Micron's new terabyte-class SSD is under $600

[xelosia]

Micron Technology today announced a terabyte-class solid-state drive for under $600.
The 2.5-inch 960GB Crucial M500 SSD will be initially priced under $600, Micron said today.
The M500 solid-state drive uses a SATA 6-gigabit-per-second controller to deliver up to 80,000 input/output operations per second (IOPS).
The drive's sequential read and write speeds reach up to 500 megabytes per second (MB/s) and 400 MB/s, respectively.
Drives in the 2.5-inch form factor will be available in 120GB, 240GB, 480GB and 960GB capacities. The smaller M.2 and mSATA form factors will be available in 120GB, 240GB and 480GB capacities.
The 2.5-inch Crucial M500 SSD is expected to be available for purchase in the first quarter of 2013. The M.2 and mSATA form factors are expected in the second quarter.


http://ces.cnet.com/8301-34435_1-57563244/microns-new-terabyte-class-ssd-is-under-$600/

[PoLoMoTo]

I may pick up one of these, seems too good to be true though

[Doctor_Death]

We posted this in the news section early this morning, as soon as samples are ready, I'll have a M500 coming in for review. For now, I just received the new Transcend 320 / 256GB SSD, should be shipping it out to Jake for review, then using it in the upcoming build for Gigabyte.

[realneil]

It would be so cool to have a 960GB SSD in my gaming rigs. Looks like it may be a real possibility soon.

[vinman]

Thats great news

[Doctor_Death]

I just might pick up one for each system, instead of updating my GPU's this year.

[killjoyjim]

I will be getting ssd's for my azza rig. Now the choices are getting harder...lol's

[realneil]

The longer I wait, the more prices come down on them. So, the perfect time to buy will be 3 days before I'm 90 years old.

[Doctor_Death]

The longer I wait, the more prices come down on them. So, the perfect time to buy will be 3 days before I'm 90 years old.

So your talking about waiting until the end of 2013

[realneil]

So your talking about waiting until the end of 2013

Talk about the Pot calling the Kettle black,..............

[PoLoMoTo]

The longer I wait, the more prices come down on them. So, the perfect time to buy will be 3 days before I'm 90 years old.

But by then they'll have 2 TB SSDs for under 500

[realneil]

Yep! Prices are going down pretty fast.
I buy SSD's whenever I can, and I've won a few of them too.
So, (right now anyways) I can afford to wait for prices to drop.