Crucial M500 SSD Series Now Available

[blibba]

Well, I'd like to see a internal triple/quad RAID 0 with 960/1024 GB SSDs like these, for something less than 1000 $ in a old-fashioned 3.5" size... on that SATA Express thingy I'm looking forward to for a while...

Well the 960GB variant of this drive will be about $599 at launch. So, you might as well say that you'd like to see the 4770K at $5. That said, we've seen massive SSD price-drops before, so who knows.

so as to they wouldn't have excuses

SATA3 is not an "excuse", it's a technical limitation. And besides, sequential transfer speeds are hardly the holy grail of SSD performance - you can match an SSD in this area with a few HDDs in RAID, but actually in the real world this would not be a comparable solution.

to why I haven't see benched SSD speeds higher than 565MB/s or so...

Have you not seen any reviews of PCI-E SSDs (e.g. OCZ Revodrive) or SSD RAID arrays?

Micron basically already offers what you're looking for (at a much higher price) in the form of the p320h. 1.75GB/s sequential reads.

http://www.micron.com/products/solid-state-storage/enterprise-pcie-ssd/p320h-25-inch-pcie-ssd

 

[NeoXF]

Well the 960GB variant of this drive will be about $599 at launch. So, you might as well say that you'd like to see the 4770K at $5. That said, we've seen massive SSD price-drops before, so who knows.

SATA3 is not an "excuse", it's a technical limitation. And besides, sequential transfer speeds are hardly the holy grail of SSD performance - you can match an SSD in this area with a few HDDs in RAID, but actually in the real world this would not be a comparable solution.

Have you not seen any reviews of PCI-E SSDs (e.g. OCZ Revodrive) or SSD RAID arrays?

Micron basically already offers what you're looking for (at a much higher price) in the form of the p320h. 1.75GB/s sequential reads.

http://www.micron.com/products/solid-state-storage/enterprise-pcie-ssd/p320h-25-inch-pcie-ssd

Well, seeing as I was talking about tech that isn't out yet, it's fair to assume I wasn't talking about "now"...
Otherwise I know what you're saying. I'm just talking from a idealistic point of view... it's very easy to make internal RAID SSDs (as opposed to HDDs) to increase performance, as well as capacity, if you move to 3.5" (so desktop-only either way) at least...

Those Revo drives do look nice, but I don't see them (even if money isn't the problem) as a permanent replacement for primary storage on a PC.

 

[xorbe]

What I got from the AT review was that the M500 is not always faster or slower than the m4, but that it was more consistent in latency / iops, which is a win in my book. I have a pile of m4 drives and have been pleased, so I'm sure the 960GB M500 would suit me fine ... ^_^