Solid State Drive (SSD) - Review!!!

[NeedMoMegaHurtZ]

Exclusive of VAT?

Hi I'm unsure of international shipping & tax policies to your country. You would have to contact the store.

Here are 2 sites that have Mobi in stock in the USA:

http://www.dvnation.com/nand-flash-ssd.html

http://www.neostore.com/

Cheers

[F.E.A.R.]

In germany we have 19% VAT (in the USA?)

[NeedMoMegaHurtZ]

Canada & USA use sales tax, not VAT.

It's a bit different and it the amount charged varies by state or province.

In California, state tax is 7.25%, but local tax can increase that amount by a bit more.

[dinos22]

crazy fast

shame about pricing and capacity for every day use

[MaSell]

great stuff for OS

[Anemone]

The raptor should have been faster in most of those tests than the Samsung. (burst speed really isn't the end all in most situations)

[tiro_uspsss]

The raptor should have been faster in most of those tests than the Samsung. (burst speed really isn't the end all in most situations)

not really actually - the samsung has perpendicular recording tech - so it'll have (& always has had) slightly better MB/s.. but its still behind when it comes to access times

[tiro_uspsss]

crazy fast

shame about pricing and capacity for every day use

i guess it depends on how much u've spent on fast storage in the past

my i-ram + 4GB ram cost me ~AUD$400.. a Mtron 16GB from ebay will set me back ~AUD$420.. almost same as i-ram, but with 4x capacity (& almost exact same performance)! very tempting

[Emerica]

Wow, if only they were cheaper!

[Holmer]

F.E.A.R. I noticed in another thread you orderd one (or more) OCZ 2.5" SATA II SSD (http://geizhals.at/deutschland/a322501.html). Have you recieved it? Please give a brief review when you do. I am very close to order one from K&M Elektronik (they ship to Denmark as well) but I would love to hear your (or someone else) first hand impressions first.

Thanks a lot

[Anemone]

I'll say again, if you are just benching (transfer rate) the Samsung is fine. Day to day use, access time makes a world of difference to most folks.

Should have at least tested it on the "general use" test.

[johnp1983]

SSD FTW...

I can't wait prices go a little bit down.

[F.E.A.R.]

crazy fast

shame about pricing and capacity for every day use

At the moment i´m using XP x86 on a 24/7-System. Working with SSD is very smooth. This brings much more performance as the biggest CPU-Upgrade
For normaly using you need only 1 SSD (MTRON Mobi 3000). The boot-time an appslLoading with more than 100MB/s. is not faster (only extracting archives/copying and very complex apps).

The SSD-Community in germany and in france is big. I don´t understand why not in the great USA???

http://www.forumdeluxx.de/forum/showthread.php?t=427495 (F.E.A.R. = Snoopy69 )

http://www.nokytech.net/forum/showthread.php?t=106705

F.E.A.R. I noticed in another thread you orderd one (or more) OCZ 2.5" SATA II SSD (http://geizhals.at/deutschland/a322501.html). Have you recieved it? Please give a brief review when you do. I am very close to order one from K&M Elektronik (they ship to Denmark as well) but I would love to hear your (or someone else) first hand impressions first.

Thanks a lot

I have canceld the OCZ. It´s better to wait after the Cebit 2008

[Holmer]

I have canceld the OCZ. It´s better to wait after the Cebit 2008

Thanks, please elaborate. Cebit 2008 is over, I know Mtron have a 240/220 MB/s SATAII SSD on the way (you initially leaked the info and I have heard the same by a German Mtron distributer) but do you know more exactly when? (I guess this is the thing to wait for or?).

I appreciate your info.

[tiborrr]

Here's my 2GB CF SSD (Sandisk Extreme IV) with appropriate SATA2 adapter. Quite expensive though, 55€ for CF card, another 10€ for the adapter. But is sure fast!

[over@locker886]

Here's my 2GB CF SSD (Sandisk Extreme IV) with appropriate SATA2 adapter. Quite expensive though, 55€ for CF card, another 10€ for the adapter. But is sure fast!

Please share the performance here or PM! I thinking to buy CF card+ adapter, but I don't know real performance! Thanks

[F.E.A.R.]

