cclonline is getting some in on the 14th if you hadn't already found out...Quote:
Originally Posted by Shooty*
http://www.cclonline.com/product-inf...snv125-s2/40gb
Although I'm sure it's gone up ~£5 since I bought mine last week...
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cclonline is getting some in on the 14th if you hadn't already found out...Quote:
Originally Posted by Shooty*
http://www.cclonline.com/product-inf...snv125-s2/40gb
Although I'm sure it's gone up ~£5 since I bought mine last week...
Anyone know if these two run on the Intel or jmicron controller?
http://www.cclonline.com/product-inf...acturer_id=267
http://www.cclonline.com/product-inf...v125-s2bn/64gb
Can't see any immediate difference between the two...
Both jmicron.
Ah. So they're the rubbish ones then, yeah?
Edit: OK, all v series run on jmicron except the 40gb ones, if I'm doing my research right. Is that the case?
Shame, I thought they might have rejigged the 64gb ones with a decent chipset.
I'm interested to know, are there distinctly preferable brands for SSDs?
The Crucial ones look the best to me spec-wise, and are generally cheaper than most of the ones faster than them, but they don't seem to be generating much interest. Crucial makes great RAM already, so it would make sense for them to be a leader in the SSD market as well, especially considering they usually emphasize relatively low latencies, but if that's the case, why are they less expensive while supposedly being of superior performance.
My inner cynic firmly believes this warrants investigation before investment.
As for the boot drive question, I've been running a 20GB partition for mine, and aside from occasionally discovering things which have saved there when they were meant to be going to the other drive and clogging things up, it's been perfectly fine. Again though, I haven't been extremely demanding on it.
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intel, after that corsair
Read the article I posted on last page, it really does sum things up well :)
anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3631
Helped me decide after over month of researching options (check my posts about SSDs previously regarding seek times IOPs etc), really well done article.
Went for the intel G2 (silver case, not black they are the old G1 version) 160GB (the size of the disk doesn't affect speed with SSDs, in fact larger ones can be faster due to easier to find empty space to dump data fast in)
IN GENERAL USE SEQUENTIAL READ SPEEDS ARE A MARKETING RED HERRING AND ONLY MATTER FOR TRANSFERRING/CREATING VERY LARGE FILES, WHAT MATTERS IS THE IOs/per second SPEED (IOPS) FOR 4K DATA CHUNKS :)
Englander, CCL apparently now has them in stock. Early. I've ordered one, but the real time stock count has not gone down. We shall see.
Oh, wow. :mrgreen:
Thank's a lot, I wasn't expecting to get such a complete answer immediately.
I'll check it out and get back though, as I'm just checking up on the forum briefly for now before handling a return.
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Well for what its worth now I've got windows 7 pro installed and the SSDs perform very very nicely in raid. Have tested opening all of office 2007 ultimate at once about 8/9 programmes and it does it in under a second... nice :)
I am very happy with the performance upgrade of them. I'm not really into benchmarking them but to give an idea windows 7 gives them a 7.5 on the windows performance scores compared to 5.9 for a sammy f1 320gb. Windows 7 pro, office 2007 ultimate, and a few other things (no file storage) uses about 23.2 gb for those interested.
And for those who care, WEI gave my one SSD a 7.3.Quote:
Originally Posted by no_numb