Synchronous vs. Asynchronous flash comparison

Yes, a very interesting read, particularly as I have on order for delivery today a Corsair force 3 asynchronous DRAM SSD.

I wanted the capacity of 120Gb and did not want to spend £200+ for it. I have noted the %fill of the disk has an impact on the speeds and hence wanted some headroom on my windows boot drive.

Whether buying a smaller 60/64Gb drive with synchronous DRAM would overall be faster is giving me a headache, too many numbers :)

I do think however that this would in any case be a huge improvement to my current 1Tb Hitachi HDD. This will be the first SSD I have bought.

Should I return it unopened under DSR and buy a smaller drive? Questions, questions.
 
nkata said:
Yes, a very interesting read, particularly as I have on order for delivery today a Corsair force 3 asynchronous DRAM SSD.

I wanted the capacity of 120Gb and did not want to spend £200+ for it. I have noted the %fill of the disk has an impact on the speeds and hence wanted some headroom on my windows boot drive.

Whether buying a smaller 60/64Gb drive with synchronous DRAM would overall be faster is giving me a headache, too many numbers :)

I do think however that this would in any case be a huge improvement to my current 1Tb Hitachi HDD. This will be the first SSD I have bought.

Should I return it unopened under DSR and buy a smaller drive? Questions, questions.
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The smaller, faster drive vs the bigger slower drive.. interesting one. Personally I would stick with the force3 if it suits your needs, I read that myself and it does show some notable gains but nothing to make me loose any sleep. More concerned with the random sf2281 firmware issues and hoping mine doesn't suffer this fate when it comes on monday ;)
 
That article is very narrowly defined, it's solely focused on the Sandforce 2281 based drives. Some of it's conclusions seem overblown imho.
 
i recently bought a Crucial M4 128 gb for £160, which is only a few £ more than the asynch products (force3, agi3 etc)..
It's not sandforce though.
 
From my own searches hardocp seems to be the only source for this performance loss in asynchronous drives (specifically) as they fill up. Elsewhere the general view seemed to be that this was a problem of previous generations, largely solved by this time around across SSDs generally. Has this article been confirmed by anyone else? Or does it tally with anyone's personal experience?
 
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