SSD 64 Gb voor 133 euro

Post by **TANE** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 4:00 pm

http://www.1dayfly.com/

Post by **MindBender** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 4:03 pm

Transcend TS64GSSD25S-M <b>(MLC)</b>
Cheap, yet unreliable. Get an SLC instead if your data is valuable to you.

Post by **TANE** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 4:06 pm

heb je ervaring met deze?

Post by **MindBender** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 4:21 pm

Not with this disk, but I have a LOT of experience with NAND flash storage. I have implemented algorithms to deal with the down sides of NAND and I have developed tests to determine the reliability of SD-Cards (incorporating NAND flash).
MLC NAND flash has exponentially more complex problems to solve than SLC NAND flash. But MLC is much cheaper becuase it stores multiple bits (2..5) in one memory cell, yielding more storage capacity per square milimeter of silicon. For a photo camera that fills a card sequentially and erases it at once, this is not much of a problem. And one corrupt photo of the thousands you make probably isn't much of a problem. But in a computer it's a different story.

Only two controller manufacturers seem to be able to manufacture 100% reliable cards based on MLC technology.

Post by **TANE** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 4:30 pm

one of them is Intel.
Intel is at the moment still not available and what will be the price?

I can't find any negative review about this drive..

This is the same drive.
http://computershopper.com/hard-drives- ... tate-drive

..more the 19 hours to go maybe i will give try..including shipment for 133 is not bad.

Post by **Bwired** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 9:20 pm

You should not only look at reliability but also to speed, there are a lot of SSD drives who are not performing on read write and even traditional Sata drives can be faster. On google you can find a lot of reviews, the better and faster SSD driver are also costing some more!

Post by **MindBender** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 9:50 pm

Intel has recently re-entered the market for NAND flash, after a period of absence. I don't have any experience with their flash devices, but the problems are usually in the controller (and its firmware). I don't know about Intel making their own controllers. It's probably a 3rd party.

Besides poor reliability, MLC technology is much slower than SLC technology. But performance is also depending on the number of flash devices used and how their are interleaved (for parallelism).

If you want reliability, get yourself a SanDisk Extreme CompactFlash card with and IDE convertor. For an experiment, 133 Euro isn't the end of the world I suppose.

Post by **TANE** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 11:29 am

Ik heb een besteld om te kijken wat de mogelijkheden zijn.