The 80Gb Intel MLC SSDs have been hard to find in-stock and prices keep varying .... The original list price on the x25m 80Gb MLC drive was $230 - and it was *supposed* to be available for less than that. Demand has been high and a lot of on-line sellers have taken advantage of the demand to keep prices high. In particular, newegg.com, who usually have very keen pricing, has been selling the Intel SSDs at way above list and are not competitive with other online retailers.
A possible work around is to shop for the 1.8" version of the drive - which is more widely available with better pricing. You'll need a cable with a micro-SATA connector for this drive. You can find a micro-SATA cable to standard SATA cable assembly here: http://www.satacables.com/micro-sata-cables.html Bear in mind that the 1.8" (x18m) drive is 5mm high - whereas the 2.5" (x25m) drive is 7mm tall - and it comes with a plastic frame to increase the height to 9.5mm for compatibility with some laptop mountings. Here's a reference for physical form factor info on the Intel drives: wget http://download.intel.com/design/flash/nand/mainstream/322296.pdf and here is the spec for the micro SATA connector: wget ftp://ftp.seagate.com/pub/sff/SFF-8144.PDF NB: Make sure you get the G2 version of the Intel drive - regardless of the form factor. No affiliation with Intel etc. -- Al Hopper Logical Approach Inc,Plano,TX a...@logical-approach.com Voice: 972.379.2133 Timezone: US CDT OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) Member - Apr 2005 to Mar 2007 http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/ogb/ogb_2005-2007/ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
