconds is supposed to be the world's fastest on W7??? That can't be right
Even my PC (which is 2 yrs old) with an Intel G2 boots up completely in about 15seconds (and that includes post!)

I call poopookaka to they're claim