(DEAD again) Intel 80GB SSD $146 shipped (Dane Elec G1)

[ArchAngel777]

Between all the deals and promo codes these have had recently, I was able to pick up 4 of them. The ICH10R seems to have a maximum throughput of around 600mb/sec give or take. I decided to use one non-raided drive as my OS drive, and then I did RAID 0 for my application drive. Sometimes RAID can be flaky on overclocked systems, so I didn't want my main OS to be a part of that 'potential' problem.

I ran crystal disk or whatever on it and received 650mb/sec reads for the 512K reads and somewhere around 200mb/sec for the writes.

So far I am pretty happy... I have more than enough space for my OS, and 220GB or so for my applications and games. Not bad for only $585 bucks (got 15 credit from newegg because they goofed up)...

 

[EarthwormJim]

I have been reading a lot of the thread trying to choose an ssd for myself and 1 for my brother.
I have been reading that a lot of people are having there drives die on them, lose data, or become undescoverable; things of the sort. Seems quite a few members on 3 of my forums have had to rma their drives.
Makes me nervous to buy one. not so much for me as I keep everything backed up and do not have a whole lot of vital data, but my brother uses his computer for our llittle business and his wife uses it for her business.
They know very little about computers and tend not to keep things backed up.

Don't get me wrong I love OCZ products, but the risk is there mainly on the Agility drives; and not really a risk I want to take. I am sure there are many that have never had an issue either, but I have bad luck and would probably be one to have issues.

There's thousands of Agility users with zero issues. The Indilinx controllers have been around quite awhile now and the firmware is very mature. I'm sure a lot of the "problems" people may be having is with incorrectly updating their firmware.

 

[QTPie]

Wow, the same for me. I made sure the HDD was sitting properly in my Latitude D820 but it was never recognized in the BIOS. I was so disappointed. Put it in the PC to replace the 150GB Raptor X. It worked wonder!

I figured out why the drive wouldn't fit and why my Latitude wouldn't recognize it. I need an RMA -_-. Hopefully they get me a new drive and don't just give me a refund.

 

[razel]

I have been reading a lot of the thread trying to choose an ssd for myself and 1 for my brother.
I have been reading that a lot of people are having there drives die on them, lose data, or become undescoverable; things of the sort. Seems quite a few members on 3 of my forums have had to rma their drives.
Makes me nervous to buy one. not so much for me as I keep everything backed up and do not have a whole lot of vital data, but my brother uses his computer for our llittle business and his wife uses it for her business.
They know very little about computers and tend not to keep things backed up.

SSDs are for performance. They're far too expensive for mass storage. This performance can increase productivity in business, if that is what's slowing them down. However it sounds like maybe the best thing is to buy an SSD for yourself and find a backup solution for your brother.

With everyone I give PC help to. Most of them have documents enough to fit onto USB flash drives. You can probably manually backup your brother's stuff onto a USB flash drive perhaps twice a year. Swap between two USB flash drives when you backup in case one fails. It also gives them two points to get their files from in case they want an older file.

There aren't enough helpful people like yourself around to cater to real general population of PC users. The ones who never visit a site like this. Keep up with your good deeds, it'll reward you. Or maybe just reward yourself with an SSD.

 

[Infrnl]

SSDs are for performance. They're far too expensive for mass storage. This performance can increase productivity in business, if that is what's slowing them down. However it sounds like maybe the best thing is to buy an SSD for yourself and find a backup solution for your brother.

With everyone I give PC help to. Most of them have documents enough to fit onto USB flash drives. You can probably manually backup your brother's stuff onto a USB flash drive perhaps twice a year. Swap between two USB flash drives when you backup in case one fails. It also gives them two points to get their files from in case they want an older file.

There aren't enough helpful people like yourself around to cater to real general population of PC users. The ones who never visit a site like this. Keep up with your good deeds, it'll reward you. Or maybe just reward yourself with an SSD.

Thanks, Some very good points. Too bad the promo code is over on this drive i guess.
My brother decided he needed to save money and is getting the 40gig v series Intel drive.

I will reward myself with an ssd after I reward myself with a W555 system Will be a good match for eachother I think

 

[qliveur]

Since Newegg apparently has more of these kits to sell, we might see another promo code for it in the near future.

 

[QTPie]

Has anyone successfully installed an SSD in a Dell Latitude D820? Thanks.