Intel 320 SSD aka G3

[Anvil]

Yeah, I really like the 160GB drives, perfect for a lot of scenarios and the price is right imo.

@Brahmzy
They've just released the V3 specs, the V3 120GB is really down on read iops vs the 240GB, actually it's down vs a lot of drives.
Link to OCZ
Looks like the 240GB is the minimum capacity for eXtreme users
I've got one of the 120GBs on order and I'm sticking to the order, price is equal to the 320 Series 160GB atm.

v3_performance.PNG
"¹ To achieve maximum performance specifications a native 6Gbps controller is suggested"
"2 Maximum Sequential Speeds are determined using ATTO"
"³ Small file I/O performance is measured using Iometer 2008, Queue Depth 32, 4KB Aligned"

Think I'm going to start a new thread on the V3 unless there are other V3 threads that are suitable?

[Brahmzy]

Yeah, I really like the 160GB drives, perfect for a lot of scenarios and the price is right imo.

@Brahmzy
They've just released the V3 specs, the V3 120GB is really down on read iops vs the 240GB, actually it's down vs a lot of drives.
Link to OCZ
Looks like the 240GB is the minimum capacity for eXtreme users
I've got one of the 120GBs on order and I'm sticking to the order, price is equal to the 320 Series 160GB atm.

v3_performance.PNG
"¹ To achieve maximum performance specifications a native 6Gbps controller is suggested"
"2 Maximum Sequential Speeds are determined using ATTO"
"³ Small file I/O performance is measured using Iometer 2008, Queue Depth 32, 4KB Aligned"

Think I'm going to start a new thread on the V3 unless there are other V3 threads that are suitable?

Yeah, I've seen the AS SSD numbers for the 120's on SATA2 & SATA3 vs the 240's. They're actually only down on seq. writes for the most part. These are on 6G intel ctlr ports using intel drivers. I'll be RAID0'ing 2 120's so scaling on seq writes is good - R0 120's will outperform 1 240GB hands down, with plenty of R0 headroom.


VERTEX 3 SATA3 120GB vs 240GB
Seq.. Read 482.9 - 507.4
Seq.. Write 156.7 - 275.9
4k.. Read 19.6 - 20.3
4k.. Write 68.5 - 67.4
4k-64 Thrd.. Read 117.3 - 190.8
4k-64 Thrd.. Write 151.0 - 201.7
Access Time Read (ms) 0.14 - 0.05
Access Time Write (ms) 0.31 - 0.23
Read Score 185 - 262
Write Score 235 - 297
Overall Score 506 - 688