What is the fastest SSD/HDD for a primary drive currently available?

[00011]

Hi,

I was just wondering what is the fastest SSD/HDD currently available for purchase today for a primary OS drive? Just to clarify, I mean for a desktop, not raided, and not needing some kind of additional controller purchased. Although telling me what the fastest is under any circumstance would be educational too.



Thanks

 

[xeonMP]

Overall fastest is the c300.

 

[00011]

So no 15,000RPM HDD beats that SSD ( I believe some don't need an additional controller)?

 

[Jarazix]

Corsair's current marvell based line...for now

 

[xeonMP]

So no 15,000RPM HDD beats that SSD ( I believe some don't need an additional controller)?

No hard drive can match an ssd and you would need a sas controller anyway for a 15k rpm drive.

Corsair's current marvell based line...for now

IIRC the c300 still beats it where it matters the most for the ops purposes which is 4k read.

 

[Jarazix]

Corsair's lineup is the 3rd gen of the same controller Crucial uses.....

It would not be better, in almost any way at all ( unless perhaps the poster only has SATA 2, in which case 2nd gen sandforce might be better. Best brand IMHO is mushkin for sandforce )

 

[Jarazix]

Plextor also has the 3rd gen marvel controller in their drives....and soon crucial will as well.

 

[terayon1515]

OCZ Revodrive's and the X2 versions beat everything right now. They are PCI-e cards running on a PCI-X to PCI-e bridge with a bank of four SSD's in RAID0 via an onboard controllers.

The X2's have very high IOPS and push over 5-600MB/s, but are tres expensive for the capacity compared to a normal Revodrive or 2.5" or 3.5" SSD.