Chris Ram Signature Edtion SLC SSDs Ready to Ship - SuperSSpeed S301 but with a Twist

[Highendtoys]

http://www.mydigitaldiscount.com/mydigitalssd-128gb-2.5-inch-supersspeed-sata-iii-6g-slc-sandforce-ssd/

The world's fastest consumer SSD is now in the US. I know several of you were wanting one of these SuperSSpeed SLC drives.

[Nathanial]

What's this like compared to the Samsung 830 & Crucial M4?

[Zaxx]

It'll smoke them both...;)

Here's the SS301 review...

http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/4790/supersspeed_s301_hyper_slc_120gb_solid_state_drive _review/index.html

[Highendtoys]

That review was written when TRIM was broken. I didn't do any SE cycles to clean the drive. TRIM is now working, the drive is shipping with 5.0.3, the TRIM fix firmware. I'll have an article posted in two days, my drive gets here tomorrow. I have the benchmarks from the standard drive with 5.0.3 and it is quite a bit faster with TRIM working. It's just like the Force GS article I wrote with and without TRIM working, around 20% to 30% higher in most real world tests.

Also, I want to test this drive with the new 11.6 drivers. 11.6 is the fastest RST we've seen yet and increases the 50% capacity speed by a lot, around 5K Marks in Vantage (at 50% full state).

Here are the 11.2 numbers with 5.0.3, light use state (i.e. TRIM has been working through several full user capacity tests). This is the first SF SSD to get back into the 80Ks with 5.0.3 or 5.0.4. We will have FW 5.0.5 as soon as it's ready. 505 is a mix between 502 and 504, a performance increase release.

These numbers are on a GBT Z77 UD5, 11.2 drivers, stock OROM and set to AHCI. Bill Gates will have much higher numbers with his MSI board set to RAID with RST 11.6 and the modified OROM. Either way, this is the first true enthusiast SSD since the Vertex SE.


HDD Test Suite 82055.00
HDD 1 367.97
HDD - Windows Defender 367.972 MB/s
HDD 2 356.03
HDD - gaming 356.026 MB/s
HDD 3 441.92
HDD - importing pictures to Windows Photo Gallery 441.919 MB/s
HDD 4 397.57
HDD - Windows Vista startup 397.567 MB/s
HDD 5 352.15
HDD - video editing using Windows Movie Maker 352.154 MB/s
HDD 6 467.05
HDD - Windows Media Center 467.048 MB/s
HDD 7 326.67
HDD - adding music to Windows Media Player 326.672 MB/s
HDD 8 368.76
HDD - application loading 368.763 MB/s

[Zaxx]

Those 120's will sell out quick once the word spreads. I'm hoping that eventually the SS 60GB will make it's way to the states. If I can get a pair for raid0 then I'll go ahead and get a Z77 mobo for the trim...doesn't look like Intel is gonna make r0 trim available for my Z68. Prix...:shakes:

[Highendtoys]

The 60s will be here soon. I have a feel that as soon as my drives sell SuperSSpeed will hit the US market hard:) I think you should buy two of the 128GB drives though :)

[Zaxx]

I'd like a pair of 120s too...just not in the finances atm. I may have to get one at a time like I did with my 4 V2s which will find their way to eBay soon.

[Computurd]

SLC goodness! Oh my :)

[Highendtoys]

SuperSSpeed will have the SLC drives for sale right after my 50 sell out. You'll be able to get them when you are ready. I'd get what you have for sale now though because it's not like there is an endless supply of SLC flash at this price.

[Brother Esau]

Crap! I just bought my first SSD after waiting 4 years for the hardware to mature and get stable. I wish I had of know about these before I bought the Intel SSD as I do a lot of trans coding and encoding with music files.

Was not aware of the incompressible data thing with SSD Drives until after I had bought one and started reading up on them. When money permits, I will get 2 of the 128gb drives to run in Raid 0 .

Does Super Speed have any intentions of making a larger capacity model?

[F@32]

It'll smoke them both...;)

Here's the SS301 review...

http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/4790/supersspeed_s301_hyper_slc_120gb_solid_state_drive _review/index.html

Crucial M4 looks suspiciously low on AS SSD bench... I would like s301 compared to 840/840 Pro. Any way, it is nice for benchers, but regular PC use will see no difference. I would go with Samsung just because of their reliability track record.

Ah, wait... here we go. Different capacities, but similar price points.
840 Pro 256Gb
http://www.custompcreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/crystal-disk-mark-samsung-840-pro-series-256gb-ssd-custom-pc-review.jpg

s301 128Gb
http://www.mydigitaldiscount.com/design_images/bench_test/mdssd25sss/128gbsss25dm.jpg

[Zaxx]

The real question is how will the 840 perform when 50% full? 75%? Samsung didn't send samples to any reviewers who test drives with data on them, just the ones who test drives empty after having had a fresh secure erase to yield the highest speeds. I think you'll find that the SF w/ SLC will be nearly unaffected by being 'dirty' and half full (or more) which is much closer to 'real world' use. We 'use' our drives...they always have data on them and they almost never have new, freshly cleaned nand to use and a review that doesn't cover that aspect isn't giving a true example of what the end user will see. This is just my opinion though it's shared by many. It just makes total sense to me.

edit: Fwiw, MLC drives can't touch the low queue depth numbers that the SS cranks out. Low queue depth performance is much more pertinent to the end user vs. the high depth of 32. Enterprise does actually need/use high queue performance given their usual heavy loads.

On a related note, performance in a dirty state with data is why I chose the Intel 520 vs a zillion other SF based drives. Intel's custom re-written firmware and top binned nand allows it to out perform the others. It was the #1 SF drive until this beast hit the stage. That's ok...it'll make a great work/scratch drive once I have a pair of SS 60GB SLCs in raid0 as a system drive.

[Brother Esau]

Yes to the statement above,and more does not necessarily mean better!

[Highendtoys]

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