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The Crucial 256GB m4 SSD comes now with an improved firmware and we now get read speeds up to 500MB/s sequential. Compared to the SandForce offerings, the m4 comes with a good price/performance ratio, so we could afford getting higher capacity SSDs. The tested model also comes with a Data Transfer Kit composed of hardware (USB to SATA adapter) and software (EZ GIG IV Cloning Software).
There has never been such a wide selection of solid state drives available on the market before from so many different manufacturers. This can make it confusing for some consumers, when it comes to deciding on a purchase. KitGuru spend a lot of time looking at the latest performance SSDs like the Patriot Wildfire and OCZ Vertex 3 Max IOPS, but many people are willing to compromise a little on performance, to save some cash.
Our report today is going to examine the Patriot Pyro SE SATA 3 SSD. The Patriot Pyro SE (Special Edition) is the big brother of the Patriot Pyro SSD that we reviewed a few months back. The difference between the Pyro and the Pyro SE is that the Pyro SE that we are reviewing today utilizes premium synchronous NAND flash memory whereas the Pyro contained more value conscious asynchronous memory modules. At the end of the day, the Pyro SE is the true performer of the family while the Pyro has a lower price.
I have to admit that at first I wasn't really sure why Patriot would release the synchronous flash Pyro SE. At the start of 2011 Patriot announced and then delivered their 32nm Toshiba Toggle NAND drive for the high end, Wildfire. Then in an effort to claim some market share from the upper mainstream segment, Patriot released their Pyro SSD with IMFT asynchronous flash. Patriot's two tier approach kept things nice and tidy at a time when other manufacturers were releasing three product segments, a drive right in the middle with synchronous IMFT flash.
Thanks to an updated energy-efficient 2.0GHz ARM Processor by Marvell paired with a total of 512MB of DDR3 RAM and available storage capacity of up to 12TB (currently) the latest TurboNAS TS-419P II NAS server by QNAP has both the muscle and capacity to even go up against far more expensive solutions.
Voltage gated Ca++ channel. Synaptic vesicle. Neurotransmitter. Reuptake pump. Postsynaptic density. Receptor. Connexon connexin monomer. Plasma membranes. Intercellular space. Hydrophilic channel. If you are in Electrical Engineering like me, and never really gotten around to studying anything in biology past high school, the first that comes to your mind is probably the title of one of my favorite textbooks not exactly written by Dr. Seuss. It goes along the line of, "What the fudge is this crap?" (I'll let you make your own word substitutions when searching for it in Google Images, haha). So to make things fair, in the unlikely event that we have a medical doctor among us reading this introduction right now with absolutely no background in computers, let me introduce you to a few terms from our end of the world. OCZ Technology. SandForce SF-2281. Micron 29F64G08CBAAA 25nm NAND flash. 50% over provisioning. Dataplex caching software. That's right. How do you feel now? In all seriousness, with the definition of 'synapse' well defined in two different contexts, the OCZ Synapse is one crucially interesting product that we simply cannot miss out. Designed for anyone running Windows 7, no requirement for Intel Smart Response on the Z68 chipset thanks to its included Dataplex caching software, is this a solution that can truly turbocharge your PC's storage performance that combines the storage capacity of an HDD with the speed of an SSD? Let's get down on some benchmarks!
Um große Datenmengen, wie z.B. Images des heimischen Computers, transportieren oder extern lagern zu können, musste man vor einiger Zeit noch auf Festplatten zurückgreifen. USB-Sticks waren waren meist zu langsam und vor allem auch zu teuer, wenn es um hohe Kapazitäten ging. Mit der Einführung von USB3.0 und dem anhaltenden Preisverfall bei Flash-Bausteinen kommen aber immer mehr USB-Sticks mit hohen Kapazitäten zu einem relativ günstigen Preis auf den Markt. Vor einiger Zeit stellten wir bereits erste Vertreter vor, welche auf die USB3.0-Schnittstelle setzen. In unserem heutigen Vergleich konzentrieren wir uns nur auf USB-Sticks, welche die neue Schnittstelle nutzen und schauen, wie sich diese untereinander unterscheiden. Dazu haben wir insgesamt fünf der Speichersticks von Adata, Kingston und Silicon Power mit Kapazitäten von 16 und 64 Gigabyte auf den Zahn gefühlt. Was bei unseren Tests herauskam, erfahrt ihr auf den folgenden Seiten.
Dass der Marvell 88SS9174 SSD-Controller zu einem der stabilsten SSD-Controller seiner Zunft gehört, ist ein offenes Geheimnis, auch wenn natürlich viel von der jeweiligen Firmware abhängt. Darüber hinaus gehört er in Verbindung mit den richtigen Zutaten sprich Flashchips, ARM Prozessoren auch zu schnellsten. Insofern ist es keine Überraschung, das mittlerweile von fast jedem namenhaften Retail-Lieferanten eine entsprechende SSD mit dieser Basis existiert.
Da mittlerweile auch Corsair und Plextor auf dieses Pferd setzen, haben wir uns kurzfristig dazu entschlossen, die Performance Pro von Corsair und die M3 von Plextor durch unseren Testparcour zu schicken, um möglicherweise weitere Empfehlungen aussprechen zu können. Bevor Mißverständnisse aufkommen, in Europa existiert nur die M3 von Plextor, die M3S ist für den amerikanischen Markt vorbehalten und es ist derzeit fraglich, ob sie noch den Weg über den großen Teich nach Europa finden wird. Aber das soll uns nicht weiter tangieren, beide SSDs kommen mit Toshiba Toogle-NAND Flashbausteinen, wobei Plextor schon auf die 24nm Fertigung setzt und Corsair noch die 32nm Fertigung bevorzugt. Da dies neben dem unterschiedlichen Buffer (Corsair 256MB, Plextor 128MB, bezogen auf die 128GB SSDs) schon den einzige Unterschied neben einer selbstverständlich differierenden Firmware darstellt, waren wir sehr gespannt, ob sich im Test überhaupt gravierende Unterschiede aufzeigen lassen. Die Plextor M3 SSD stammt übrigens von einem Online Händler unserer Wahl, ihr wißt ja, das wir gerne mal stichprobenhaft die realen Angebote der Hersteller prüfen. Aber genug der Präambel, jetzt wünschen wir euch viel Spaß mit unserem neuesten SSD-Doppel Review...
Our Samsung 830 sample has some trick components, kind of like a race version of a street car. There aren't any titanium valves or exhaust, but the 830 does give us our first look at 20nm flash. The flash is of course made by Samsung and doesn't conform to traditional ONFi standards, but it is Toggle Mode and very fast. I suspect it won't be too much longer before we start to see other SSD manufactures taking a closer look at Samsung 20nm flash for their SSD products built on other SSD controllers. The last time we saw a SandForce SSD with Samsung flash was on the G.Skill Phoenix 100GB and that flash was left over from the Indilinx Barefoot era.
Also new for us is the Samsung controller with three ARM cores. The controller connects to your system via SATA III (backwards compatible with SATA I and SATA II) so it's able to break the 285MB/s limits of SATA II when used with a native SATA III chipset. We've seen Samsung controllers in the past, some of the first SSD products we reviewed were based on Samsung controllers and they were very stable and very fast for their day. Since that time Samsung has played a large role in the OEM market providing whole products to all the major players.
Intel's 'Cherryville' 520 Series SSDs are here, packing heat with SandForce SF-2281 controllers and custom firmware. We received a pair of 240GB drives to throw on our test bench and report our findings. With nearly a year to develop the firmware, will the 520 Series become the new gold standard for SSDs or just another drive in the SandForce pile? Read on to see.
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