Ray
28th December 2013, 11:35 AM
Worth reading before you purchase an SSD.
http://lkcl.net/reports/ssd_analysis.html
Excerpt:
Intel 320 and S3500
As already hinted at, these drives simply could not be made to fail, no matter
what was thrown at them. The S3500 was power-cycled some 6,500 times for
several days: several terabytes of random data were written and read from that
drive. not a single byte of data was lost. Despite even the reads being
interrupted, there was not a single time - not even once - when the S3500
failed to verify the data that had been written.
The only strange behaviour observed was that the write-then-read cycle
speeds tended to fluctuate, sustaining around 25 to 30mbytes of write-then-read
speed continuously for several minutes then dropping after 10 or so minutes
to 20 or even 12 mbytes / sec for one (and only one) write-read cycle.
The only possible explanation for this could be some housekeeping going
on, in the firmware, which would take up CPU cycles.
Conclusion: don't buy anything other than Intel SSDs
Conclusion
Right now, there is only one reliable SSD manufacturer: Intel.
That really is the end of the discussion.
http://lkcl.net/reports/ssd_analysis.html
Excerpt:
Intel 320 and S3500
As already hinted at, these drives simply could not be made to fail, no matter
what was thrown at them. The S3500 was power-cycled some 6,500 times for
several days: several terabytes of random data were written and read from that
drive. not a single byte of data was lost. Despite even the reads being
interrupted, there was not a single time - not even once - when the S3500
failed to verify the data that had been written.
The only strange behaviour observed was that the write-then-read cycle
speeds tended to fluctuate, sustaining around 25 to 30mbytes of write-then-read
speed continuously for several minutes then dropping after 10 or so minutes
to 20 or even 12 mbytes / sec for one (and only one) write-read cycle.
The only possible explanation for this could be some housekeeping going
on, in the firmware, which would take up CPU cycles.
Conclusion: don't buy anything other than Intel SSDs
Conclusion
Right now, there is only one reliable SSD manufacturer: Intel.
That really is the end of the discussion.