Intel SSDs Now At Best Buy
If you’ve been looking for storage with the ultimate speed to give your PC a boost, then you should check out an SSD. There are many manufacturers of SSDs, but Intel is one of the most well known makers and now you’ll be able to buy Intel SSDs at Best Buy.
SSDs, or solid state drives, don’t use the spinning platters that standard hard drives do but instead use a type of storage similar to the SD card in your camera to offer a faster, more reliable storage space with no moving parts.
Starting this week, over 800 Best Buy retail locations will sell the Intel X25 SSD drives in store for between $129.99 and $229.99 based on the capacity of the drive. These drives offer an affordable entry into the Solid State Drive arena and when used as your primary drive will offer speed improvements. According to Intel, “an Intel SSD delivers up to 56 percent improvement in system responsiveness for gamers, multimedia enthusiasts or anyone desiring to get more performance out of their new or existing notebook or desktop computer.”
Intel SSD Adventure in Black Rock
Best Buy locations will sell the 80GB Intel® X25-M Mainstream SSD for $229 and the 40GB Intel® X25-V Value SSD for $129. These drives may seem small in terms of the storage sold with most notebooks these days, but they are meant to be the place where your operating system and program files are stored. An additional, standard hard drive can be used to hold multimedia and other large files.
In most cases, moving your old files to a new SSD is a straightforward and simple process as shown in the video below.
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The cloning software/process is nice and all, but how many people have a drive in their system now with less than 40 or 80 GB of programs/data stored on it? Very few people. So this seems rather pointless for the vast majority. SSD's still need to come a long way in terms of price and capacity before being ready for the masses. I've been anxiously waiting for a couple of years since my first encounter. Very disappointed to see this evolution dragging so slowly.
Other than price for capacity there seems to be two big problems plaguing SSD's : 1) Some of the less expensive drives aren’t particularly good on random write workloads, and 2) performance degradation over time. 3) there have been some studies done that question real world MTBF VS Manufacture Specs, with the real world use showing significant lower numbers.
These four issues need to be solved in order for consumer SSD's to become practical.
i have the 40gig flavor and it's very nice. Boot up time went from 1 min to 12 secs, with apps loading up much much quicker. I use the drive strictly for windows 7 and apps. I've had it for about 3 months now and it's flawless.