While I ain't disagreeing with you the 275mb is best case scenario and you aren't going to get close to that in reality, at the same time you are doing the opposite with the bit-tech review
You are also selling the sandforces short. How the sandforces drives work is via compressing the data before writing it to the drive. If the information is purposefully made uncompressable then you are showing worse case scenario on purpose. In reality some information is uncompressable some is not. The drives in real world scenarios aren't going to perform in the extremes of the worse case scenarios nor the best case scenarios.
Second while the Sandforce drives are some of the best out in the market it does have multiple ones that they tested. Noticed some performed better than others due to the firmware used, the firmware that can do 50k iops a second performed better than firmware that could do 10k iops.
Finally while Crucial C300 is a good drive, the bigger a SSD is the better it will perform. The Crucial C300 256gb was the best result in your incompressible data sequential writes, but the worst one in your incompressible data sequential writes is the smaller 64gb which has the same controller but just smaller storage. Ironic huh
The nice thing about the sandforce design is that it is very cheap to make, you don't have to dedicate a lot of spare area in the drive to make a decent SSD (thus SSD manufactures can make the drive cheaper or offer more total space) furthermore sandforce drives seem to perform fairly well no matter what size you pick.
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For full disclosure I have an Intel SSD , a Supertalent SSD ( with the indilinx controller same drive and firmware as the original Vertex ), and a Patriot Inferno (a Sandforce drive a very fast drive but one of the slower Sandforce drives on the market.) My intel (9 months ownership) and indilinx (16 month ownership) have been very reliable, my Patriot Inferno with the Sandforce controller is a recent purchase so I can't comment on my personal experience with reliable on that one.
Edit: stupid RAFO smileys
You are also selling the sandforces short. How the sandforces drives work is via compressing the data before writing it to the drive. If the information is purposefully made uncompressable then you are showing worse case scenario on purpose. In reality some information is uncompressable some is not. The drives in real world scenarios aren't going to perform in the extremes of the worse case scenarios nor the best case scenarios.
Second while the Sandforce drives are some of the best out in the market it does have multiple ones that they tested. Noticed some performed better than others due to the firmware used, the firmware that can do 50k iops a second performed better than firmware that could do 10k iops.
Finally while Crucial C300 is a good drive, the bigger a SSD is the better it will perform. The Crucial C300 256gb was the best result in your incompressible data sequential writes, but the worst one in your incompressible data sequential writes is the smaller 64gb which has the same controller but just smaller storage. Ironic huh
The nice thing about the sandforce design is that it is very cheap to make, you don't have to dedicate a lot of spare area in the drive to make a decent SSD (thus SSD manufactures can make the drive cheaper or offer more total space) furthermore sandforce drives seem to perform fairly well no matter what size you pick.
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For full disclosure I have an Intel SSD , a Supertalent SSD ( with the indilinx controller same drive and firmware as the original Vertex ), and a Patriot Inferno (a Sandforce drive a very fast drive but one of the slower Sandforce drives on the market.) My intel (9 months ownership) and indilinx (16 month ownership) have been very reliable, my Patriot Inferno with the Sandforce controller is a recent purchase so I can't comment on my personal experience with reliable on that one.
Edit: stupid RAFO smileys
This message last edited by Roland00 on 11/12/2010 at 07:41:21 AM
So I finally managed to get all the parts for a new computer build (kind of random and rambles)
- 09/12/2010 04:39:49 AM
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Sounds like you've done your research. Now I can't wait until I build mine! *NM*
- 09/12/2010 04:16:29 PM
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Yeah, that was half the fun, really. 
- 10/12/2010 01:16:31 AM
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- 10/12/2010 01:16:31 AM
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After next summer or fall
- 10/12/2010 01:33:51 AM
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We have no clue what is going to be out about fall of 2011
- 10/12/2010 02:11:08 AM
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One note about the Sandforces
- 11/12/2010 12:59:25 AM
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While I ain't disagreeing with you
- 11/12/2010 07:39:07 AM
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Re: While I ain't disagreeing with you
- 11/12/2010 08:49:28 AM
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Re: While I ain't disagreeing with you
- 11/12/2010 03:26:33 PM
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