MTRON are brilliant!

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Hi,

Just thought I would post regarding my experience with MTRON.

I bought an 16GB SATA MTRON SSD (MSD-6000 series, 100MB/s read & 80MB/s write speed) cheaply from the US a while ago. The drive was very fast but had problems with the Intel ICH9R chipset (Asus PK5 Pro). Simply, it was not fully AHCI compatible (could not install OS and their was a 40second boot delay during the BIOS detection) and IDE was limited to 80MB/s (intel problem).

Anyway, MTRON released a firmware to fix all their drives but my model required it to be shipped back to them (South Korea) for an update. They paid for all postage costs (via UPS). Whilst they were updating the firmware they noticed a fault with the drive and have sent me a brand new drive which is also a newer model (MSP-7025, 120MB/s read & 90MB/s write). It should arrive on Monday. The whole process took just over a week which I think is amazing considering it was from South Korea.

MTRON highly recommended! They always replied to my emails within a day and their customer service is brilliant. Don't often get such great service so thought I would share.
 
The original drive set me back £120-ish (I bought it in US dollars at the time). The new drive (16GB MSP-SATA7025) is currently selling for over $700 as it is the professional enterprise version.

I got the 2.5" version as there is no performance difference between that and the 3.5" drives. I can't mount it into a hard drive bay without some sort of adaptor so it will just be resting at the bottom of the case but that's not a problem as there are no moving parts.

I was a little concerned about sending the original drive back to Mtron as it was so far away but they handled everything.
 
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clocka said:
these drives arent good, check this these drives out instead: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/ssd-memoright,review-30808.html

32gb memoright SSD does 116mb/sec avg:) shame its $1000. The ONLY drive faster than the WD Velociraptor.
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Interesting read. Actually, that article uses the MTRON drive that I sent back for repair and that drive seemed pretty nippy to me, even with Vista. The new drive MTRON have sent me is supposed to be better, 120MB/s Read and 90MB/s according to the specs, so almost as good as the Memoright one.

Just wish my motherboard had an alternative SATA controller as the Intel one seems to have a few issues.
 
Interesting that SSD is a SATA150 device.. compared to the raptor's SATA/300 interface..

OCZ's SSD is specified as SATA2.. so in theory that's SATA/300 but it does not achieve that.
 
Got the drive on Monday. Nice new aluminium drive (old one was plastic).

Anyway, tested the drive in XP using HDTach in IDE and RAID mode (only one drive though so not actually raided but required to overcome 80MB/s bug). Haven't had a chance to test in AHCI mode yet.



SATA: IDE mode



SATA: Raid mode

 
u bought 2? how much did that set you back?

I hope you are rich cos spending loads on current SSD drives just isnt worth it really as they arent very good, you can get 80mb/s with the 500gb samsung f1 which is £44. Once 110mb/sec drives roll out fair enough but until then SSD arent fast enough and are ludicrously expensive.
 
I didn't buy 2, can't even afford 1 of these. It was a replacement for the earlier drive I bought on the cheap. When I say RAID mode I just mean that is what I set it to in the bios. The drive is not actually in a RAID configuration. The reason I did this was because the Intel chipset has a 80 MB/s limit when in IDE mode and the original ssd drive had a bug to prevent it working in AHCI mode so RAID was the only option.
 
That's pretty sweet performance (especially at the price you got it for!) Would make an awesome windows drive - what are you planning on using it for? I love that flat performance graph - definitely the way of the future, nice to see some progress at last.
 
clocka said:
u bought 2? how much did that set you back?

I hope you are rich cos spending loads on current SSD drives just isnt worth it really as they arent very good, you can get 80mb/s with the 500gb samsung f1 which is £44. Once 110mb/sec drives roll out fair enough but until then SSD arent fast enough and are ludicrously expensive.
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Uhh this one is nearly 120mb/s..... very quick.
They are worth it for the <1ms access time and the completely silent nature alone. The great read/write speeds are just a bonus tbh.

I'll be getting an 8/16gb SSD for my media centre at the end of the year as it is perfect for this application due to the significant reduction in boot time (and the silence).
 
i think people are forgetting that he is getting sustained performance. There is no way in hell my F1 or raptor will do anything like that.
 
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