New Intel SSD drives are in!!!

[Gutcheck2009]

Now it is up to 249!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[spufaru]

Originally posted by: Gutcheck2009
Now it is up to 249!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ugh, didn't think Newegg would gouge - of course it goes in/out of stock during the one hour I was away from my desk.

Zipzoomfly still has it listed (but out of stock) for $220 something with free shipping, are they reliable?

 

[shabby]

Originally posted by: spufaru

Originally posted by: Gutcheck2009
Now it is up to 249!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ugh, didn't think Newegg would gouge - of course it goes in/out of stock during the one hour I was away from my desk.

When it was in stock i added it to my cart, then i went to pay and it went out of stock and the price went up $10. Ten minutes later it came back and i added it to my cart only to find it went out of stock again with another price hike. Dagnabit!

 

[Gutcheck2009]

Originally posted by: spufaru

Originally posted by: Gutcheck2009
Now it is up to 249!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ugh, didn't think Newegg would gouge - of course it goes in/out of stock during the one hour I was away from my desk.

Zipzoomfly still has it listed (but out of stock) for $220 something with free shipping, are they reliable?

ZZF is great actually.

 

[taltamir]

Ugh, didn't think Newegg would gouge - of course it goes in/out of stock during the one hour I was away from my desk.

Newegg has an automatic, dynamic, price gouging script.

 

[Idontcare]

Originally posted by: bbarry
I will be running a ramdisk for my development work, along side my G2 for everyday tasks. I never would have run one before because I have been running into the win32 4GB barrier for a few years now and iram cost too much. But now I have 12GB of ram and I expect to rarely run past 6GB for the reasonable future. This makes a ramdisk much easier to swallow.

That said, I might see myself running a small ramdisk that doesn't store itself back on disk on shutdown for a temp dirs. All files would be lost when doing so. I might also get a caviar black at some point for those large files where the SSD is not yet the optimal solution. Perhaps in the near future a ramdisk will be included in many peoples normal configuration for those non-persistant files. Right now it seems like the optimal solution is:
1. ramdisk for non-persistant "temp" files which do not need to exist after reboot
2. ramdisk for actively used data (source code you are working on, etc.)
3. SSD for OS/Applications/small-files (small files being things like documents, not music/video/isos)
4. HDD for large-file storage (due mostly to the small size of SSDs)

Perhaps it would be a good idea to start another thread for [potential] performance optimizations of SSDs. At the very least it would be more visible than leaving it past the 18th page of a thread which is covering the availability of the G2 drives.

FWIW you can use superspeed's ramdisk on 32bit systems and access the ram installed above the 4GB limit. I use WinXP pro 32bit with 8GB ram installed. WinXP sees 3.25GB, superspeed ramdisk sees all 8GB and I set it to use the upper 4.75GB exactly so the ramdisk takes none of the actively used OS system ram.

Also you can set ramdisks to save their disk image on routine system shutdown, and auto restore the disk image on system start. Superspeed's Ramdisk does this seamlessly, its quite easy. I install all my apps to my ramdisk. The size of the ramdisk is the only real aggravation for me.

 

[bbarry]

Unfortunately I have never had a system before with more than 4GB ram (the one sitting next to me waiting for the G2 to finish being built is the first non-dell-laptop I have had in 5 years since my desktop HDD visited the "I'm not gonna give you any of your data back" place due to the drive head deciding to make 7200rpm shavings of the platters.

Many of the applications I have to use require components to be installed on the c: drive. Now, I can fake that with junctions/symlinks but it is a far more painful experience than it should be. It is much easier to simply install applications right on the OS partition. That means I need roughly 60GB space on my main drive. At that point a ramdisk is pretty much out of the question. I could still use it for some applications but I think the size limitation causes more trouble than it is worth. For the two cases I mentioned above I wouldn't approach the size limitations of the disks (1 would be non-persistant and 2 would persist on shutdown). It may even be better to store the disk image on the HDD than on the SSD.

 

[isp]

so much for "auto notify"...

 

[Dorkenstein]

Ouch, I feel like I won't be able to get one of these any time soon.

 

[Lite Beer]

Fortuitously logged onto Newegg and tried to order 4 of the X-25M 80 drives. Limited to one. When they get them again can I order another or will they check my account? Now supposed to be available on 9/2. I was lucky to get the order I got.
ZZF is now much cheaper but doesn't have any stock.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: Lite Beer
Fortuitously logged onto Newegg and tried to order 4 of the X-25M 80 drives. Limited to one. When they get them again can I order another or will they check my account? Now supposed to be available on 9/2. I was lucky to get the order I got.
ZZF is now much cheaper but doesn't have any stock.

