New MTRON SSD

[m^2]

South Korea-based Mtron has decided to ignite the solid state drive market this summer so it has now announce a new series of drives. The PRO 7500 SSDs come in both 2.5 and 3.5-inch form factors, are targeted at the enterprise market and feature SATA 3.0 Gbps interfaces. Featuring built-in 7-bit Error Correction Code (ECC), the upcoming drives can brag with some top transfer speeds - 130 MB/s and 120 MB/s when reading and writing respectively.

http://www.tcmagazine.com/comments.p...=19836&catid=2
http://www.mtron.net/English/Product/ec_msp7500.asp

[One_Hertz]

cool, maybe the "old" ones will drop in $ now.

[XS Janus]

seems like we are stuck at <150mb/s :/

[DFI pit bull]

Good, higher transfer speeds and sataII, I now want another company to go even higher, 150mb/s perhaps, and then after that I may buy an ssd drive, I hope prices go down as my raptors are starting to show their age.

[m^2]

FusionIO clams 700MB/s AFAIR.

[Helmore]

FusionIO clams 700MB/s AFAIR.

I'm not willing to sell a house just for that.....

[GAR]

cant wait till prices drop

[irev210]

considering that SSD's have a linear performance increase when in a RAID config, makes sense to buy more small ones heh

[Buckeye]

Ha ! I am on the waiting list for a FusionIO 160 GB atm

[Zytek_Fan]

I'll buy a few Micron ones when the prices are more acceptable...

[irev210]

I'll buy a few Micron ones when the prices are more acceptable...

definitely, viva MLC NAND!

prices should come down quick

[Afterburner]

What happened to Supertalent's (or was it Adata) range of 190mb/s read SDDs @ Cebit...

Intel has promised SSDs of this speed or possibly higher by this year IIRC...

[Seraphiel]

I would personally have purchased one or two SSD by now, if it wasn't for the feeling that, it would be like purchasing a Pentium 4A, with C2D right around the corner (a year or two).

The devices should* improve dramatically in a very short time, along with the I/O side of things.

*should being the keyword. The current prices aren't far from just using piling DDR2 SD-RAM chips together in a package with battery support, and having bandwidth and latency that makes these current devices a moot point.

That is possible today, and the price is quite good compared to SSD storage AFAIK.

[dinos22]

Good timing from gigabyte
they are integrating dual hardware Raid Controllers on their P45 motherboards

i wish i was rich to afford these SSD things hahaha

[zanzabar]

What happened to Supertalent's (or was it Adata) range of 190mb/s read SDDs @ Cebit...

Intel has promised SSDs of this speed or possibly higher by this year IIRC...

i think that those were SLC and no1 makes those ics anymore so u cant make a drive out of them

[NH|Delph1]

i think that those were SLC and no1 makes those ics anymore so u cant make a drive out of them

Where have you read that? SuperTalent's latest SSD family consisted of one series using MLC and one using SLC.

Why would they stop producing SLC when it has superior performance? MLC is cheaper, but it's also substantially slower.

//Andreas

[xlink]

considering that SSD's have a linear performance increase when in a RAID config, makes sense to buy more small ones heh

harddrives have nearly linear performance increases.

[iboomalot]

interesting question take a high speed 16 gig flash stick and raid like 20 of them together ???

A-data 16G 50.00 each * 20 = $1,000 for 320GB and with that much paralleling should have killer transfer speeds


Just a thought

[largon]

zanzabar,
I don't see SLC being discontinued as Memorights new "MTRON-killer" uses Samsung 64Gbit SLC (K9NCG08U5M)...

iboomalot,
With what controller would one create a RAID array out of 20 thumbdrives?

[JamesAvery22]

zanzabar,
I don't see SLC being discontinued as Memorights new "MTRON-killer" uses Samsung 64Gbit SLC (K9NCG08U5M)...

iboomalot,
With what controller would one create a RAID array out of 20 thumbdrives?

CF cards are just IDE devices. CF -> IDE drive adapters are cheap. Doesnt matter though because you wont have the algorithm that "evens out" the writes to all the blocks. You'll have the first few flash drives die.




The amount of manufacturers that make SSDs dont control the prices. The NAND manufacturers do.

http://www.dramexchange.com/#fprice

Until those prices change SSD prices wont change

[Levish]

interesting question take a high speed 16 gig flash stick and raid like 20 of them together ???

A-data 16G 50.00 each * 20 = $1,000 for 320GB and with that much paralleling should have killer transfer speeds


Just a thought

You are forgetting the cost of 2x really good raid controllers to handle 20 drives (since there aren't many controllers that support more than 12x drives per adapter but you can do raid volume spanning over 2x adapters depending on the adapters).

[XS2K]

Well his ideea is good,let's replace 20 with 10 devices @ 200X (~30mb/s) you should get 80 gig's of fast storage @ a relatively low cost or if you want smth faster 10 UDMA Delkin 2GB @ 350X for ~400$

[NeedMoMegaHurtZ]

This is a good trend, prices are dropping

The 32GB Mtron Pro MSP-7000 is $805 (from $1100 last week) at neostore.com (dvnation still has it >$1000)

Maybe Buckeye you can get a partial refund for your 8xMtrons that you recently purchased?

[Buckeye]

Hey good idea. Let see if they have a Step Up program like EVGA

I am getting

Different readings from different programs.
HD Tach reports about 825 MB/s
HD Tune reports about 650 MB/s
Everest reports a nice stable 873 MB/s

Still working on tweaking it.

But it's OMG so fast it's not funny

[Jimmer411]

Bring on the hybid HDDs already. SSD are way too overpriced its not even funny.