Intel X25-M G2
 

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

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

Gonna head on over and read it!

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.

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.

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

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.