Gori

Intel has some new MLC SSDs entering the market that looks to outperform the current batch of SLC SSDs. Seems mighty damn pricey, but bears watching. Of particular interest is their 10 channel design and write algorithm which prolongs life by caching data before it writes.

Intel's X25-M Solid State Drive Reviewed : Intel’s First Flash SSD Ready for Vertical Take-Off - Tom's Hardware

Kampfer

omfg tomshardware sucks how could you think of posting something from there, you must wait a week or two until another site reviews that drive before you can think about posting it wtfbbq!


j/k

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Gori

Personally I prefer either Ars Technica or Anandtech, but Tom's was the one linked in Google News.

Oizen

I didn't read the article but solidstate is revolutionary in the storage world. Even the new Clariion 4s support solidstates for like 15x the price but, I gotta say, 5k I/Ops per "spindle" is pretty fucking mind-blowing-awesome for storage nerds. In 3 years as solidstate capacity increases, the traditional mechanical spindle and actuator arm will be gone.

aduros

Just curious, what would something like this do for a gaming desktop compared to the current fastest traditional hard drives?

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It'd be slower than the current fastest platter-based hard drive, and more expensive.

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Oizen

Nothing available to the private market is going to be worth the price atm I'd wager. We're talking ten grand+ per drive in the enterprise market right now.

Anyway, well written games don't need fast spindles as your disk I/O should be minimal. Disk is generally the slowest resource in your box and not something that a PC application should ever be written toward. Videocard(RAM), PC RAM, and Processor are what will make a difference to a well tuned gaming box. Spend you extra cash on those and your disk can trash without bottlenecking your gaming rig.

Now if you plan to do some highend filesharing or database services, then your life will revolve around disk I/Ops but, if you want screaming hot disks in your PC for that, your money is better spent on a RAID controller and a few more SAS drives as enterprise SSDs are ridiculously more expensive with less actual storage capacity for your multimedia library even though 15k SAS is still only like 200ish I/Ops per spindle.

I forecast that a year or so from now the 2k I/Ops SSDs will start making it out to the big PC geeks but, it will just be for bragging rites.

On a side note: Heat and power should be reduced dramatically with SSD but, in your gaming rig I'd wager you have 500+w power supply and plenty of fans right? Three SAS drives RAIDed will give you like 600I/Ops and you'll probably bottleneck at your bus or other component before your PC touches that.

Today enterprise SSD would be wasted in a PC is my opinion.

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...that is a neat white square.

Faxon

im gonna read the anand article. toms has been known to be less than reliable in some articles in the past. sure, i will still read them from time to time, but anandtech articles, though also bias from time to time, are more fair imo

AnandTech: Intel X25-M SSD: Intel Delivers One of the World's Fastest Drives

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