Intel's 80GB comes with
80 x(2^30) bytes of flash storage with 74.5 x (2^30) bytes of usable space. 5.5Gibibytes are set aside for the various things the controllers does to keep the drive at it's optimum.
Or
85.9 x(10^9) bytes of flash storage with 80 x (10^9) bytes of usable space.
Windows uses binary bytes (gibibytes here), so you will see 74.5 in Windows.
What i wanted to know. Thanks.
My 80GB Intel shows 74.5 in Computer. That is just the difference between decimal and binary. So it is still 80 Billion bytes.
2- SSD Intel X25's 80GBx2 RAID0
This is amazing. Over 500MB/sec transfer rate would correspond to about 5000Mb/sec - that is 5Gb/sec. I wonder how the Sata bus (3Gb/sec) handles that.
I am running it on a SATA III (6.0) board:)
This way i am future proof and dont bottleneck :)
Here at Newegg
SSD comparison and ranking
I found this SSD evaluation in the reputable German Chip magazine. Although it is in German, you can probably make it out. I thought it might be intersting for the SSD fans. The prices are in Euro and way higher than the US prices (1€ = $1.36).
PS: xtreme3881, understand how you get all that data across. But I guess only RAM can keep up with it.
got a deal on another kingston drive--the SNV425-S2--the former i posted about was the SNV125-S2. this is not the v+ drive, but a newer version of the regular v series drive. along with the better read and write speeds over the SNV125-S2, the SNV425-S2 supports trim as well.
so the former drive, the SNV125-S2 is now residing in my daughter's computer running vista home premium (and the patriot ps-100 will be boxed up and sent to patriot probably monday)
Just got my Intel x25-V 40Gb SSD. Just got Windows re-installed and most of my software - the games.
So far i love this little drive. It does feel faster and snappier than my vertex, but then again, the Vertex was a bit sick and this a a clean instal.
The Intel looks slower looking at the Seq. Reads/Writes, but WEI and AS SSD score it higher. It feels faster too, but that may just be me. :P
Vertex had a 7.3 score in WEI, Intel gets 7.6.
Comparison, 1st one is my Vertex 30GB.
Not as good as the M series, But for the price, the V series is pretty good IMO. Especially considering its Intels value/Entry level SSD.
SATA bus handles it just fine as each SATA port gets 3Gb/s. So until SSD drives individually can push over 300MB/s the SATA 3.0Gb/s is more than adequate.
The entire drive controller obviously has some sort of limit, but I believe that with the Intel ICHxR controller can handle around 800MB/s in total.
