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Wednesday, 18 February 2009 04:15 |
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The numbers are out on Vertex and they are looking very good. Some of the users over at OCZtechnologyforums.com have their hands on the 120GB Solid State Disk and they are getting ridiculous speeds. The 120GB drive is pushing 250MB/s Read and 240MB/s Write! Way faster than any hard drive. What this could very well mean is the Vertex SSD has reached the limit on the SATA II bus. SSD's seems to max out SATA I at 125MB/s and SATA II which is doubly fast looks like it could be hitting the wall at 250MB/s. Could Solid State Disks be hitting a ceiling before the new SATA interface is finalized. It's possible SSD makers will just bypass the SATA interface altogether and go straight through the PCI-E bus but that remains to be seen. Read More >>> |
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Last Updated on Saturday, 21 February 2009 04:58 |
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Written by Administrator
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Thursday, 29 January 2009 03:26 |
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For those of you wondering what kind of performance the new Apex SSDs from OCZ might have, I have your fix. PCPerspective puts together a great roundup matching the new Apex against Intel's X-25M, Raptor X, Velociraptors, and Velociraptors in Raid 0. How does the Apex fare? Apex comes in a solid 2nd place to Intel's X-25M. While the Apex is able to compete with the Intel in most benchmarks, the Intel is able pull away with its victories in random reads. OCZ definately has a winner on their hand here with Apex. They were able to create an internal raid with 2 JMicron controllers and eliminate the bugs that go along with them meanwhile increasing performance at a fair price. The Apex is about half the cost of Intel's X-25M. Read More>>> |
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G.Skill Titan 128GB SataII SSD |
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Written by Administrator
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Thursday, 15 January 2009 01:35 |
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G.Skill has outdone themselves and most of the field with their newest line of SSDs, the Titan. G.Skill claims this drive can pump out 200MB/s read and 160MB/s write. Is this too good to be true? Legion Hardware has whipped up a very nice review on a Core i7 rig. How will this drive perform against the Intel X-25 and other speedy hard drives? Follow me to find out! Read More>>> |
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Last Updated on Saturday, 17 January 2009 19:24 |
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OCZ Apex and Vertex Release Dates |
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Written by Administrator
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Wednesday, 21 January 2009 00:57 |
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OCZ's new SSDs are popping up everywhere. They are set to release the Vertex and Apex before the end of January, with the Apex most likely coming first. Apex will feature an internal JMicron Raid and it will sport 230MB/s Read, 160MB/s Write speeds. This will be very similar to G.Skills new Titan Drive. The Vertex has an ETA of 1/31/2009. Vertex will have an all new controller and include 32/64MB of cache. The SSD will be spec'd a little slower (200MBs Read/160MB Write)than the Apex but the cache and the new controller give the Vertex great benefits. The cache will help with repeated calls to the same data, but the new controller will do something much more beneficial. The curse of the JMicron controller is SSD stuttering. Many of these issues are documented on OCZ's forum but they are a pain to fix and not a cure all. Hopefully the new SSD delivers stutter free operation and speeds that rival current MLC and SLC products from Intel. |
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Written by Administrator
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Wednesday, 14 January 2009 04:59 |
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Ok, not really. This is part of SanDisk's new push to apply certain labels to the speed of a SSD other than using pure read and write performance. They are also pushing a measurement of the amount of data can be written to a SSD over its lifetime. Neverless, this is a bunch of marketing jargon not directly tied to the speed of the SSDs. Read More>>> |
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 14 January 2009 05:05 |
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