** NEW INTEL "JACKSON RIDGE" OVERCLOCKED SSD's NOW AVAILABLE!! **

Gibbo said:
You see for me, all these modern SSD's are damn, its very hard to notice any difference between them and as such now a more important factor for me when buying an SSD would simply be reliable and now Intel have a good performance part, I'd simply always buy Intel, then Samsung. I don't think I'd even look at another brand sorry, I know we sell others but I want the best reliability and I know Intel is the most reliable and the Samsungs are bloody good as well. :)
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You are a born salesman and I can appreciate where you are coming from , however......


Given who you are talking to, does "reliability" really count any more a s afeature - simply because your "audience" will have probably upgraded well before any warranty runs out anyway

I have an Evo and its a great drive, and Im not knocking Intel's new product, it looks amazing ( and I had the original PCI-E OCZ SSD a few years ago, so looking forwartd to see any improvements when the next ones appear)

maybe just preaching to the converted lol
 
Not a very good name is it. I can see the first person that one dies on saying "I got a michael Jackson" :)
 
Caustic said:
Just to be really fussy, but you seem to have fallen afoul to the cut-n-paste gremlin.

Both are listed as having the same Read and Write speeds in the summary.

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I see you fixed it. Cool.

While you are at it, your Wolfsville Intel SSD's have got the wrong capacities listed in the main body. (I was looking at the 480GB and 600GB ones.)

Suggestion: Can you add links to the official intel ARK page for them? Having the full official tech spec is really nice.

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If you ever need to RMA an Intel SSD, no need to go through the retailer. Just contact Intel, they send a courier to pick up your dead SSD and send you a new one from Intel in Holland.

So yeah Intel RMA procedure for SSD's is excellent.

I rang Intel in the UK to find out what happens.
 
deuse said:
Not a very good name is it. I can see the first person that one dies on saying "I got a michael Jackson" :)
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I lol'd.

Benchmarks mean nothings without other SSD's also benched in the same environment, rig and tests...

There was quite an extensive test of 4-5 SSD's when the EVO was released but last time I looked for it most of the images were broken and the overall thing seemed aimed towards promoting the EVO RAPID mode rather than a non-biased benchmark of the majority of the range...
 
According to this :

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7803/intel-ssd-730-480gb-review/7

it is as good as you'd expect from Intel, with one drawback - idle power consumption.

At ~4x the idle power of a 530 or 840 Evo/Pro this rules out most laptop/ultrabook users, which is a huge slice of the SSD pie. No worries for enthusiasts/gamers tho.


P.S. Good to see Intel are back to using their own controller. The SF-2281 models are indistinguishable from the rest of the crowd, and equally buggy in my limited experience. Definitely progress (regress?) in the right direction.
 
The read write speeds look similar to other drives, what makes these different? How are they "overclocked"?
 
Gibbo said:
You see for me, all these modern SSD's are damn, its very hard to notice any difference between them and as such now a more important factor for me when buying an SSD would simply be reliable and now Intel have a good performance part, I'd simply always buy Intel, then Samsung. I don't think I'd even look at another brand sorry, I know we sell others but I want the best reliability and I know Intel is the most reliable and the Samsungs are bloody good as well. :)
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Agreed, all though I have also found the budget Kingston V range to be excellent for office PC builds and none have failed on us over the past 2 years
 
Am I just daydreaming? Is my glasses is ok? Unbelieved lower price by Intel with more power SSD.

I know Intel are expensive SSD but at this SSD become lower price is just unbelieved! :eek:
 
Nelly said:
If you ever need to RMA an Intel SSD, no need to go through the retailer. Just contact Intel, they send a courier to pick up your dead SSD and send you a new one from Intel in Holland.

So yeah Intel RMA procedure for SSD's is excellent.

I rang Intel in the UK to find out what happens.
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How often is Intel SSD are dead? I bet it NONE!
 
