SATA3 Solid State Drive Round Up Featuring Corsair, Kingston, Patriot Memory and OCZ

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Futurelooks posted a SATA3 Solid State Drive Round Up

The SSD market is finally at price levels I would call palatable. There are 120GB SATA2 SSDs for $179.99 or less and SATA3 SSDs for $184.99 and above. This will undoubtedly impact sales for smaller 20-64GB SSDs used in conjunction with Intel Smart Response (ISR) technology on Z68 platforms. ISR is great for pairing a smaller and cheaper 20-64GB (max) SATA2 SSD with their hard drive so users don’t have to reformat. However, since many of those smaller SSDs are still around $100, I think it’s very safe to predict consumers are going to hand over another $80 or so to land a 120GB SSD in the SATA3 flavor.

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