Crucial RealSSD C300 Has 355MB/s Read Speed

[falchard]

Very fast for a SATA drive, however the costs are putting it in OCZ Z-Drive territory that double the transfer speeds of these drives.

 

[back_by_demand]

At the rate that SSDs are increasing in transfer speed, the problem will be having to get a new standard of SATA every 12-18 months.

Will this mean every year I have to invest in a new SATA PCI-e card?

 

[rbarone69]

[citation][nom]back_by_demand[/nom]At the rate that SSDs are increasing in transfer speed, the problem will be having to get a new standard of SATA every 12-18 months.Will this mean every year I have to invest in a new SATA PCI-e card?[/citation]

Imagine a day where drive space and RAM are one in the same. This is what MRAM was really promising, but it really never came to be (yet). Another solid state tech that could potentially merge RAM and storage into one. THAT would truly be amazing...

 

[jisamaniac]

SSD Kat is not impressed. These speeds been around for a while and on Sata2. We have Intel and OCZ pushing 500 meg + barrier already on sata2! It is awesome to see this for Sata 3, but seriously push the barrier if you are going to be the first to try standardize it.

 

[Spanky Deluxe]

Wow, that is fast! Crucial's SSDs are great these days. I've got one of their current gen 256GB drives and it's an absolute dream. Wish I could afford one of those now so that I could put this one in my laptop!

 

[tsnor]

[citation][nom]vant[/nom]More useless sequential information. Randoms please.[/citation]

+1

 

[tsnor]

[citation][nom]jisamaniac[/nom]SSD Kat is not impressed. We have Intel and OCZ pushing 500 meg + barrier already on sata2! [/citation]

I don't think so. SATA 2's maximum data throughput from 150 MB/s to 300 MB/s.

 

[Rehnquist-]

I was looking at these drives a month ago and most sites had the 128 gb version at $399, which I thought was a good deal and I was going to pick one up. Come to find out, they're retailing at $499... No thanks.

 

[warmon6]

[citation][nom]rbarone69[/nom] It wont be long until ALL HDDs are replaced by solid state tech. I give it 5-7 at the current rate of growth. go go 3bpc![/citation]

right... I somehow think HDD are going to be around for a very, very long time even with ssd's around. The reason why i say this is because, most people want more storage than lots of speed with little storage for the same price.

Now take for granted that some people are smart enough to use the ssd as a boot drive for the sdd. Although the cheapest ssd's that can hold an OS (like win7 (barely)) on newegg are $100 which i could spend that $100 on a 1TB hdd or 1.5 TB drive (depending on manufacture preference) for either for more storage or add it to a raid setup.

All im saying is until the $/GB on an ssd is near, at, or below an HDD, it wont be a mainstream hardware. which HDD are going to dominate this area for quite a while.

 

[HavoCnMe]

Here is the MAX Throughput for SATA2 and SATA3: (3Gbs = 3000/8 = 375MB/s MAX) (6Gbs = 6000/8 = 750MB/s MAX)

 

[izanaki]

When is this stuff going to drop in price? I'd love to throw a 256GB SDD into my desktop and a 128GB in my notebook but I'm not willing to fork over $1,000 for it. I'm thinking 'maybe' 2011 and we'll see some nice price drops?

 

[georgekn3mp]

This would be a good opportunity to test, with this drive, to see if "add-on" SATA-III cards can work as fast as "on-board" Marvell SATA-III controllers. I have one on my motherboard, you can send one of them to me and I will report the benchmarks *honestly*

I am seriously looking at the 129MB version. Sure it is 128MB for 500, but the only real bottleneck on my new PC is the HDD itself at 100mb/s...this would be 20-30 times faster in some cases. Too bad it really is like all other SSD's, random access slows it down.

But then since I am already getting a second 5850 for Crossfire, I may as well go all the way!

 

[chris13th]

[citation][nom]gekko668[/nom]TH i think you guy should give this away in a contest.[/citation]
I agree, and I should be the winner of said contest

 

[SuckRaven]

Is this SLC or MLC?

 

[warezme]

to small for the price.

 

[tsnor]

[citation][nom]HavoCnMe[/nom]Here is the MAX Throughput for SATA2 and SATA3: (3Gbs = 3000/8 = 375MB/s MAX) (6Gbs = 6000/8 = 750MB/s MAX)[/citation]

Hi, You have the max bits, and your point is correct.

8b/10b encoding is used for error recovery so you only get 1 byte per every 10 bits knocking the max usable throughput to 300 MB. Protocol overheads knock the max throughput into the 200s. Any reported sata 2 numbers at 300+ plus MB/sec are wrong.

Aside: software sometimes compresses before sending over a slow link and then reports the effective data rate for the raw data, not the rate for the compressed data. (Clearly this is not done for sata 2 disk drives.) So sometimes links show higher effective MB rates than seems possible given the physical layer data rate.

 

[retirepresident]

I hope more SATA 3's SSD come out soon. More comp.

 

[jzjz]

100% COMPLETE RIP OFF. Few people can afford to waste that kind of money on something that is only SLIGHTLY faster on every day tasks. Most people don't sit around and simply copy 25GB files and giggle. On smaller operations it's not that much faster than other competitors. Yet cost more than double. And let's define what it means to "afford" something. There are some people who think if they have $800 or $1000 in the bank, they are flying high as they sneer at their friends. They'd gladly, and foolishly blow that last $800 just to get this. So most people who say they can afford it, really mean they can somehow get it, or perhaps even put it on their credit card. There are also other people who have savings accounts over $100,000 that know this is a horrible deal and would never buy it. So who is this really for? I think it's for someone who truly, truly has an incredible need for a marginal speed improvement. Then it's ok to spent your last $800. But for others, it's just a waste.

But regardless, they are showing off a high sequential read speed. The rest of the specs are only somewhat better than other drives. In fact they are coming out with new drives right now that are much cheaper and reasonably fast. For example PNY has a a new one this month that has a read speed of 240. It's 128GB and only $225. It's read speed is not quite as good at 160, but still. And let's not forget you can buy two cheaper SSD's and RAID them to get performance beyond this drive, and for less. Again, this is a rip, and will be short lived as they rake the suckers in.

 

[jzjz]

I did forget, it would be good for someone rich who doesn't care. But if they aren't rich, and they keep spending like that, they soon won't have money to buy stuff like that with. OF course there are some who are good for a long time, then they splurge.. But in reality, for most people, this is just a drive to look at. Don't worry, there will be more SSD's and more price drops, plus bigger capacities in the next 6 months. The age of reasonably priced, fast SSD's is coming

 

[jzjz]

I just noticed. $500 for the 128GB? ??? wow. I could RAID two PNY's together for $450 and perhaps get a throughput of 480 on sequential read. Unless the bus/controller would be limited, but then that could be up to a 6Gps motherboard.. hmmm.