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- Kwipper, on 05/16/2009, -3/+25I'm probably going to be waiting a while, but call me when I can get at least a good quality 250 GB SSD Drive for under 100 dollars
- jemka, on 05/16/2009, -2/+15I'll stick with my patters for now and let you guys figure this all out.
- tank728, on 05/15/2009, -1/+14Not all OCZ drives have JMicron controllers, but the JMicron controllers do suck. But check out this article http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=35 ...
- Ricochetbiscuit, on 05/15/2009, -0/+12This article is showing performance with OCZ's Vertex drive, which is based on the IndiLinx controller, not Jmicron and performance is pretty good for the price, compared to the Intel drive.
- Lucas123, on 05/15/2009, -3/+14Keep away from OCZ drives with the JMicron controllers.
- beavord, on 05/16/2009, -0/+8Keep away from drives with the JMicron controllers.
- dsmatrix, on 05/16/2009, -1/+9stop being a lazy ***** and just read it. I didnt realize digg was so full of whiners
- mrBitch, on 05/16/2009, -1/+9@ schnikies79, RE: " ... Are the any reviews that give a price/performance or price/gb ratios? "
Why don't you just RTFA?
Here's your price/gb ratios :
http://hothardware.com/articleimages/Item1301/pric ... - Intrusionv2, on 05/16/2009, -1/+7My Samsung 128GB works pleasantly with Fedora :)
- headzoo, on 05/16/2009, -0/+6The seek times on these drives are amazing. A typical 10k HDD has a 4.5ms seek time, and these drives are <.1ms. Just amazing.
- schnikies79, on 05/16/2009, -3/+9Are the any reviews that give a price/performance or price/gb ratios?
Right now the SSD market seems to be a giant dick-showing contest. Personally I'm holding out till the market gets boring like the platter market currently is. Boring in the computer market typically means mature and stable.
I just picked up a 1tb external WD for $79.99 shipped from the Egg a few weeks back. Beat that. - EtherGnat, on 05/16/2009, -0/+5You're new here, aren't you?
- schnikies79, on 05/16/2009, -0/+5Every platter drive I've bought in the last 5 years is still working strong. No clicking and no problems. All WD and Seagate.
I've bought ~15 drives. - CDefense7, on 05/16/2009, -0/+5MTBF 1.5 million hours (171 years) --- 2 year warranty?
- cfuse, on 05/16/2009, -2/+6Whatever happened to the much vaunted hybrid flash drives that everyone was talking about last year? You know, the one's that were supposed to be a hard drive with a big chunk of flash cache bolted on to them.
- bdbr, on 05/16/2009, -0/+4RTFA.
"The drive you see pictured here comes by way of Kingston, but it is essentially a re-branded Intel X25-M"
Editor's Choice: "Kingston SSD Now M Series SSD (Intel X25-M)" - teh_techie, on 05/16/2009, -0/+4The OCZ model reviewed here is the Vertex with the Indilinx controller. I own this drive, and it's fan-freaking-tastic in my laptop.
- L8blumR, on 05/16/2009, -0/+3As someone who is concerned with archiving, I've been waiting for SSD to become more affordable. I won't be buying Intel (I'm an AMD gal, myself) because of their questionable business practices. I put my money where my beliefs are...
- rif42, on 05/16/2009, -0/+3Hybrid is a transitional product, but I will give you, it was a very short time they were talked about. Perhaps the obscure short-lived Microsoft idea of ready-boost has something to do with it.
Anyway, in other domains like cars, hybrids car will stay with us for many years, until batteries for electrical cars can become a factor 4 more powerful, lighter, longer lasting and less expensive. - Ricochetbiscuit, on 05/16/2009, -0/+2Here you go: http://hothardware.com/Articles/FourWay-SSD-RoundU ...
- winterspan, on 05/16/2009, -0/+2Only the ***** OCZ Apex drives and lower use the JMicron (and even then it is dual controllers RAID 0 to make up for it)
All the higher-end OCZ drives use the indilinux or samsung controllers - TheHardDisk, on 05/16/2009, -2/+4I'd like to put my money where you keep your beliefs too...
- Redzin, on 05/16/2009, -0/+2Buried for not using the ***** reply button...
- Picer, on 05/16/2009, -3/+4@Lucas123
Keep away from OCZ drives with the JMicron controllers.
I disagree the JMicron controller performance vastly improves WHEN they are in a raid configuration (within) the SSD and come a lot closer to matching Intel's SSDs at significantly lower price, this is due to the fact that they don't get overloaded as raid distributed the burden.
Evidence-Gskill titan SSD with two jmicron controllers in raid....
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/storage/2009/01/2 ... - Ricochetbiscuit, on 05/16/2009, -0/+1John, get a clue and read beyond just the title before you judge. The Kingston drive is basically a re-branded Intel drive. And they've reviewed and rounded-up with an Intel labled drive recently as well: http://hothardware.com/Articles/Intel-X25M-80GB-SA ...
