The new SSD Thread (Benchmarks, Brands, News and Advice)

[monakh]

Thin SSD 128GB (Gen 2) uSATA Everest benchies from my E4200. This drive uses a non-standard SATA connector. This is a specialized Samsung product for niche enterprise (read: super thin/expensive) markets. Standard OS config and clean image with 58 processes and no memory or CPU hogs running.

Decidedly Generation II speeds, though some of the HDTune benchies in the E4200 thread note 150ish read speeds.

Earlier G1 reference in this thread here.

[hankaaron57]

What exactly is a "buffered read"? Thanks for the screeny.

[ashura]

Vertex should be shipping from retail later this week, or latest next week:
http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/fo...0&postcount=30

And, despite the decreased write speeds from the high IO firmware, sequential writes are still pretty f'ing fast: http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/fo...0&postcount=30

[monakh]

What exactly is a "buffered read"? Thanks for the screeny.

Sure. I believe the 'buffered read test' does a benchmark on cached disk data. It goes through various block sizes from 32KB and doubles sample size up to 1MB (this is also the case for the Linear Read benchmark on Everest Ultimate). Traditionally, this test *should* saturate the SATA-II controller while running in a RAID configuration (or so I have heard).

[sgogeta4]

It is not SLC. This is the second-gen Samsung MLC that has just been mentioned in the past couple posts. It is NOT as fast or faster than the SLCs on the market except in sequential read/write speeds. The poster is right that there is currently no SLC on the market with more than 64GB of capacity... I think...

Memoright GT 128GB SLC SSD is one that's been out for a while, I recall a few more though..

[laserbullet]

256GB SLC SSDs right here, if you're prepared to pay.

http://www.dvnation.com/SOLIDATA-SSD...isk-Drive.html

[QuadAllegory]

256GB SLC SSDs right here, if you're prepared to pay.

http://www.dvnation.com/SOLIDATA-SSD...isk-Drive.html

They state fastest in the world. Do they have a 32gb that beats the X25-E

[ronan_zj]

its stupid to pay $5k on that SSD.

[Commander Wolf]

Memoright GT 128GB SLC SSD is one that's been out for a while, I recall a few more though..

Yeah, in retrospect there actually seem to be quite a few of these exotic drives. The Memoright actually has really good random write speeds considering it's age. The one CrystalDiskMark set I have claims 30MB/s in 4KB random writes. Sadly, the eBay cost per GB is significantly higher than of the X25-E, which is really a shame considering that it's slower.

They state fastest in the world. Do they have a 32gb that beats the X25-E

Fastest in the world my foot. Intel soundly trounces this thing in small random reads and writes.

EDIT: Even if they are only considering sequential speeds, the Titan is still faster at 230/150.

EDIT2: Also, speeds seem to be inconsistent across benchmarks?

http://forum.ssdworld.ch/viewtopic.p...49c551e82c6422

EDIT3: And yes, if I were to spend 5K on an SSD, it'd be the Fusion IO, or 5000/400 X25-E

[ronan_zj]

any review on SUPER TALENT MasterDrive OX 256G??