Crucial C300 SSD SATA III

Slackworth · 25 Feb 2010 at 22:53

I'll check with Crucial and update the specification in the morning.

Put a bit of a downer on things if this is the case.

cainer · 25 Feb 2010 at 22:54

Slackworth said:
I'll check with Crucial and update the specification in the morning.

Put a bit of a downer on things if this is the case.

thanks m8, did you see that data sheet? does it seem legit? hope not

Slackworth · 25 Feb 2010 at 23:03

Yup. I will find out what date it was produced tomorrow and see if there has been any updates to it.

AMDPower · 25 Feb 2010 at 23:55

not sure if £330 is worth the reduced spec and the 256GB is something i would not pay for even if i was multi billionaire

cainer · 26 Feb 2010 at 00:11

Slackworth said:
Yup. I will find out what date it was produced tomorrow and see if there has been any updates to it.

ta m8, also as somone else has pointed out.. ur ad says its sata II whereas its sata III, just thought id remind ya

El_MUERkO · 26 Feb 2010 at 01:52

I was on the phone to crucial yesterday (Thursday) and preordered a 256gb, they expected stock on either Friday (today) or Monday.

cainer · 26 Feb 2010 at 11:11

El_MUERkO said:
I was on the phone to crucial yesterday (Thursday) and preordered a 256gb, they expected stock on either Friday (today) or Monday.

the price they charge is crazy on their website, its £76 cheaper here

mogwai · 26 Feb 2010 at 11:16

Slackworth said:
Yup. I will find out what date it was produced tomorrow and see if there has been any updates to it.

As the 128 Gb one has had its write spec amended to 140 have you had conformation of this from crucial?

El_MUERkO · 26 Feb 2010 at 11:38

cainer said:
the price they charge is crazy on their website, its £76 cheaper here

yeah, I talked with Crucial and cancelled the order and ordered from here :cool:

cainer · 26 Feb 2010 at 11:58

El_MUERkO said:
yeah, I talked with Crucial and cancelled the order and ordered from here

good lad

cainer · 26 Feb 2010 at 11:59

mogwai said:
As the 128 Gb one has had its write spec amended to 140 have you had conformation of this from crucial?

i just phoned crucial saying i wanted to buy one but wanted to check the spec, it is indeed only 140mbs write speed on the 128gb version. the sales guy on the phone at first said both the 256 and 128 should have the same read/write speed, i told him there was speculation that the 128 had much lower write speeds and id like it confirmed, i had to wait on hold while he went to check then he came back with the bad news, even he was surprised to see the write speed drop so much on the 128.

mogwai · 26 Feb 2010 at 12:10

So am I better off trying to get an OCZ Vertex LE? As I am not paying out for the 256 Gb one.

AMDPower · 26 Feb 2010 at 12:15

mogwai said:
So am I better off trying to get an OCZ Vertex LE? As I am not paying out for the 256 Gb one.

I would say yes, that is exactly what i am going to order but have a feeling that there wont be enough to go around.

Might have to wait for vertex2 instead.

shame on crucial for limiting the write speed like this, it would have been a fantastic HD otherwise.

cainer · 26 Feb 2010 at 12:22

mogwai said:
So am I better off trying to get an OCZ Vertex LE? As I am not paying out for the 256 Gb one.

personally im going to stick with my pre-order for the ocz LE 100gb, ive seen enough reviews/benchmarks to know its very good whereas ive not seen anything on the 128 c300, i would want to see many reviews/benchmarks on it and by then all these LE's would have been snapped up if they did indeed only make 5,000 of them

Cosimo · 26 Feb 2010 at 16:50

They have arrived in the UK, so not long to wait now.

Bugblatter · 26 Feb 2010 at 17:40

Damn; I cancelled my OCZ LE pre-order and ordered the 128GB C300.

If I cancel again and go back to the LE I might not get one now. I think I'll stick with the C300 and hope that they speed it up in a firmware update. At least the C300 isn't limited by the interface so it has greater potential than the LE.

Anyone got any idea why the write speed should be so much slower on the 128GB C300? Fewer banks of flash perhaps?

asmar10 · 26 Feb 2010 at 17:44

cainer said:
personally im going to stick with my pre-order for the ocz LE 100gb, ive seen enough reviews/benchmarks to know its very good whereas ive not seen anything on the 128 c300, i would want to see many reviews/benchmarks on it and by then all these LE's would have been snapped up if they did indeed only make 5,000 of them

Why are you shelling out £300+ for the LE, when the Sandforce drives and Vertex 2 Pro are just around the corner ?

cainer · 26 Feb 2010 at 18:01

asmar10 said:
Why are you shelling out £300+ for the LE, when the Sandforce drives and Vertex 2 Pro are just around the corner ?

the vertex 2 pro has been scrapped, the LE is basicly what the vertex 2 pro would have been but without a supercap (from what i read the supercap is mainly for server usage of the drive) the LE is a sandforce 1500 controller and performs vertually the same as the vertex 2 pro they tested last year. i got the info here...
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1222/1/

cainer · 26 Feb 2010 at 18:07

Bugblatter said:
Damn; I cancelled my OCZ LE pre-order and ordered the 128GB C300.

If I cancel again and go back to the LE I might not get one now

they still have spare stock of the LE

asmar10 · 26 Feb 2010 at 18:18

cainer said:
the vertex 2 pro has been scrapped, the LE is basicly what the vertex 2 pro would have been but without a supercap (from what i read the supercap is mainly for server usage of the drive) the LE is a sandforce 1500 controller and performs vertually the same as the vertex 2 pro they tested last year. i got the info here...
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1222/1/

Oh ... rite! Then why not wait for the Vertex 2 or the Vertex 2 EX ?