The one I received is retail, but not an upgrade kit. I realty bought it it of curiosity, though it performs so well that I'm trying to decide what to do with it. I just don't trust Samsung drives to be reliable.
SSDs - State of the Product?
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Cool thanks. Looks like newegg and Amazon are the same price, so I'll probably go with Amazon. I'm considering one, so I was curious if you had found a deal somewhere, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
Sort of. This was the one I ordered last week. The price was $100 minus the ten dollar code. I think they jacked the price a day or two later by the time I received it.
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
Anyone knows what controller those new Toshiba SSD use and what's their rated i/o performances? Because I can't find it anywhere.
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
I cannot find anything either. It could be an interesting SSD, or it could be another regurgitated Stoneforce.
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
It cannot be a SandForce controller with the advertised transfert rates. The new Marvel controller would be a better match, but we cannot be sure until someone gets one and crack it open. So far, only Plextor came up with a model using the Marvel 88SS9187.
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
Well I hope they've improved their controllers a lot because from what I remember from the performance of old budget Kingston SSD that used to use Toshiba-made controllers, the end result was quite ugly. They had a reputation to be relaible though.
Newtun
Storage is nice, especially if it doesn't rotate
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Now more Toshiba SSDs. 900 MB/sec reads. Damn.
Bozo
Storage? I am Storage!
Is this a good deal? Crucial 512 GB m4 for $349.99 @ Amazon? I'm considering getting one because the size is what I need and the price seems good.
Mercutio
Fatwah on Western Digital
That's a good deal right now, yes. I suspect that 'round about Xmastime, we'll be seeing 512GB drives below $300 though.
timwhit
Hairy Aussie
Is this for a laptop?
Maybe. :-| I want one for both my laptop and desktop.
Stereodude
Not really a
Way too rich for my blood even if the $ per GB isn't that bad.
ddrueding
Fixture
And I just ordered a 960GB Revo3 X2. Just over $1/GB.
timwhit
Hairy Aussie
I understand why you'd want to put one in a laptop, especially if you can only put one drive in there. For a desktop, I would buy a cheaper, smaller drive and just add more spinning drives.
After thinking about it for a bit, I'm actually going to go with the 256GB model for $165 for my laptop. I'm going to use a bit of the cost difference to bump my RAM from 4GB to 8GB for $36 and that's replacing both SODIMMs and bringing my T500 to its max supported. I have a 160GB 7200 RPM drive in there now and I have about 25GB free, so this should give me enough room for a while at 256GB (I plan to wipe the system and reinstall). I mostly want the speed bump for software development for school so rather than replace the perfectly working laptop, this should give it a second wind. I'll wait for the 512GB to come down in price before considering it for my desktop.
Is this for work or for your home system? Looks like it'll be a fast drive.
timwhit
Hairy Aussie
Sounds like a better plan to me. My work laptop has 8GB of RAM and a 120GB SSD, it's been quite nice for development work.
What are you going back to school for?
I decided to work toward a masters in software engineering at Brandeis University (starting this week). I'm not yet officially enrolled in the masters program, but I'm taking two courses that count toward the degree. Next spring I will apply when I'm done these two courses. I'm taking OO Design and advanced programming in Java.
In a non-scientific testing way, the new Crucial M4 drive seems very fast. I did a clean install of Win 7 also which helps. Laptop boots in about 12 seconds after POST. I noticed one hiccup about 15 minutes ago that was worrisome. The hard drive light was on solid and the entire machine wasn't responding for probably 90 seconds or slightly more. The system event manager reported a timeout on the drive, but nothing else. No BSOD or corruption as far as I can tell. Hopefully that won't continue to happen.
Bozo
Storage? I am Storage!
Possibly 'Trim' doing it's thing.
It might be. I found thread of people in Crucial's forums complaining about the same thing. Crucial recommends powering on the drive, but disconnect the SATA cable and let it sit for 30 minutes. Then power off for 30 seconds and repeat (with the cable still disconnected). During this time the idle IO will allow the internal controller to scan and do maintenance to clean up. If I still have issues, it'll be returned...which is what I'm guessing will happen. I'm at the latest drive firmware also and a disk scan returned no sector issues. Seems like a bug to me in crucial's firmware (or hardware) since so many other people have see it and it's not specific to Windows OS.
Nope, I'm using maybe 40GB out of 256GB with a clean install of Win7 64-bit. Can't say if it was dirty from something (other than say windows, but that's a different debate). It was formatted before install. I also disabled windows defrag scheduler to make sure it won't put excessive wear on the drive.
Is there any chance we will see a 1TB SSD this year?
ddrueding
Fixture
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
I'd rather get the Revo drive of a similar capapcity.
ddrueding
Fixture
So would I (in fact I did), but Lunar tends to work with laptops, so I linked the one that would fit.
I have thirty-something GB in the desktop system includin SSDs g two 240/256, so space is not the issue. The laptop I'm considering has only one drive. However, I'm not keen on paying two grand for an OCZ/Indilink drive.
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
Samsung announced new lines of hard drives : the 840 and 840 Pro.
The advertised iops are impressive. Should be available in about three weeks.
The advertised iops are impressive. Should be available in about three weeks.
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
Oh and SR has a review already.
Anandtech review here: http://www.anandtech.com/show/6328/samsung-ssd-840-pro-256gb-review
Looks like the fastest drive of the bunch. Just hope the reliability is as good as the 830s.