SanDisk's Ultra II SSD offers prices as low as 44 cents per gigabyte

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SanDisk today announced its latest consumer-class solid-state drive (SSD), the SanDisk Ultra II, which comes with the company's lowest price point to date for a flash drive.

While SanDisk's media presentations and statement on the drive focus on the SSD's improved performance and a new dashboard tool for monitoring performance and SSD health, what stands out the most is the price point: as little as 44 cents per gigabyte of capacity.
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Full article: http://www.computerworld.com/s/arti...offers_prices_as_low_as_44_cents_per_gigabyte



Nothing particularly ground-breaking, but it's good to see SSD prices and tech gradually improving.
 
Newegg has/had 120gb SSD drives for $54. That's a hell of a nice price to breath new life into an old slowlaptop and for many end users who just surf the web and don't download, 120gb is big enough.
 
I agree. And of course it's those lower end, lower capacity, affordable SSDs that are ultimately to thank for the growth of the SSD market and manufacturing. There's still a trade-off between speed and capacity for many people yet, but SSDs are finally reaching a price-per-gigabyte where the decision to use them is becoming a no-brainer ... and I think we're approaching that tipping point now. This of course means that SSD technology and prices should continue to improve, making the high-end stuff much more affordable too.
 
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I'm a little surprised OCZ are still in business, let alone releasing new models.

Let's hope they've resolved all their reliability issues now.
 
Moltuae said:
I'm a little surprised OCZ are still in business, let alone releasing new models.

Let's hope they've resolved all their reliability issues now.
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OCZ are not strictly speaking still in business. OCZ declared bankruptcy and the OCZ assets were snapped up by Toshiba for $35 million. What is a small surprise it that Toshiba has kept the OCZ brand going, rather than directly merging the business and products into Toshiba branded SSDs.
 
Eagle21 said:
OCZ are not strictly speaking still in business. OCZ declared bankruptcy and the OCZ assets were snapped up by Toshiba for $35 million. What is a small surprise it that Toshiba has kept the OCZ brand going, rather than directly merging the business and products into Toshiba branded SSDs.
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Ah, I see.

Yeah, it would've made sense in that case for Tosh to rebrand OCZ at least. I guess nobody told them about OCZ's bad track record.
 
I don't know if keeping the old brand was a bad idea or not, but think of the disaster if they re-branded them as "Toshiba" drives and they continued to exhibit their abysmal reliability. Would seriously tarnish their own brand.
 
I really like the samsung ssd's, the 840 pro among others has fde built in, with no "slow-down-effect" like software packages may have. All you do to enable it is just enable the hdd pw in the bios.

* One notable note, while there are many many guides on the net about how to edit this or that key in the registry for better ssd performance - one common one is the trim capability - it is always always always best to use the manufacturers software. Example, the software for samsung ssd's is called magician, and it has many features that help the ssd performance, and it's free. :)
 
PcTek9 said:
I really like the samsung ssd's, the 840 pro among others has fde built in, with no "slow-down-effect" like software packages may have. All you do to enable it is just enable the hdd pw in the bios.
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Easier said than done, since many motherboards (especially desktop motherboards) do not have a BIOS that supports the full 32 character ATA password specification.

The Samsung 840 Pro does not have "USABLE built-in encryption" it only has "PERHAPS USABLE built-in encryption".
Where "USABLE built-in encryption" is defined in this article:
http://vxlabs.com/2012/12/22/ssds-with-usable-built-in-hardware-based-full-disk-encryption/
 
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