Performance of SSD drives Sept 2010 Corsair Force OCZ

[dave777blaster]

good for a boot up drive no good for bulk storage

[Seraphim401]

Thanks dude :)

[ajgraham1983]

very informative. Reminds me of the marketing tricks used by the manufacturers of processor and graphics cards for the past 15 years

[telelaci2]

I just took notice of votes. Someone gave you a thumb down minus. How weird. I donno why, because you show the reality about SSD speed ? He must be a Corsair employee, maybe the Chief. I gave you a plus to balance that minus.

[nickrhill]

@telelaci2 Thank you.

It may also be that because someone 'likes' the drives and because they believe I 'dislike' the drives, down-rated me. A purely emotional response.

[telelaci2]

Thanks for this Nick, you have just saved 100EUR of mine. Although the note on their site should be suspicious:

"Note: All read and write speeds are derived from testing using ATTO Disk Benchmark"

Wooot, a big firm like Corsair, has no its own measurement facilities? They donno how fast their drives, but thanks God there is an other firm Atto? Of course not, but Atto's test has the most inaccurate results in case of data comression. I wont buy any product from cheaters.This is simple cheating.

[niczo]

I haven't seen one single SSD (with or without the sandforce controller) which is performance-specified according to how fast it is under "real" conditions, as far as I know this is nothing new.

People who buy SSDs are generally hardware enthusiasts, and there's enough information on the web (benchmark tests and such) to provide buyers with what they need to know. And no matter the decieving figures, today Sandforce is the best controller for small, random writes.

[niczo]

The generation 2 SSDs are really a huge performance leap over the first, and this is mainly because of the controller firmware. But naturally, performance specs supplied by manufacturers are largely inflated if you look at how the drives perform under normal use. They don't deny it though, it's all in the fineprint!

Still, no matter how many Megabytes per second you get under which circumstances, what makes the whole difference for us users is access time. This is what SSDs are all about.

[nickrhill]

@niczo Agreed. However, I wonder how many people have bought a Sandforce controller-based drive, and paid a premium for it based on the specifications which, as shown here, are at best, extremely misleading?

AFAIK, Latency of all SSD drives is much lower than mechanical drives.

It is a shame manufacturers of Sandforce - based SSD drives publish such deceiving specifications. If all manufactures start resorting to these sorts of tricks, buyers will be clueless which drive is best for them.