Crucial C300 SSD SATA III

SB420 · 9 Feb 2010 at 20:51

I hope ocuk is going to be getting these in as i really want one

Crucial C300 SSD 6gb/s SATA III

22nd of Feb release date for the UK?

Mel_P · 9 Feb 2010 at 21:04

Price?

SB420 · 9 Feb 2010 at 21:07

Not sure, spoke to their online sales chat and they said they didnt have a price yet, but the date was confirmed as being the 22nd of feb... Whether this changes or not....

Jokester · 9 Feb 2010 at 21:19

The MSRP for the 128GB unit is $499, and the 256GB SSD will be priced at $799

http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=454&Itemid=60

SB420 · 9 Feb 2010 at 21:27

Cheers for the link, have seen all the promo videos but hadnt found out the price

Notice they say its released on the 2nd feb.... Hmm, wonder when we shall see it here

Mel_P · 9 Feb 2010 at 22:54

£ = $ no doubt not the actual exchange rate?

Slackworth · 9 Feb 2010 at 23:57

SB420 said:
Cheers for the link, have seen all the promo videos but hadnt found out the price

Notice they say its released on the 2nd feb.... Hmm, wonder when we shall see it here

We know about the C300. That's all I can say for now but it's going to be tasty lets put it that way

2nd Feb is 100% a no go for the UK. Wouldn't surprise me if we didn't see these till March.

SB420 · 10 Feb 2010 at 11:42

Slackworth said:
We know about the C300. That's all I can say for now but it's going to be tasty lets put it that way

2nd Feb is 100% a no go for the UK. Wouldn't surprise me if we didn't see these till March.

Maybe thats bec the 2nd has gone? lol

22nd i reckon

Zarf · 10 Feb 2010 at 18:08

$499 for 128GB US RRP?
then add another 17.5% VAT on.

We'll be lucky to see these at under £3 /GB. Not the direction I want to see SSD's moving in.
I can't see any savvy buyers getting these at that price, a G2 intel will be significantly cheaper and be indistinguisheable from a C300 in general use, whilst the scalability of SSD's will get you better sequential speeds for less £/GB from a RAID0 of Indilinx drives if this is important to you.

pinki104 · 10 Feb 2010 at 18:13

does it have trim and garbage collection, also the corsair reactor and nova are similer prices which do we think will be the better drive

Zarf · 10 Feb 2010 at 18:20

pinki104 said:
does it have trim and garbage collection, also the corsair reactor and nova are similer prices which do we think will be the better drive

Yes, it has TRIM/GC and it'll be a better drive than the reactor or nova (which are both Indilinx drives, presumably they are just using NAND from a new supplier hence the different speeds to Vertex/Agility)

When the Vertex2 and other Sandforce drives appear things will be more interesting, they should be equal over SATA2. If you have SATA3 the C300 will be a bit faster sequentially.

pinki104 · 10 Feb 2010 at 18:21

thanks zarf, also is the release date still 22nd becuase a lot of sites showing as in stock

Slackworth · 10 Feb 2010 at 18:43

SB420 said:
Maybe thats bec the 2nd has gone? lol

22nd i reckon

Official release date possibly....stock is another matter though.

Zarf said:
$499 for 128GB US RRP?
then add another 17.5% VAT on.

We'll be lucky to see these at under £3 /GB. Not the direction I want to see SSD's moving in.
I can't see any savvy buyers getting these at that price, a G2 intel will be significantly cheaper and be indistinguisheable from a C300 in general use, whilst the scalability of SSD's will get you better sequential speeds for less £/GB from a RAID0 of Indilinx drives if this is important to you.

$$$ Rate is causing problems again. Down to $1.55 again today which on SSD really pushes pricing up due to the high $ cost.

pinki104 said:
does it have trim and garbage collection, also the corsair reactor and nova are similer prices which do we think will be the better drive

The new Corsair SSDs will be nowhere near the performance of the C300.

pinki104 said:
thanks zarf, also is the release date still 22nd becuase a lot of sites showing as in stock

Are you sure you're not looking at the M225? The C300 hasn't even launched yet in the US nevermind the UK.

pinki104 · 10 Feb 2010 at 19:15

oops yeh, there was a link on the benchmarking page so figured it was that -,-

So from what i can tell its

Crusial C300
Read: 355mb/s
Write: 215mb/s
Supports: Trim / Garbage Collection
Sizes: 128gb / 256gb (any 64 going to be avalable ?)
Controller: Marvell 88SS9174-BJP2 SATA-III SSD controller
6.0-Gbps SATA-III bandwidth
Cache: 64mb ( they could have added 128

)

Ruff Price: 128gb £330 (possible price after vat ect hopefully)

AMDPower · 10 Feb 2010 at 21:02

pinki104 said:
oops yeh, there was a link on the benchmarking page so figured it was that -,-

So from what i can tell its

Crusial C300
Read: 355mb/s
Write: 215mb/s
Supports: Trim / Garbage Collection
Sizes: 128gb / 256gb (any 64 going to be avalable ?)
Controller: Marvell 88SS9174-BJP2 SATA-III SSD controller
6.0-Gbps SATA-III bandwidth
Cache: 64mb ( they could have added 128 )

Ruff Price: 128gb £330 (possible price after vat ect hopefully)

that price is too good to be true. I am presuming these are faster than the ocz vertex2 that is about to be released?

Slackworth · 10 Feb 2010 at 22:11

OCZ still haven't finalised the specs either as they're developing firmware all the time. Until they're released there's still room for improvement.

pinki104 · 10 Feb 2010 at 23:27

have there gave a month for the release date of vertex 2

WebOS · 11 Feb 2010 at 07:28

are there any indlix based 34nm drives?

pinki104 · 11 Feb 2010 at 07:32

I think ocz will push the specs futher now just to beat this drive

Zarf · 11 Feb 2010 at 07:53

pinki104 said:
I think ocz will push the specs futher now just to beat this drive

The sandforce drives will perform about the same under SATA2, and SATA3 penetration is going to be virtually nil for a long time. Not a lot they can do anyway since AFAIK Sandforce doesn't support SATA3.