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Anyone given these new ones a go yet? They seem to have better/equivalent speeds to the vertex drives and theyre MLC (so should last longer in theory?) So since im planning on taking the plunge when I get back from India these look tempting, anyone get any info on them?

Thanks very much chaps.

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I don't have an SSD yet but have been reading about the Vertex & Samsungs and am interested in both. Both are MLC, and on the OCZ forum they say the Samsung SSDs aren't flashable with firmware updates. OCZ has put out about 4 firmware updates for the Vertex so far, they are tweakable and I like the fact that fixes and utilities can be flashed to the drive. They only hit the market last December, didn't they?
 
5er driver said:
I don't have an SSD yet but have been reading about the Vertex & Samsungs and am interested in both. Both are MLC, and on the OCZ forum they say the Samsung SSDs aren't flashable with firmware updates. OCZ has put out about 4 firmware updates for the Vertex so far, they are tweakable and I like the fact that fixes and utilities can be flashed to the drive. They only hit the market last December, didn't they?
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Not being able to flash it makes me glad I went vertex, but I too am very interested in these Samsungs. I'll buy one, but it won't be till the 10th of May so by then someone else will more than likely already have one on here.
 
Well, I had ordered one of the new 128gb samsung ssd's with 220mb/s read 200mb/s write but today I got a dhl package with the older samsung ssd with 100mb/s read and 80mb/s write.
I sent a web note in just now, and I'm hoping overclockers.co.uk makes things right. Other than that the international shipping and service was very fast lol.
 
I have a samsung 256 SSD, I'm not really sure what you want me to say that you don't already know... it's **** fast :p what else can I say, mine is installed in my macbook, its now faster to edit photos on my macbook using cs4 than it is on my iMac, profiling and removing noise through noise ninja is almost instantaneous. I don't think you would go wrong with either samsung or ocz, flip a coin... ;)
 
bondheli said:
Well, I had ordered one of the new 128gb samsung ssd's with 220mb/s read 200mb/s write but today I got a dhl package with the older samsung ssd with 100mb/s read and 80mb/s write.
I sent a web note in just now, and I'm hoping overclockers.co.uk makes things right. Other than that the international shipping and service was very fast lol.
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Wow, dude why are you buying from OcUK when you live in the states? Isn't that expensive with the shipping?
 
LeJimster said:
Wow, dude why are you buying from OcUK when you live in the states? Isn't that expensive with the shipping?
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I guess this is one situation where the exchange rate prob negates the extra shipping lol! But yeah I would've thought these could be sourced in the USA cheaper than here...

Anyways, good to have you here bondheli and hope you get it sorted soon!:)
 
Indeed! Defragging is fairly pointless, however. And I wouldnt be dancing around with that many SSDs, no matter how robust they're meant to be.
 
Actually the shipping was quite reasonable, 15 pounds for dhl 2-5 day international. The reason I bought from ocuk is because we don't have samsungs PB22-J 128GB (MMCRE28G5MXP-0VB) ssd's here yet. The only reason I wanted the PB22-J was for the 220mb/s read and 200mb/s write. What I got was the MMDOE28G5MPP which is only 90mb/s read, 70mb/s write. Unfortunately I just got a response back from my webnote saying the drives are identical just 1 is the oem version, which is not the case. I'm hoping we can get this solved in a timely manner as I have all my "ssd money" tied up in this drive now.
 
miniyazz said:
Indeed! Defragging is fairly pointless, however. And I wouldnt be dancing around with that many SSDs, no matter how robust they're meant to be.
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TBH, Once you get to a certain point (roughly 3 ssd's in raid0) then your apps won't open any faster. It's just if you are transferring large files is when you would notice the difference. I'm sure it would have dance around just as you seen there with only 3-5 of those in raid0, until he went and swapped that like 6gb file from one drive to the next.
 
Ninja Please! said:
TBH, Once you get to a certain point (roughly 3 ssd's in raid0) then your apps won't open any faster. It's just if you are transferring large files is when you would notice the difference. I'm sure it would have dance around just as you seen there with only 3-5 of those in raid0, until he went and swapped that like 6gb file from one drive to the next.
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exactly, so many ppl still don't get the point of it all and are still chasing STR speeds at high cost when they could bag a couple of the cheaper SSD's and save a bundle in the process.
 
bondheli said:
Actually the shipping was quite reasonable, 15 pounds for dhl 2-5 day international. The reason I bought from ocuk is because we don't have samsungs PB22-J 128GB (MMCRE28G5MXP-0VB) ssd's here yet. The only reason I wanted the PB22-J was for the 220mb/s read and 200mb/s write. What I got was the MMDOE28G5MPP which is only 90mb/s read, 70mb/s write. Unfortunately I just got a response back from my webnote saying the drives are identical just 1 is the oem version, which is not the case. I'm hoping we can get this solved in a timely manner as I have all my "ssd money" tied up in this drive now.
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Ahhh, good point raised. I bought a 64GB Sammy SSD, which is supposedly the PB22-J, just looked and it's actually an MMCRE64G5MPP-0VA, which, upon googling, suggests it is also 90MB/s read. But, running it through HD Tune gives me an average of about 160MB/s (lowest being 80, highest being 200). Which, although higher than 90MB/s, is still slower than I was expecting, and isn't what the PB22-J is meant to do. I know figures get manipulated and biased, but even my maximum speed isn't hitting 220.

Perhaps I should see about returning it, although it might be a little late now, considering I've used it for a week. Or perhaps I should suck it up and get a faster SSD later, when they come down in price, and go up in speed and size. Got to admit, it performs exactly as I'd expect. Everything opens very quickly and booting is very fast. Until you mentioned it just now I had no idea it could've been the slower model.
 
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bondheli said:
Actually the shipping was quite reasonable, 15 pounds for dhl 2-5 day international. The reason I bought from ocuk is because we don't have samsungs PB22-J 128GB (MMCRE28G5MXP-0VB) ssd's here yet. The only reason I wanted the PB22-J was for the 220mb/s read and 200mb/s write. What I got was the MMDOE28G5MPP which is only 90mb/s read, 70mb/s write. Unfortunately I just got a response back from my webnote saying the drives are identical just 1 is the oem version, which is not the case. I'm hoping we can get this solved in a timely manner as I have all my "ssd money" tied up in this drive now.
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If you resolve the problem, let's have some screenshots please! :)
 
w311zy said:
should have got a vertex guys :)
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why? so you can pay double the price for some extra STR that you won't even notice using as a desktop drive.

the 64gb sammys for £100 were an absolute steal, even now they're still good value .....Vertex are still overpriced.
 
Double? 23% more, roughly, for 128gb and 15% more for 256gb. Plus a more consumer-focussed company, also offering firmware updates..

Yes the 64gb ones were good value when they were cheap. Now there's more competition.
 
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