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Fatwah on Western Digital
I'd still take OCZ. Nothing can beat WD's 13 RMAs for 9 drives in one year record.
SSDs - State of the Product?
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Was that in 2009?
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Fatwah on Western Digital
No but they will never be forgiven.
SSDs in general are not very mature and not so unreliable, excepting perhaps the latter Intel drives. What choices are there in HDs? One of every five Samsungs is deefctive from teh get go, Hitachis are noisy, hot and have low STR, and Seagate is just teh suck. 
I don't know if the 128 GB Kingston is any good but woot has them for $199 before a $50 MIR.
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Fatwah on Western Digital
Aren't the Kingston drives rebadged Intel X-25s?
I can't tell if this one is or not. This page on Kingston's website suggests only the E-Series 32 GB and 64GB drives are rebadged Intel. There is some other discussion of the 40GB V-Series was an Intel rebadge.
If this drive is a rebadged, it's a decent price after rebate for 128GB.
If this drive is a rebadged, it's a decent price after rebate for 128GB.
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
AFAIK, Kingston has nine series of SSDs. Only the SNE-125 and SNM225 are rebadged Intel drives. The others have Toshiba controllers and are slower. The SNM225 (Intel X-M drive) are listed has being discontinued.
time
Storage? I am Storage!
They stand out as having possibly the poorest write performance of any current SSD. Sequential throughput is good, transactions per second is low.
Why would you bother?
Why would you bother?
sechs
Storage? I am Storage!
Too bad these won't be out for a while:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4100/ocz-vertex-pro-3-demo-worlds-first-sandforce-sf2000
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4100/ocz-vertex-pro-3-demo-worlds-first-sandforce-sf2000
ddrueding
Fixture
If you are working with compressed RAW and JPEG, I don't blame you.
ddrueding
Fixture
MS Office, most OS/App files, most program data files, some databases. The only files where major effort has been put into compression is multimedia.
sechs
Storage? I am Storage!
Maybe you'd prefer Micron's C400 then.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4086/microns-realssd-c400-uses-25nm-nand-at-161gb-offers-415mbs-reads
It looks like they're putting their money on better flash, rather than a fancier controller. As long as it's evolutionary and not revolutionary, it should come out of the gate cleaner. And it will be here sooner.
Stereodude
Not really a
The dirty little secret is that as flash process shrinks the number of times you can reprogram the chip drops. So, as it gets faster and cheaper it also gets less reliable / durable.
blakerwry
Storage? I am Storage!
It would seem a parallel exists with magnetic storage as well. I don't think the technology is necessarily at fault, but rather the manufacturers' (as well as our own) acceptance of performance, price, and reliability for a given product.
sechs
Storage? I am Storage!
I think that's the crux of the Sandforce controller versus Micron flash difference.
Sandforce is trying to deal with the reduced number of writes with their fancy controller tricks. Micron is doing it with fancy flash chip tricks.
I haven't seen anything on drives using the new Sandforce controller, but Micron is saying that the C400 will accept as many writes as the C300 does now. It looks like we're good until the next die shrink.
The next Sandy Bridge chipset/Intel storage driver revision looks like it may have an interesting trick up it's sleeve... SSD caching. I wonder how relevant the Seagate Momentus XT will be after that ships? (assuming it's true...)
..."Z68 is also slated to support something called SSD Caching, which Intel hasn’t said anything to us about yet. With version 10.5 of Intel’s Rapid Storage Technology drivers, Z68 will support SSD caching. This sounds like the holy grail of SSD/HDD setups, where you have a single drive letter and the driver manages what goes on your SSD vs. HDD. Whether SSD Caching is indeed a DIY hybrid hard drive technology remains to be seen. It’s also unclear whether or not P67/H67 will get SSD Caching once 10.5 ships."...
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4083/...-core-i7-2600k-i5-2500k-core-i3-2100-tested/6
..."Z68 is also slated to support something called SSD Caching, which Intel hasn’t said anything to us about yet. With version 10.5 of Intel’s Rapid Storage Technology drivers, Z68 will support SSD caching. This sounds like the holy grail of SSD/HDD setups, where you have a single drive letter and the driver manages what goes on your SSD vs. HDD. Whether SSD Caching is indeed a DIY hybrid hard drive technology remains to be seen. It’s also unclear whether or not P67/H67 will get SSD Caching once 10.5 ships."...
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4083/...-core-i7-2600k-i5-2500k-core-i3-2100-tested/6
Howell
Storage? I am Storage!
Looks like Marvell was not the only ones thinking ahead. I think it makes total sense. The Momentus may only be relevant for laptops and other single drive systems in the future.
Possibly. It would still be nice to have a 2TB drive with 60GB of flash and choose to have buffering or individual use. The 3.5" drives should have enough room for packing the memory on circuit boards.
Bozo
Storage? I am Storage!
What's the difference (except size) between the memory cache already in hard drives and adding SSD??
Another update for the intel drives.
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=18363
I won't be the first, super happy with the thing as it is now.
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=18363
I won't be the first, super happy with the thing as it is now.
Stereodude
Not really a
What's it supposed to do?
Stereodude
Not really a
I'll give it a month or two before I try it.
ddrueding
Fixture
I don't think I'll ever bother. mine work fine as is.
Pradeep
Storage? I am Storage!
http://semiaccurate.com/2011/02/17/intels-first-sata-6gb-ssds-coming-march/
34nm, 120GB and 250GB. Up to 470MB/s Read; 315MB/s Write
Sounds about C400 speeds?
34nm, 120GB and 250GB. Up to 470MB/s Read; 315MB/s Write
Sounds about C400 speeds?
Bozo
Storage? I am Storage!
I'm thinking of buying a Crucial C300 SSD. Is there anything special to do installing an operating system on it. ( Acronis or clean install? )
Stereodude
Not really a
If you clone an image to it you need to make sure the partition is aligned.
Stereodude
Not really a
Unless I missed something all drives will have at least some performance loss if the data isn't aligned. Why would the C300 be different?
OCZ Vertex 3 Pro Preview: The First SF-2500 SSD
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4159/ocz-vertex-3-pro-preview-the-first-sf2500-ssd/1
New sandforce looks to be a beast after they get some stuff worked out.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4159/ocz-vertex-3-pro-preview-the-first-sf2500-ssd/1
New sandforce looks to be a beast after they get some stuff worked out.