HP Introduces 64GB SSD Option to Business Notebooks

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HP today announced the availability of SSD in their professional and mobile workstation series notebooks. The HP Compaq 2710p, HP Compaq 2510p, HP Compaq 6910p and HP Compaq 8000 series notebooks will all have the option of configuring a 64GB SSD.

 

The HP 2510p will be offered with a 64GB SSD

The advantages of SSD over traditional mechanical hard drives are the following:

• Lower power consumption than regular mechanical hard drive, they use less wattage than a regular hard drive
  
  
• Better reliability, SSD drives can be approximately six times more reliable than a regular hard drive with an average of 2 million hours mean time between failures (MTBF)
  
  
• Better performance, data moves to and from the SSD drive almost 100 times faster than a regular hard disk in some cases
  
  
• Cooler and quieter running as there is no motor, bearings or moving head mechanism.
  
  
• More secure with data as a drop situation is less risky for losing data than the same situation with a regular mechanical hard drive

It's interesting to note that HP will not offer a 32GB SSD like many other manufacturers have started to do. HP feels there's simply not enough space left for storage on a 32GB drive after the Windows VistaOS and other basic software has been installed. Therefore they jumped straight to offering the more capacious, and expensive, 64GB SSD.

Pricing has not been announced by HP at this time, but availability for configuration should be soon. We would expect the upgrade cost to a 64GB SSD drive to be in excess of $500.

 

Eek, sounds expensive.

 

Expensive but nice to have the option.

 

Most manufacturers are charging at least $500 for the 32GB SSD. I expect the 64GB SSD to be $700+.

 

64GB SSD?! I'd like that! Especially considering the classes before us got stuck with 60GB mechanical HDs. We got 100GB HDs, but mine's almost half full already (42.2 used, 50.8 free, 93.1 total)

Still, I'd love to get an 8510w with the SSD, but it'll probably be VERY expensive.

 

30 gb right now is arleady that much or more.

 

I really like this technology. I can't wait until it comes down in price so when I buy my next laptop, hopefully I can afford it and it will have more space.

 

$500 is actually pretty inexpensive for a 64GB drive....They retail for like $1300 right now, and Dell is charging $600 for a 32GB in the M1330.

 

Yes! My dreams come true, and if it is really 500$, its damn cheap.

 

Where does it say it's $500?

 

$500 is speculation from Andrew's part.

 

Hurray!!! Bravo HP. 64GB is exactly the right capacity for a SSD drive!!!!

I am ordering my new laptop next week, Dell has 7 days to react or HP gets my business.

 

today SSD are about 10$/giga compared to 1$/giga in HD , so this is not a bad price .

I wouldn't mind a "cheap" small 16GB SSD as an OS drive for performence boost and a 2nd drive for storage .

 

Would be an exc price at 500 considering Dell charges 550 for the 32Gb.

If your curious, review below from the site.

 

so will it be possible to upgrade from a standard harddrive to an SSD drive in the future when they become cheaper, or is it a completely different chipset

 

Very cute profile pic DurablePants. Sony I need a TZ with 64MB NOW!

 

especially because i want 2 of them in RAID-0

 

plenty of "pros", but there are a few "cons" as well.

most flash memory chips have limited write cycle on memory cell of around 100k iterations. so, one obvious "con" to the technology is virtual memory, which requires a swap file. the operating system is constantly writing to the swap file. personally, i always stack my notebook with ram and turn off swap.

another "con" would be a journaling filesystems, which unix users enjoy. these create a journal file as "intermediate product" of a write. some databases that see heavy use would also probably run into the 100k wall with their transaction logs, which are similar in concept.

to combat this problem manufacturers are using various techniques that attempt to write data to new locations to prevent over-writing to one area. this either requires that you keep frequency counts on sectors or some other logical grouping, and move "high write frequency" files occasionally.

if andrew ever gets to confront a ssd vendor, this would be good question for him to ask them.

 

It's not just us POSIX (UNIX standards, UNIX implies certification) users, NTFS is journaled too. I think every default file system in modern operating systems is, except maybe some very young hobby operating systems.

 

If one could be brought for $500-700, I would be swapping out my 32GB SSD right now.

 

DELL is offering 64GB SSDs for 1000$ (in Canada).

 

It actually says "in excess of $500", here in the UK the pricing for the Samsung 64Gb SSD is about £575 (~$1200). Would expect it to be slightly less than this value in the US.