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40GB solid-state drive is Intel's cheapest to date.
The price is right, but I would want a bit more capacity and would always want it faster. That said if I needed to replace the HDD in my laptop today then one of these would be going in.
40GB? After install w7, couple games...
Ideal laptop drive though. £93 at SCAN atm, still £2.30/gb. £74 for a 1.5TB HDD for comparison.
What's the spiel regarding Intels low write speed again? They quote random write rather than continuous write?
Still has been lower in the guise of the Kingston 40GB @ £70
...though why they stopped selling that is anyone's guess.
I bought one last weekend for running a few games off - pretty decent performance tbh.
I'm not even sure they claimed it was "based on"... was effectively the same thing.
I mean the V series (not including V+).
do you think its worth me buying a SAS cable for an SAS drive my uncles willing to sell me for around £20 - It will jsut be used for games and possibly a scratch disk for encoding etc.?
...and the original post was doubtless referring to rebadged Intel drive which was a 40gb drive (I have two of them) and was actually very good indeed (especially as it turns out you can reflash it as an intel drive to take advantage of TRIM).
One of them is in my HTPC (with about 20gb free) and one is in my wife's PC with plenty of apps installed etc with 18.9GB free (~2.6gb in program files). Space be not an issue for either PC... I stick games on the data drive since there's very little gain from running them off SSD (based on my experience with my intel 80gb SSD which is faster anyway).
I didn't know he was referring to an Intel one, I don't know all the capacities/prices of each model.
i'd load games off a 1tb v3 ta. OS on a nice 80 or 120gb SSD thou... /me drools.
I got 2x 80gb drives atm and a data drive. so i could make do would with a 40gb.
1x 80GB SSD for me. Then a 1TB drive for all my photos, data, videos. And I put my games on the 1TB too. They're more than fast enough on that when it's the only thing being accessed.
I'm very interested in this drive and the fact that its available for under 100 is less harsh on the pocket. however the smaller drives tend to be slower quite a bit slower if you compare it to the 80 or 160 intel g2 which makes me think spend the extra 90ish and get a faster speed with double the space. any forts?
Better spending more so you can get better bang, and space for your buck. A 40gb drive just means booting, an 80gb drive means booting, even the bloatiest of software, and some extra space for files, and *significantly* better performance at less than twice the price.
yea thats true also forgot to add I am currently TRYING to wait for the 3rd gen intel ssds, was planning on getting the 320gb version which will no doubt b faster than anything intel have today. however by the time it would be over 2 years since I have been waiting to get an ssd, just getting a little impatient now :crazy:
I decided to take the plunge and pick up the 40gb one until the 3rd gen ones come out, they are sure to be delayed and or limited stock when they finally come out.
I would have one of these for my laptop. 40 GB is ok but 60GB would be better.
I'm definitely looking to put one of these in my old Vostro 1700. It's got two drive bays so the old drive can be the data drive and the SSD can be the boot/apps drive. The drive the Vostro 1700s came with is unbelievably slow to boot Vista - sometimes it boots in "only" a couple of minutes, other times it can take over 5. It's well maintained and frequently CCleaned and defragged, so I'm hoping this SSD will put a little more "pep" into it.
I'll probably wait until the release of the next gen drives though, just because then I'll either be able to pick up a 40GB for ~£50 (I can dream) or it'll be an 80GB drive for £100 and even better performance - win-win since I can wait until the end of the year :)