The OCZ is rather bulky. Is that normal? The Intel SSDs are much smaller.
My X25-E were very slim, but the X25-M G2s came with a plastic spacer screwed onto the top to make them as thick as the Vertex drives. I would measure, but I just sold them.
Was it a retail box? The one I got came with a 2.5 to 3.5 steel plate adapter which was nice to have.
gotta get a PCI-E card to use one of them @SATA 6Gbs, one that bootsWhen it comes to pricing the 256GB model that we have here today carries an MSRP of $799 and is available for consumer purchase at Crucial.com today. With a total free capacity of 238GB that comes out to $3.36 per GB of storage space. This is expensive, but not out of line compared to other SSDs on the market today. The OCZ Vertex LE 100GB SSD retails for $399 and has a free capacity of 93.1GB, which means that you are paying $4.29 per GB of storage space. The Intel X25-M Gen 2 160GB SSD has 149GB of free space with a street price of $429.99 shipped. This places it at $2.89 per GB, so as you can see the Crucial RealSSD C300 is roughly 16% more expensive than the Intel Gen 2 34nm drives, but offers better performance in nearly every benchmark we ran the two drives on.
If you are looking for an SSD that supports the TRIM command and want to move to the SATA 6Gb/s interface to get the most performance from your system the Crucial RealSSD C300 256GB drive is the way to go. You can't argue with sequential read and write speeds of up to 355 MB/s and 215 MB/s in a consumer based SSD. This is how SSDs should perform and we can't wait to see more SATA 6 Gb/s drives come on the market down the road.
^That really blowsVertex LE offers basically the same performance found with the Indilinix Barefoot controller in the original Vertex series of SSDs. The results in IOMeter and CrystalDiskMark say it all and the Vertex LE appears to be a solid drive for the consumer market. Any drive that is limited by 3Gbps SATA interface is a sign of where the market is going and that is the move over to the SATA 6Gbps interface. All of the drives in this review were tested on the SATA 6Gbps interface as that is where the market is headed right now and once Intel comes out with chipset support for this feature it will really take off. AMD will be supporting SATA 6Gbps drives on their upcoming 890G chipset, so native chipset support of SATA 6Gbps storage devices isn't that far off if you are an AMD fan. Intel fans will have to wait until 2011, which is when the ICH10R successor is scheduled to arrive. It is hard to believe that we have been stuck using the ICH10R chipset since 2008!
Hmm, how much does the V2EX SLC cost, in what capacities???OCZ is planning on coming out with the following three drives with SandForce Controllers. It used to be four drives, but the Vertex 2 Pro has been canceled.
Model
Controller NAND Max Read
Max Write
4KRW IOPS Vertex LE
SF-1500 MLC 270MB/s 250MB/s 15000
Vertex 2
SF-1200 MLC 270MB/s 260MB/s 20000
Vertex 2 Pro
SF-1500 MLC 280MB/s 270MB/s ?
Vertex 2 EX
SF-1500 SLC 280MB/s 270MB/s 22000
The entry level Sandforce drive will be the Vertex Limited Edition (LE) and it will be using MLC Flash memory with the Sandforce SF-1500 controller. Since OCZ canceled the Vertex 2 Pro SSD it is highly likely that this limited edition drive is basically the inventory of Vertex 2 Pro drives with a slower, but more reliable and stable firmware from what we can gather. OCZ said that they have 5,000 of these drives available, so they should go rather quick. The Vertex LE will be available in 100GB (OCZSSD2-1VTXLE100G) and 200GB (OCZSSD2-1VTXLE200G) drive capacities with the 100GB model featuring an MSRP of $399 and the 200GB model having an MSRP of $829. Clearly, these are not inexpensive drives!
Competition is good. The Intel X25-M G2 80GB is back down to $219.99 on egg now.
Just ordered 4 of the Intel 40GB drives. We'll see how they do.
Just ordered 4 of the Intel 40GB drives. We'll see how they do.
Ah well I have been out of town/touch for that long.
4 disk RAID 0?
Tricks? I'm sure if they could they would prefer to receive a lot. And if they did receive only a few, I'm glad they gave someone the opportunity to buy it.
Took the plunge after reading some of your posts here (and from having a slow computer running vmware, normal stuff and what not out of one Samsung 1.5T drive), so got myself one of these for a boot drive:
Intel SSDSA2MH080G2R5
So far so good. Nothing earth shattering, but seems snappier (re-installed everything, so of course it's quite fast...).
Still waiting for drivers for my 29160