OCZ Vertex SSD

Aurhinius said:
no jmicron controller is even better, but what about an ETA?
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Forgive me for being a little out of touch, but a quick google search revealed very little. As an owner of one of the original Core Series OCZ SSDs, what is this problem with the JMicron controller, and what effect does it have? I've had no problems in the last 6 months since I've had it, I'm just fairly curious.
Thanks
 
To be fair to OCZ they were one of the first if not the first company to bring a fast ssd (v1/v2) to the market at a reasonable prices. Then the rest followed behind them. As for Intel their ssds are priced far to high, especially as you see prices in the ssd market falling, intel come along and priced there 80gb model at what over £450+ when it first came out and the way the econemy is... Only Intel eh :D
 
The 60gig version looks nice just over 200 quid as well, will wait too see if the reviews show it too be anyware as good as intels SSDs though but surely they wont be considering the cost of intels drives....
 
Vertex features SATA 3.0Gbps interface, and provides amazing read/write speed of 200/160MB per second which is very close to the speed of SSD featuring SLC. The read/write speed of Intel X25-E 32GB is 240/170MB per second, with price of $700. Perhaps this comparison can give you an idea of how much Vertex would impress us.

http://en.expreview.com/2008/12/12/ocz-introduces-25-vertex-series-ssd.html

Sounds like its gonna be very similar speeds in theory too intels extreme 32gig SSD :)
 
The Vertex Series certainly "looks good" on paper, however, so did the V2s, but many experienced different problems with them, so before I put my hand in my pocket to shell out a few hunderd quid, I'll make sure that they don't suffer from the same problems (or any new ones that arise) that plagued the V2s....;)
 
jbloggs said:
The Vertex Series certainly "looks good" on paper, however, so did the V2s, but many experienced different problems with them, so before I put my hand in my pocket to shell out a few hunderd quid, I'll make sure that they don't suffer from the same problems (or any new ones that arise) that plagued the V2s....;)
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It has cache onboard, which the previous generation did. Lack of cache is the root of all evil in relation to SSDs.

The main point of these is the fact that the capacity is going up while price is going down, at an even more rapid pace than i would have expected. At the end of this year 250GB drives will be available for the average customer and next year should see semi-affordable 1TB drives. I'm excited about this, probably the biggest revolution in computing since more processor cores.
 
Do you really need ssd's that big...

You dont really need one to act as a simple storage device.. The main benefit is for the os and applicaitons.. unless you have a multOS system, I really wouldnt see the need for anything greather than 64gb ish...

Non of my windows partiotns are greater than 25gb... some as small as 10gb...

Id much prefer performance, reliability and longevity over size....
 
DrMekon said:
Do you really need ssd's that big...

You dont really need one to act as a simple storage device.. The main benefit is for the os and applicaitons.. unless you have a multOS system, I really wouldnt see the need for anything greather than 64gb ish...

Non of my windows partiotns are greater than 25gb... some as small as 10gb...

Id much prefer performance, reliability and longevity over size....
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I think the point Talrinys was trying to make is that SSDs are destined to replace HDDs within a few years. Already SSDs have greater performance, reliability and longevity over traditional HDDs. The things holding them back are small size and cost. Size is already at about a sixth that of regular HDDs, and climbing. Cost has further to go, but within a couple of years will have dropped and be as cheap, or cheaper, than equivalent HDDs. Add the other benefits of SSDs (silence, robustness, performance, longevity, and at that point, capacities in excess of HDDs) and SSDs will very much be the medium of choice for storing data/music/films.
In time, you'll have your performance, reliability and longevity and large storage capacity, and that drive will be a SSD.
 
I can't see big storage drives being replaced by SSD.

While SSD will indeed increase in capacity and decrease in price, so will mechanical hard drives.

I'm about to buy some SSDs to RAID up as an OS drive, but for main storage mechanical drives are 1/10th of the price of SSDs.

I'd like to see mechanical drives focus on capacity and cost, Western Digital seems a step ahead with their Greenpower drives. They're cheap, high capacity, low power drives. Perhaps in 5 years time we'll start to see mechanical drives go the way of CRTs, but even then I think there may still be a niche for mechanicals.
 
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