MLC drives are usually cheaper and easier to make, but with generally less performance than SLC and quite a bit less expensive. Anandtech has a couple good articles listing price/performance of the various SSD's. I'm using OCX Vertex (newer firmware) on 2 boxes and they are pretty fast and inexpensive. I also have 2 MLC drives (trancend & a generic) that are very slooow and have frequent pauses that commonly plagued the 1st gen SSDs.
lopaka --- On Thu, 7/23/09, Thane Sherrington <th...@computerconnectionltd.com> wrote: From: Thane Sherrington <th...@computerconnectionltd.com> Subject: [H] Question of solid state drives To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Date: Thursday, July 23, 2009, 3:20 AM I was reading a review of the new Intel MLC drive, and he says "The real strength of the Intel drives is in its random, small file, read/write performance. Here we see a 10% improvement in random read performance over the 1st gen drives, putting the new X25-M ahead of even the X25-E. Now there are obvious lifespan benefits you get from an SLC drive that the G2 can't match, but for a desktop user this thing is even better than the X25-E. " I know nothing about SLC vs MLC - what does he mean buy "obvious lifespan benefits?" T
