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[randal]

Price to Gb wise, the 320gb and 250gb really don't make a lot of sense to me. Very tempted to get a 500gb for my netbook though.

 

[reflux]

500GB might be worth if for my laptop. Exactly the situation where the hard disk is too slow but an SSD is far too expensive.

 

[Bradmax57]

I'll wait and see what the raid results are like as I might buy a couple of the 500's to replace my f3's after ssd's i cant stand spinners there far too noisy

 

[mithrandir]

This look like a great concept. I had a quick look at some reviews and came across this vid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kss98VdhSj0&feature=player_embedded

 

[kalvindeane]

How do these compare to SSD's in a similar price range for boot times / opening apps? IE the Intel 40GB, or Crucial C300.

 

[Soya]

Anyone who has their hands on one of these drives, or are about to, I would very much appreciate if you could run the below test and display the results.

single Vrap 600GB sata 3 on a 3ware 9650SE 4way raid in PCIe x4

same test on a 160GB Ibis drive in PCIe x4

Please run the test in 128&256MB mode, very keen on the results these drives can produce, thanks in advance.

 

[SeraphX]

hmmm could be tempted by one of these, anyone know if they plan on 3.5" drives at some point?

 

[Andrew Moore]

Im not too sure if there will be a 3.5" version however I cant see performance increasing all too much from upping the size to 3.5" either.

This video (already posted) seems to explain the drive pretty nicely for everyday tasks rather than benchmarks and I must admit that I am exceptionally impressed with the speed!!

Andy

 

[SeraphX]

i'll just say dayyyyyammm, that is very very tempting at that price, hmmm chrimbo's coming

 

[mithrandir]

@ Andrew Moore
Thanks for posting the vid the proper way.
I entered the url between

 

[Fonz-Valo]

I've been tempted to pick up either a 320gb or 500gb one of these for my 1201n netbook for a while now.

I might have to take the plunge

 

[NathWraith]

very sweet drives. Would be tempted by 2 for my laptop!

 

[randal]

I'm giving some serious thought to selling my SSDs in my PC and netbook to get a couple of 500gb ones, performance is pretty good and I could really do with the extra storage.

Crucial M225 and Corsair F60 anyone?

 

[mothermachine]

just noticed these aint sata-600, which is a shame. that said the performance seems to be great anyway and backwards compatibility is always welcome.

 

[picnic]

Are there any explanations on how the SSD part is used? I assume the SSD component has similar wear characteristics to current full SSD drives. So I guess you're not going to write all data read from the mechanical part in to the SSD. Are there clever algorithms that cache the most used data from the HDD and thus over a period of use the load times might actually improve?

 

[randal]

I guess so, if you read the reviews the boot times decrease each time whilst the drive learns which files are used most often and caches them to the 4GB.

 

[Andrew Moore]

Are there any explanations on how the SSD part is used? I assume the SSD component has similar wear characteristics to current full SSD drives. So I guess you're not going to write all data read from the mechanical part in to the SSD. Are there clever algorithms that cache the most used data from the HDD and thus over a period of use the load times might actually improve?

This is exactly how it works. The more the drive is used the faster it will get

Obviously this is limited by the speed of the components inside but its still very nice to know!


Andy

 

[Ezyryder]

How are the access times on these? Its the main advantage of SSDs IMO.

 

[Andrew Moore]

How are the access times on these? Its the main advantage of SSDs IMO.

As low as 0.3ms


Andy

 

[robnut]

How would one of these pair up with an ssd main drive? Mainly for my steam + games.