Get Kingston's Intel G2 SSD for Just $85
It's a boot drive that you can finally use to give the boot to your Raptors.
Been looking at one of those Intel G2 SSDs with lust? So have we. Every single day. Sadly, as well as they perform, they are quite pricey. But today Kingston has announced a new product offering that brings things well into the realm of affordability.
Kingston today announced its SSDNow V Series 40GB Boot Drive, the latest addition to its V (Value) family of solid-state drives SSD. There are two things notable about this drive:
1) It uses Intel's second generation 34nm Postville SSD technology, so it's really fast.
2) It will be available for as low as $84.99 after rebates (U.S. only) at e-tailer Newegg.com at launch. (Before rebate, it'll retail for $115.)
"The SSDNow V Series 40GB Boot Drive offers instant performance enhancement coupled with reliability and lower power consumption at a fraction of the cost of a new system," said Ariel Perez, SSD business manager, Kingston. "The 40GB Boot Drive is the latest offering in our V Series SSD line. It provides a low-cost upgrade solution that complements the installed hard-disk drive to extend the life cycle of existing desktop computers and workstations in homes and offices."
Obviously, 40GB isn't going to get you very far these days, but the SSD here is meant to be a boot drive, meaning that your operating system and key applications reside on the SSD while all data such as documents, music, files and photos remain on a secondary, more spacious HDD.
The Kingston SSDNow V Series 40GB Boot Drive will begin shipping on November 9. Is this where you'll join in on the SSD party?
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Well that looks nice
if i were building a new PC atm that would be on the tick list. hopefully when i do get round to upgrading mine ina year or 2 they will be even bigger/faster and cheaper 
keep them coming!
..so expect UK customers to get the short, sharp shaft.
I like the idea of having the Operating system run off a sold state device. How long I wonder, before we see such devices incporporated directly into your motherboard?
I bet it would still make a difference under heavy multi-tasking workloads too, since the calls to the OS are still being made to the SSD, as the switches between apps.
As a HTPC boot device I really like the sound of this, literally..it runs cool and quiet. And what about consoles? How many over-heat and have to be taken back
Not so keen on the idea of a 40GB boot drive...
Benchmarks would be nice.
Sorry... but where is the catch? I don't believe they will do that... That would mean SSD become mainstream and knowing life - this is just not going to happen that easily... not now at least...
There have been some benchmarks done on these, by AnandTech I think. They're rated at 170Mb/s read but only 40Mb/s write. They were quick at reads, and random writes for some reason, but really slow at sequential writes.