Samsung SSD 256

DeathTyrant said:
- Read: Up to 220MB/sec
- Write: Up to 200MB/sec

Very impressive figures. One of these drives would be nice to stick my games on. :D
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They're not that much faster than the Vertex's then? Are they going to be stocked in lower sizes as this one is certainly better £/Gb than the 250Gb Vertex. Wonder how long it'll be before we're all looking at changing out our Tb data drives for these beauties?! (sighs whistfully and dreams on...) ;)
 
FaceplantSi said:
They're not that much faster than the Vertex's then? Are they going to be stocked in lower sizes as this one is certainly better £/Gb than the 250Gb Vertex. Wonder how long it'll be before we're all looking at changing out our Tb data drives for these beauties?! (sighs whistfully and dreams on...) ;)
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Not much more than a year or two, and sustained reads/writes aren't even close to the whole story as Pc Perspective and AnandTech have been showing over the last few months, how they survive over time and how their cache works means a lot too.
 
Talrinys said:
That's until people try these drives, and realize how terrible a bottleneck hard drives are in modern computers.
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Definitely! My hard drives feel ancient now since I've been using the ssds.

I'm so aware of the noise they make now and they are quite quiet drives!

I'm now so used to the 0.1 latency that the 'mechanical' latency is annoying. I still use the hard drive and when you click on something you have the delay ,the whirr, and then the application loads albeit slower too. With the ssd you click on an app , no noise and instant response

I can see why western digital have joined up now. ;)

If the mechanical were still good and the ssds weren't worth it I wouldve sold them on but they're most definitely worth it!
 
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Talrinys said:
Not much more than a year or two, and sustained reads/writes aren't even close to the whole story as Pc Perspective and AnandTech have been showing over the last few months, how they survive over time and how their cache works means a lot too.
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Yeah I know all that and I've pointed a lot of others on here to Anand's SSD Anthology article, but here we only really have the synthetic benchies to go on until we get some early adopters usage thoughts etc, so looking at sustained reads and writes is as good as it's gonna be for the time being.:)
 
Going by Anandtech, the next best alternatiev to Intel is the Vertex.

This new samsung is similar/same as the OCZ summit they previewed, and from what i remember the Vertex was seen to be better.
 
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