G.Skill Titan & Intel Extreme SSD Drives available now!!

[GIBBO]

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G.Skill Titan 128GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive

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128GB G.Skill Titan Series SSD Solid State Drive. Amazing speeds up to 200MB/sec read speed and 160MB/sec write speed. 2.5" form factor, SATA II interface and backed by G.Skills 2 years warranty.

Features
- Form Factor 2.5"
- Capacity 128GB**
- Interface Type SATA II
- Sequential Read Rate 200MB/sec
- Sequential Write Rate 160MB/sec
- Access Time >0.2ms
- Shock (operating) 1500G
- Vibration (operating) 20G
- Altitude (operating) 60000ft
- Operating Temp. 0oC ~ +70oC
- MTBF +1500000
- Data Reliability Built-in EDC/ECC function
- Certifications RoHS FCC and CE Compliant
- Warranty 2 year


Price: £239.99 +VAT (£275.99 Inc. VAT)


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G.Skill Titan 256GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive

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256GB G.Skill Titan Series SSD Solid State Drive. Amazing speeds up to 200MB/sec read speed and 160MB/sec write speed. 2.5" form factor, SATA II interface and backed by G.Skills 2 years warranty.

Features
- Form Factor 2.5"
- Capacity 256GB**
- Interface Type SATA II
- Sequential Read Rate 200MB/sec
- Sequential Write Rate 160MB/sec
- Access Time >0.2ms
- Shock (operating) 1500G
- Vibration (operating) 20G
- Altitude (operating) 60000ft
- Operating Temp. 0oC ~ +70oC
- MTBF +1500000
- Data Reliability Built-in EDC/ECC function
- Certifications RoHS FCC and CE Compliant
- Warranty 2 year


Price: £414.99 +VAT (£477.24 Inc. VAT)


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Intel X25-E Extreme 32GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive

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Drawing from decades of memory engineering experience, the Intel X25-E Extreme SATA-II Solid-State Drive (SSD) is designed to deliver outstanding performance and reliability, featuring the latest-generation native SATA-II interface with an advanced architecture employing ten parallel NAND flash channels equipped with single-level cell NAND flash memory for even greater overall performance and reliability. With powerful Native Command Queuing to enable up to 32 concurrent operations, this Intel SSD delivers higher Input/Output Operations per Second (IOPS) and throughput performance than other SSDs on the market today - and drastically outperform traditional hard disk drives. These Intel drives also feature low write amplification and a unique wear-leveling design for higher reliability, meaning Intel drives not only perform better - they last longer.

Features
- Capacity: 32GB
- Read: Up to 250MB/sec
- Write: Up to 170MB/sec
- NAND Flash: Single-Level Cell (SLC)
- Interface: SATA-II
- Low Power Consumption
- Lightweight (80g)
- Shock Resistant


Price: £329.99 +VAT (£379.49 Inc. VAT)


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Intel X25-M Mainstream 80GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive

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Why wait for a traditional hard disk drive to spin up? Unlike traditional hard disk drives, Intel solid-state drives have no moving parts, resulting in a quiet, cool, highly rugged storage solution that also offers faster system responsiveness. And for laptop PCs, the lower power needs of Intel SSDs translate to longer battery life and lighter notebooks. Higher performance with more durability means you can be truly mobile with confidence. Drawing from decades of memory engineering experience, Intel Mainstream SATA Solid-State Drives are designed to deliver outstanding performance, featuring the latest-generation native SATA interface with an advanced architecture employing 10 parallel NAND flash channels equipped with multi-level cell NAND flash memory. With powerful Native Command Queuing to enable up to 32 concurrent operations, Intel Mainstream SATA SSDs deliver higher input/output per second and throughput performance than other SSDs on the market today - and drastically outperform traditional hard disk drives. These drives also feature low write amplification and a unique wear-leveling design for higher reliability, meaning Intel drives not only perform better - they last longer.

Features
- Capacity: 80GB
- Read: Up to 250MB/sec
- Write: Up to 70MB/sec
- NAND Flash: Multi-Level Cell (MLC)
- Interface: SATA-II
- Low Power Consumption
- Lightweight (80g)
- Shock Resistant


Price: £309.99 +VAT (£356.49 Inc. VAT)


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These are not quite the same as the Samsung prices, but needless to say we are very competitive. :)

[explicit4u]

despite the incredibly irresistible prices, i am going to have to hold off on this deal until SSD are actually worth buying, and by the time the prices are a little more cheaper, i'll bet 1TB will be in mass production.

[midnightray]

Those G.Skill look tempting but from this review:

http://www.xcpus.com/GetDoc.aspx?doc=119&page=1

They have some issues with writing. But I guess if you use it as an OS drive, there wouldn't be that much writing of data?

This graph, was a "what the..." moment:

http://www.xcpus.com/Images/Docs/doc119/HD_Tune_-_G.Skill_-_Write.jpg

[TheMadDutchDude]

That's not terribly good for an SSD! :o

Your page file is always being written to as far as I know. It won't be greatly affected but with those speeds, what's the point in upgrading? 20MB/s faster than one of my drives in a single drive solution and when I get my second one back from RMA and they go back into RAID, I get around 220MB/s which out does it, 1TB storage and also, for one third of the price for a single 128GB drive. They're to expensive to be worthy of my money at the moment.

[wuyanxu]

isn't it better to have a Raptor for paging and temporary files, while the SSD is just for those files that only gets read such as system files??

(hints on Vraptors)

[Mr. Orange]

:O, hmmm maybe they're worth the -1% CPU Usage ^^

[Marco01]

You're right! -1% CPU usage is quite impressive :o

[PMM]

Having looked at some of the benchies for that Intel Extreme I must say Wow!!
alas not something I can currently invest in until I put myself back into employment.

On the subject of SSD's it not just to be seen on a level of Throughput but also access time and that is where SSD's come into play if you take the 1st drive at 0.2ms its a good 40times faster at accessing data than your average high speed Harddisk.

When you are accessing small chunks of data this make quite a speed improvement and as most site show can result in boot up times 1/2 that of a harddrive.

But also this passes on to other aspects and applications like office apps and other aspects of the OS as well make it much snappier.

Yes the write speed can be much slower but then that has to be weighed up against your needs.

Very much still a developing technology but they are starting to get rather tasty :drool:

[thesis]

Any info on the controller they are wearing?

I think it is time to ADD an SSD to any system. They are much faster than any raptor and in any configuration (access and seek times - that is the whole point of buying a raptor and not read/write speeds that good 7200 drives can come very close or even outperform them). So a combination of an SSD with a big disk for storing files is the ideal combination and the cost per GB is similar.

[LuckyNV]

The Gskill Titans are using a dual Jmicron controller setup

[thesis]

The Gskill Titans are using a dual Jmicron controller setup

Oooops! Some people never learn. Whatever they do if they don't add any cache on top nothing is going to improve. The only thing they succeeded doing is reducing the lockups from 30 to 15 seconds.:confused:
Complete waste. Go and get a couple of Samsungs instead.