Return Rates for SSD & HDD
Sold between April 1 and October 1, 2012, for returns created before April 2013, 6 months to 1 year of operation.

hardware.fr said:
SSD

  • Samsung 0.05% (against 0.48%)
  • Plextor 0.16% (N / A)
  • Intel 0.37% (against 0.45%)
  • Crucial 1.12% (against 1.11%)
  • Corsair 1.61% (against 1.05%)
  • OCZ 6.64% (against 5.02%) / 2.92% without Petrol / Octane SATA 2 (against 3.05%)

We have not made ​​a mistake on the number of Samsung which is very impressive. It almost overshadow the entry in the standings with Plextor also a very good score. But be careful, its M3 and M3 Pro the manufacturer had a guarantee with recovery SSD free home via a carrier that promotes necessarily more returns live. The rate determined by Corsair is on the rise, such as OCZ is once again very high.

This rate is actually significantly impacted by two series, Petrol Octane SATA 3 and SATA 2, which are respectively 39.79 and 36.13% of returns, a shame. Without these two the range of OCZ rate falls to 2.92%, which her ​​brother always the last place but at a much more reasonable rate remains inflated by some series (7.51% on Agility 4 for example) then others are doing better (1.89% for Vertex 3 and 1.46% for Vertex 4).

If we look at models with a return rate of over 5%, OCZ hogs the ranking:

  • 52.07% OCZ Octane SATA 2 128GB
  • 45.26% OCZ Petrol 128GB
  • 44.76% OCZ Octane SATA 2 64 GB
  • 40.57% OCZ Petrol 64GB
  • 10.23% OCZ Agility 4256 Go
  • 8.70% OCZ Octane SATA 3 256GB
  • 7.41% OCZ Agility April 64 GB
  • 6.85% OCZ Agility 4128 Go
  • 6.59% OCZ Agility 3 90GB
  • 5.56% OCZ Octane SATA 3 128GB

In the next period (from October 2012 to April 2013 sales), here are the numbers we get for the moment:

  • 0.15% Samsung
  • 0.43% Intel
  • 0.65% Corsair
  • 0.78% Kingston
  • 1.32% Crucial
  • 1.39% OCZ

This time OCZ finally seems to be on track.

  • 4.20% 128 GB OCZ Vector
  • 4.07% 256 GB OCZ Vector

At the launch of Vector OCZ highlighted the work done prior to the launch to ensure a high level of reliability. It does not it seem borne fruit since these SSD stand in front and with high rates for storage media even if we stay away from those records fortunately recorded for Petrol and Octane SATA 2.

HDD

  • Toshiba 1.15%
  • Seagate 1.44% (against 1.65%)
  • Western 1.55% (against 1.44%)
  • Samsung 2.24% (against 1.30%),
  • Hitachi 2.40% (against 3.45%),

We mixed all formats of hard drives, which allows the passage of integrating Toshiba despite still low volume on 3.5 ". Latter ranks first. We also note the sharp rise in the rate of Samsung, and. Conversely a beautiful fall Hitachi Here are 5 discs with the highest rate of return:

  • 5.04% to 1.5 TB WD Caviar Black (WD1502FAEX)
  • 4.94% 7K1000.C Hitachi 1TB (HDS721010CLA332)
  • 4.87% Hitachi 7K3000 2TB (HDS723020BLA642)
  • 3.57% Seagate Barracuda 320GB (ST320DM001)
  • 3.51% Red Caviar 2TB (WD20EFRX)

If we look more closely the 2 TB drives are the figures obtained:

  • 4.87% Hitachi 7K3000 (HDS723020BLA642)
  • 3.51% WD Caviar Red (WD20EFRX)
  • 3.01% Samsung SpinPoint F4 (HD201UI)
  • 2.12% WD Caviar RE4 (WD2003FYYS)
  • 1,97% WD Caviar Black (WD2002FAEX)
  • 1.95% Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 (ST2000DM001)
  • 1.30% WD Caviar Green (WD20EARX)
  • 1.01% WD AV-GP (WD20EURS)

And 3 To:

  • 2.85% WD Caviar Green (WD30EZRX)
  • 2.71% Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 (ST3000DM001)
  • 1.89% WD Caviar Red (WD30EFRX)
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Link >> http://www.hardware.fr/articles/893-7/ssd.html
 
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Are these in stock now?

If you do a search on "Intel SSD" it shows as Pre-order.

If you click on the SSD it shows as 10+ in stock for immediate despatch.

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