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You know the solid state drive market is progressing at a breakneck pace when even Adata is churning out high-performance SSDs. Adata, perhaps best know for building entry-level components aimed at budget builders, announced the first shipments of its S511 SSDs built around the SandForce SF-2200 series controller. Jumping off the porch to run with the big dogs, the S511 SSD series represents Adata's first foray into SATA 6Gb/s territory.
Armed with a speedy SandForce chip with native support for SATA 6Gb/s, the S511 series boasts read and write speeds of up to 550MB/s and 520MB/s, respectively. They're also capable of up to 60,000 IOPS 4K random writes in real world testing, Adata says. What it all equates to is being able to transfer a 5GB video file in as few at 15 seconds.
Available capacities and performance specs include:
The S511 drives come with a 2.5-inch to 3.5-inch bracket. No word on price or availability, though we did a little digging and found a single vendor -- Adorama -- selling them for $200 (60GB), $300 (120GB), $630 (240GB), and $1,600 (480GB).
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newegg911
June 18, 2011 at 6:30am
Yeah, prices for SSD's are still way too high. And I'm sick and tired of hearing that "your mechnical drive is bottlenecking your system." It's true in theory, but is way oversimplified. Unless you are doing stuff that relies constantly on HDD read and writes, SSD's are merely a luxory IMO.
Brock Kane
June 17, 2011 at 1:32pm
Prices on SSD's are way too insane to buy one at this time. Understanding the technology on these are new.
I remember when an IBM compatible 386 with 2 megs of RAM costed $5000 too. I'll wait awhile!
frizzly
June 17, 2011 at 12:16pm
the biggest hold up of people buyiny these things is the rediculously high prices. you can buy a computer for the price of a SSD.
haboh
June 17, 2011 at 9:39am
Those prices seem high, especially for a "budget" brand. In my experience with camera gear Adorama jacks up prices when supplies are low, or non-existent elswhere, often 2x the price or more!
