New Intel SSD drives are in!!!

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SeanFL

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newegg now says that:
SSDSA2MH160G2C1

is no longer available.

Didn't they have auto notify before? Is this just to cap backorder demand?

Sean

[edit; as of 9:40pm, it IS available...just ordered mine!]
 

ilkhan

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TRIM support isnt coming to the G1 drives, it has GC which works almost as well, in addition to the really good controller.
The G2 drives are being reflashed and re-shipped, yes Intel is losing money but they are keeping their corporate rep and impressing a lot of people (aside from the annoyance of NOT having the drive in hand this minute). Ill wait while they get it sorted out. We dont get TRIM until 7 gets to retail. Boo hoo.

Quit your bitchin.
 

taltamir

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Originally posted by: ilkhan
TRIM support isnt coming to the G1 drives, it has GC which works almost as well, in addition to the really good controller.
The G2 drives are being reflashed and re-shipped, yes Intel is losing money but they are keeping their corporate rep and impressing a lot of people (aside from the annoyance of NOT having the drive in hand this minute). Ill wait while they get it sorted out. We dont get TRIM until 7 gets to retail. Boo hoo.

Quit your bitchin.

+1
 

imported_Seti

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I changed my mind about buying SSD's now and for $65 I ordered a nice dependable WD Black 640GB for my new rig an when the dust settles and prices make sense, i will invest in a nice SSD.

Let the suckers pay these insane prices and put up with all this nonsense just to gain a few seconds.

To those that pay high prices for their G1's, please visit Intel forums.

Good luck
 

ilkhan

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Originally posted by: Seti
I changed my mind about buying SSD's now and for $65 I ordered a nice dependable WD Black 640GB for my new rig an when the dust settles and prices make sense, i will invest in a nice SSD.

Let the suckers pay these insane prices and put up with all this nonsense just to gain a few seconds.

To those that pay high prices for their G1's, please visit Intel forums.

Good luck
your black edition will feel nowhere near as fast as my intel drive at daily tasks, AND read at less than half the rate of the intel drive. Go go obsolescence.
 

taltamir

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Mar 21, 2004
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Intel is not releasing the G2's because they can't figure out how to make the fimware and they don't want to have the same embarrasing problems they have with the G1's.

The only place you will find the G2's is in Intel warehouses, everybody else..BS..

And they are not alone, other companies have the same problems since de Taliban took over code writing in the muslim countries.

Long live the Raptors.

seti... what about the muslim terrorists that intel puts in the SSDs as you said in your first post? did you change your mind on this?

EDIT: mmm.. wait, other companies? could you possibly mean AMD's majority acquisition by saudi arabia?
 

Barnaby W. Füi

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I'm a programmer and need to scan through buttloads of small files all the time. Any spinning drive is not going to compare to the X25. I just wish they'd hurry up!
 

jkresh

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Seti, intel has released the updated firmware and drives with that are starting to show up (buy.com being one of the first),

the password issue was never that big a deal (especially for desktops) because who currently uses bios passwords anyway? windows/osx/linux passwords with a similar thing would have been a disaster but bios passwords are hardly ever used on desktops (and rare even on laptops).
 

imported_Seti

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OK guys, some facts of life:

Big deal or not, Intel, OCZ, Corsair and anybody else using the Samsung controllers in their top of the line SSD's had lost a lot in money and reputacion for lack of propper firmware in their push to rip the benefits for been the first to sell their overpriced products. And is not fun or aceptable to loose 120GB of files in a instant, just for changing a password, because yes, big companies use them to protec their computers.

Many people made the mistake of going along with these companies practices and paid a lot of money for products that for all practical purpouses, were not ready to be sold.

Code writting, like almost everything else we consume here, is produced overseas (i.e. India and Pakistan) hence, the JOKE about the Taliban. JOKE, Got it?

Yes, I know SSD's are superior to regular HD, I just hope those that paid so much for them, had a good reason to do it now and not later when they will have a reasonable price.

Most people also ignore the fact that for a SSD to show its full potencial, it needs to be paired with other top of the line components, otherwise you are driving a Ferrari in a traffic jam.

Myself, I am building a computer based on a top of the line ATX Asus MB, 6GB of triple channel Corsair memory, a 4890 video car and a Intel i7 cpu OC to 3.7 GHZ. (Just to make sure it will be good for several years)
Even with all this, at this time I refuse to pay $450 for a 120GB drive (and don't think that will take you too far after you beguin to use Windos 7 64) when, for a few months, a $65 640GB dependable unit will handle anything I trow at it.

We live in a free country and every one has the rigth to express an opinion if one thinks it makes sense, without been call a troll.

