Is anyone familiar with OWC for the new generation Sandforce drives??

[sequoia464]

This link is to their new drives - they look to be a near equivalent to the OCZ Max IOPS drives that are starting to come out. I have not heard much about them. Saw a link to this site at some SSD review site.

Time for some new drives here but I'm still waiting on events and reviews.

Link ... http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/SSD/...dreview&utm_medium=banner&utm_campaign=042111

 

[Mark R]

Not sure about the new generation.

However, the last generation of OWC drives were rebadged OCZ drives. So there was a similar 25 nm switch-over debacle, as OWC rebadged and shipped out crippled drives with the same part numbers.

 

[groberts101]

that's just going to be the equivelant of OCZ regular V3, sequoia. OCZ's Max IOPS has 75,000 IOPS rating versus the regular's 60,000.

And I think Mark is somehow confused about OWC rebadging OCZ drives. Some of the components are the same(obviously) but they are sourced and built seperately of each other. Although, you are right about them silently switching over after trying to discredit OCZ. They don't tell you that you are buying 25nm nand drives but only hint at the fact through renaming the alternate versions as 115GB models. The info is also in their blog.

 

[sequoia464]

that's just going to be the equivelant of OCZ regular V3, sequoia. OCZ's Max IOPS has 75,000 IOPS rating versus the regular's 60,000.

And I think Mark is somehow confused about OWC rebadging OCZ drives. Some of the components are the same(obviously) but they are sourced and built seperately of each other. Although, you are right about them silently switching over after trying to discredit OCZ. They don't tell you that you are buying 25nm nand drives but only hint at the fact through renaming the alternate versions as 115GB models. The info is also in their blog.

Thanks gr -

quite a bit to think about with all the SSD newness out there.

Trying to get a feel for what the differences might be - if OWC is using all the channels, and OCZ is also using all of the available channels in the max IOPS version - then the difference in the IOPS is attributable to the nand and/or firmware. From experience with OCZ, I know that they seem to be fairly aggressive in updating their firmware with improvements.

It appears that some of the max IOPS 120 gb drives are starting to show up - about $20 more than the regular V3's. $320 at Newegg. Here in So Cal that means $350 after tax for one drive; whereas I can get two C300's for $399.98 right now from Amazon. Dollar wise the Crucials are the way to go as I can afford two and still keep a raid setup - but I hate to give up the writes of the V3's.

 

[Emulex]

owc just takes ocz and sticks their label on it lol.

 

[groberts101]

owc just takes ocz and sticks their label on it lol.

only after they take the nand out and replace it with superior grade non-spectek nand. 😀

and maybe that's why mine smelled like it just came out of the body shop after the blue paint job. LOL

 

[groberts101]

but I hate to give up the writes of the V3's.

you will definately do just that bud. 2 of those C300's will barely keep up with one Max IOPS 120GB when using incompressible data much less 2 if you decide to add another later on or use more easily compressed data(such as an OS volume would see). The extra capacity would be nice on the cheaper setup though.