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Offer new cheaper SSD's in XPS notebooks

620 points posted to Sales Strategies, XPS products by redrubberpenguin May 7

Solid state drives have been ridiculously expensive for the last few years. The price is over $15 per GB of storage, as opposed to hard disk drives, which come for even less than $1 per GB of storage at times. But there's no arguing the benefits of SSD's... better performance, quicker boot times, and much better data protection all in exchange for a premium price.

Super Talent has just released a series of solid state drives that are actually AFFORDABLE. The series starts of with a 30GB ssd (120 mb/s read, 40 mb/s write)... FOR 300 DOLLARS. Compare that to Mtron's Mobi 6000 32GB solid state drive, which costs $699. Super Talent's 60GB version runs for $449, while Mtron's 64GB costs over $1000 at the moment.

http://www.supertalent.com/press_view.php?prid=ed3d2c21991e3bef5e069713af9fa6...

Note that the write speeds of these SSD's is lower than some other SSD's out there, but most consumers would agree that they were willing to sacrifice that write speed for the huge amount of money they save. Dell, please offer this SSD on your notebooks, especially on the XPS series, as quickly as you can! And readers, please promote this idea if you want cheap SSD's (and I know you do!).

sgogeta4
May 14		 MLC SSDs are far inferior to SLC SSDs - in not only speed but in lifespan. Please read:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=223173

Dell offers the new Samsung SATAII SSDs at a far lower price than if you would purchase it separately. It still is very highly priced, but Dell isn't to blame for this. The new SSDs offer so much more than just raw speed - lower power consumption (and consequently, better battery life), no moving parts (hence no noise), and less heat (which further reduces noise, lower fan speeds needed).

http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=4368
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=163144
redrubberpenguin
May 14		 I know it's not Dell's fault that SSD's are priced so highly; it's simply the SSD market at the moment. As for performance, the SuperTalent SSD still breaks the 100 mb/s read barrier, though at an admittedly lower write speed. As for lifespan, SLC's claim to have a minimum life span of 49 years... but what's the point of that when consumers replace their computers every four years or so? I'm certainly not suggesting that Dell stop offering the Samsung SSD as an option... but at its current price it is still too expensive for most consumers. However, this cheaper alternative is definitely an option that they will consider.
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