New Intel SSD range

[Malo]

Well I just bought a Crucial Real SSD C300 considering the new 25nm Intel ones are not cheap. I can only use it off a 3GB SATA connector for the moment but that will only impact sequential read speeds to much degree.

It has the advantages of being 6GB able, fairly cheap, 34nm Micron NAND chips and around for a year or more so the bugs it had originally are likely gone now.

Hopefully it will impress with the speed.

How is this drive going so far? I'm possibly looking at building a new computer in the next month and definitely want to move to SSD. I'm looking at the C300 first since it's the cheapest 250Mb+ SATAIII drive on the market so far and once they fixed the firmware issues it's been getting some ok reviews. The other options are the Plextor and Vertex 3 which are about $80 more.

 

[Silent_Buddha]

How is this drive going so far? I'm possibly looking at building a new computer in the next month and definitely want to move to SSD. I'm looking at the C300 first since it's the cheapest 250Mb+ SATAIII drive on the market so far and once they fixed the firmware issues it's been getting some ok reviews. The other options are the Plextor and Vertex 3 which are about $80 more.

The C300 is a fantastic drive if you are willing to spend the cash on an SSD. That and the Sandforce based drives are both on the top of my current list of SSDs. Each has their own strengths and weaknesses with regards to the other. It's what I use in my main machine due to the more reliable performance. IE - performance doesn't degrade with heavily compressed files.

Just whatever you do, don't hook it up to a Marvel 6G controller.

Regards,
SB

 

[Davros]

Intel, Micron jointly release 20nm flash memory

http://www.pcper.com/news/Storage/Intel-Micron-jointly-release-20nm-flash-memory?nid=9956

 

[Malo]

Just whatever you do, don't hook it up to a Marvel 6G controller.

Regards,
SB

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128478

This is the motherboard I'm looking at. It seems to have a Marvell 6Gb controller, but is that just for the eSATA for the rear connectors? I had thought the onboard SATA3 were part of the chipsets used for 1155 boards.

edit: So from brief reading, the P67 supports 2 SATA3 devices natively and the Marvell is there for extra SATA3 and external devices.

 

[Silent_Buddha]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128478

This is the motherboard I'm looking at. It seems to have a Marvell 6Gb controller, but is that just for the eSATA for the rear connectors? I had thought the onboard SATA3 were part of the chipsets used for 1155 boards.

edit: So from brief reading, the P67 supports 2 SATA3 devices natively and the Marvell is there for extra SATA3 and external devices.

Yup, the 6G ports on the MB should be off the Intel chipset which are peachy.

Really not happy with the Asus board that I got mostly due to reviews and the graphical EFI bios. Should have gone with Gigabyte again. The Asus lacks many critical adjustments in the BIOS like being able to specify 64 bit HPET. It defaults to 32 bit no matter what and thus ends up causing issues with sleep mode in Win7. Had to turn off HPET in order to get sleep and hibernate to be relatively stable.

Then again it took Gigabyte months of BIOS revisions to get my last MB stable with the 5870 so I guess it's all a crapshoot now days with MBs...

Regards,
SB

 

[Grall]

Maybe EFI can help with issues like these...

...Then again, probably not. There will probably always be issues with PC hardware, considering the diversity in every aspect of the system.