http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/31..._256gb_sata_6gbps_solid_state_disk/index.html
looks awesome, hopefully i can get one for under £300 by april.
looks awesome, hopefully i can get one for under £300 by april.
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i can't find where they answer the only question that matters
is it better than an intel g2 as an OS/programs disk?
[LYL]Homer;1035276782 said:Tweaktown has not tested any Intel SSD? wtf
Well, it does show better numbers in random read/write so I would guess that yeah, it is. However, it requires SATA6 which will require mobo/controller upgrade for 99% of us, and the price as quoted in the article is much higher than for the Intel drives.
Well, it does show better numbers in random read/write so I would guess that yeah, it is. However, it requires SATA6 which will require mobo/controller upgrade for 99% of us, and the price as quoted in the article is much higher than for the Intel drives.
I'm pretty sure nothing REQUIRES sata 6gb/s. If it has faster random reads/writes than an Intel drive, it'll still be faster when running on a sata 3gb/s interface, because the Intel drive was not saturating sata 3gb/s in random performance.
The drive will work on a SATA2 (3G) controller. It will just perform better on a SATA3 (6G).
I didn't phrase it correctly. I'm pretty sure for this new drive to beat intel it needs Sata6 controller, otherwise it's gonna be pretty much the same if not a little slower because Intel already maxes out Sata3
I knew it!
It never fails.
I just paid top dollar for an Intel 160GB.
I knew it!
It never fails.
I just paid top dollar for an Intel 160GB.
Prices will fall by more than 50% before the year ends... hum... okay, that's a good thing.
I am holding off any other system upgrade until the end of the year in order to get all the new standards at once.
I also suspect Intel's new 256GB drive to be as fast or faster than the C300.
Let's all remember that throughput increases with storage capacity.
Intel's drives don't sport the biggest benchmarking numbers, but them seem to do the best in real world applications where it counts the most. I think the Intel drive still looks like a pretty good choice.
Another good review of the RealSSD against several SSDs including Intel's E and M.
http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=454&Itemid=60
[LYL]Homer;1035280863 said:Actually just X25-E, no X25-M.
Intel X25-E Extreme and Intel X25-M G1
http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.p...k=view&id=454&Itemid=60&limit=1&limitstart=10
Be careful what SATA controller you use with SSDs. Benchmarkreviews has some poor performance with Marell's SE91XX 6Gb/s controllers
http://www.hardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1492240
Waiting patiently for anand's review ...
Also, Intel's next SSD should coincide with their next chipset revision that supports sata 6g and usb 3.
Waiting patiently for anand's review ...
Also, Intel's next SSD should coincide with their next chipset revision that supports sata 6g and usb 3.
Anand previewed this drive about a month ago and compared it directly to Intel's X25-M as well as an Indillix drive IIRC...
Anand previewed this drive about a month ago and compared it directly to Intel's X25-M as well as an Indillix drive IIRC... Looks nice, but Micron's gonna be drawing from the same pool of flash memory that Intel is... Meaning the drives will probably carry a nice premium for quite a few months, just like Intel's drives have. I doubt prices (of any drive) are gonna plummet by 50% just because this drive is released, we won't see that until next year (2011) when 25nm drives start to come out.
That being said, I would never pay $400+ for a SSD... But I didn't pay that much for any one part in my current system, hell I didn't even pay $300 for any one part in it. 80-120GB drives for $250-300 are a nice sweet spot imo... Even if technically speaking you're getting more GB for your dollar w/the 160GB X25-M drives (if you can find 'em at a reasonable price, good luck on that).