OC3D Review: Crucial C300 SATA 6Gb/s SSD

[tinytomlogan]

We all know that SSDs are blazingly fast. What would you get if you took an SSD and added SATA 6Gb/s support? Let's find out.

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[Colossous]

Nice review duder

 

[alienware]

Yeah nice one VB. Nice to know that SSDs are still getting faster and faster

 

[Diablo]

Nice review, but shame about the write speed, not much to write home about.

 

[Warzone]

Indeed but all that blazing still burns a hole in the wallet

 

[killablade]

Indeed but all that blazing still burns a hole in the wallet

Actually there would be nothing of my wallet left.

 

[VonBlade]

I sold my wallet to buy thermal paste

 

[alienware]

Wallet? what wallet?

Ohhh the one my ex wife took off with.

 

[FragTek]

I really wish I could afford one of these... I hear they take computing to a whole new level of gangsterness.

 

[fmsam]

Cheers for the review TTL,

did you know there is a firmware upgrade for these drives,

Release Date: 5/20/2010

Change Log:

•Improved Power Consumption

•Improved TRIM performance

•Enabled the Drive Activity Pin (Pin 11)

•Improved Robustness due to unexpected power loss

•Improved data management to reduce maximum write latency

•Improved Performance of SSD as it fills up with data

•Improved Data Integrity

I can vouch for the improvments as Im running a pair on the marvell 6gb/s controller on the RE3

Im getting 450 reads and 250 writes !!

Rick

 

[WelshD1K]

Cheers for the review TTL,

did you know there is a firmware upgrade for these drives,

Release Date: 5/20/2010

Change Log:

•Improved Power Consumption

•Improved TRIM performance

•Enabled the Drive Activity Pin (Pin 11)

•Improved Robustness due to unexpected power loss

•Improved data management to reduce maximum write latency

•Improved Performance of SSD as it fills up with data

•Improved Data Integrity

I can vouch for the improvments as Im running a pair on the marvell 6gb/s controller on the RE3

Im getting 450 reads and 250 writes !!

Rick

in raid i assume? hence the preformance increase

 

[fmsam]

yep raid 0

There are many ppl out there who are still under the impression that you cant use raid on the marvell 9128 6gb/s contoller on Rampage 3 !

Well do they really think Asus would drop such a clanger, when the board its competing against has the same chip and uses raid.

my advice to those ppl is shut up unless youve actually tried it.

Rick

 

[Diablo]

I'd like to see the difference a dedicated RAID card would make to those read/writes as they are not as fast as some SATA 3 gbps drives.

 

[fmsam]

On the R3E the onboard controller is the 88SE9128, which is the IDENTICAL chipset on the rocketRAID 640 !!

I see you have 2 128 gb ssds i n raid 0

what knid of speeds do you get ?

 

[tinytomlogan]

You do realise TRIM doesnt work when in raid dude and the drives will slow down......

No wonder you have quick speeds with raid0, I was starting to think we had missed something huge with a firmware update! Ours came with the latest FW anyways I just checked.

 

[fmsam]

in the picture the drive states firmare rev 1

and crucial use garbage collection when raided and not trim, I test the drives every 3 days and they are actually getting faster, go figure !!