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  • wasabiman123 - Saturday, June 8, 2013 - link

    Can your windows boot drive be an M2 drive? Because I would be all over that :D How expensive are these M2s gonna be?
  • Roland00Address - Saturday, June 8, 2013 - link

    Even if this drive was 50 cents per usable gb that still means an $800 drive. And there is little chance it is going to be this cheap per gb when it is first released.
  • SleepyFE - Saturday, June 8, 2013 - link

    Wrong math.
    The M2 is "only" up to 512GB so it will most likely cost 1$ per GB like. In europe the prices are about 1€ per GB, some disks more, some a bit less but it looks like that's where we'll stay for a while.
  • SleepyFE - Saturday, June 8, 2013 - link

    Formed the sentence a bit oddly. It should say ...it will likely cost 1$ per GB like most.
  • Death666Angel - Sunday, June 9, 2013 - link

    Not really true for me. I'm in Germany and prices for the most common SSDs are hovering around 60 cents per GB, sometimes more sometimes less.
  • Spunjji - Monday, June 10, 2013 - link

    Agreed. As a back-of-the-envelope UK price you're looking at ~£0.65 per GB (Samsung 840) to ~£0.85 per GB (Samsung 840 Pro) in the UK at standard non-discount pricing, so I'd expect prices to be a similar / slightly lower in Euros.
  • Kristian Vättö - Saturday, June 8, 2013 - link

    Currently you can't because there aren't any motherboards that support M.2 ;-) However, you will be once these become available.
  • Bob Todd - Sunday, June 9, 2013 - link

    Unless their build wizard is lying, you've been able to order some Lenovo laptops with NGFF for at least a couple of weeks. I only know because I was screwing around building a low end E431 a while back and the "micro hard drive" (caching SSD) is listed specifically as NGFF.
  • IanCutress - Sunday, June 9, 2013 - link

    The ASUS boards with mPCIe Combo II have M.2 connectors. Nothing on SFF-8639 yet though.
  • meacupla - Saturday, June 8, 2013 - link

    hopefully compatibility and stability will be good.
    Adata is woefully lacking in firmware updates for their SSDs.
  • creed3020 - Monday, June 10, 2013 - link

    Somehow I doubt that the little XNP280 has the same R/W speeds as the 1.6TB drive. That just doesn't make sense considering the number of NAND chips. Copy and paste fail?

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