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well some manufacturers have been re-designing the jmicron controller and re-writing the software to stop the problems the jmicron has which the kingston has apparently done, wanted to know what its using.

Will wait for reviews i think, intel drive is £50 more :(
 
you cant fix the currant JMicron controller(kingston is an rebranded JMicron SSD that has got Toshiba on the controller chip) when they bring out there new controller thay be fine to use but you should avoided them untill the new one is out
 
JRS said:
Was there honestly much need to be like that with them clocka? You could just of easily (more easily, in fact) had said when they couldn't supply the controller info "okay, thanks for your time".

Ah well. I'm willing to bet that the person you were talking to doesn't give a toss that you aren't going to buy one of their drives after that. Hope you think it was worth it.
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It was me he was speaking to, I cried myself to sleep that night I can tell you! :(







/joke. clocka :)
 
clocka said:
£120 is nice for a 64GB SSD 200mb/s read 150mb/s write drive!

I just had an electronic chat with them, here's the chat, they said they will have stock in around 2-3 weeks:



Hello, my name is Adam . How may I help you?
clocka: hi, do you have an eta for stock of: CT64M225
Adam : Hi clocka, we expect these parts to be available in the next 2-3 weeks although unfortunately I don't have an exact ETA date as yet.
clocka: do they use the ilyndix controller, samsung controller or jmicron controller?
Adam : One moment, please, while I check for you.
Adam : Unfortunately we can't give out information on the controllers, only read and write speeds.
clocka: the controller information would be found once reviewed or if i dismantled the drive, it will say on the chip the company that made it
clocka: its like me asking what engine is in a mclaren f1 i'd be able to check by lifting up the bonnet myself
Adam : I understand however it's not information we can give out.
clocka: well you just lost a customer i'll purchase another brand to make sure i dont get 1 with a crappy jmicron controller
Adam : Ok, I'm sorry to hear that.
Adam : Is there anything else I can help you with?
clocka: bye
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Those guys, No competitor hints , are useless, they never help anyone and they never give out any information that can't already be found on the site.
 
In THEORY crucial should be able to make some killer SSD's. Since crucial is essentially Micron who make there own memory chips and technology. (They have there own video on youtube with a 100,000 IOPs SSD card and 800MB/s read/write speeds)

Like has been said before in this thread however, their 1st generation drives were dreadfully slow and expensive, which makes me wonder why they even bothered. The new generation sounds promising however!

Things are starting to heat up in the SSD market! Price drops are sure to start happening more frequently from now on.
 
clocka said:
£120 is nice for a 64GB SSD 200mb/s read 150mb/s write drive!

I just had an electronic chat with them, here's the chat, they said they will have stock in around 2-3 weeks:



Hello, my name is Adam . How may I help you?
clocka: hi, do you have an eta for stock of: CT64M225
Adam : Hi clocka, we expect these parts to be available in the next 2-3 weeks although unfortunately I don't have an exact ETA date as yet.
clocka: do they use the ilyndix controller, samsung controller or jmicron controller?
Adam : One moment, please, while I check for you.
Adam : Unfortunately we can't give out information on the controllers, only read and write speeds.
clocka: the controller information would be found once reviewed or if i dismantled the drive, it will say on the chip the company that made it
clocka: its like me asking what engine is in a mclaren f1 i'd be able to check by lifting up the bonnet myself
Adam : I understand however it's not information we can give out.
clocka: well you just lost a customer i'll purchase another brand to make sure i dont get 1 with a crappy jmicron controller
Adam : Ok, I'm sorry to hear that.
Adam : Is there anything else I can help you with?
clocka: bye
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You sound like a 3 yr old sulking:p
 
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clocka said:
£120 is nice for a 64GB SSD 200mb/s read 150mb/s write drive!
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Synthetic sustained transfer benchmarks don't tell you anything about the drive in reality, if the drive has 500MB/s sequential reads and 1MB/s 4kb random reads you'd be better off with a first generation Solid/Core.

If you're going to be a first class **** to people on help desks you should at least have some idea of the technology yourself - i mean you'd still be a prat but at least you might have a reason to be one.
 
marscay said:
Synthetic sustained transfer benchmarks don't tell you anything about the drive in reality, if the drive has 500MB/s sequential reads and 1MB/s 4kb random reads you'd be better off with a first generation Solid/Core.

If you're going to be a first class **** to people on help desks you should at least have some idea of the technology yourself - i mean you'd still be a prat but at least you might have a reason to be one.
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:p
 
sure all these companies releasing new ssd drive know about the whole who har over the controlers, dont you think that if your new drive had one of the controlers that was considered ok you be shouting it from the roof tops, the sheer fact that they all seem to hush up over it certainly dosnt look good.
 
They probably realise it's a waste of time, most SSD adopters are enthausiasts anyway so will have done their research most likely and know which drives they want.
 
interesting, maybe it will be a clone of the agility series, its a bit optimistic thinking it will be a clone of the vertex and yet only £120.
 
clocka said:
interesting, maybe it will be a clone of the agility series, its a bit optimistic thinking it will be a clone of the vertex and yet only £120.
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Agreed, it certainly is not far off the Vertex. Same controller, same cache, slightly slower read speed, but faster writes and double the capacity for roughly the same price.
 
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