Cnet News Story here
2.5" 500GB 5400 RPM 9.5 mm HDD
2.5" 250GB 7200 RPM HDD
128GB SSD "will be available to a few PC manufacturers mid-year".
Which 128GB SDD, based on what size process, what performance?
http://www.electronista.com/articles/08/01/07/samsung.128gb.ssd.and.more/
Typical of Samsung, always announcing, then later, much later releasing something...was supposed to be out late 2007, then above link said H1, now it's 'summer... other than you were led to expect. So how much is this 128GB drive going to cost, is the bigger question? 2x the 64B models that currently are ~$800 to OEM's?
The 500GB drive comes with an 8MB cache and $299 price, the 7.2k drive 16MB
Intel still hasn't addressed the SDD bottleneck bandwidth issues in any upcoming laptop chipset that I know of, both the ICH8 & 9. So tannin wouldn't see full bandwidth possible for a SSD on that Stinkpad he's thinking of getting. Won't see the ICH10 until (is it only a driver issue with Vista, or a hardware compatibility issue that affects all OS's running off of the Intel chipsets/southbridges?) this summer with the desktop Eaglelake platform, the 1st that is publicly stated to support SSD's.
New motherboards, et al on display @CeBit, courtesy or Anand:
http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=3250
Internet access is unfortunately not as ubiquitous as we'd like it to be, and I've resorted to roaming on my
iPhone far too much in order to get email access.
CeBIT offers wireless Internet access at a "low" fee of 10 Euros for an hour ($15.18). Thankfully OCZ was kind enough to let us use their Internet connection at their booth for free.
Well, there you go, if Anand uses an iPhone, the iPhone must be *awesome*, despite what the old-fart SF crowd thinks
SSD Update - Intel ICH9R Problems Solved (...as long as UR running Vista
http://www.anandtech.com/weblog/showpost.aspx?i=326
