best deal on a 64GB to 128GB SSD?

[VirtualLarry]

http://www.microcenter.com/single_pr...uct_id=0351760

Is this still the best deal around on a SF1200 64GB SSD? Would prefer a 128GB SSD for less than double this price, but that seems like a slim possibility.

Edit: Would it be better, to RAID 0 two of these 64GB SSDs, than to get a 128GB SSD, performance-wise? (Price-wise it's currently around $30 cheaper too.) How is SF garbage-collection for drives in RAID?

 

[Tsavo]

Why would you raid a 275 MB/s up/down unit on a SATA 2.0 chipset?

 

[Emulex]

those drives were $79 new the other weekend. they are buggy sandforce sf-12xx so skip. unless you can return notice all the open box ones??

 

[nanaki333]

they're re-badged adata. just flash them with the latest adata firmware and you'll be solid.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Why would you raid a 275 MB/s up/down unit on a SATA 2.0 chipset?

I don't get it. Why not? Wouldn't RAID on a SATA2.0 chipset be more beneficial, since you cannot exploit SATA3.0 speeds from a modern SSD?

It's only limited to 300MB/sec per port, so you could get nearly 550MB/sec total out of two SF drives in RAID-0.

 

[kmmatney]

they're re-badged adata. just flash them with the latest adata firmware and you'll be solid.

This. These drives are fine once updated with the latest firmware

 

[kmmatney]

If you don't mind an Indilux SSD, this seems like a good deal:

http://www.microcenter.com/single_pr...uct_id=0356680

I'm not sure what the status of Indilux-based drives is these days.

 

[Weenoman]

I don't get it. Why not? Wouldn't RAID on a SATA2.0 chipset be more beneficial, since you cannot exploit SATA3.0 speeds from a modern SSD?

It's only limited to 300MB/sec per port, so you could get nearly 550MB/sec total out of two SF drives in RAID-0.

Totally confused by this and would like to be educated.

 

[razel]

If you don't mind an Indilux SSD, this seems like a good deal:

http://www.microcenter.com/single_pr...uct_id=0356680

Wow, that is a killer price especially without any rebate! That should be in the hot deal forum. I was about ready to just click and buy until I noticed that it's out of stock in my nearby store.

 

[Beer4Me]

Wow, that is a killer price especially without any rebate! That should be in the hot deal forum. I was about ready to just click and buy until I noticed that it's out of stock in my nearby store.

Um 30 day warranty on an SSD? Eh, I'll pass.

 

[sequoia464]

I don't get it. Why not? Wouldn't RAID on a SATA2.0 chipset be more beneficial, since you cannot exploit SATA3.0 speeds from a modern SSD?

It's only limited to 300MB/sec per port, so you could get nearly 550MB/sec total out of two SF drives in RAID-0.

My Vertex 2's in raid0 are at 510000 read and 557000 write in ATTO - speed depends of course on each system. The Intel boards seem to get better writes than my AMD board. No write caching on the AMD's is part of my writes lagging.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Totally confused by this and would like to be educated.

Each port is limited to 300MB/sec (SATA2 port). So if you combined two SSDs in RAID0 (striping), then you would get (theoretically) double the sequential read/write performance out of them. It would be a way of increasing your disk bandwidth (sequential), without having to move to SATA3. The overall total bandwidth of the southbridge (ICH9R), is limited by, I think, DMI 1.0. I'm not sure how fast that is. I think it's roughly PCI-E 1.0 x4.

 

[SickBeast]

The Intel boards seem to get better writes than my AMD board. No write caching on the AMD's is part of my writes lagging.

Are you using the Microsoft driver or the AMD driver? The MS one is way faster on my system. My benchmarks are comparable to reviews done on Intel platforms and I'm on AMD.

 

[sequoia464]

Are you using the Microsoft driver or the AMD driver? The MS one is way faster on my system. My benchmarks are comparable to reviews done on Intel platforms and I'm on AMD.

I have had better luck with the AMD drivers. Not a huge difference though - mayby a couple of % better overall.

 

[TrueBlueLS]

Um 30 day warranty on an SSD? Eh, I'll pass.

Damn... you can't get their warranty on it.

 

[funkatation]

I bought the 128GB Corsair Nova refurb at microcenter for the same price. They allowed me to get the 2 year warranty for $20. It's been flawless so far.

 

[kmmatney]

Um 30 day warranty on an SSD? Eh, I'll pass.

yeah - there are 5 in stock at my local store in Denver - I'm tempted, but they should have at least have 6 month warranty. I think a lot of these drives were returned, as the initial firmware release never supported TRIM. With the latest firmware (still unofficial) they now support TRIM in windows 7 finally.

I think Corsair (and all others using Indilux) are now screwed by OCZ buying Indilux, and I don't think there will be any more firmware updates for these.

 

[Emulex]

$10 for 5 year warranty iirc