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Author:  bobbdobbs [ Wed Jul 22, 2009 7:37 am ]
Post subject:  Intel's new 34nm SSDs cut prices by 60 percent, boost speed
Good news for people wanting faster lower cost SSD, especially for those looking to get a nice SSD system ready for win7 or just like having super fast storage.

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Intel has announced two new solid state disk drives made on its leading-edge 34nm process. The two new SSDs are X25M SATA parts weighing in at 80GB and 160GB, and they're meant to replace Intel's existing X25M drives in those capacities, but at 60 percent less cost and with better performance. The 80GB X25-M is $225 in lots of 1,000 (down from $595), and the 160GB is $440 (from $945). That's some serious discounting, and it may well drive even more SSD uptake in the coming quarters despite the ongoing IT spending crunch.
Author:  veato [ Wed Jul 22, 2009 8:11 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Intel's new 34nm SSDs cut prices by 60 percent, boost speed
I wonder if they still suffer from that fragmenting issue. I heard it gets so bad they actually perform worse than a HDD. he last I heard Intel were working on a defrag that resolved the issue as the version of defrag we all currently use on our HDDs makes matters worse on SSD.
Author:  pcernie [ Wed Jul 22, 2009 7:24 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Intel's new 34nm SSDs cut prices by 60 percent, boost speed
I've seen loads of reviews recently where SSDs were outperformed by HDDs - crap controllers or something, maybe? :?
Author:  gavomatic57 [ Thu Jul 23, 2009 8:22 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Intel's new 34nm SSDs cut prices by 60 percent, boost speed
pcernie wrote:
I've seen loads of reviews recently where SSDs were outperformed by HDDs - crap controllers or something, maybe? :?


It's usually the OS that causes the problem - Vista and Leonard aren't really optimised for SSD use, Vista SP3 and Snow Leonard probably will be though. I'd imagine the linux kernel is already there.
Author:  big_D [ Thu Jul 23, 2009 9:02 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Intel's new 34nm SSDs cut prices by 60 percent, boost speed
The problem is often, especially for the cheaper / consumer SSDs, that they use a slow or outdated controller chip, which throttles the performance as well.
Author:  l3v1ck [ Thu Jul 23, 2009 3:02 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Intel's new 34nm SSDs cut prices by 60 percent, boost speed
I wonder if they suffer the same performance hit as the old ones when you've used them a few times.
Author:  saspro [ Thu Jul 23, 2009 3:15 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Intel's new 34nm SSDs cut prices by 60 percent, boost speed
veato wrote:
I wonder if they still suffer from that fragmenting issue. I heard it gets so bad they actually perform worse than a HDD. he last I heard Intel were working on a defrag that resolved the issue as the version of defrag we all currently use on our HDDs makes matters worse on SSD.


With zero latency, fragmentation shouldn't be an issue as there's no heads having to move to piece the files together.
Author:  JJW009 [ Thu Jul 23, 2009 8:21 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Intel's new 34nm SSDs cut prices by 60 percent, boost speed
saspro wrote:
With zero latency, fragmentation shouldn't be an issue as there's no heads having to move to piece the files together.


No heads to move, but you have the page and row access times to consider. I've never seen figures for them, but perhaps they're quite high? If a file is fragmented across many rows, then the transfer rate might easily be 90% slower than the optimum.
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