Intel Issues SSD Firmware Fix for Data Corruption

[Marcus Yam]

Now you can play with passwords all you want.

Intel Issues SSD Firmware Fix for Data Corruption : Read more

 

[Shadow703793]

Wow... this is old news. This was posted over at DT like 2 weeks ago. Slow day eh?
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=15827

 

[MrCommunistGen]

This article is stating that the firmware fix has been released, not that Intel was telling people that the halted shipments were due to a firmware bug...

 

[Guest]

So can I please buy one now?

 

[Eggrenade]

[citation][nom]bluespot[/nom]So can I please buy one now?[/citation]

No, it still costs too much.

 

[midnightgun]

[citation][nom]MrCommunistGen[/nom]This article is stating that the firmware fix has been released, not that Intel was telling people that the halted shipments were due to a firmware bug...[/citation]


Not sure of the confusion... That's what the article is about.

It was previously reported and wide known that the shipments were paused due to this firmware issue.

 

[back_by_demand]

[citation][nom]midnightgun[/nom]Not sure of the confusion... That's what the article is about.It was previously reported and wide known that the shipments were paused due to this firmware issue.[/citation]

I agree, the previous article stated the shipments were halted due to the bug, it also says it in this article too

Late last month Intel paused shipments of its new 34-nm X25-M G2 solid state drives due to a bug

Not sure what the confusuon is...

Anyhoo, when the price is about a quarter of what they are now they may become worth the money. Performance is good, but then so is the latest Ferrari compared to my car, price is just too high.

 

[rcpratt]

They are perfectly "worth the money" now, although prices are sure to keep falling. I'm sure that any X25-M G2 user will tell you that they do not regret the money they spent one bit.

 

[back_by_demand]

I am sure any Ferrari owner would say the same.

 

[rcpratt]

A BMW would probably be a more accurate comparison. Except for the part where they're totally different.

 

[back_by_demand]

I think you have a point there, BMW drivers are arrogant bastards who think they own the road. Anyway, I was reading an interesting article about SATA controllers, if you have an SSD you may be giving up several percent of performance if you have a particular SATA controller on your motherboard, worth checking it out

http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=270&Itemid=38

 

[back_by_demand]

Turns out the benchmarking utility was wonky, if benchmarking cannot work accurately with SSDs then it is all down to perception. Anyhow, I really like the idea of SSDs and the Intel or the OCZ drives look pretty sweet. Quarter the price and I will be a big-time adopter.

 

[marraco]

more important is to continuosly run TRIM in background, as the latest indilinx firmware update does with other SSD.

 

[Guest]

I've seen benchmarks of the new firmware suggesting a dramatic drop in write performance. Might want to wait for a while before upgrading