And I didn't know about AMD, but somehow, it doesn't surprise me, here for the rigth price, we will sale anything.

I'll be back in 10 days, after my vacacion in the Bahamas that I paid with the $385 I save on my hard drive. See ya guys.
 

skizatch

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Aug 21, 2009
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Just got e-mail notification from newegg that the 160gb is finally in stock, not more than 5 minutes after getting home and checking my e-mail. Placed my order 30 seconds later.

Looks like the 80gb is still unavailable though.
 
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OK, So I'm planning on getting SSDSA2MH160G2C1 but I have VISTA right now. I probably will be getting Windows 7 when it comes out... I heard in October. Not sure if I should buy the full version or the upgraded version. Does it matter which windows version I get for TRIM to be working as it should ? Does it matter ?
 

ilkhan

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Originally posted by: Seti
OK guys, some facts of life:
Enjoy your vacation.
Intel doesn't use samsung controllers, they use an intel controller. Imagine that, an IC company making their own IC.
Its not bandwidth that SSDs are great at (although they do really, REALLY well at read bandwidth), its latency. No mechanical drive is going to return a 4k file as fast as an SSD, and no mechanical drive is going to return a thousand 4k files (thinking booting or any daily use program) as fast as an SSD.

My 80GB partition has 26GB free after 25GB of user data, office, adobe CS4, win7x64, and several other normal programs. Plenty to work with, and you can use your cheapass mechanical HDD for games if your machine is used for that.
 

Majic 7

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Don't know why some people buy computers to post on the net when all they need to show their vast tech knowledge is a Big Chief tablet and a box of crayons. Save even more money.
 

bbarry

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For the 160GB:
BLT has G2C1 at 476.27 http://www.shopblt.com/cgi-bin...C4879P.shtml&order_id=!ORDERID!
BLT is out of G2R5 but is selling them at 482.01 http://www.shopblt.com/cgi-bin...C5241P.shtml&order_id=!ORDERID!
ZZF is out of G201 and G2C1, each currently priced at 433.99 (curiously they are listing an X18-M G201 as well: does anyone know if they are reputable or do they make mistakes like that all the time):
G201 X25-M: http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/...0798&prodlist=celebros
G201 X18-M: http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/...0802&prodlist=celebros
G2C1: http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/...0793&prodlist=celebros
Newegg is out of G2C1, currently priced at 449.00: http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16820167017

ilkhan: http://jeffreypalermo.com/blog...-go-for-the-ram-drive/ <- non-jmicron ssds are good but only get you so much; if you have the ram then a ramdisk is very much worth it
 
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Hmm...good thing I ordered the 160GB G2 from Newegg last night before I went to bed. I was going to wait until today, but I had a feeling I'd be running the risk of the drives going out of stock again...looks like I was right.
 

Howard

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Is now the time to buy an SSD? Looks like they've got complete functionality now (e.g. TRIM), so unless the price is going to drop in the near future, there isn't any reason to hesitate.
 

AbRASiON

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Originally posted by: ilkhan
TRIM support isnt coming to the G1 drives, it has GC which works almost as well, in addition to the really good controller.
The G2 drives are being reflashed and re-shipped, yes Intel is losing money but they are keeping their corporate rep and impressing a lot of people (aside from the annoyance of NOT having the drive in hand this minute). Ill wait while they get it sorted out. We dont get TRIM until 7 gets to retail. Boo hoo.

Quit your bitchin.

-1
 

imported_Hok

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I read somewhere that even if and when intel implements TRIM it would not greatly improve the I/O writes as it does table lookup differently... any insight?
 

jkresh

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Howard, from what I have seen (though I could be wrong) it appears that if you want and ssd in the relatively near future (3-6 months) buy now, as prices may go up a little before they go back down (as cost per gb of good flash is too close to the cost of the drive so profits are low, so prices may rise until flash prices drop) if you could wait a year than prices will almost definitely have dropped (might be able to get the 160gb intel for $300 and a 320 for $550 or so in a year).
 

jkresh

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BingBongWongFooey, no idea as to the 80's (but would guess this week), my 160 shipped out (unfortunately from Cali not New Jersey so Wednesday or Thursday instead of tomorrow)
 

sxr7171

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Originally posted by: Seti
I changed my mind about buying SSD's now and for $65 I ordered a nice dependable WD Black 640GB for my new rig an when the dust settles and prices make sense, i will invest in a nice SSD.

Let the suckers pay these insane prices and put up with all this nonsense just to gain a few seconds.

To those that pay high prices for their G1's, please visit Intel forums.

Good luck

Sounds like sour grapes.
 
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