The limit is within 48 hours, so you should be good.

Originally posted by: Lite Beer
so much for "auto notify"...

Yeah, I got my auto-notify about 25 minutes after I had ordered the drive. Maybe 5-10 minutes after that, the drive was sold out again. Definitely not a feature to rely on in cases like this!

 

[skizatch]

Just got my 160gb drive today that I ordered from newegg last Friday ... this scores a 7.8 on a fresh Win7 Ultimate x64 install !

 

[Lite Beer]

My 80gig is only 7.7 score on Win7 Ultimate x86. Does size matter or is it the OS?

 

[Oldjunior]

A quick question, should I wait until windows 7 is released before upgrading to a ssd?

 

[jkresh]

Oldjunior, that depends, would you reinstall vista (or xp) on the ssd now? Are you going to 7 when it releases or waiting?...

7 Definitely appears to be better with ssd's then other os's, but there are still benefits with vista or xp (however if you don't intend to reinstall while you wait the 2 months for 7 then it might make sense to wait, though watching the prices for trends (ie if prices start rising as availability drops because others start buying for 7 you might want to try to get ahead of that) may be a good idea.

 

[taltamir]

Originally posted by: Oldjunior
A quick question, should I wait until windows 7 is released before upgrading to a ssd?

if you have access to the RTM, then no need to wait.

 

[Oldjunior]

Originally posted by: jkresh
Oldjunior, that depends, would you reinstall vista (or xp) on the ssd now? Are you going to 7 when it releases or waiting?...

7 Definitely appears to be better with ssd's then other os's, but there are still benefits with vista or xp (however if you don't intend to reinstall while you wait the 2 months for 7 then it might make sense to wait, though watching the prices for trends (ie if prices start rising as availability drops because others start buying for 7 you might want to try to get ahead of that) may be a good idea.

Thank you for the reply jkresh. I don't plan to reinstall xp. I going to do a clean install when windows 7 comes out. I was thinking if I should buy a ssd a head of time.

 

[Oldjunior]

Originally posted by: taltamir

Originally posted by: Oldjunior
A quick question, should I wait until windows 7 is released before upgrading to a ssd?

if you have access to the RTM, then no need to wait.

Thank you for your reply Taltamir. I have been running the RC on my old hard drive, but I was reading about the TRIM stuff and was wondering if I should wait for an ssd upgrade until the official windows 7 release.

 

[taltamir]

Originally posted by: Lite Beer
My 80gig is only 7.7 score on Win7 Ultimate x86. Does size matter or is it the OS?

i get the same on the same drive...
http://windowsteamblog.com/blo...-an-in-depth-look.aspx

This goes in depth into win vista WEI, the win7 was not explained... and the "in depth" is really not very depthful. All it says is that HDD are based on MB/s speed. However win7 showed massive drops on those because they added a new benchmark, concurrent random writes. Which many drives manage to epicly fail.

 

[taltamir]

Originally posted by: Oldjunior

Originally posted by: taltamir

Originally posted by: Oldjunior
A quick question, should I wait until windows 7 is released before upgrading to a ssd?

if you have access to the RTM, then no need to wait.

Thank you for your reply Taltamir. I have been running the RC on my old hard drive, but I was reading about the TRIM stuff and was wondering if I should wait for an ssd upgrade until the official windows 7 release.

well, intel will only release it with win7 official upgrade. OCZ already released it. If you feel like waiting till intel actually releases it then you should.
I figured that at this price, even if they don't or it underperforms I am fine with it. It is still the best drive ever made at a good price.

 

[hifiaudio2]

4 left in stock - i got one...

http://www.amazon.com/Intel-Ma...&qid=1251476264&sr=8-2

 

[spufaru]

Originally posted by: hifiaudio2
4 left in stock - i got one...

http://www.amazon.com/Intel-Ma...&qid=1251476264&sr=8-2

Thanks, that's through Electronica Direct so unfortunately it's $285 net of shipping and tax since I'm in New York.

 

[hifiaudio2]

Originally posted by: spufaru

Originally posted by: hifiaudio2
4 left in stock - i got one...

http://www.amazon.com/Intel-Ma...&qid=1251476264&sr=8-2

Thanks, that's through Electronica Direct so unfortunately it's $285 net of shipping and tax since I'm in New York.

It didnt charge me tax so it was $262.27. Newegg charges me tax though, so this is now cheaper to me than the current Newegg price.

 

[isp]

both versions back in stock at newegg currently... yay

 

[Andres3605]

I talked to a Newegg CR and got a 25$ credit and bing cashback , after shipping hard drive was about 210$