Intel X25-m 80gb SSD $549

Aris · Post by **Aris** » Wed Dec 03, 2008 5:07 pm

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820167005

Its a "Newegg Daily Deal" so it may not still be this cheap tomarrow. Really wish i had 600 bucks to spend right now.

AZBrandon · Post by **AZBrandon** » Wed Dec 03, 2008 5:20 pm

As for you wishing you had $600 to spend right now, I wouldn't sweat it - prices are always dropping for storage, especially bleeding-edge technology like SSD. The next two or three years will probably see SSD advancing in speed, size, and gb/dollar at a very rapid rate as they gain marketshare and there's greater economies of scale at work.

Aris · Post by **Aris** » Wed Dec 03, 2008 6:26 pm

AZBrandon wrote:As for you wishing you had $600 to spend right now, I wouldn't sweat it - prices are always dropping for storage, especially bleeding-edge technology like SSD. The next two or three years will probably see SSD advancing in speed, size, and gb/dollar at a very rapid rate as they gain marketshare and there's greater economies of scale at work.

I suppose i should have phrased that differently.

Everytime i load into a new map for COD4 so late that i miss the first round, i think to myself (i really wish i had $600 for that intel SSD).

AZBrandon · Post by **AZBrandon** » Wed Dec 03, 2008 9:47 pm

Aris wrote:I suppose i should have phrased that differently.

Everytime i load into a new map for COD4 so late that i miss the first round, i think to myself (i really wish i had $600 for that intel SSD).

Wow, that's crazy slow. I have a comparitively old system with a 160gb Seagate 7200.9 drive that benchmarks show around 55mb/sec. Back when I used to play Battlefield2 all the time, which was up until a year ago I was always one of the first 5-10 players in to a map on a 64 player server once I'd been in the game for more than one round. I have 2gb of ram and figured Windows much be caching a fair amount in order to be able to load so quickly from such an "old" hard drive. How much ram do you have and what type of drive do you have? Being so slow that you miss an entire round of play seems pretty bad.

Bar81 · Post by **Bar81** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 3:33 am

Check your e-mail if you're on the Newegg list, there a personal promo code for the drive where you can get it for $539 at Newegg (versus the $549 regular price now).