OCZ's $500 128GB SSD

[udaman]

http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/07/01/ocz.sata.ii.ssds/

Not sure where electronista got their pricing info from, not listed on OCZ's site:

http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/flash_drives/ocz_core_series_sata_ii_2_5-ssd

Over on SR's thread, claims will be available next week .
http://forums.storagereview.net/index.php?showtopic=26961&mode=linearplus

Interesting? link in last post on that thread to Tom's H.:

The SSD Power Consumption Hoax : Flash SSDs Don’t Improve Your Notebook Battery Runtime – they Reduce It

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-hdd-battery,1955.html

Could Tom’s Hardware be Wrong?
No, our results are definitely correct. We’ve looked at almost a dozen different flash SSDs from seven vendors over the last few months, and measured acceptable or sometimes even disappointing power requirements with most flash SSDs. In an effort to determine the actual impact on notebook http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notebook systems, we took four SSDs that we had available in our test lab, and ran a series of Mobilemark benchmark runs on a Dell Latitude http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell_Latitude D630 notebook. We found runtime differences of up to one hour (!) when using a flash SSD compared to a high-performance 7,200 RPM 2.5” notebook hard drive.

Didn't read the article, but I see mention of SLC on the 1st page, nothing about MLC.



Mitron's 260MBs controller (SLC) "early 2009"
http://www.mtron.net/English/PressRoom/PressRoom.asp?sid=PressRoom&xact=view&idx=298&page=1&sp1=&s

By then Samsung's latest vaporware 256GB MLC, supposedly 200MBs should be shipping Now if they can get the price of that one down to $500 by time of introduction, then we'll have a winner @ only 2.5x $ times what a slower Hitachi 7k320 costs

 

[LunarMist]

We found runtime differences of up to one hour (!) when using a flash SSD compared to a high-performance 7,200 RPM 2.5” notebook hard drive.

I would not use an SSD in my notebook, and there is no power problem in a desktop.