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Crucial launches a 64GB high-speed SSD
MEMORY MAKER Micron Technologies' subsidiary Lexar Media has released a high-speed SSD under its Crucial line, and it's priced right for those without much cash to splash.
For a little over £120, the 64GB Crucial RealSSD C300 is now available. Supporting SATA3 6Gb/sec and backwards compatible with SATA2 3Gb/sec, it has quoted read speeds of up to 355MB/sec and write speeds of up to 75MB/sec. It comes in a 2.5-inch form factor.
Lexar Media also offers 128GB and 256GB SSD models for around £300 and £600, respectively, so the 64GB unit looks to be much more affordable, especially as it uses the same NAND flash memory.
It is designed with high-speed MLC NAND, advanced controller technology and optimised NAND management. SSD drives generally are quieter, cooler and more durable than mechanical hard drives, but at the moment they are generally much more expensive.
"This aggressively priced 64GB C300 drive makes SSD technology more affordable than ever, delivers durability for mobile computing, and makes it a compelling boot drive for desktop PCs," said Robert Wheadon of Lexar Media.
With the improvement in boot time and application load times, this SSD could improve the performance of whatever you're looking to use it for. It has a standard hard drive interface and dimensions, so it should be easy to use in most desktops and even notebooks. µ
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I have a samsung 64gb 1st generation SSD on my current laptop and I must say that it feels like a different machine. I never tried it with windows but Ubuntu with some tweaking runs a dream and I wouldnt go back to a magnetic disk.
You pay your money, but its worth it, so very worth it.
I believe that the C300 has a 215 MBytes/sec write speed - it was the C200 that was 70Mbytes/sec.
This looks like a fantastic drive with only the price letting it down. I think there'll be a huge SSD revolution when the price hits one pound per gigabyte - at that point, it makes sense for OEMs to ship two drives with any new PC: an SSD for the system disk and a, say, 2TB HDD for data.
I will buy an SSD the second that this C300 performance is available for 1 pound per gigabyte. It does seem strange to me, though, that no-one is producing 3.5" SSDs, necessitating buying a 2.5-3.5" tray (not expensive - typically 7-8 quid) for desktop PCs. Perhaps when the price does halve, SSD manufacturers will produce 3.5" versions as well?
Nice price, nice capacity (great for OS drive), nice read speed, but 75MB/s max writes? ........ Are you kidding me?
Pffft!
Companies aren't giving more capacity per dollar ? Are we both reading the same article ?
Prices for SSDs have been coming down & capacities have been going up. How does that not translate to lower cost per GB ? Moving to the next 20-something nanometer process will offer even more density and lower prices.
oh, about 18 months ago, commentosd' that SSD Developes STUTTER Due to 3 Volt Being underlying Voltage of HDD system, which SSD Is Part of. Once, Long time ago, Volatile Memory was 3.3 Volt also, So Hold Over. Advocated New Plugs & conroller.Now Lab has developed 1.8 Volt SSD that can handle hdd/sdd interface with BOOST Tech:
Toshiba working on boosting SSD write speeds to 4.2Gbps Lowers or
Raises? Voltage to Todays Volatile memory Voltageby changing Capacitors, apparently. DEVELOPING Is Key Word. So Keep Faith. Bet Could Hit 4.6 GB/s inSata III. Really pushing Outer Limits.
People Laugh, STUTTER, well first SSD where SAD 50 Kb/s, even though ads stated much more, finally hit MB/s & Intel pushed Envelope to Blazing 30 MB/S, Many flash drives do incredible 3 MB/s Still. So new unit by Tosh, RErincarnation of Robert Nester Marley Appears in Night, then Incredible.Has 24 Channels to Work, while Most today are ~3 or one. ugh.
Figures Ten Times More Channels, Ten TimesSpeedo. Same with Volatile, DDR3 Needs 3 Channels to Work, ALL Filled with Stick o mem. RED'r Will Need that Speed.
Selling theENGLISH, Channel.
drashek
SSDs are getting faster and faster. My RAID0 array made of two 60GB OCZ Vertex drives does about 420MB/s read and now this single C300 is coming close to that figure.
However, I think that the most important attribute remains low access time and high IOPS. Most consumers don't understand this and they'll likely be wooed by higher transfer rates instead. Sad.
It's quite disappointing how SSDs are progressing. Companies are giving consumers SSDs with more features and speed per dollar but not more capacity per dollar (the traditional value metric).
so thats £2 per gigabyte
conventional drives are about 5p per gigabyte
will SSDs ever be reasonably priced? only if lots of people buy them
looks like SSDs are trapped in a vicious circle
manufacturers are really pushing the speed difference as the main reason for buying one but there arent may people with that kind of dough to squander in thie economic climate