It is amazing how slow SSDs are increasing capacity and coming down in price. :cursin:
No SATA 6Gb/s? Pffft.
It is amazing how slow SSDs are increasing capacity and coming down in price. :cursin:
Spare a thought for people in countries such as New Zealand - they have to pay 30-40% above that.
Anandtech said:SandForce will have nearly maxed out 6Gbps SATA on its first attempt.
If the 3rd generation X25-M is really only capable of 270MB/s reads and 170MB/s writes, I’m not sure if there will be the motivation to deliver a 500/500MBps part into the enthusiast market.
Anandtech said:At full speed you could copy 1GB of data from a SF-2000 drive to another SF-2000 drive in 2 seconds. If SandForce can actually deliver this sort of performance I will be blown away.
Is it certain that the new generation of X25-E will only be 3Gbps?
Let's hope the latest SandStorm is more reliable. It's not so fun to reformat every half-dozen boots. I'm not convinced that the transfer rates are realistic either, if they continue the multiply by two theory of compressible data.
Let's hope the latest SandStorm is more reliable. It's not so fun to reformat every half-dozen boots. I'm not convinced that the transfer rates are realistic either, if they continue the multiply by two theory of compressible data.
I didn't mean that you had chosen an outlier, but that your drive (and it's poor reliaility) is not representative of the drives in general. Just bad luck.
That's really interesting Ddrueding. From your posts, I get the impression that you have mainly OCZ drives? Checking their site, I see that it's simple to download the latest (custom) firmware for their Sandforce drives (if needed).
Since a couple of weeks ago the array becomes corrupted frequently and needs to be reformatted. For the past week I've been running one drive only without issues. I'll try the other drive for the next week.
Kingspec, POJ, 30 gig, update.
I have one that works fine. The other, I tried in a used, CF-51 Mark III Panasonic laptop.
Gives wonderful numbers. 70 MB/sec in ATTO and others.
Great Access times, HD tach, .02 MS.
Problem is, the drive sucks. It's slower with 2003 on it, in a Duo then a 7200 rpm seagate drive, and, that drive is NOT the top of the line. Huge lags, terrible performance, but, it looks ok on numbers.
Guess you pay your money, and, you get what you get...
http://semiaccurate.com/2010/10/05/third-gen-intel-x25-m-specs-leaked/
Might as well wait for the E class drives, 60TB of writes is nothing (M class).
I have over 13 TB on the old X25-E. I'm not sure what it was rated for, but the drive is only used for XP and temp files. I agree that 60TB is not much.