On Fri, 2012-05-18 at 17:32 +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 05:08:33PM +0200, Clemens Eisserer wrote: > > > I would not buy anything else > > > than intel. I have about 26 of them for years now (both in servers and > > > workstations, several series), and never had an issue. Two of my > > > colleagues have OCZ, and both had to RMA them. > > > > I guess it boils down wether you want intel also to rule the SSD > > market in the long term, as they do with PC processors... > > > > Comparing intel SSDs with OCZ is not that fair, as OCZ has always been > > low-priced bleeding edge stuff. > > Looking into the controllers... > first there were bunch of different ones; Intel had it own design with > SSD 320. > Then come Sandforce; it got broadly used, despite sucking when used > with FDE. Even Intel started to used Sandforce - SSD 520. How's > reliabilty of Intel differs? > Latest fad is Marvell controller; again Intel joins the pack with SSD510. > > So, Intel is not that different anymore.
The controllers themselves really aren't that interesting any more - an SSD controller is really just an ARM or MIPS core with some flash interfaces, a SATA interface, and some ram - running proprietary firmware. Several of the Marvell devices actually have completely different firmwares (e.g. Intel's firmware for Marvell devices was reportedly developed by them in-house), and Intel's Sandforce firmware has some customizations for improved reliability, at the expense of some speed. -- Calvin Walton <calvin.wal...@kepstin.ca> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
