Crucial vs Samsung Solid State Drives

[Cerb]

I see.

Orico, a Chinese company who manufactures storage oems. They also had an HM-01 named SSD which using Marvell controller. But where did they get the firmware then ? Because their skills on SSDs are too low what I notice.

They maybe borrowed it from an another company. Or relabelled someones drives.

Orico sells SSDs? Huh. I've only seen rebranded drive rails, reference adapter cards, USB gizmos, and such. But yeah, they're surely reselling one. Toshiba I know has no problem with having their drives relabeled, FI.

What do you think about Plextor's True-Speed technology ? They are saying that their firmware is premium, emphatically. But we see M5P is not quite consistent while it is filled.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/storage/display/plextor-m5-pro-m5s_6.html
Just using aggressive idle-time GC, if TRIM isn't there to help out.

 

[Eug]

If you're stuck between the two, either buy Crucial for ease of getting support if it goes TU, Samsung (or Sandisk) if ~1W might make a difference for your battery, or just whichever is cheaper, and move on.

Heh. I got yelled at over the internet by a reviewer at another site when I said (in a completely different forum as that site) that SSD reviews should include power utilization data, which I considered more useful to me as a laptop owner than even performance metrics.

I was told that power characteristics of SSDs are totally irrelevant even in laptops. Yeah right.

 

[Cerb]

I was told that power characteristics of SSDs are totally irrelevant even in laptops. Yeah right.

When active idles range from <0.2W to >1W, and HIPM+DIPM can allow idle after short periods to low enough to be hard to measure (a case of it being less of an issue for newer systems than older, with DIPM support, and light usage patterns), and laptops with LED-backlit screens sipping little enough power to get 4+ hours on 3 cells, without a ULV CPU, running Windows or Linux...yeah.

It's not an end-all-be-all, even for laptops, as many are used mostly plugged in, or use high-power components and don't just sip power. But, it's another useful consideration, to weigh with performance and cost, since frequent deep discharges are bad for LIon batteries, and you don't want to be caught with a failing cell, or other battery problem, at an inopportune time (it's when you're trying to get work done that you'll do something like forget to charge it all the way, FI).

 

[Golgatha]

Generally I like Crucial for the price/GB and they have decent performance too. I have several M4 and M500 drives floating around in various systems, and one C300 256GB still going strong too. None have failed yet. I recently went with Sandisk Extreme II 480GB for my main rig. I like the Marvell controller, which I've had good luck with on the Crucial drives, and the performance with the SLC caching and custom firmware is hard to beat right now. Also the Sandisk uses MLC, but has EVO or better than EVO performance. Win win IMO.