Super Talent intros a sub-$300, 128GB solid-state drive [+eek]

If you've been waiting for SSD prices to drop to reasonable ranges -- now may be the time to put the credit card down. Super Talent has begun selling its 128GB, 2.5-inch, SATA II "MasterDrive LX" for the shocking affordable price of $299, which works out to about $2.49 per gigabyte. If that still puts of pinch on your pocketbook (and what doesn't right now?), then perhaps you can be enticed by the company's 64GB offering, which clocks in at a fairly doable $179. With prices this low, you barely have a defense against purchase... unless, you know... you don't have the money. Then we totally understand.

http://www.engadget.com/2008/09/30/super-talent-intros-a-sub-300-128gb-solid-state-drive-thing/


so, how many of you are planning on purchasing this?

 

wow,I like this!

 

Great price, but I would not be surprised if this has the JMicron controller, which means serious stuttering.

I'll move this thread to the appropriate forum.

 

64GB would be fine but if it stutters like the other ones with the jmicron controller, forget it.

I think it will probably be another year or so before SSD's at this price are good enough for main system use without the stuttering/slowdown effect. Hopefully, i'm very wrong and they come sooner

 

Intriguing. I'd like to see some reviews on how it performs, too bad there don't seem to be any yet

 

Shane:

They are supposed to be going out to the retail channels this week. I posted the press release this AM in the main SSD thread.

Cheers,

 

Yum

I really hope this doesn't have that J Micron controller. It would be nice to have a low-cost SSD that doesn't crash every five times you boot up.

 

Total rubbish... Super Talent has had serious reliability issues with their prior MLC drives, yet they still offer only a 1-year warranty on the product. I have a VERY strong feeling this drive is simply a re-release of the poor MLCs offered by Super Talent earlier this year.

This MLC drive really does not offer any of the benefits of a proper SSD, those benefits being:
Reliability
Speed
Low power consumption

At this point in the race, the only people willing to drop the money on an SSD are the ones that have done in-depth research. It appears to simply be a stop-gap for the budget/high-cap SSD void that is currently in place. Super Talent, I will not be fooled!

 

The 120 GB supertalent drive that I have had since May has been working fine, it suffers no stuttering.

 

You've been one of the few lucky ones then!

 

meh .. I'm still waiting on a 256 GB SLC for about 200USD or less

 

It is less inportant what company does it but the fact most all companies will follow by the end of the year.

 

A step in the right direction, and this does look tempting, but I'll make the move to SSD when I can get 512 GB for under $200.

Anyway, I look forward to seeing how this performs. I hope it isn't like their previous generation of drives.

 

Looks tempting but not worth it for me at the moment. Performance will have to be very good in order for me to buy this.

 

I looked at getting this one when it was 700.00, but the reviews on newegg, made me glad i did not.

 

benchmarks please!!

 

Ugh, spec's show a 100MB/sec read and 40MB/sec write speed. That's not so great unless they can remove the stutter and the access times for writes are at 0.2ms like read speeds are (doubtful?)

 

Supertalent makes good products, so it should be very interesting to see how this performs. Its good that they produce all of their memory in the USA, but that may be different with SSD's

K-TRON