DeathSmasher
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As the title says im looking into get a sata 3 ssd can someone help me out. only one i have seen is a crucial brand one is it worth it should i wait what?
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Sata 3 SSD help
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Depends, if you want awesome performance right now and if the price seems ok with you then get it.
If you can wait 6 mos - 1 yr then wait, b/c more are likely to follow, as with any tech item it will be sure to depreciate quickly. Even i7s are going to be old news in a year or so.
If you can wait 6 mos - 1 yr then wait, b/c more are likely to follow, as with any tech item it will be sure to depreciate quickly. Even i7s are going to be old news in a year or so.
I would rather have an Intel SSD than the 6Gbps Micron-powered Crucial SSD. Both are good SSDs however. But the SSD hardly gets any benefit from using 6Gbps SATA. You would be faster with 2x 40GB Intel X25-V SSD - for reading anyway.
If you want a good 6Gbps SATA SSD; you have to wait till christmas when Intel releases its next SSD generation and controller. That will also be the point with extreme price drops, as 28nm NAND flash will be released. The X25-M G2 also decreased the pricepoint of original X25-M.
If you want a good 6Gbps SATA SSD; you have to wait till christmas when Intel releases its next SSD generation and controller. That will also be the point with extreme price drops, as 28nm NAND flash will be released. The X25-M G2 also decreased the pricepoint of original X25-M.
But you would be even faster with 2 Crucial SSDs in RAID0. 
Personally I'm waiting (but then again I already have a SSD)
And think of it this way, if no-one buys them then there will be no incentive for the company to continue advancing them.
Personally I'm waiting (but then again I already have a SSD)
And think of it this way, if no-one buys them then there will be no incentive for the company to continue advancing them.
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I don't know what sub.mesa's fascination with Intel is... the Crucial RealSSD is the only SATA 3 SSD on the market right now, and it certainly beats intel in just about every performance metric even on a SATA 2 controller. If you want the single fastest 2.5" consumer SSD, Crucial is currently top-notch.
The Intel drives really aren't that much slower (except for sequential write speed which is much slower), and getting two of them for RAID0 is a pretty good idea if you're okay with RAID. Sandforce-based SSDs (OCZ Vertex 2, Corsair Force, etc) are very good too, although somewhat more expensive.
You could also wait around for Intel to release a new generation, but somehow I doubt that will be anytime soon. I'm not sure if Intel would release a SATA 3 product when none of its chipsets currently support it. Maybe after Sandy Bridge?
The Intel drives really aren't that much slower (except for sequential write speed which is much slower), and getting two of them for RAID0 is a pretty good idea if you're okay with RAID. Sandforce-based SSDs (OCZ Vertex 2, Corsair Force, etc) are very good too, although somewhat more expensive.
You could also wait around for Intel to release a new generation, but somehow I doubt that will be anytime soon. I'm not sure if Intel would release a SATA 3 product when none of its chipsets currently support it. Maybe after Sandy Bridge?
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New Intel SSDs coming in Q4.
Crucial C300:
Intel X25-M:
Still prefer the Intel drive. Also, i believe the Intel drive has a lower chance of any hidden weaknesses. I've heard many stories about JMicron SSDs simply failing without known cause. I haven't heard such stories about the Intel drive, even though its one of the best sold SSDs worldwide.
So, you could say the Intel SSD is well tested. If there was any particular weakness, somebody on earth would have found it by now.
Intel X25-M:
Still prefer the Intel drive. Also, i believe the Intel drive has a lower chance of any hidden weaknesses. I've heard many stories about JMicron SSDs simply failing without known cause. I haven't heard such stories about the Intel drive, even though its one of the best sold SSDs worldwide.
So, you could say the Intel SSD is well tested. If there was any particular weakness, somebody on earth would have found it by now.
Also, checkout this page:
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1221/6/
I agree the Micron-controller provides more sequential throughput, but does it provide mode random IOps than the Intel controller? If so, got any good benchmarks of that? The ones on legitreviews seem to agree that Intel has higher IOps performance.
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1221/6/
I agree the Micron-controller provides more sequential throughput, but does it provide mode random IOps than the Intel controller? If so, got any good benchmarks of that? The ones on legitreviews seem to agree that Intel has higher IOps performance.
The next page shows it beating Intel in 4K IOps using IOmeter instead of HDtune
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1221/11/
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1221/11/
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I really have no knowledge on SSD's Other then they are faster then Raptors i would like to pick one up roughly in the 120gb range i have sata 3 on my mobo suggestions?
Indeed it seems to vary per benchmark. One theory is that HDTune's random access test uses a single queue depth, as i know it does with the default surface benchmark. Other benchmarks may use multiple queue depth, which causes alot higher random IOps due to NCQ/command buffering.
So probably the Intel is better at single-queue random I/O due to lower latency times (the same article tested this too), while the Micron controller can do more parallel I/O with multi-queue random I/O.
Too bad i can't afford to buy these just to test them. But i may be interested in a pack of four Intel X25-V 40GB. That should give me awesome random I/O read times; as multiqueue these small SSDs push towards 200MB/s per drive; amazing.
So probably the Intel is better at single-queue random I/O due to lower latency times (the same article tested this too), while the Micron controller can do more parallel I/O with multi-queue random I/O.
Too bad i can't afford to buy these just to test them. But i may be interested in a pack of four Intel X25-V 40GB. That should give me awesome random I/O read times; as multiqueue these small SSDs push towards 200MB/s per drive; amazing.