The Vertex drives are nice. We ordered 40 of the 120GB variants at work to replace 7.2k mechanical drives in the laptops of our top customer-facing employees. There aren't many times when you can do a hardware upgrade and make people go "Oh wow, holy sh**" -- but the Vertex drives did just that.
With the 2nd gen Intel drives on 34nm NAND, and other manufacturers soon to release 32nm NAND, I'm getting close to upgrading my Velociraptor. Greg > -----Original Message----- > From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- > boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Robert Martin Jr. > Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 11:34 AM > To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com > Subject: Re: [H] Question of solid state drives > > 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 >
