6Gb/s SATA Crucial SSDs Arrive in February

[exfileme]

Yesterday, Lexar Media announced during CES that it's shipping the highest-performing solid-state drive for end consumers--the Crucial RealSSD C300 drive--this month, with the drives expected to arrive at resellers in February. The new SSD supports the

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[jn77]

hummm.... nice, but not worth $799

 

[duckmanx88]

i thought prices were supposed to go down.

 

[Guest]

Judging by this article, SSD technology is rapidly changing and we're getting better quality, larger and faster drives for less as the months/weeks goes by.

To prove a point, just think what a High quality 256GB SSD would have cost about 6 months ago.

Even better is the anticipation of what the prices will be on SSD drive 6 months to a year from now and how much more the technology will have improved.

 

[descendency]

[citation][nom]duckmanx88[/nom] i thought prices were supposed to go down.[/citation]
That's what I paid for my 128 gb SSD, so prices are going down. Especially considering how fast that drive will be.

Too bad it's mostly sustained speeds and not random read speed.

 

[lensman0419]

Actually, if you have EVER seen the random read speed on this drive, you will be impressed! It's 2X the Intel speed on random read and writes.

 

[lensman0419]

BTW, if you take a look at the OCZ Vertex series, most of the 128G MLC drives of INFERIOR performance is going for $400+ on newegg.com. So, I would think given the MUCH higher performance, $349 is actually a REALLY good bargain

 

[De La NoChe]

349?

 

[vant]

To Tom's Hardware:

Stop reporting sequential speeds and start focusing on randoms.

Sequential means very little to normal consumers.

 

[spazoid]

Vant, this isn't a review, it's the specs as reported by the company producing the drives. As always, they will report the specs that sounds best, and TH can do little but forward the information.

 

[lashabane]

...like no other SSD we've ever seen in the Crucial Performance Lab."

Could that be because they've never made this before?

 

[hillarymakesmecry]

SSD's are soooooooooooooo overpriced. I'm sure they're awesome, but I'm not getting out the checkbook until a reliable, fast and proven drive is out for under $100. I'm still using a 7200speed hard drive in my computer that I bought 7 years ago. I need that same longevity from an SSD.

 

[HavoCnMe]

It's funny how the article says up to 355MB/s, while the website says 250MB/s(read)...which is about the same as other high-end SSD's. So what makes this special? SATA 6Gb/s interface? Hell lets do the math for both 3Gbs and 6Gbs SATA: (3Gbs = 3000/8 = 375MB/s MAX) (6Gbs = 6000/8 = 750MB/s MAX) If this SSD can hit 281MB/s that will be 75% bandwidth of 3Gb/s. Seeing how a 100Mbit (12.5 MB/s MAX) Ethernet connection runs at about 75-91% (9.3-11.3MB/s) within a LAN, so 75% from a SSD should be very possible. Going further 6Gb/s at 75% will yield 562.5MB/s. So when SSD's start hitting speeds like this i will be excited, for now its just hype. JMO

 

[dark_lord69]

at that price who cares when they arrive?
not me...

 

[Guest]

lol so overpriced,in a recession there going to charge 799$ for a hard drive lol good luck,no one will buy this,I rather just wait another 6 moths when 250gb hits $250