Samsung 64 MLC vs Samsung 32 SLC?

mythrandyr

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hi guys

ok, i was going to try and find another 2/3 Samsung 64GB MLC drives from the only place i know until i saw the price now, £133 a piece... which is still amazingly good value for a 64GB drive but not as good as £100

Now i can get 3 32GB SLC Samsungs at £87 a pop which will mean that my 64GB one's would be made more or less useless for raid purposes. The only thing that's bothering me is that i can't find any information about the performance of the 32GB Samsung SLC's which leaves a question.

Should i continue building a raid 0 system out of the 64GB SSD's (otherwise use one for my lappy and ebay the other) or should i make a raid 0 configuration beginning a new with the 32GB SLC drives?

My own opinion is that, if i can auction off the 2 64GB SSD's then i can afford to buy 4 of the 32GB SSD's rather easily, sacrificing the extra space but improving general performance after all, what made the samsungs special imo was their performance/affordability and that seems to be dwindling away now.
 
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I was reading through a few SSD reviews last week that happened to touch briefly on SLC drives, not specific to the Samsung just in general, and if I remember correctly they mentioned that SLC read and write performance is only slightly worse off than an MLC equivalent. Access times are the same. However, the upside of SLC is of course the theoretical 100,000 writes compared to MLC's 10,000.

If it was me in your shoes I would just keep the pair of MLC drives you've got now and get the SLC for the note/netbook. Hold off until Vertex drives come down a bit more (hopefully around summer) and then grab some of those.

The amount of profit you might make back auctioning the MLC gets severely cut into with "that company's" final value fees and Paypal fees. Selling them here on OCuk will make you even less as everyone on here will know exactly how much you paid for them :)
 
people on eBay could pay a good price for the sammie 64gigs. I don't agree - therefore the fees wont affect it much.
 
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people on eBay could pay a good price for the sammie 64gigs.
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that, the performance increase (however slight) and the cost of the drives for a rather good quality SLC drive (£87 and P**ses over crucials equivical and is far cheaper than the intel SLC equivical) is what is making me consider replacing my 64GB sammys with the 32gb SLC ones. I have currently got 5 accessible sata ports on the same raid channel on my motherboard. If i bought 3 of those SLC drives next week, i could sell the 2 64GB sammys on ebay (not on here because of how much people know about the drives, even though they have gone up yet again now) at the end of the month and use the procedes to buy 2 more of those drives making exactly 5 32GB SLC's on one raid channel on my mobo. Even though the storage space would only be 160GB the performance should be excellent and i can always use the Esata connection on my motherboard to attach a regular drive to for storage (maybe upgrading from a 320GB to a 1TB Samsung F1).
 
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I've just looked a few completed listings for Samsung 64Gb MLC on the UK Auction Site and those that were marked as brand new find around the £100 mark. Auctions that are still going marked as "Buy It Now" have the price around the £125 + Pnp mark for brand new from more than one seller so that seems to be the current auction site going rate for it, brand new. Might be higher/lower in other countries although I have not checked.

That Auction Site's fee structure for the Technology category is quite complicated (search for Fees in their Help section) but I've done some maths and came out with the following based on one of the sellers selling brand new at £125 + £7pnp (making a final value of £132)...

Buy It Now listing fee 40p
Final value fee on £132 = £6.47
Paypal fee on £132 = £4.69
Postage & Packaging = £7.00
Total deductable = £18.56 (sum of all the above)

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Money left from Auction Site (after all Auction Site, Paypal and postage fees taken off) = Final Value - Total deductable

£132 - £18.56 = £113.44

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Actual profit = Money left from Auction Site - Original cost of item

£113.44 - £99.00 = £14.44

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So that gives that particular seller £14.44 profit on a brand new Samsung 64Gb SSD that originally cost him only £99.00. Not bad I guess :)
 
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You slipped up and accidentally mentioned the name when discussing the profit margin. Better edit it before the anti-competitor brigade notice.
 
well, it does'nt matter now anyway. I've just checked back with the site that was selling the SLC drives at £87 a pop and they've dissapeared over night, so wether i like it or not i have to stick with the MLC's now, the SLC drives are available from other sources but i am not paying £250+ for a 32GB SLC drive no matter who makes them.
 
I don't actually think they count as a competitor, first off half the stuff is second-hand and what isn't comes with far fewer guarantees/warranty. But clarification from OcUK would be nice!
 
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