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Storage Intel G3 details leaked, get ready for 1GB / £1 SSDs!

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by Ph4ZeD, 6 Oct 2010.

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  1. Ph4ZeD

    Ph4ZeD What's a Dremel?

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  2. ulfar

    ulfar holy s**t, i can change this?

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    sweet!
     
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  3. cpl

    cpl Minimodder

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    Thanks for the link. Good news indeed - I hate moving parts :) I'm about to buy my first SSD at 64GB for a boot drive with W7 and a few essential programmes. I look forward to the near future when I can afford a larger capacity one to install all of applications I'll ever need on too :)
     
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  4. Krikkit

    Krikkit All glory to the hypnotoad! Super Moderator

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    Where has the price info come from?
     
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  5. Ph4ZeD

    Ph4ZeD What's a Dremel?

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    Direct quote from the Anandtech link.
     
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  6. Krikkit

    Krikkit All glory to the hypnotoad! Super Moderator

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    Missed that one... :blush:

    Personally I don't see it. Intel have a competitive-performance SSD available in a decent range of capacities. Instead of making them dirty cheap at <£1/GB why wouldn't they just undercut their rivals by, say £5, and make a bucketload more money? That way they can milk the market right the way down the price war and still be turning good profits.
     
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  7. Sparrowhawk

    Sparrowhawk Wetsander

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    Well, Intel isn't exactly hurting for cash. Perhaps their plan is to force prices down (good for us!) all the while lowering the margins for competitors or new entrants?
     
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  8. jbloggs

    jbloggs What's a Dremel?

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    Maybe for once they are thinking of not fleecing their customers...
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  9. brave758

    brave758 Minimodder

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    Wow now we're talking
     
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  10. shaunboy

    shaunboy Phenom II's are cool guys

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    Maybe should've waited to get an SSD...
     
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  11. brave758

    brave758 Minimodder

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    lol never look back or we wouldn't get out
     
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  12. sb1991

    sb1991 What's a Dremel?

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    I don't think Intel have ever said they'll double the capacity at a given price point. Anand's only pointing out that moving from 34nm to 25nm should give twice the capacity for a given area of silicon. It's much more likely that they'll base pricing on the competition.
     
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  13. xaser04

    xaser04 Ba Ba Ba BANANA!

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    They are probably aiming to maximize market share at the cost of some profit.

    This is good news for me though, I will looking at a SSD for my boot / Windows drive on my next build.
     
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    Amazing news :) I was considering getting an SSD in my build 4 months ago but due to my budget I decided against. This price drop should be a great thing.

    Nah, Sparrowhawk is right. They're probably just wanting to lower the prices to squeeze competitor's margins and highten the barriers to entry. Not that I'm complaining though :clap:
     
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  15. WildThing

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    Been waiting for this, I was hoping for an 80 gig X25-V for my HTPC. As for the new X25-M, it doesn't look like it's much of an upgrade over my G2 X-25M. Seems Intel have done the bare minimum again, to just stay in the competition.
     
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  16. danwat1234

    danwat1234 What's a Dremel?

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    Well, the Sandforce 2000 chip will give the G3 a beating.
    G3:
    Sequential Read: 250MB/s
    Sequential Write:170MB/s
    read IOPS: 50K
    write IOPS:40K
    Security: AES-128

    Sandforce 2000:
    Sequential Read: 500MB/s
    Sequential Write:500MB/s
    read IOPS: 60K
    write IOPS:60K
    Security: AES-256


    Source: http://www.anandtech.com/show/3971/s...and-60k-iops/1
     
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  17. Elton

    Elton Officially a Whisky Nerd

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    Well This is going to be excellent!

    I can finally grab a decent SSD and still have enough for everything else. Lag-less STALKER here I come!
     
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  18. Spikey101

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    Sounds great to me. A lot of people will like the sound of this. SSDs have just been too expensive for a lot of us so far.
     
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  19. The_Beast

    The_Beast I like wood ಠ_ಠ

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    How did I miss this when it was "new? I can't wait to finally get a SSD for my computer. Plus an upgrade to W7 wouldn't be a bad thing
     
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  20. Spikey101

    Spikey101 What's a Dremel?

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    Too bad they kinda suck as far as SSDs are concerned. Better than a conventional HDD by far though.
     
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