Vertex LE vs Crucial C300

[jcool]

Nice, what sort of pricing did you get them for?
Tempted to get one (& maybe a 2nd later) instead of an x25m 80gb, or one of the other sandforce offerings.

thank-you.

Around 150€ net (+VAT for end users) from Wave Computer Germany.
The X25-M costs around 10€ more (net), but offers higher capacity.

I'll soon find out about 2R0 LE vs 2R0 C300.

I could tell you that 2R0 LE are the fastest drives I've ever tried but that would be unfair as I haven't tried the C300 array yet.

I've got a feeling that it could be a close race, at least using 3Gb/s interface.

I'll share my benchmarks and initial findings by this time tomorrow.

@jcool

Looks like the 50GB SF drives are performing quite nicely.

Personally I prefer small stripes, initially I used my LEs on a 128KB stripe but they are now at a 16KB stripe.
I'll be doing some tests this weekend using 4-8KB stripes on both the LEs and C300s.

Yes, I think so too. Even though I don't notice any real world gains (OS) in performance vs. my single Indilinx drive... maybe it needs a reinstall of Win7 instead of a clone

Something else: I heard from my source at Compustocx that the SF-1200 based drives will get a FW update to unlock more space
50GB will be made a 60GB, 100GB a 120GB and so on - if true that would be awesome