OCZ CORE SERIES MLC SSD Testing

[guess2098]

OCZ Core Series MLC SSD Review

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OCZ offers the cheapest MLC SSD in the market as 7/24/2008. It is about half the price of same capacity SLC SSD. This SSD purchased from mwave.com, price after MIR is $270 tax included. Offical SPEC is 64GB MLC SSD with 120-140MB/s read and 84-93MB/s write.
however, since it is MLC SSD, it should be only 60GB. (MLC have 30, 60, 120, 240GB and SLC have 16, 32, 64, 128, or 2^n GB)

HARDWARE TEST SETUP
CPU: INTEL QX9650 4.45GHZ 445x10 1.575v
MOTHERBOARD: ASUS RAMPAGE FORUMLA X48
MEMORY: GSKILL F2-9600CL5D-4GBPI ----------------- REVIEW (http://www.iamxtreme.net/showthread.php?p=31#post31)
VIDEO CARD: DIAMOND 4870x2 ------------- REVIEW (http://www.iamxtreme.net/showthread.php?p=32#post32)
HDD: OCZ CORE SERIES 64GB MLC SSD
POWER: TT TOUGH POWER 1200W


SOFTWARE TEST SETUP
OS: WINDOWS VISTA 32bit
Benchmark: ATTO, HDTune 2.5, CrystalDiskMark



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[THX1138]

Whats the difference between MLC and SLC other than size ? Thank you for the info.

[metro.cl]

Whats the difference between MLC and SLC other than size ? Thank you for the info.


Speed and reliability

Lucky Denny could you run HD Tach?

[saaya]

can you compare it to another ssd or hdd?
how about windows startup and game loading times? :D

[Whokidmo]

Speed and reliability

I'm sorry but I respectfully disagree
http://www.dailytech.com/Samsung+Set+to+Introduce+200MBsec+Read+160MBsec+Wr ite+256GB+SSD/article11883.htm
http://www.dailytech.com/Samsung+128GB+MLC+SSDs+in+Mass+Production/article12319.htm

MLC is fairly new technology but we've begun harnessing the power and are advancing it. Maybe before you would have been right... Not today's world though.

[Peakr]

Like to see some raid0 numbers as well. On intel controllers and add in cards please.

[Computerville]

Bench "HD Tach" please!