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[essenbe]

Newegg.com - OCZ Vertex 2 OCZSSD2-2VTXE240G 2.5" 240GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

I just wanted to share the sale of the Vertex 2 SSD discounted with anyone that did not know just in case someone wanted one. It is $100 off and free shipping.

I guess that means they are getting ready for the Vertex3. Thanks for the link.

 

[pooch]

This is what my score looks like

 

[nyyankeefan95]

Newegg.com - OCZ Vertex 2 OCZSSD2-2VTXE240G 2.5" 240GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

I just wanted to share the sale of the Vertex 2 SSD discounted with anyone that did not know just in case someone wanted one. It is $100 off and free shipping.

I guess that means they are getting ready for the Vertex3. Thanks for the link.

This is an amazing drive. I think I am going to upgrade to the Vertex 3 tho.

 

[pparks1]

Newegg.com - OCZ Vertex 2 OCZSSD2-2VTXE240G 2.5" 240GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

I just wanted to share the sale of the Vertex 2 SSD discounted with anyone that did not know just in case someone wanted one. It is $100 off and free shipping.

Yes, good deal. Just under $400 for 240GB of SSD storage space. It's tempting.

 

[nyyankeefan95]

Newegg.com - OCZ Vertex 2 OCZSSD2-2VTXE240G 2.5" 240GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

I just wanted to share the sale of the Vertex 2 SSD discounted with anyone that did not know just in case someone wanted one. It is $100 off and free shipping.

Yes, good deal. Just under $400 for 240GB of SSD storage space. It's tempting.

I got the 120 GB (Little Small) but it puts out!

 

[Dave76]

Intel 320 Series SSD with 25 nm NAND Flash Slated for 28 March, Priced​

Intel's 320 series solid-state drives (SSDs) are on track for a March 28 launch. The silicon giant is on a bit of a spree with its SSD product launches over the past few weeks. Intel 320 series, also referred to as "Postville Refresh", succeeds the company's X25-V and X25-M series, consisting of SATA 3 Gb/s SSDs in the 2.5-inch form-factor. The drives achieve sequential read speeds of 250 MB/s, and write speeds of 170 MB/s; Up to 39,500 IOPS random 4 KB reads, and up to 23,000 IOPS random 4 KB writes.

The only major change here is the multi-level cell (MLC) NAND flash chips used inside, which are built on Intel's new 25 nm manufacturing process. Other new features include 128-bit AES data encryption, enhanced power-loss management, and up to 1.2 million hours MTBF. 320 series is available in 40 GB (US $109), 80 GB ($189), 120 GB ($239), 160 GB ($329), 300 GB ($569), and 600 GB ($1,119). With the 320 Series, Intel intends to target the business/office and mainstream markets, propagating SSDs to key high-volume segments.​

Prices should drop after a month.

Looks like Intel is moving to three levels of performance, 320 series for the low end, 510 series for the mid range and 7xx series for the high end which should be arriving later this year.

They will have to come up with something good to compete with SF/OCZ latest drives.

 

[fseal]

I'm a little leery of any 25nm chips at this point

What does an MTBF of 1.2 million hours mean? Just sitting there powered and not used? Guaranteed if you were writing to the drive continuously it would orders of magnitude shorter. I want to see the MTBF expressed as "Bytes Written". :/

 

[Dave76]

Agree on both counts.

Was waiting for the 25nm, but decided to get a 34nm 120GB drive, should arrive Monday.
Will wait and see what develops with the 25nm drives.

 

[whs]

It is amazing how small 25nm is - that is 25 billionth of a meter. If you took 25 billionth of the distance from here to the moon, that would be appr. 4 inches. That gives you a perspective.

 

[5er driver]

Speaking of billionths, the distance light travels in 1 nano second = 11.8 inches or 29.972 centimeters.

 

[Techymike]

That may be true but my wife can spend a paycheck faster than that!

 

[IownAmoneyPit]

New Intel 510 -120 Gb SSD

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[Dave76]

How does it seem to run?

The X25-M G2 120GB usually gets +400 score

 

[Wordsworth]

Don't know what the severe graph dips are in HDTune, but the maximum and average numbers appear about right. In AS SSD the Read Acc. time gave an error message for some reason on the first run. Ran the Intel tools and that appears to have corrected whatever occurred. Some of the second run numbers are slightly lower.

 

[01101001]

rig in sig::

 

[gowens1]

Hybrid Test Results

I would like to tap the knowledge base here to assist with ideas on why these disks
are so slow.

I purchased 2 Hybrid SATA disks (Seagate Momentus XT 500 GB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 32 MB Cache ST95005620AS ) and configured them as RAID-1 on my Gateway desktop (DX-4320) w/Acer Veriton M430 motherboard.

They work ok, but when I ran one of the tests (below) they have horrible results.
I know this is for SSD's but I assume the test is valid for any disk.

Results (attached).

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks

 

[whs]

Some of those numbers are nor bad if you compare them to plain HDDs - this is not an SSD. The SSD part is only used for some buffering - but the backend is always a slow HDD. And judging from the Write -Access time, they are not using a top SSD for buffering either.

Those hybrids do not seem to sell too well. Here you have the reason. At the end they are HDDs with a better buffer.

 

[Dave76]

Don't know what the severe graph dips are in HDTune, but the maximum and average numbers appear about right. In AS SSD the Read Acc. time gave an error message for some reason on the first run. Ran the Intel tools and that appears to have corrected whatever occurred. Some of the second run numbers are slightly lower.

Nice scores, The HD Tune was designed for HDDs but alot of people use it for SSDs.
The dips are usually caused by SSD activity.
You can test it from a different OS, if you have one, or mini PE OS on a flash drive, and it will be smoother.

Will get my new X25-M G2 120GB tomorrow
Laptop will get the X25-V 40GB in its second drive bay.

 

[Wordsworth]

Don't know what the severe graph dips are in HDTune, but the maximum and average numbers appear about right. In AS SSD the Read Acc. time gave an error message for some reason on the first run. Ran the Intel tools and that appears to have corrected whatever occurred. Some of the second run numbers are slightly lower.

Nice scores, The HD Tune was designed for HDDs but alot of people use it for SSDs.
The dips are usually caused by SSD activity.
You can test it from a different OS, if you have one, or mini PE OS on a flash drive, and it will be smoother.

Will get my new X25-M G2 120GB tomorrow
Laptop will get the X25-V 40GB in its second drive bay.

I wondered about the dips whether it was something in the test, or a background process kicking in. I'll take the numbers though.

From 40GB to 120GB, a little breathing room for ya.

 

[Dave76]

It's not too bad, 22.3GB used and 14.8GB free.

The dreaded winsxs folder is up to almost 6GB, will be a couple of fresh installs tomorrow