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It's very cool that ssd's are getting the sizes to be able to replace my hard drive rather than just be used in laptops or be used as a boot disk. Hopefully the
by harshpotatoes 16y ago
It's very cool that ssd's are getting the sizes to be able to replace my hard drive rather than just be used in laptops or be used as a boot disk. Hopefully the controller will be as fast as they claim and be competitive with intel and OCZ. The only problem, is that as the manufacturicing process has shrunk (from 50nm, to 30nm, to now 25nm I think), the number of writes before the NAND would no longer hold a charge has significantly decreased from 10000 to 5000 and downward. While these are still large enough for heavy use to last a few years, hopefully these new drives will still be able to last a few years with sustained use.
Or at least, this is my current understanding of SSD tech.
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- ericd 16y agoI believe the high end Crucial drives use Sandforce controllers, which are currently the top of the heap, and OCZ uses them in their best drives. Current Sandforce controllers beat out the Intel G2, but I don't know how it's supposed to stack up against the G3.
- wmf 16y agoCrucial SSDs use a Marvell/Micron controller which does very well in many benchmarks. http://www.anandtech.com/show/3812/the-ssd-diaries-crucials-realssd-c300 http://www.anandtech.com/show/3812/the-ssd-diaries-crucials-...
- ericd 16y agoAhh thanks, that was the article I was trying to find last night but didn't manage to.