Fun with SSD's

[SFSxOI]

We got our first Intel G2 Solid State Drives (SSD) late last week, installed them Wednesday this week. Blistering fast with Windows 7, at least (as an estimate) a 50% increase in overall operating system speed, so fast that you can start something up and its running before the mouse click is finished. And even saying before the mouse click is finished would be an understatement. All I could say was "WoW!. The drive fully supports the new ATA specification for TRIM, which is also natively supported in Windows 7. I have never seen any Operating System work so fast and smooth, I just can not adaquately describe it as its just something you have to see.

Yesterday afternoon one of the SSD's bricked up and is completly un-recoverable. Even our lab could not recover it. Call to intel reveals there is a problem with the new firmware update for the drive, we immediatley pulled the drives before the rest bricked up. So i'd wait a bit before I ran out and spent a few thousand $$$ on the intel G2 SSD, wait until they get these problems fixed. Glad we were still just testing (we run a test suite on new hardware for one week, 24 hours a day, before we put it into use). Company is sending them back today.

[Fred]

I completely agree with your comments about the speed and OS reactivity, it's amazing. I also bought an intel SSD and installed Windows 7 on it the last week. I also did the firmware update and luckily, i didn't be affected by the bug. Good luck to get it fixed, it really a shame to have such on the edge (and costly) product be affected by a such major firmware bug.

[Berikco]

Still waiting for an Intel SSD 128GB
Should be here november 3....

Cant wait to play with it

[Fred]

You will loooove it

[Edwin Knoppert]

topics seem to be posted in the past?
2003 and such.

Somehow this board is off?

[Fred]

No problem here.

[Edwin Knoppert]

Check this out:

http://www.hellobasic.com/images/bdtbad.png

[freak]

I think you are mixing up the "join" dates with the post dates (which are not even visible in your picture)

[Edwin Knoppert]

Gosh, and i wasn't even drunk!
Thanks..

[GWarner]

So what's the hangup with Intel, there are other brands that don't have the Intel tax on them.

[Fred]

Most of other SSDs with similar performances are similar priced.

[GWarner]

I'll have to look again but when I did just today it sure seemed like the Intel SSD were 25% to 50% more expensive than other brands, however my point was, why stick with Intl if their product has problems, switch to an SSD from another manufaturer.

[Fred]

Because other brands have poor performances. If you look for similar SSD (ie: not one which locks your whole OS when you install a software) you need either a samsung, intel or indilix controller. And all these are similar priced, intel is even the cheaper for now.

[Thorium]

I don't know. All the Intel SSD's on Alternate (German seller) are extremly slow on writing. Alternate says 70 MB/s for every modell they sell. This is the lowest writing speed of all SSD's they sell.

I have a SSD from Super Talent with Samsung controller. 220 MB/s read 200 MB/s write. Just 30MB/s lower reading speed but more then double writing speed. And Super Talent is cheap.

[SFSxOI]

I don't know. All the Intel SSD's on Alternate (German seller) are extremly slow on writing. Alternate says 70 MB/s for every modell they sell. This is the lowest writing speed of all SSD's they sell.

I have a SSD from Super Talent with Samsung controller. 220 MB/s read 200 MB/s write. Just 30MB/s lower reading speed but more then double writing speed. And Super Talent is cheap.

The fast ones support TRIM and the OS needs to support it too, then you see the difference. Not all of them may support TRIM. Remember when a new product like this is released there are sometimes several different levels of marketing the company is trying to appeal to.