Even if this drive was 50 cents per usable gb that still means an $800 drive. And there is little chance it is going to be this cheap per gb when it is first released.
Wrong math. The M2 is "only" up to 512GB so it will most likely cost 1$ 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.
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.
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.
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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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?