Yea; what's the ETA of the 'proper' G3; the 320 series?
Late summer according to storagereviews article on the Intel 510 today.
I went for OcUK prices and stock as we're not allowed competitor talk on the forums.![]()
You do realise that OCZ Vertex 2E 60GB and Crucial C300 64GB are the same capacity in reality?
And that would be 59.6GB iirc. Gotta make some adjustments to this table![]()
Really???
Quick check in my computer shows
C: 59.5GB (a C300 64GB)
and
G: 55.8GB (a Vertex 2E 60GB)
To be fair Mr Krugga, if I went away and researched what every single drive formatted to/had available, i'd be doing it until mid next week!
It was more designed to show which drives offer the best £/GB.
If you would like to expand the table, please feel free.
I'm all but sold on either the C300 or the Emcrest, but thanks for the offer.
It's just a question of if I want to take it up the backside from Intel regarding pricing.![]()
Anandtech said:Marc Prieur has been around writing about hardware for as long as I can remember (think back to the old school Tom days). Late last year he published some particularly controversial numbers on his website: failure rates of various PC components according to a French etailer. Among the components were SSDs and the numbers are below:
SSD Failure Rates - Hardware.fr
Intel 0.59%
Corsair 2.17%
Crucial 2.25%
Kingston 2.39%
OCZ 2.93%
Yeah, y'see, it's this that makes the decision oh-so-much harder.
I mean that says it all really doesn't it. Having said that, it is based on the upto-now X25 drives, based on Intel's own controller. But I doubt Intel would release something that risked tarnishing that image.
Remember as well; the OCZ drives are nearly 3%. That means that nearly 1 in 33 come back faulty. That's pretty poor odds when you consider how many are sold.
You said it yourself - Intel ElmCrest uses Marvel controller meaning that the reliability is likely to be similar to other drives based on such controllers.
I haven't read of my SSDs that died, most would probably do that in the beginning of their life-cycle and that should not cause many problems.
I got my C300 128GB this morning, there's going to be so much messing around with two drives now![]()