yea, read this:
http://www.dailytech.com/Intel+Confirms+25...rticle18415.htm

i'm considering installing it to my laptop...
so how much battery power it can save??

use the intel ssd toolbox to check how many GB has already written ..

post ur toolbox smart screen

still waiting the price to fall into affordable+bigger capacity

wonder when only the ocz colossus 1tb ssd will be affordable.

Did I overuse it?

Full exported report in the zip file. LYN won't let me attach .csv.


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o.O srsly? Thanks for the news, almost bugged my friend to get me one at staff price from Intel

well.. here is the readout from mine

Ah. I suppose I wrote too much. Guess TRIM doesn't do wonders

How about the 48195K - BAD? Any ideas what that is?

so far which controller have the best performance ?
i notice that review always mention about the controller when reviewing SSD .. is it very important ?

Yes,controller is one of the biggest factor that affect SSD speed
Try to dig up anandtech.com storage article,they had write plenty of stuff on ssd

i take it if u sell me 200 4 one

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Added on August 20, 2010, 3:42 pmwhen gen 3 is our 160gb should b less than 600 i guess

when u got children dy i guess its not dropping fast from 20k range onwards

This post has been edited by skylinelover: Aug 20 2010, 03:43 PM

wow, hope it is true.
then 80gb should be affordable.

Wow. If that's true I'm very likely to upgrade from my 80GB Hopefully they'll be able to anticipate the demand better this time. G2 had shortage for a period which led to vendors increasing price beyond reasonable.

The 48195K -BAD is referring to your disk alignment, which is out. Use google to search for 'ssd K - BAD' for more info.
BTW, what Windows version are you using, and how did you partition your SSD in the first place?

TRIM's sole purpose is to properly erase those sectors where your files were marked for deletion. Without TRIM, those files will still remain (eventhough you do not see it in Windows/space frees up after deletion) unless overwritten in the future. That's the cause of SSD performance degradation, if it does not have TRIM. It does not help in preserving the wear and tear of the SSD.

The write cycles contributes to the SSD wear and tear. The more you write to it, the faster it's wear and tear. Normally, to prolong the SSD, we have an SSD to solely run Windows/applications on, and another normal HDD to store you files (movies/mp3s/doc etc.) The key here is to limit the number of writes to your SSD.

This post has been edited by tskhang: Aug 21 2010, 12:36 PM

can we put SSD into water?

Thanks! Read some of it, seems complicated. Will continue reading.

I'm using Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. I'm pretty sure I just did a Windows 7 install to partition it.

Ah. I didn't know there was such a substantial degradation from wear and tear. I always thought that it was just because of the files remaining, which TRIM fixes.

Unfortunately I'm using a laptop, so it can be quite a hassle to be having an external HDD there always. Guess I'll definitely be getting a 160GB next time

maybe will cause some metal on the circuit board rust faster.

The lifespan of an SSD really isn't an issue for most home users. At 5,000 write cycles for an 80GB SSD, in a perfect use, it will accept 400,000 GB of writes or 219 GB of writes a day for 5 years. Even taking the write amplification factor, which TRIM partly mitigates, into consideration, you should still be able to write 100 GB a day (20 GB more than capacity) for five years before failure.

To lose your SSD to wear and tear, you would have to fill up your SSD every single day for five years! Wear and tear is not a real problem.

NIce info. I google more and found this article. 1 relavant quote are: " Intel estimates that the 80GB X25-M will last for five years with "much greater than" 100GB of write-erase per day. That's a relatively long time for much more data than most folks are likely to write or erase on a daily basis.

Actual drive lifespans aside, Intel rates the X25-M's Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) at 1.2 million hours. "
Source: http://techreport.com/articles.x/15433

So definitely the intel X-25M SSD can last more than 5 years with no wear and tear problem

This post has been edited by mikelanding: Aug 21 2010, 08:28 PM