Tuesday, March 12th 2013
Plextor NGFF SSD Belts Out Up To 700 MB/s Transfer Rates
In addition to its 2.5-inch SATA 6 Gb/s TLC NAND flash SSD, Plextor showed off its upcoming SSD in the NGFF form-factor, designed for next-generation Ultrabooks. Based on the same Marvell 88SS9189 processor and triple-level cell (TLC) NAND flash memory as its 2.5-inch cousin, the drive differs in being a 42 x 22 mm (LxW) NGFF module, with PCI-Express 2.0 x2 interface. The drives will be sold in 128 GB and 256 GB capacities, featuring 256 MB and 512 MB DDR3 DRAM caches, respectively. On offer are read speeds of up to 700 MB/s, writes of up to 550 MB/s, and maximum 4K random write performance of 100,000 IOPS. The NGFF drives should arrive around the same time as Ultrabooks based on 4th generation Core "Haswell" processors.
8 Comments on Plextor NGFF SSD Belts Out Up To 700 MB/s Transfer Rates
Either way, good progression in terms of performance density.
EDIT: apparently, it's the 88ss9183
You don't know performance then bud. or have never been on a drive like this?
I had a fast Corsair SSD and I wanted faster, I got another one, RAID-0 and WOW it was night and day difference, boot-up, game loads, program loads, installs, name it and it was faster...
sure browsing the web was the same :rolleyes:
FYI- SSD RAID is not the same as just changing from a 500 MB "rated" SSD to a 700 MB "rated" SSD.
Benchmarks are a reference point but do not represent actual performance as more and more hardware makers are using as disclaimers in small print with their marketing hype. Competent PC Hardware reviewers will tell you that the benches don't represent real world performance and that the benchmarking is on new, empty drives. If you wanna believe the hype, you're the guy they write this stuff for.
In gaming, I tested Vertex3 vs the latest Velociraptor and besides a few secs in load times there's no difference in experience. I say that because even with just the velociraptor, I'm almost always the first to finish loading. If someone has SSD and beats me, I still have to wait for other people to load. If it's a game where you can just jump in then connection time is longer than load time. I run my games from the HD and run/record fraps from the SSD with no problems.
So far SSD is best for general use and saw the most benefit in booting times, installs, uninstalls, high random and IO stuff.