[DrNip]

Here's a preview on the newest Intel SSD due out. I'm likin this as well as the price!

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets...oc.aspx?i=3607

[Kal-EL]

Gonna head on over and read it!

[DrNip]

This will be my next HDD. I knew there was a reason I was dragin my feet on gettin a SSD. At that price I will get two as I would only be out $450 instead of the $600 something for the current generation.

[Deux]

For desktop usage you are better off with one 160 GB drive as opposed to raid0 80 GB drives.

Two drives in raid0 will increase your sequential read/write roughly 2x but that really means almost nothing to desktop performance. In addition, raid0 hurts random read/write numbers compared to a single drive especially when using a discrete controller as opposed to onboard.

While I'm sure that this is an incredible drive and the lower price means more people will bite I still feel like buying a SSD today is like trying to catch a falling knife in terms of price. I suspect CES next year will be quite interesting with new drives from most major players with Intel being the likely exception.

[Neuromancer]

Yee gods, Random Read/Write performance on SSDs is awful when compared to Sequential. 9 MB/s on some of those drives.

I wonder how bad my raptor is at those :s

I will probably make the jump again when you get top performance at $1/GB

[hellcamino]

You guys are making me want to throw away my RAID0 arrays, no doubt they just waste power as well....LMAO

That argument with a pair of 80gb drives vs a single 160gb drive just doesn't wash, maybe when ata was considered fast on an nforce 2 chipset (lol) it did but not with any recent hardware.

@Neuro, if you are really looking at upgrading, read carefully before ordering! Many of the ssd's really are garbage but some would open your eyes in terms of performance. I haven't tried any ssd's on an amd based raid but going from previoous experience it would be disappointing just due to the amd based raid.