Low Cost SSDs

[ochadd]

I'm desperately wanting to upgrade my PC storage system but there seems to be a lack of reviews for all things SSD if it's not an Intel unit.

OCZ has their Core V2s which supposedly cures most past issues but no reviews to be found. I was also wondering about Patriot Warp, and SuperTalent MasterDrive OX. They are all in the $150 range for the 32GB units. For that price I'd consider a RAID 1 set.

Anyone have these units that can say how they like/dislike them?

 

[aka1nas]

All of those MLC drives still use the same JMicron Controller(An updated version isn't due until Q1 2009). From the AT review and other articles, it seems like the current controller is just poorly designed(i.e. write buffers are too small), and I don't think a firmware update is going to do much to help the write issues these drives experience.

 

[ochadd]

Where did you find the issue on the controller update being in 2009? Google seems to be failing me trying to find the info.

 

[Arcanedeath]

The Intel SSD article on this site here.

 

[taltamir]

Intel SSD is the ONLY SSD that is better then a velociraptor... the other SSDs should only be used in a laptop environment. They are all Jmicron (MLC) or Samsung (SLC) anyways... The Jmicron is extremely poor and should not be used, by anyone. (the Core series is jmicron), the Samsung one is decent enough, but you are probably better off with a velociraptor (the SATA2 SSD for twice the price of corev2 from OCZ)...

Read the ENTIRE article from begining to end:
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuch...el/showdoc.aspx?i=3403
It explains a lot more than the intel SSD...

 

[Denithor]

Would a RAMdisk be a possible workaround solution to the poor MLC controller? IE point the Windows pagefile and browser cache into a RAMdisk so the SSC doesn't get written to during typical operation.

If it worked it could make one of those $100 64GB drives a good deal...

 

[RU482]

I have a pair of Samsung 64GB MLC drives. when I open them up, there are 8 Samsung DRAM chips, a smaller samsung BGA IC, and another samsung BGA IC that says ARM (S3C49RBX01-YH80)

The model of the drives is MMCRE64G5MPP-0VA

MLC with no J-micro!
It does perform much better than the OCZ Core V1 SSD, and Hitachi HDD in the same machine, same OS build, using Passmark Performance Test.

I am supposed to be receiving samples of the Intel drives any day now...

 

[aka1nas]

Originally posted by: redly1
I have a pair of Samsung 64GB MLC drives. when I open them up, there are 8 Samsung DRAM chips, a smaller samsung BGA IC, and another samsung BGA IC that says ARM (S3C49RBX01-YH80)

The model of the drives is MMCRE64G5MPP-0VA

MLC with no J-micro!
It does perform much better than the OCZ Core V1 SSD, and Hitachi HDD in the same machine, same OS build, using Passmark Performance Test.

I am supposed to be receiving samples of the Intel drives any day now...

Looks like one of the G-Skill models is a rebadge of the model you are referring to:

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com...a-ii-ssd-review-7.html

It looks like it doesn't have the write latency issues of the J-Micron-based units, but the write performance is still fairly lousy.

Edit: Given the newness of the model on Samsung's site and the date on the review, it's probably not a rebadge, but does use the same Samsung I/O Controller. The G-Skill is about $600 on newegg though. How much are these Samsung MLC drives going for?