Thursday, July 26th 2007

Blazing Speeds By Mtron

Jul 26th, 2007 01:14 Discuss (10 Comments)

The all time problem constantly SSD's has always been speed since even though reading data from any point on a flash drive should be faster than HDD's real-world performance it isn't. However MTRON's latest MSD-S2516 SSD promises to change all that since in an review by MaximumPC it surpassed even the 10.000rpm Western Digital Raptor.
Mtron is currently offering only a 64GB model while a 128GB model will be released in 2008. The 16GB model costs around 1000$ while the 64GB SATA drive model costs at around 3000$. Very high prices indeed but you get what you pay for and that is the fastest drive around.

Source: MaximumPC

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10 Comments on Blazing Speeds By Mtron

yogurt_21

psh beat a single raptor sure, but what about in raid, because at that price you could get 4 raptor x's (150gb) in raid and have more performance and storage while being just a hare more expensive than the 16GB, much less the 64GB one.

AsphyxiA

yogurt_21psh beat a single raptor sure, but what about in raid, because at that price you could get 4 raptor x's (150gb) in raid and have more performance and storage while being just a hare more expensive than the 16GB, much less the 64GB one.

well what if you set those into RAID 0 huh ;) sure theyre pricey but you know someone is going to get one and eventually you will want one too :laugh:

Mod Killer

It would be cool to have 2 of those in raid 0, but it's not worth it at all for 6Gs. Why in gods name is it so expensive?

mcloughj

This is good stuff! Yeah it's expensive as hell, but it'll fall in price eventually to reasonable levels. And get faster and bigger! Two years down the line and we'll all be using them!

Nothgrin

If you compare the speeds of this SSD with SCSI Ultra 320 or FibreChannel drives you can see that the SSD still lacks in raw speed. However the only thing that the SSD is faster is the random access which is at an amazing .1ms while FibreChannel and SCSI Ultra 320 drives can pull out 3.5ms @ 15,000 rpm so if your comparing costs even though SCSI is so expensive it is a better and cheaper option than the 128GB/64GB SSD at this time.

WarEagleAU

Bird of Prey

Agreed Nothgrin.

Prices will come down on these and we will have a plethora of drive options. 500 GB SSD for $500.00 USD doesnt sound too terrible.

TXcharger

AsphyxiAwell what if you set those into RAID 0 huh ;) sure theyre pricey but you know someone is going to get one and eventually you will want one too :laugh:

you can only put 2 drives into raid 0

this is cool i guess? but hard drives sound cooler... even though i can hear mine over the 2 fans i have :shadedshu

AsphyxiA

Mod KillerIt would be cool to have 2 of those in raid 0, but it's not worth it at all for 6Gs. Why in gods name is it so expensive?

because the technology is new and expensive to fabricate and such. once they come up with more efficent ways to build and create bigger and better drives for very little money, say goodbye to hard disk platters.

XooM

WarEagleAUAgreed Nothgrin.

Prices will come down on these and we will have a plethora of drive options. 500 GB SSD for $500.00 USD doesnt sound too terrible.

a dollar a GB? Ouch. With current drives below 27 cents a gig, that still sounds expensive.

And whatever happened to that whole 1,000 writes and its dead issue?

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Nothgrin

XooMa dollar a GB? Ouch. With current drives below 27 cents a gig, that still sounds expensive.

And whatever happened to that whole 1,000 writes and its dead issue?

It depends on what type of flash memory they use if they use NOR it typically has 100K cycles. If they use NAND flash it has 1 Million cycles.

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