Micron C300

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http://www.tgdaily.com/hardware-features/44906-micron-accelerates-ssd-performance-with-c300-drives

Micron=Crucial btw, It looks like they are putting their latest gen NAND in combo with an in-house controller. SATA 6Gb support and 355MB/s Read / 215MB/s Writes. Interestingly it apparently uses a massive 2GB of DDR3 PC10666 for cache.

Looks pretty good, Judging by the ATTO results They're running it in comparison to a TRIM firmware 160GB Intel G2. Small file performance is good, but based on the 3Gb comparison in PCMark i'm thinking IOPs still arn't as good as the Intel controller - It's not that far ahead considering it has double the sequential write speeds.

That said, for 99% of people it looks to be undeniable best choice. So long as it's not stupidly priced anyway.

They say in the video that it's in production atm, OEM's are sampling it and should be available to the general public in "early 2010". 128GB and 256GB sizes to start with 512GB later in the year.

Edit - official site has lots of detailed info - http://www.micron.com/products/real_ssd/ssd/client/index.aspx
They seem to be listing a "C200" range there too that looks to be a budget version on 50nm flash : 30, 60, 120GB capacities at 170/70 speeds.
 
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Very interesting, thanks Zarf.

I notice that they're targetting notebook and client, rather than enterprise, which is promising if that means prices will be competitive.

I've always found it strange that Micron have worked very closely with Intel on their drives, but this hasn't found it's way into their Crucial and SuperTalent drives, which use the Indilinx controller with IIRC Samsung NAND.

Will be watching these carefully, but of course it's going to mean a new mobo or controller card to get SATA 6Gb to make them truly worthwhile - not a big problem, but will add to the expense for a lot of people.

It's going to be interesting to see what the Intel G3 brings as well, next year, Anand seemed very impressed/excited at what they had in plan.
 
If it transpires it's the market leader and has no real competition, I predict it will be "stupidly priced".
 
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