Thanks, please elaborate. Cebit 2008 is over, I know Mtron have a 240/220 MB/s SATAII SSD on the way (you initially leaked the info and I have heard the same by a German Mtron distributer) but do you know more exactly when? (I guess this is the thing to wait for or?).

I appreciate your info.

240/180/MB/s. - not 240/220MB/s.
I heard Q3/2008 (maybe earlier)...

Which distributer do you mean - http://www.winkom.eu/?
Winkom.eu ist the chief agency of MTRON for germany

I translate this by goggle...

Since October 2007, the company Winkom Alpirsbach in the European general agent for the Korean memory manufacturer MTRON.

The central logistics of WINKOM is in Frascati / Roma Italy.
In addition to the SSD drives, we also sell LCD monitors, Internet TVs, HD-media recorders, touch panels, as well as security solutions for surveillance cameras to monitors.
With its sister company Blue H-Germany is a private label.

@ tiborrr

Which accesstimes? (HDtune or HDtach)

[Holmer]

240/180/MB/s. - not 240/220MB/s.
I heard Q3/2008 (maybe earlier)...

Which distributer do you mean - http://www.winkom.eu/?
Winkom.eu ist the chief agency of MTRON for germany

I translate this by goggle...

Thanks very interesting. Yes it is Winkom.eu. I got the following offer from them:
MTRON MSD3025-032 € 479,-
MTRON MSP7035-032 € 659,-

the prices are incl. VAT + shipping (17 Euro to Denmark).
I have not found it cheaper elsewhere and service seems great, I guess you may have better contacts or is that reasonable prices?
I was close to buying the OCZ SATA II but was reminded that it uses MLC flash memory and therefore I am back and few clicks from ordering a Mtron MSD3025-032. I even bought a 790i-based motherboard to avoid the limitations with the Mtron disks with the Intel ICH9R controller.

[F.E.A.R.]

Thanks very interesting. Yes it is Winkom.eu. I got the following offer from them:
MTRON MSD3025-032 € 479,-
MTRON MSP7035-032 € 659,-

the prices are incl. VAT + shipping (17 Euro to Denmark).
I have not found it cheaper elsewhere and service seems great, I guess you may have better contacts or is that reasonable prices?
I was close to buying the OCZ SATA II but was reminded that it uses MLC flash memory and therefore I am back and few clicks from ordering a Mtron MSD3025-032. I even bought a 790i-based motherboard to avoid the limitations with the Mtron disks with the Intel ICH9R controller.

This is a very good price - buy them
Normaly you pay these prices WITHOUT shipping...

http://geizhals.at/deutschland/?cat=...+&pixonoff=off


Many users in our Forum (HWluxx) order their SSDs from Winkom.
Winkom order your SSDs directly from Italy and send them in ~7 days to you

[saaya]

uhmmmm windows boot time with the 160gb hdd was 3:28 min
wth man?

[F.E.A.R.]

Many, many little programs - and more

My Power-User-Desktop



PS: Spricht und schreibst du auch deutsch? (i see germany)

[ZOMGVTEK]

Uhh..

yea.... that might help explain it.

[ZOMGVTEK]

Here's my 2GB CF SSD (Sandisk Extreme IV) with appropriate SATA2 adapter. Quite expensive though, 55€ for CF card, another 10€ for the adapter. But is sure fast!
http://shrani.si/f/3R/oZ/4QmcbrDM/dsc0444.jpg

I just got 4 of those adaptors, should be here in about 2 weeks. I need to read some reviews to find 4 cf cards that will suit my needs.

I would like to see your results with a single card.
Got any hdtach or hdtune screen shots?

[F.E.A.R.]

The new Memoright-SSDs...

http://www.hardwareluxx.de/story.php?id=7288

http://www.forumdeluxx.de/forum/show...postcount=3036

http://www.forumdeluxx.de/forum/show...postcount=3038

[Holmer]

This is a very good price - buy them
Normaly you pay these prices WITHOUT shipping...

I ordered one 32GB Mtron Mobi at Winkom, they shipped it friday and I recieved it tuesday. It is working like a charm and the boot time and responsiveness is just There is no detection delay or 80 MB/s speed cap on the 790i chipset (read 104 MB/s) and I just love it.