Soldato
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Andrew - I think you may be right there...
You asked for 256GB for less than £100 and here it is!! Crucials V4!! IN STOCK & BENCHMARKED!!
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Don
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Fantastic deal, though I already have SSDs in my own main systems!
However, hit me up again when 512GB drives come down, as that will be my next SSD...
However, hit me up again when 512GB drives come down, as that will be my next SSD...
My brother an I both have I5 chips in an Asrock z77 board.
he has an M4 128gb I have a kingston v200 (not +)
i cannot tell the difference between loading and general use.
I was considering getting another drive to Raid and another drive to set as games but ffs, this thing is soooo fast already u just dont need to
go for the V4 or vertex 2e 99% wont notice diff!
he has an M4 128gb I have a kingston v200 (not +)
i cannot tell the difference between loading and general use.
I was considering getting another drive to Raid and another drive to set as games but ffs, this thing is soooo fast already u just dont need to
go for the V4 or vertex 2e 99% wont notice diff!
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3TB SSD?
You know its coming, its moores law just a matter of time before the PC's we have are dwarfed by new tech. The only threat i see is that office PC's dont need to be any faster.
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Good price! Can you get a 512GB one of this for double the price?
Great offer!
If I hadn't already taken advantage of the 60 and 120 gigabyte 2E deals then I'd be all over this.
We're fast approaching a point where process tech will come up against a brick wall; already analysts are saying that 28nm will never be cheaper than 40nm across the whole lifetime of the node, and this problem will only get bigger with subsequent shrinks.
This article has a good summary of the situation, but the tl:dr version is that the rate of tech advance that we've become accustomed to is over.
Nvidia deeply unhappy with TSMC, claims 22nm essentially worthless
If I hadn't already taken advantage of the 60 and 120 gigabyte 2E deals then I'd be all over this.
We're fast approaching a point where process tech will come up against a brick wall; already analysts are saying that 28nm will never be cheaper than 40nm across the whole lifetime of the node, and this problem will only get bigger with subsequent shrinks.
This article has a good summary of the situation, but the tl:dr version is that the rate of tech advance that we've become accustomed to is over.
Nvidia deeply unhappy with TSMC, claims 22nm essentially worthless
The central point was that the current manufacturing process is not sustainable not that they have hit the wall. Similar statements have been made at several points throughout the past 50 years.
If you look at the size of say the 680 there is room to just bolt on more and still hit the 9" target.
new tech will continue to be driven year on year by demand mostly led by games, something needs to power the 8k display we will all have in a couple of years time.
The real question you have to ask is: Does your motherboard use SATA-II or SATA-III?
HI there
Found some benchmarks that we all understand:-
http://forums.crucial.com/t5/Solid-State-Drives-SSD/The-V4/td-p/104440
Seems the drives read and write speeds are more closer to the 270MB/s read and 230MB/s write speeds.
IOPS more circa 15,000 and 5,000.
Yeah its one of the slower SSD's on the market and is no rival for the M4, but this is reflected in the price.
Also as others have SSD, going from a HDD the performance boost you'd notice would be night and day, with 256GB you don't need to worry about space. Though as some have said, in real world performance some would struggle to notice the difference between this and the faster M4 version in actual use.
Found some benchmarks that we all understand:-
http://forums.crucial.com/t5/Solid-State-Drives-SSD/The-V4/td-p/104440
Seems the drives read and write speeds are more closer to the 270MB/s read and 230MB/s write speeds.
IOPS more circa 15,000 and 5,000.
Yeah its one of the slower SSD's on the market and is no rival for the M4, but this is reflected in the price.
Also as others have SSD, going from a HDD the performance boost you'd notice would be night and day, with 256GB you don't need to worry about space. Though as some have said, in real world performance some would struggle to notice the difference between this and the faster M4 version in actual use.