Tried a Patriot USB 3.0 enclosure, X25-M, W7-64-bit, X58 mobo, USB 3.0 port. Very fast for USB! CrystalDiskMark 197.4/88.0 134.2/86.66 16.86/36.22 Same setup, but running from USB 2.0 port.. 35/31 35/31 8/8 Even from the 2.0 port performance is snappy! With X25-M mounted in either USB 3.0 or 2.0 enclosure and running from USB 2.0 port, performance is the same. ____________________________________ Intel says the new 320 SSD (upgrade to X25-M/V), previously slated for April release, will be available next Monday, March 28. Prices for 80GB, 120GB, and 160GB drives are comparable to X25-M prices. Also available in 300GB and 600GB models.
The demo video from Intel. 21 seconds to reboot. http://newsroom.intel.com/docs/DOC-1551 (demo clip #3) Quite impressive! The price of >$1000 for a 600GB is a little bit out of my reach for the time being. http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=inte...04&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=f1ed7908ea372133
BTW: what do you think the price erosion curve would be for SSD drives? Mark today's Intel SSD 320 series prices as a benchmark. Will come back in a year to see how prices have fallen. 4/3/2011: Intel SSD 320 series: 600GB $1062 300GB $590 160GB $313 80GB $209 40GB $127
You might want to skip the 320 and go for the X25-M G2 instead. In the 320, Intel apparently caved on "small file operations" to favor the greater sizzle of "sequential writes". (According to some, the "sequential" write speed is used only about 1% overall while "small file ops" are used about 50% of the time.) From reviews of the 320 so far, I'm disappointed.... not planning to buy any.
agreed, i have been using about ten X25-M G2 in my trading systems over a year and never had a problem. newegg has some negative reviews on intel's new 510 series and its reliability is questionable. 320 has yet to get sufficient proven user results.
Scataphagos: I am trying to learn these things. Were your Crystal Disk Mark numbers from a X25-M SSD drive? I have an Intel SSD 40GB, model # SSDSA2M040G2GC. Going through the internal SATA cable on a box with Intel i7-930 processor. My Windows 7 64-bit OS reboot takes about 40 seconds. My Crystal Disk Mark scores are: 182.8/44.0 135.8/32.0 22.72/37.75 They seemed to be similar to yours. If I buy an Intel 320 SSD, would you expect these numbers to be much higher? I am trying to have a feel for how much faster the new SSD may be able to offer me.
Response to: BTW: what do you think the price erosion curve would be for SSD drives? Mark today's Intel SSD 320 series prices as a benchmark. Will come back in a year to see how prices have fallen. 4/3/2011 - best guess price 4/2012 Intel SSD 320 series: 600GB $1062 - $795 300GB $590 - $445 160GB $313 - $234 80GB $209 - $155 40GB $127 - $95
Those CDM scores are about right for your X25-V (varies from controller to controller) The new 320's CDM scores run something like... 270/220 175/210 21/43 Whereas CDM scores for X25-M, 160 GB are like.. 265/105 205/100 23/63 For overall performance the most important numbers are "Sequential Read" and "small file read/writes" The overall performance leader currently is the OCZ Vertex 3... in large enough size to take advantage of max parallelism, of course.
An 80 GB X25-M, G2... mounted in a USB 3.0 enclosure, precisely. BTW... an X25-V (40 GB) does NOT work like an X25-M when mounted in a USB enclosure. The "V" is quite slow... much like a 2.0 flash drive. An X25-V as a boot drive is still very good... can be called "outstanding" in RAID 0.