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Intel's New 6Gps 510 series SATA SSD, Tested and It's Fast
- PKeeble 16y agoDevelopers do a lot of 4KB operations. Source files tend to be small as do database updates. The current market leader in this is the OCZ Vertex 3, a considerably faster drive than the Intel 510. Indeed intel's X25-M is better at 4KB operations than the new drive. The 510 is a disappointment, get an OCZ Vertex instead, its cheaper and faster for the sorts of operations that matter. See anandtech for more details: http://www.anandtech.com/show/4202/the-intel-ssd-510-review http://www.anandtech.com/show/4202/the-intel-ssd-510-review
- coin 16y agoMy only concern with OCZ SSDs are initial quality. Just look Newegg's reviews, there a whole bunch of people who received DOA units or they fail after a month.
- wiredfool 16y agoI've had two OCZ ssds (granted, they were early models) that worked for a combined total of 2 weeks. My intel ones, though, have been solid. I keep looking at OCZ, thinking that they're a pretty good price for the performance, but not wanting to go down that rathole again.
- coin 16y agoMy only concern with OCZ SSDs are initial quality. Just look Newegg's reviews, there a whole bunch of people who received DOA units or they fail after a month.
- calebhicks 16y agoI keep looking, but can't find the Vertex 3 available anywhere. Any news on a release date?
- CognitiveLens 16y agoFrom what I've read, most sources are expecting late March availability.
- nickbp 16y agoOn the flip side, they apparently optimized for large sequential accesses, so this can be good drive if you do a lot of image/video editing.
- justinsb 16y agoAvoid OCZ. I had a Vertex 2 SSD fail after about two weeks. What's really a big gotcha is that it fails 100% immediately; there are no warning signs as there often are with a hard disk. I looked into it: I believe that there's actually an assertion that got hit in the OCZ firmware, and then it goes into a lock-down mode. However, there's no way for an end-user to exit this mode and recover any data (it simply won't respond to SATA commands), nor are OCZ willing to unlock it for you.
- moe 16y agoI had a Vertex 2 SSD fail after about two weeks. Anecdote != data. We have 8 of them in database-server for over 6 months without problems. Yes, we abuse them for a server workload.
- justinsb 16y agoSure, just sharing my personal experience. The pathological failure behaviour due to a software bug is not something I'd previously considered when choosing a drive. I hope you've got good backups.
- dablue 16y ago+1 for good backups My strategy from now on is to to mirror the SSD to a traditional HDD. That way, in the case of a SSD failure, we can accept the performance hit and still be able to run smoothly from the platter.
- justinsb 16y agoCheck out Facebook's FlashCache: they use SSDs as a cache on to traditional HDDs. You can have a read-cache to keep 'hot' data fast, and (if you want to) you can have a write cache that will buffer writes on SSD before flushing to HDD. I don't know whether it's ready for general (non-Facebook) use yet, but it is definitely one to watch.
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- nepenthe2 16y agoThis 510 series is not considered a successor to the X-25. If you're wanting a true improvement, hold out for the upcoming 320 series around April.
- listic 16y agoI thouht 510 is Intel's temporary solution for high-end, needed because the delays with newer X-25 (G3); and the true X-25 successor will be the new X-25 whenever that comes out. Now where will the new X-25 fit in this picture?
- zokier 16y agoIt's Fast? It seems barely keep up with previous generations Vertex 2 in real-world tests (PCMark), and new Vertex 3 and other SandForces are even faster, and cheaper. I really wonder why Intel released a drive that's both more expensive and slower than competition. Of course they have strong brand, as X-25 were really successful.
- calebhicks 16y agoI just got the X25 less than a week ago. Now that I've seen the testing on this 510 and the Vertex 3, I'm debating returning the X25 and going for one of these models. I can preorder the 510 from Amazon for 295, still looking for someone selling the Vertex 3.
- svrocks 16y agoHopefully this will drive X-25 prices into the $1/GB range for those of us that think reliable 350/100 MB/s read/write is already blazing fast
- wmf 16y agoI would wait for a comparison between the Intel 320 and Micron C400 (which are both imminent) before making any decisions.
- ghurlman 16y ago"Intel’s SSD 510 costs more and it can serve up better sequential numbers than Vertex 3. However, it’s actually slower than its predecessor in situations where you’re working with lots of small files. The applications where this 250 GB drive makes sense are fairly clear cut. But again, it looks like you’d get a better all-around experience from OCZ’s Vertex 3 when it becomes available." [1] "My biggest complaints about the 510 actually aren't about Intel's use of a 3rd party controller, instead they are about the drive's lackluster random read performance. In a horrible bout of irony Intel fixed its sequential performance and moved backwards in the random department. Random read performance, as it turns out, has a pretty major impact in the real world. Random write performance is also pretty low by today's standards, however the impact on most of our real world performance tests is minimal. It looks like we may have hit the upper limit of what we need from 4KB random write performance (at least given current workloads)." [2] [1] http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-510-solid-state-6gbps,2881.html http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-510-solid-state-6gbp... [2] http://www.anandtech.com/show/4202/the-intel-ssd-510-review http://www.anandtech.com/show/4202/the-intel-ssd-510-review From what I can tell, it's worth waiting for the OCZ Vertex 3, which will be faster, and quite possibly cheaper too.
- gamble 16y agoThe reliability problems with the Vertex 2 make me wary of anything from OCZ. There are many, many reports of OCZ drives failing within a few days of use, some within minutes of booting up. Plus there are well-documented problems with power-saving modes. Frankly, SSD failure rates from most manufacturers are so high it should be a scandal. Intel is the only company I'm remotely comfortable buying an SSD from right now.
- dablue 16y agoThat explains why my server OCZ Vertex SSD died yesterday after 1 year of use... I'm eyeing a Corsair now but still kind of weary of SSDs now.
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- ekidd 16y agoTemperature, non-operating: -550C. There are some theoretical physicists who would dearly love to see that test lab. :-)