Intel drives have really slow write times (70mb/s)....my next ssd will be an Indilix controller in 120-128gb.
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3631&p=22
"the disk operations that feel the slowest are the random small file reads and writes"
How well does that Indilinx controller work with the random stuff, eh? :hmm:
The Indilinx controller drives have higher
sequential writes. The Intel totally stomps it (and every other drive, HDD or SSD) in the possibly more important
random writes. In Anand's testing, the Intel G2 drive was the best MLC SSD for random writes as well as reads. Basically it is faster all around than the Indilinx drives in the more important random stuff.
The G2 is good.
The Indilinx drives do lose performance here. They drop from roughly 13MB/s down to 7MB/s. We're still talking ~5x the speed of a VelociRaptor, so there's no cause for alarm. But it's clear that even Indilinx's SLC drive can't match Intel's random write performance. And from what I hear, Intel's performance is only going to get better.
This is what the X25-M price premium gets you.
So, basically the Intel G2 drive claims 70MB/s and in the real world gets around 35MB/s. The Indilinx drives claims 200MB/s and in the real world gets around 7MB/s. BTW, when I say "real world" I mean a used drive doing normal desktop tasks that would do a lot of random reads/writes.
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