- Genma, on 05/16/2009, -0/+1so what's your point, it's a gimmick. if they need to use 2 interfaces in order to keep up with other single channel solutions it just proves the point that jmicron is crap. it's not even a real stripe, they just randomly write to cells with 2 controllers at the same time.
- darkened, on 05/16/2009, -1/+2@P5ycHo, I agree with you but want it to go further and include single hard drives, single raptors, single veliciraptors, then the SSDs, then the first drives in raid 5 configuration and raid 0 configuration, then the SSDs in raid 0 and 5 configs.
- P5ycHo, on 05/16/2009, -1/+2It's nice to see one ssd compared to another. But what I really want to see is the performace difference between basic harddrives & ssd's.
- nogami, on 05/17/2009, -0/+1I'd like to see random write performance - that doesn't seem to be tested in this test.
Sequential writes make for for big bars in reviews, but don't actually mean much for everyday use on a system HD. - GorecOverYears, on 08/25/2009, -0/+1Their rewrite cycle is limited. Not sure any of these hard drives is the best option for me
- GT35R, on 05/17/2009, -0/+1Im still using an HDD from 1999 and 2002, they work fine. I thank you underestimate the life span or reliability.
- mrsteveman1, on 05/16/2009, -0/+1I use mine with baseball caps
- rif42, on 05/16/2009, -0/+1I guess the flash card/disk price will be 1 EUR/GB by beginning of next year. Your price point will probably happen by the end of 2011.
Also remember cheapest flash card/disk most likely will not be the fastest. - Ricochetbiscuit, on 05/17/2009, -0/+1You're looking only at sequential write speed, which only occurs during large file transfers. Random write speeds are the fastest of the group in the tests, as well as reads. Look at the IOMeter numbers. IOMeter has long been a trusted and true benchmark for raw storage throughput.
Your comments here sound "biased" in my opinion, not the article. " I'm not an OCZ spokesperson, I just love their products..."
Exactly, don't let love blind you. - Ricochetbiscuit, on 05/17/2009, -0/+1Page 5, the IOMeter tests:
The second test down is 33% writes, 100% Random:
http://hothardware.com/Articles/Four-Way-SSD-Round ...
The Kingston/Intel drive is 3X faster. - winterspan, on 05/16/2009, -1/+2This article is clearly biased in favor of the Intel based drive. How can he give it editors choice when it is 30% more expensive than the OCZ Vertex and has 1/3 the write speed of it! For many use patterns that emphasize read performance only, the Intel MLC drives are great. But for anyone that is going to be transferring large amounts of data around, the Vertex is CLEARLY a better choice! And I don't know why the other drive got an award either..... The Vertex is far faster! And if you want a larger drive, you can get the Vertex 240GB (256G) for less than $800 online. I'm not an OCZ spokesperson, I just love their products and think they are getting screwed in this review when their Vertex drive clearly has the best performance (read AND write speeds) per GB per dollar based on the benchmarks.
- winterspan, on 05/16/2009, -0/+1Wrong. The OCZ Apex has two Jmicron controllers in internal RAID 0 and it is far slower than the OCZ Vertex and OCZ Summit drives.
- jggube, on 05/16/2009, -0/+1I'll be calling you in 8 years.
- JohnAdams999, on 05/16/2009, -3/+3Totally messed up review if their not going to review the Intel X25m. It's better than all 4 of those, in some cases put together.
Here's a better review:
http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=3531 - defendliberty, on 05/16/2009, -1/+1nie rób siary Polakom. Nie na temat cepie.
-Szlachta - danielarmstrong, on 05/17/2009, -0/+0write speed is not important
read speed is what ssd's are needed for and what make a pc lighting fast
also the intel one has the best seek time by far 100 times better which is really really good for lots of little random reads (like a program or os starting) - emt1451, on 05/16/2009, -1/+1Why did they even bother including Kingston and SuperTalent?
- inactive, on 05/16/2009, -1/+1Is that a hardware thing, a firmware thing or a configuration thing? Sounds interesting.
- mrsteveman1, on 05/16/2009, -4/+1Every platter drive i've bought in the last 3 years has clicked and lost data for me after a few months. I don't know that SSDs are the answer they have their own problems, but platters aren't the safe choice to fall back on anymore. That was WD and Seagate, so maybe they just make crap now and i should look at hitachi in the future.
- IamNomad, on 05/16/2009, -7/+1TLDR; SSD drives are too much ***** money compared to their older larger brothers.
Also, this site is ether suffering the digg effect or hosting in Guam. - Visual77, on 05/16/2009, -10/+2They were too lazy to clean up the specifications so that each page had the same formatting?
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