SSD Maturity

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How mature are the current SSD's on the mark up? Do they experience many weird issues, bad firmware still?

Wondering if purchasing an 80GB Intel SSD would be a bad choice, when I can get x2 1TB WD Caviar Black Drives for the same price.

Thoughts?
 
I can't answer the question directly - but suggest you go to ANANDTECH's Storage page & read several articles there which should answer your question.
 
Right now I'd wait, normal HDDs are cheap, reliable, fast enough really, and high capacity.
 
It comes down to capacity, price, and speed - choose two.

As for maturity - those on the bleeding edge of needing TRIM and needing the latest firmware on its release day are suffering. The rest of us are fine, just wait a couple of weeks for firmware updates to shake themselves out before updating.

I've purchased three Intel 80gb X25-M drives (two G2 for home systems and one G1 for a work laptop) and I pretty much will never put an OS on a rotational disk again for my personal systems. SSD's are that good.
 
What are the major differences between the G1 and the G2?

They look very similar to me!
 
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