Write speed is about 3x slower than what you could consider a "slow" SSD in the performance segment. Peak read speed is average. However, I have not seen any benchmarks thus far, so I can't say anything about the drive's random 4kb read performance, which is what Windows depends on the most for performance gains that are obvious to the user.
Mechanical hard drives have 4kb read performance of just half a megabyte per second. Good SSDs like the Intel X25-M G2 (this drive's big brother) approach 60MB/s.
Don't you just love how marketing people use words like "value, value-minded, and economical" as pseudonyms for people who are too cheap to pay for the top speed versions? And products that failed the high speed tests so they were reprogrammed to become this new "value" line of products?
$125 is certainly a better price than any other SSD.
30GB Vertex is $89 after rebate from NewEgg right now and sports significantly higher sequential write speeds. However, as Thrax pointed out, 4K random r/w performance is what really drives the common user experience and that has yet to be benchmarked, at least publicly. If this performs even half as well as the X25-M G2 in 4K, it's a steal at that price. My 2x30GB Vertex "only" pull ~25MBs in random 4K reads.
From the above link to Newegg - part of their advertising BS says "Packing a MASSIVE 30 GB of storage"... LOL !
30 GB in a single drive hasn't been "massive" since about 2001 !
$90 AFTER rebate is nice, but it's such a pain to have to mail in rebate cards and wait to get it, so that by the time you do get it you hardly notice it, unless your bank account is on empty.
I so desperately want to buy a SSD, but I can't help but feel like its all still in its infancy, and that in another year you will be able to waltz into the local Staples and buy a 128 GB Sata 3 model for $99
I want it badly, but I'm going to defer gratification just a little while longer.
From the above link to Newegg - part of their advertising BS says "Packing a MASSIVE 30 GB of storage"... LOL !
30 GB in a single drive hasn't been "massive" since about 2001 !
$90 AFTER rebate is nice, but it's such a pain to have to mail in rebate cards and wait to get it, so that by the time you do get it you hardly notice it, unless your bank account is on empty.
You're all about things that were new in 2001, this should be right up your alley.
Thrax
🐌Austin, TX Icrontian
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Mechanical hard drives have 4kb read performance of just half a megabyte per second. Good SSDs like the Intel X25-M G2 (this drive's big brother) approach 60MB/s.
Don't you just love how marketing people use words like "value, value-minded, and economical" as pseudonyms for people who are too cheap to pay for the top speed versions? And products that failed the high speed tests so they were reprogrammed to become this new "value" line of products?
$125 is certainly a better price than any other SSD.
30 GB in a single drive hasn't been "massive" since about 2001 !
$90 AFTER rebate is nice, but it's such a pain to have to mail in rebate cards and wait to get it, so that by the time you do get it you hardly notice it, unless your bank account is on empty.
I want it badly, but I'm going to defer gratification just a little while longer.
You're all about things that were new in 2001, this should be right up your alley.