On Wed, Jun 24 2009, Mike Ramsey wrote: > Jens Axboe <jens.axboe <at> oracle.com> writes: > > > > > On Wed, Jun 24 2009, Mike Ramsey wrote: > > > Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw <at> ithnet.com> writes: > [snip] > > > Depends on who you talk to. > > > > > > http://www.tomshardware.com/news/ocz-ssd-vertex-intel-solid-state,7127.html > > > > > > "OCZ Says Its New Vertex SSD Beats Intel's X25-E" > > > > Heh, the Vertex beating the X25-E? I think such a statement could only > > come from OCZ. No amount of magic will suddenly make MLC beat SLC, let > > alone a well tuned firmware like the X25-E's. I'm sure they concocted > > some synthetic benchmark where the Vertex has some slight edge. In the > > real world, the X25-E wipes the floor with the Vertex. > > > > The Vertex is indeed a good performer, in its price range it's currently > > the one to beat. I have doubts about the maturity of the product though, > > looks mostly like a live beta being tested in the field. So I'd just be > > careful with what kind of use they are put to. But just running tests on > > the drive does show that it performs well for most things. > > > > If I was buying for business than the Intel drives would be my choice. > They are clearly the quality leader. For instance, Intel has tweaked > their firmware to optimize for small IOs. The X25-E and X25-M are class. > We agree here I think. > > For home use where it is *my* money I am willing to have a little faith > in order to save a couple hundred dollars. I realize that OCZ and its > controller supplier will be shipping firmware updates. But don't kid > yourself, so is Intel.
Of course they do, everything has bugs. What I'm worried about is the severity of those bugs, and the amount and quality of testing that has gone into these products. > BTW, what OCZ did to increase speed was to increase the cache size in > their large capacity high end Vertex models. This wouldn't help my > 30 GB model. It's easy to throw cache at the problem and make it faster. That's like shaving weight off a car. Might make it go faster, definitely wont make it safer. -- Jens Axboe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
