The Intel SSD 320 Review: 25nm G3 is Finally Here
by Anand Lal Shimpi on March 28, 2011 11:08 AM EST- Posted in
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- Intel SSD 320
AnandTech Storage Bench 2011 - Light Workload
The 320 doesn't do bad for a 3Gbps drive, it's a bit faster than the SF-1200 based Corsair Force F120 but it's slower than Intel's SSD 510 and definitely slower than the upcoming Vertex 3.
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NandFlashGuy - Monday, March 28, 2011 - link
Actual data shows that Intel's G2 SSD Reliability is already ahead of mechanical drives:Here's a paper at the 1997 FAST conference discussing actual hard drive failure rates:
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~bianca/papers/fast07.pd...
A link to the French e-tailer return rate data showing Intel SSDs better than mechanical drives:
http://www.hardware.fr/articles/810-6/taux-pannes-...
A good talk discussing SSD failure rates and mechanisms:
http://intelstudios.edgesuite.net/idf/2010/sf/aep/...
Have any real data to support your claim?
NandFlashGuy - Monday, March 28, 2011 - link
Correcxtion. The FAST paper was from 2007.nonzenze - Monday, March 28, 2011 - link
We were promised Vertex 3 end of March. Didn't happen. At least the Intel 510s are on Newegg ... This review has no mention at all of availability, which I take to be a terrible sign that we won't actually see these in time.Meanwhile it's utterly impossible to plan a build for a new machine with a next-gen SSD because I have no idea when I'll actually be able to order and receive one!
Soft launches suck!
turbodreams - Monday, March 28, 2011 - link
You write "The AS-SSD sequential benchmark takes place at a very high queue depth of 32". This is not correct, as it takes place at QD 1. I asked the author of the benchmark about this, *only* the 4K-64 test uses a higher QD of 64.Anand Lal Shimpi - Monday, March 28, 2011 - link
That's very odd. Perfmon reports a queue depth of 1 however one of our internal monitoring tools indicates a queue depth of 32. I will remove the reference but I'm curious to see what's going on here.Take care,
Anand
WintersEdge - Monday, March 28, 2011 - link
I'm confused. The benchmarks show results for the Crucial M4. Where is the full review for that drive? Did I miss something? Thanks.Shadowmaster625 - Monday, March 28, 2011 - link
$160 for a 74GB SSD? And it is just as slow as the last generation? They are absolutely out of their freakin minds. They're gouging the hell out of their trusting victims. I wont even comment on how awful the 40GB version is, for $90. LOL I just bought an Agility 2 for $90.Chloiber - Tuesday, March 29, 2011 - link
And how happy are you with 35MB/s seq. Write and less than 200 seq. Read?erple2 - Monday, March 28, 2011 - link
What? So you did a hack that Apple doesn't fully support, and expect that if it implodes, you get to complain about it?Really?
I'm disappointed in you, Brian.
overzealot - Tuesday, March 29, 2011 - link
It was a joke. Lighten up.