CRUCIAL C300 64GB SSD ARRIVING TOMORROW

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Crucial now have the C300 available in a very affordable 60GB size. Limited stock will be arriving so grab it while you can.:)

Crucial RealSSD C300 64GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive (CTFDDAC064MAG-1G1) @ £119.99 inc VAT

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The new 2.5" Crucial RealSSD C300 drive offers mobile and desktop users scorching-fast read speeds of up to 355MB/s. And because it has no moving parts, you will also enjoy a quieter, cooler, and more durable storage solution. Designed with high-speed synchronous MLC NAND, advanced controller technology, optimized NAND management and the new SATA 6Gb/s interface, these drives dramatically improve data transfers for bandwidth-demanding applications like audio and video. The improvement in boot time and application load times push performance to new levels at the desktop too. You will experience improvement across a variety of common tasks such as viewing and editing photos, video, music and other media, gaming, communications, productivity and security.

- Capacity: 64GB
- Cache: 128MB
- Controller: Marvell 88SS9174
- Read: Up to 355MB/sec
- Write: Up to 70MB/sec
- NAND Flash: Multi-Level Cell (MLC)
- Interface: SATA 6Gbps
- Low Power Consumption
- Shock Resistant
- TRIM Support (Requires Windows 7)
- Warranty: 3 Years

Only £119.99 inc VAT.

ORDER NOW
 
take the plunge :D - it has been my most worthwhile upgrade for years.

in answer to your question, these drives are a lot slower to write than a vertex, but significantly cheaper. the read speeds are about on par with the vertex.

hope this helps :)
 
70MB/sec is perfectly good for a boot device etc.

Plus at the price/size they are perfect for media centres / simple gaming rigs :)
 
^he ment compared to every other SSD, that is lowest by far :O
Even for value for money + its 6bs...

The vertex is only a few bucks more, and 10gb less, but its read speeds are far, far better
- Maximum Read: 270MB/sec
- Maximum Write: 250MB/sec
- Sustained Write: 235MB/sec
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IMO, am still eyeing up that badass reactor at only £100
 
Check out the speeds of the Intel X25-M, this drive is as good and a lot cheaper. I have the Intel but may go for one of these on my upcoming build...
 
Write speeds are just nice looking numbers on paper.

What matters is real world performance, or have you all become far too obsessed with E-peen these days?

The most important feature of an SSD is its ability to perform small random reads/writes and operations. This is why Intel X25-M has been the choice OS drive for so long outperforming drives such as the Vertex 2E even though it only has a 70MB Write speed.

This new Crucial we see its only 14% slower than the Intel X25-M in random operations, which makes is considerably quicker than a Vertex 2.

Also 90% of the task you do on a boot drive involve read speeds, this is where the Crucial is King.

This Crucial C300 is definetely the new boot drive of choice in my oppinion and is excellent VFM.
 
Yeah I mean how often will you to write a 64GB SSD? apart from an OS install not often so read speed is king on smaller size SSD's.
 
AgentSm1th said:
Write speeds are just nice looking numbers on paper.

What matters is real world performance, or have you all become far too obsessed with E-peen these days?

The most important feature of an SSD is its ability to perform small random reads/writes and operations. This is why Intel X25-M has been the choice OS drive for so long outperforming drives such as the Vertex 2E even though it only has a 70MB Write speed.

This new Crucial we see its only 14% slower than the Intel X25-M in random operations, which makes is considerably quicker than a Vertex 2.

Also 90% of the task you do on a boot drive involve read speeds, this is where the Crucial is King.

This Crucial C300 is definetely the new boot drive of choice in my oppinion and is excellent VFM.
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Go away, I bought my vertex 2 the day before they put this thread up and now I'm sad :mad:
 
Guys do these work on a sata 2 interface ? yes I know Ill loose some speed for now as I'm thinking of 3 of em in Raid 0 :confused: untill I get a new board...

Sata 3 Raid 0 -3x drives 1065Mb/s Read Speed
210 Mb/s Write speed

Sata 2 Raid 0 -3x drives 650/700Mb/s Read speed*
210 Mb/s Write speed


* (alowing for it workig in the first place and sata 2 peaks around these speeds)
 
If you must have those write speeds then yes it will work on SATA II, but it seems a bit of a waste having 3 in RAID 0. Doesn't that exceed even SATA III on the reads?

EDIT: Just seen what you wrote. SATA II won't give you those reads you quote. It only has bandwidth of up to 300 MB/s, real world around 285 maybe. Sata III on the other hand has bandwidth of 600 MB/s.

SATA I = 1.5 GBps = 150 MBps
SATA II = 3 GBps = 300 MBps
SATA III = 6 GBps = 600 MBps
 
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Hi Jaybee

The Intel controllers peak around 650MB/s + on the ICH9 or 10 I'm gettings around 505 MB/s reads and 405MB/s writes on my current 2 M255's in Raid 0 in synthetic benchmarks

after looking a bit further the new sata 3 boards only seem to come with 2 ports at sata 3 anyways :(

Cheers barjoysee

P.S should have typed MB/s rather than Mb/s in my first post ..!
 
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rjkoneill said:
you can use TRIM in RAID now with any TRIM compatible SSD
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Not entirely true.

Will support TRIM with SSDs in an AHCI configuration, or with the RAID controller enabled and the SSD is used as a pass through device.
An example of this use case is for users that want
to use the SSD as a boot drive but still be able to RAID multiple HDDs together to allow for large protect data storage – a
great use for the home theater PC. TRIM support for SSDs in a RAID c
onfiguration is under investigation and is not included in Intel® RST 9.6.

So it only works with a single SSD in AHCI or RAID mode.
if the SSD's are in RAID it won't pass the TRIM command to them.
 
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