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RE: Correct by: Theo Valich on 6/3/2009
Hi all,

I think that the point missed here is the targeted market. You have a beast of a workstation, but that workstation is pretty heavy. This is intended as a notebook storage and speed upgrade, mostly for notebooks with 4200 and 5400 rpm hard drives, and putting those old drives into an external 2.5" box.
To me, this is a great idea - I won't go into the quality of a product or value without seeing the drive first. But this is one of innovative products that should spun off others to make even a greater product.

But if you have a 2-3yr old notebook, upgrading the memory and this kit just might be something to expand the lifetime... for instance, I am typing this on a four year old Qosmio G20 that had a RAID failure. The system has a single core processor and 1GB of memory [our audio producer has a heart for this baby]. He decided to put two 500GB 7200rpm drives and 4GB of memory.... as a result, this single-core computer is simply flying and will happily serve for years to come... as a kitchen computer.

But upgrades work. Now, to go for a single SSD or a 500 gig notebook drive... that is the question.

Ed.
Correct by: Anshel Sag on 6/3/2009
Michael, these drives are definitely not as fast as some other SSDs but they are very midmarket friendly. They are priced around where the standard 7200RPM drives are and because of that they may have a chance to influence those who would like to get one of these into their laptop as they already come with the necessary software and hardware to upgrade(desktops). I like the idea that they bring value and simplicity to the SSD market.
Only 100MB/s reads by: Michael A. McKenney on 6/3/2009
Well, I might stay with 15K.6 SAS at 110-172 MB/s.
3 year warranty by: Michael A. McKenney on 6/3/2009
SNV125-S2BD/128GB is $237.98. 3 year warranty. I might get a pair of them. The 146GB SAS 15K.6 drives are $242.
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