Agreed, but the problem is there are no available fixes or flash updates to fix many of the older drives which are still being sold regularly. Best to know before buying.
lopaka --- On Thu, 7/23/09, James Boswell <[email protected]> wrote: From: James Boswell <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [H] Question of solid state drives To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, July 23, 2009, 9:51 AM The pauses are due to poor jmicron controller logic, nothing inherent to the type of flash -JB On Jul 23, 2009 5:34 PM, "Robert Martin Jr." <[email protected]> wrote: MLC drives are usually cheaper and easier to make, but with generally less performance than SLC and quite a bit less expensive. Anandtech has a couple good articles listing price/performance of the various SSD's. I'm using OCX Vertex (newer firmware) on 2 boxes and they are pretty fast and inexpensive. I also have 2 MLC drives (trancend & a generic) that are very slooow and have frequent pauses that commonly plagued the 1st gen SSDs. lopaka --- On Thu, 7/23/09, Thane Sherrington <[email protected]> wrote: From: Thane Sherrington <[email protected]> Subject: [H] Question of solid state drives To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, July 23, 2009, 3:20 AM I was reading a review of the new Intel MLC drive, and he says "The real strength of the Intel driv...
