Where can I get 64gb Solid State (SSD) HD right now ?

[ComputerMinder]

I want to buy a 64gb Solid State HD for the X61s that I ordered and will soon get.

I though these were not available yet (only the 32gb models which are too small for me).

Now what do you know, I go to one site and they offer the Toshiba Portege R500-S5003 with 64Gb SSD HD for a pretty [censored] good price!! That's a pretty off topic of what I want to achieve in this. [censored] that machine has got 1280x800 (way better than XGA offered on X61and also amazing 780 grams weight Ggggrr..

Anyway, I went a bit off topic here. But anybody knows where can I get that HD? I was under the imression the 64gb isn't available yet and even if it does it would cost $1200 or so.. The Portege is not all that expensive at all so I figure the 64gb SSD HD can cost about $1000.

I am willing to pay up to $1000 (though less is better ) All places I went it was pre-order and only the 32gb drive offered for about $500. But 32gb is way to small. 64gb I can live with.

thanks

[mazzer]

The Portege R500 is not out yet, so it's just pre-orders. If someone is offering a good price already it's probably a scam.

The 64GB NAND drive is a Samsung SSD, it should be in production but I don't think it has shipped yet.

[Ideasmiths]

I want to buy a 64gb Solid State HD for the X61s that I ordered and will soon get.

Type "SSD" or "NAND" or "SSD Nand" in any combination at ebay.

One auction I found at ebay

[tomh009]

Alas, a 3.5" drive won't fit a ThinkPad.

I suspect that full production has not yet started on the 64 GB SSD drives.

[Ideasmiths]

Alas, a 3.5" drive won't fit a ThinkPad.

I suspect that full production has not yet started on the 64 GB SSD drives.

lol, me bad, didn't notice the 3.5" there.

Yup, we need 2.5" and SATA....

well, I would suggest do a search using "SSD SATA" and then save the search so that ebay will notify via email. I was looking for this drive too, except that 32GB is good enough for me, spotted a few on and off via ebay.

[Jackboot]

I can't wait until some hybrid drives come out...all I really need is 16GB or so for my OS and program files...documents and media files will be just fine on a regular old HDD.

[ComputerMinder]

thanks for replying the guy offering the protege is someone I know so it's not a scam it's real and I can get it in 14 days. Could be though that it is realeased to Europe before US but I doubt it.

Anyway, the auction on ebay as tom said, is for 3.5" drive which will do no good. Still waiting for the 64gb 2.5" drive.

[Trekk69]

Just a question:
So if we found a 2.5in SSD SATA drive we would be able to replace the current HD on the x6x models and run off of the SSD instead? So it would be internally cased in the unit?

[mazzer]

Just a question:
So if we found a 2.5in SSD SATA drive we would be able to replace the current HD on the x6x models and run off of the SSD instead? So it would be internally cased in the unit?

Yup. The interface between the hard drive and the motherboard is the same. The motherboard doesn't care if the hard drive uses magnetic platters or flash memory or incredibly tiny Babylonians writing on even tinier clay tablets. As long as it knows how to talk to the drive, it's happy.

[SHoTTa35]

well i'm not sure about 64GB ones but i know newegg has 32GB SATA ones.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820609234

I want to get a 32GB one i think, There was someone looking to do a group buy for MAXTON ones a while back (check the marketplace) and i think he was getting 128GB ones or something.

I have a 16GB one and installed Vista on it (using it now) and this thing definitely flies. It's even faster than the Hitachi 100GB 7200RPM drives 8MB Cache based on the Windows Vista WEI scores. It actually gets a 5.3 there.

I saw this review this morning and was very excited (minus some for the price!)

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3064

That thing was competing against a WD Raptor 10,000RPM Drive which according to them, is the king of HDs right now. It even BEAT THE WD RAPTOR drive in some tests.

[tomh009]

Notable the 7K200 gets a 5.4 on the Vista scores.

King of HD? 10K Raptor is maybe a dark prince at best, with drives like the Hitachi 15K300 (1.4 Mb/s transfer rate) available. Of course, neither one of these drivers will fit into a ThinkPad.

[SHoTTa35]

yeah, i saw that on someone's post with a T61 i think in that Vista Performance Scores thread. With a 7K200 it was a 7.4 which is a lot to say for space and speed.

As for the Hitachi, are those Hitachi 15K300 drives, aren't those UltraSCSI? Those aren't in the normal range of desktop drives right? Surely SCSI drives will kill any other drives easily

Granted they are super expensive for the size the carry i love these drives (my right palm rest agrees with me also) The thing is super quiet (0dBa) and uses like almost no power compared to the 7200RPM drives out there. 1W vs 4-5Ws is definitely a plus for laptops to get that extra battery time. Imagine your X series twerked out with batteries (8 cell and a ultrabay) running for 15hrs while still killing in perfomance.

[tomh009]

No doubt SSDs will be great, and especially make a difference in X series and the like (on a T61 with discrete graphics the hard disk is no longer the biggest problem).

However, at $400-500 for a 32 GB SSD, that time isn't here yet for most people. I'll bite when I can get a 256 GB drive for $300 though!

[SHoTTa35]

i'll probably jump on the bandwagon (more than i already have - that was free!!! ) when i can get close like a 80-120GB one for that $300 price. The 16GB one i have now is about $300 and Vista sucks up almost all of that. Once i can have about 20-30GB on my Vista partition available after install and then 40-60GB for data on another partition i'll be fine. I don't use mine that much as it is now anyways. Even with this drive i was thinking of getting a 4200RPM drive and stick it in a UltraBay HD Adpater for data storage and just use this thing for the OS.

[rushdy]

I was thinking of doing this too when prices drop a bit, but would this mean having to live with a 2010 error every boot?

[politicorific]

The CEO of Seagate was on revision3.net a few weeks talking about solid state drives. He mentioned that the switch from a mechanical to solid state drive is worth about 15 minutes of battery time, so maybe a little bit more on our x6 series. He suggested that what will be more reliable and work better for laptops are hybrid drives. A drive with a 32mb cache, 8gig flash/solid state technology, along with a magnetic storage is what I'd look forward to.

[tomh009]

Of course one should keep in mind that Seagate makes mechanical drives and not solid-state ones, so a few hefty chunks of NaCl should be consumed with any such statements ...