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

[ashura]

This news of Intel's "little something" for the X25-M next week really has me excited.

[MadBoris]

This news of Intel's "little something" for the X25-M next week really has me excited.

"You know your a geek" when firmware gets you excited.

[Jackboot]

This would make the transition to SSD very easy on everybody. and i don't see how eleminating all the no name rebrands is a bad thing... It would take out all of the confusion of consumers trying to figure out which is a worthwhile drive or not. no one will have to wonder if this is just another jmicron piece of crap or is it using a samsung controller or anything else... Bring it on then we can all have "intel performance ssd".

Agree 100%.

Wouldn't this also mean that updates could be issued simply as chipset drivers via windows update?

[monakh]

That dude at legitreviews said the same thing that he is waiting. Perhaps a superior wear-leveling algorithm? Can such a thing be devised at this stage?

[davepermen]

"You know your a geek" when firmware gets you excited.

what am I, then? knowing that it means spending hundreds of dollars needlessly just because I want it?

[poppap]

Although, Samsung is surely not like OCZ in making new firmwares every other week. I wonder if some of these MFR's selling these badged drives start making their own firmwares, they will likely be interchangeable on all the Samsung 256 drives.

Their have been plenty of hints on a new firmware Intel is floating out for the X-25's, so I'm sure that will be all the rage next week.

Samsung 256 was an easy choice for me for a SSD since it was only a $325 upgrade on the Dell I just ordered.

Edit: The site also doesn't mention his testbed and whether he disabled power savings.

There are 2 known firmware versions for Samsung 256GB that ships from Dell. VBM15D1Q and VBM1801Q
The latter one seems to have better random write .. http://forums.macrumors.com/showthre...=658571&page=5
Sadly I have the first one.. Hopefully Dell/Samsung will releases the firmware update at some point like they did with 32/64GB SLC...

[MadBoris]

@poppap, that is good to know, that atleast some revisions are out there and do occasionally come out. But yeah we need an update location.

Makes you wonder why they felt it necessary to update a firmware and yet not make one available for upgrading, maybe it's not too critical and they are afraid people will kill their data.

[MadBoris]

what am I, then? knowing that it means spending hundreds of dollars needlessly just because I want it?

davepermen=Geek²-$

[poppap]

@poppap, that is good to know, that atleast some revisions are out there and do occasionally come out. But yeah we need an update location.

Makes you wonder why they felt it necessary to update a firmware and yet not make one available for upgrading, maybe it's not too critical and they are afraid people will kill their data.

I think that would be the case... It may cause more problem for them if users brick their drive. There are always risks involve in flashing firmware...

[IntelUser]

I'm thinking of the 120MB/s firmware rumor. I knew it quite a long time. We'll see

http://translate.google.com/translat...istory_state0=

"Write performance from Intel, 120MB / s will do better firmware release soon after the performance improvement of peomeop like this to happen."