40gb Kingston SSD (Intel 34nm X25-M G2) $89.95

[BossBorot]

This keeps going in and out of stock but it is in stock at the time of this posting.

http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=212810038

I ripped this from [H] and they have a great discussion of it here: http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1480609

Here are some reviews: http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3667&p=4 and http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1111/1/

 

[Xtreme Barton]

i thought kingstons with intel controllers had their logo on the front of the drive ?? or is that just a generic pic ?

 

[EarthDog]

Oh god, the writes on those drives are terrible!!! 44MB at most????

 

[Xtreme Barton]

for that price i dont doubt it ..

 

[johan851]

There are actually really good drives. They're basically an X-25M with about half the write speed. They would be a perfect replacement for a laptop hard drive, which is what I would use it for. The only thing keeping me from getting it is the TRIM support (or lack thereof). Hopefully they're clearing out stock to make room for a new revision...

 

[mattspalace]

Typically the intel based Kingston drives are "M" series, not "V" series - but the pics don't lie and these are intel based. Just a lower end model. It's a good deal however you slice it!

 

[Joeteck]

Incredible how much the prices have come down!

Whats also incredible is all the problems solid state hard drives have... No one saw this coming with all the R&D?

Funny stuff...

However, +1 on the laptop replacement!

 

[EarthDog]

What problems are they having Joe?

I saw OCZ (or was it intel?) got their knuckles smacked for releasing their TRIM FW a little to early and that caused issues...The TRIM FW for my Summit was also a bit late to the game (but has GC). Im a bit confused.

 

[johan851]

What problems are they having Joe?

I saw OCZ (or was it intel?) got their knuckles smacked for releasing their TRIM FW a little to early and that caused issues...The TRIM FW for my Summit was also a bit late to the game (but has GC). Im a bit confused.

It was Intel that had some very serious issues with TRIM support.

 

[mattspalace]

Yep, and those issues are now fixed. Intel released new firmware with TRIM support a couple of weeks ago.

 

[EarthDog]

Well, hopefully Joe will chime in with the problems he is apparently seeing with SSD's. The way its worded though, I dont imagine he was talking about the FW issue. Hopefully he will shine some light on his vague mention of "problems SSD drives are having".

 

[Vengance_01]

These will make great OS drives. They are a cut down 34nm Intel X-25m drive. Kingston has said this drive will get Trim support. I am just not sold on SSD yet. my 640 WDs in raid 0 do just fine.

 

[dejo]

and their 4k randoms kill all the other drives, just dont have killer sequential writes. the drives to rock pretty good