Intel X25-E Extreme Solid State Drive SSD 64GB SATAII SLC SSDSA2SH064G1GC

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Dane

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I have a couple of these drives for sale. Just sold on ebay for $200+ and have another going for $175+

Let me know if you need pics, etc! $150 each or best offer.


*Also selling a $475 Best Buy Gift card for $440 or best offer
*Also selling a $475 Dell Home Dell.com Gift card for $425 or best offer

Dane

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Just out of curiosity what makes these so expensive? I mean, you can get an Intel 330 60GB off of Newegg right now for like $70...25nm synchronous storage with 500MB read/write...reviews point to it being true Intel quality through and through as well.

Not trying to thread crap or anything, just interested how a 3 year old SSD can be so expensive!
 
JoeUser said:
Just out of curiosity what makes these so expensive? I mean, you can get an Intel 330 60GB off of Newegg right now for like $70...25nm synchronous storage with 500MB read/write...reviews point to it being true Intel quality through and through as well.

Not trying to thread crap or anything, just interested how a 3 year old SSD can be so expensive!
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Synchronous vs asynchronous only determines one aspect of performance. Every consumer drive you can think of, and about half of all enterprise drives, use MLC (multi level cell) flash, meaning each cell in the die has four or more possible states. It's slightly lower performance, but more importantly, it's orders of magnitude less durable than SLC (single-level, meaning single cell=single bit: 0/1), which these drives use.
 
Agreed--best description I've heard yet (had some questions PMed as well).
 
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