Wait for the Crucial C400 could be over!!

[capeconsultant]

Sorry, I have no idea as I don't have any involvement with that side of things (marketing).. I know I saw a couple SSD's (think it was a C400 and a P300; the P series being the SLC-based high-end server-type solution) addressed to Anandtech sitting on the shipping table last week or so though, so I assume it can't be too far off..

Awesome! They would be super to see reviewed!

 

[carnage10]

Sorry, I have no idea as I don't have any involvement with that side of things (marketing).. I know I saw a couple SSD's (think it was a C400 and a P300; the P series being the SLC-based high-end server-type solution) addressed to Anandtech sitting on the shipping table last week or so though, so I assume it can't be too far off..

Ah ok np thanks man

 

[Dadofamunky]

Just got an email stating that the 128GB C400 I ordered is 'out of stock' and SuperBIIZ will be receiving a new shipment in 5 days.......

My order is placed 'on hold' till I tell them whether I wish to proceed with waiting or not.

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

I'd hang on, I think it will be worth the wait. Plus you get to buy American for once...

 

[Old Hippie]

the P series being the SLC-based high-end server-type solution)

What brand are those sold under? Micron?

 

[Burner27]

Benchmark is up (From Micron's site--not my drive):

AS-SSD C400:





ATTO C400:






C400 CDM:







I am not sure if I should still go with the C400 seeing as how my C300 128GB drive does so well on the 4k:




Maybe I am wrong?

 

[adamantinepiggy]

What brand are those sold under? Micron?

I'm not positive, but I think the P series will be sold under the Micron or perhaps OEM storage-company branding. These are SLC NAND based SSD's, really fast and really expensive because of the type of NAND. They also have a lot more overprovisioning than the C series. A 256GB P-series drive has only around 200GB available. They are meant to run fast, hard, and reliably long and will be priced accordingly as they are geared towards high-end storage server/network type solutions. SLC NAND has a much higher write cycle life than MLC, but costs hella more to make. Beyond NAND type, they are not much physically different than C series, but they do have completely different firmware and undergo more rigorous testing environments.

 

[adamantinepiggy]

I can't post any screen shots from work (IS blocks everything) but yeah, the C300 still holds it's own in certain areas of performance; that's just the way it is with a different type of NAND on-board. That being said, when you do more overall thorough user experience benchmarks like the HD test suite in PCMark Vantage, the C400 seems to pull ahead pretty significantly. Attached to the SATA3 Intel port of a P67 MSI motherboard, 2600K CPU (non overclocked) and Intel 10.x RST driver, the 128GB C400's I have been playing with pull a HDD PCMark Vantage score of 58000+. The 512GB C400 PCMark Vantage score is doing 62000+ scores. This is relative to the 256GB C300's which I "believe" I had scoring around 45000 at best with the exact same configuration.

If I get around to playing more, I plan to hook up a few C400's in different RAID configuration using an Areca 1880i SAS 6G controller. With 4 256GB C300 in RAID 0, this config pushes around 1.1TB+ sequential throughput. I can only imagine it will do much better with the C400. But hey, you never know. Might suck . I play with oddball configurations that the engineers don't get to.