It's actually pretty fast drive, its the second fastest drive but it have ANCH support issue + no multi tasking + lack tech support + need to do bunch configuration changes before you can use it.... ah doesn't support XP well but from benchmark it is a lot faster the my old seagate 7200RPM drive. definitely worth it for $99 .....cost me $240 few month ago.
I guess the best time to catch these SSD babes is this black Friday. The technology gets more matured and the price settles, along with BF deals, they will worth a long while for sure. I won't jump in ATM.
if you were to take say 8 SD cards/usb sticks and raid stripe them this SSD would totally smoke that? i have a bunch laying around and want to make a silent htpc to replace my xbmc (nas 100/1000 to fileserver).
wenbeanchu said: It's actually pretty fast drive, its the second fastest drive but it have ANCH support issue + no multi tasking + lack tech support + need to do bunch configuration changes before you can use it.... ah doesn't support XP well but from benchmark it is a lot faster the my old seagate 7200RPM drive. definitely worth it for $99 .....cost me $240 few month ago.
Works fine XP according to it's specs, and my girlfriend has the 32 GB version. Actually, for some people it works better with XP SP2 than w/ XP SP3 or Vista SP1.
I'm not sure what ANCH is...did you mean AHCI? If so, AHCI is fine as long as you disable TCQ. Multi-tasking is fine also, it's random writes (approx 250ms each, on avg) that kill this thing. If you use multiple programs that aren't doing many random writes, the multi-tasking is OK. That said, that is the biggest flaw. The tech support is great, but the drive was released prematurely so now the tech support people have to deal with more than they can handle. They know what they are talking about and try hard to help, but there's only so much they can do.
I'm not sure what configuration changes you are referring to. The only change that is highly recommended is to disable the automatic defrag (since it's unnecessary and negates the wear leveling technology). The other changes like turning off TCQ can help performance, but didn't do anything for my girlfriend's drive. We also disabled the page file so paging is done completely in main memory, which further reduces random writes and increases the performance. But honestly, all those other changes are minor and not needed.
To call this drive "Junk" is pretty harsh. Anyway, I see market forces working the way they should. The Anand article brought an issue to light and provided information to the market. OCZ's response is to bring prices down to the point where people would say "Meh" at that price, I could live with those flaws.
This is just another immature technology. Early adopters accept it.
tcyiu said: To call this drive "Junk" is pretty harsh. Anyway, I see market forces working the way they should. The Anand article brought an issue to light and provided information to the market. OCZ's response is to bring prices down to the point where people would say "Meh" at that price, I could live with those flaws.
This is just another immature technology. Early adopters accept it.
no early adaptors should not accept crap. Its one thing to pay an arm and leg for something, its another to pay for it, and it not have it work.
And dont whitewash Anandtech conclusion.
"As I've mentioned before, the random write issues with JMicron JMF602 based MLC SSDs are simply unacceptable and in my opinion they make the drives unusable for use in any desktop or notebook that you actually care about. Next year we may see a JMicron controller that fixes the problem but until then, I'd consider those drives off limits."
tcyiu said: To call this drive "Junk" is pretty harsh. Anyway, I see market forces working the way they should. The Anand article brought an issue to light and provided information to the market. OCZ's response is to bring prices down to the point where people would say "Meh" at that price, I could live with those flaws.
This is just another immature technology. Early adopters accept it.
Anand had nothing to do with bringing MLC SSD's flaws and in particular this OCZ core series MLC SSD to light and in fact many of their assumptions and conclusions are dead wrong. You have posted the statement above in every SSD thread. Do you work for Anand?
Users knew for months prior to Anad's useless revelations that MLC SSD had problems. MLC based SSDs can reliability work if properly implemented via RAID 0 in an always on server OS boot environment where no extensive I/O or disk defragmentation occurs. MLC based SSD will NEVER be a reliable laptop or desktop OS boot hard drive replacement.
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