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Chris Gohlke
02-23-2010, 11:00 PM
<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/sandisk-ships-60gb-120gb-g3-ssd-to-north-america-and-europe/' target='_blank'>http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/23/...ica-and-europe/</a><br /><br /></div><p><em>"SanDisk has just announced that its 60GB and 120GB G3 solid state drives are headed out to retailers as we speak. Both North America and Europe are getting served simultaneously, with the drives promising sequential performance of up to 220MB/sec on the read side and up to 120MB/sec on the write side."</em></p><p><em><img src="http://images.thoughtsmedia.com/resizer/thumbs/size/600/dht/auto/1266959214.usr10.jpg" /></em></p><p>Prices are $229.99 and $399.99 respectively. &nbsp;Load your OS and applications on this and put all of your data on a secondary standard drive and you should get a nice performance increase. &nbsp;</p>
Jason Dunn
02-24-2010, 02:49 AM
Damn. Still too expensive...and you'd think that SanDisk would be able to drive costs of Flash down more than anyone else. We need a good ol' SSD price war!
Chris Gohlke
02-24-2010, 03:29 AM
Don't think there is enough mass market interest to get the demand up enough. I don't think the average consumer knows the difference between this and a standard hard drive.