As some of you may remember, I’ve been using a 32gb solid state drive in my desktop for a bit not, and I’ve been happy with it. Enough so that I was ready to make the jump to take apart my laptop and retrofit it with a SSD, and Toni was brave enough to volunteer as well. One problem — they’ve disappeared. All of the stores that I could previously find it from don’t have them anymore. Where did all the SSDs go? BTW the best news source I’ve found for SSDs is Engadget’s tag page. ¶
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Bryce | May 21st, 2007 @ 3:30 pm |
They all went to Dell.
John Joyce | May 22nd, 2007 @ 4:41 am |
What do you think? Apple is putting these in the revamped PowerBooks, er.. MacBook Pros. Along w/LED backlighting to impress people.
They’ll be released at WWDC or the end of Summer.
Mark Jaquith | May 23rd, 2007 @ 4:21 pm |
You going to keep the disk drive as well, or can you exist on 32GB – (OS + Apps) ?
Paul Querna | May 23rd, 2007 @ 6:13 pm |
This site seems to have em instock, and still plenty expensive:
http://www.dvnation.com/nand-flash-ssd.html
I’m currently building an 8×500gb disks in RAID6 for ‘personal’ media storage… gonna be awhile before I can use SSD for things like that
Matt | May 23rd, 2007 @ 7:43 pm |
Mark, 32gb is more than enough for everything I do on a laptop.
Paul, wow that’s almost double what I paid for mine last month.
charlie | May 24th, 2007 @ 9:24 pm |
Holy crap that’s expensive! Even for half the price listed there ($1000/2 so $500) is still damn expensive for a 32GB drive that doesn’t seem to have spectacular read/write speeds, although access times are amazing.
Is it worth it? How much performance benefit is there actually over a 150GB Raptor?
Jesse Andrews | June 2nd, 2007 @ 2:01 am |
I was just today thinking of switching my thinkpad X60 to SSD. Great timing on your post. I guess I’ll wait for an update post
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