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G.skill unleashes Falcon series SSD
MEMORY MANUFACTURER G.Skill has launched its latest piece of kit, the Falcon SATA II 2.5", an MLC-based Solid State Drive (SSD) Series complete with Korean based Indilink's controller.
G.Skill reckons its Falcon series sporting a 64MB DRAM buffer scores [shurely 'soars with' - Ed.] "the best read/write performance stability" in its words, because it doesn't cause any OS stutter, whatever that is. The Falcon series has apparently been hatched in three different capacities - 64GB, 128GB and 256GB.
G.Skill claims that the 128GB and 256GB drives have a read/write performance of230/190 MB/Sec, whilst it says the 64GB drives are capable of 230/135 MB/Sec.
The Taiwanese memory maker also posits its SSDs have a good 1.5 million hour mean time before failure (MTBF) rating, and also mentions that they come with a worldwide two-year warranty, just in case. µ
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Phoenms are bits or parts of word, one word hackked out many, even dozens of times, becomes stutering. probably O/S stutter could be something that is hard to replicate, so None? would ordinarliy have such stutter & operate at All? People are so tricky with words.Maybe O/S resides More on DDR Menory Once Boot Up is complete, thus Does that SSD actually Reduce likelyhood of O/S Stuttering, compared to other SSD Units?.Stutter is Term Read in Forgeiners Review of SSD Units Having Such Losey Performance Tested as Actual Data In/Output.Maybe got fingers stuck in typewriter keys?Haha HA,Ahaahah ah. Ult,Ult,Ultee' ee'. drashek
Go read the article below for enlightment on what stutter is about. It is actually a BIG problem on SSDs and one you should base your purchase upon:
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3531
Astro
You need to remember non of the gen2 SSD's stutter, infact none of the gen 1 ones that Anand hates with a passion do when you use a 3rd party write filter such as zFlashpoint within XP32.
Also i have adaptec raid 2405 here which shows a max access latency of 7 secs under IOmeter under the right conditions...yet it has never stuttered within an OS at all...So IOmeter has a lot to answer for also.
Blindly believing what you see on the net is not good, test yourself, see what can be done and explore the limits of OS's built to operate under HDD not SSD.
http://zflashpoint.blogspot.com/ is a good place to start, a simple few lines of code brings a gen1 ssd upto gen2 ssd performance
Beware, these drives have serious multitasking problems:
http://www.gskill.us/forum/showthread.php?t=676
@bigtoe does flashpoint work?
(sorry I have no ssd right now so cant test).
@Multitax in the forum a tech guy answer:
"multi-task is the drawback of current MLC SSD. [...]there is nothing we can do about it because it is hardware/tech limitation."
lol... go say that to intel's ssd...
How do you known that guy is talking about a Falcon SSD? According to this article, it uses the new Indilix controller which anadtech just vetted and proved to be a good performer.
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3535
yaknow, i just wanna give a shoutout to all yall hacks at the site - givin us the best of your heart! keep up the awesome work, we're spreading your fame to the last 4 ppl who dont know!
There's no room for SATA emulation when it comes to performance.
Fusion IO already ships cards that do 1.2G/s by putting the FlashRAM right on a PCIe card. No lame SATA emulation in the way. And yes, you can RAID them.