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Intel releases 34nm-based SSDs with 2x speed of previous drive

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The most notable thing for me is that the G2 80GB is around $220, about $100 less than what the G1 is/was going for.

At that price point, I'm definitely considering buying another one and putting the old one in my laptop.

If you're not familiar with the subject, Intel SSDs pretty much dominate the category: http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=3531

Since I stream most of my media I'm going to buy the 80GB as soon as they release it. Intel had worked through most of the problems with SSDs with the X-25 and with the price drop and improved performance this is a no brainer if you can afford it.

I've been waiting for the right time to buy a new development laptop, and I think that the superfecta in Q4 of this year (Mobile Core i7, nVidia Mobile 200-series, Windows 7, and these new X-25M drives) should make for a excellent and fast machine. The X-25M has great throughput for small, random reads/writes which makes it ideal for running VMs for testing.

Too bad they still don't support full drive encryption. We can only buy laptop drives with that feature due to concerns over theft or loss.

Why not use something like TrueCrypt? The only thing that isn't encrypted is the truecrypt bootloader, which isn't really a big deal.

It's more hassle to support and maintain. Our IT department is already stretched, and that would be one more thing to add to the load.

well even the hardware based drive encryption stuff comes with a bit of software that your IT department would have to support anyway, so I don't think the TrueCrypt software adds that much overhead to what you'd already have to support with a hardware based solution. Sounds like you just need a better IT department.

i've been running PGP WDE encryption on my X25-M G1 no probs... http://paulstamatiou.com/pgp-disk-encryption-safe-for-solid-... http://paulstamatiou.com/review-pgp-whole-disk-encryption-fo...

but yes, built-in encryption would be awesome

You can't trust built-in encryption because you can't audit it, and neither can anybody else, so the vendor's incentives to ship an actually-secure product are very limited. Use software encryption instead.

Out of curiosity has anyone audited truecrypt?

I'm sure the NSA has. I wonder what their results were. I've heard rumors that the Truecrypt authors try pretty hard to prevent meaningful audits (no source for old versions, no discussion of the subject allowed on their site) but I've never considered using it.

Imagine how much faster the G2 of the X25-E SLC SSD will be.. yikes! I can't wait. Hopefully it'll be considerably > 64GB this time around.

Did they really reuse the same model numbers? That seems annoying.

I'm not sure what you mean - the "Gx" part of the model numbers changed.

SSDSA2MH080G2 vs SSDSA2MH080G1

I guess I meant the product name. They're still X-25M...

the figure should be higher if you regard monitor, laptop and smartphones/pda as tv

lol, I think you commented on the wrong article ;)

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=717002

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