Quote Originally Posted by B Gates View Post
Hi Mike,
I'm not selling any drives nor is Chris they are being sold by MyDigitalSSD. It's true that they are signature editions signed by the person I work for but that has nothing to do with the drives superior performance. The reason why this drive is superior is simply because it's the only drive with SLC NAND. Chris could have just as easily picked any other drive to do a signature edition of but this drive is a stand out. The drive was benched exactly the same as any other drive we bench and its superior because it proves itself to be, not because of perceived skewing in its favor. We believe a drives performance is best determined by how it performs with data on it. This makes sense doesn't it? I made this thread for the purpose of examining whether or anyone such as yourself who may want to discuss our findings or dispute them in any way could do so directly and easily. The SLC drive is simply faster than any MLC drive to date. I would NEVER say it was if I didn't have proof to back it up and believe it to be so, even if it was my mothers signature edition. If you believe my assessment is incorrect then this is the place to prove it. If you can prove that I will gladly acknowledge that and openly declare my assessment to be incorrect. One other point. I purchased 2 of these drives these were not samples. I spent my hard earned money on them because to me they are well worth it.
Overall performance, you might be right that the SLC SSD is faster then the Samsung 840P especially server workloads etc, and sertainly in a non-TRIM OS as SLC rewrites much faster then MLC does. I've had a few X25-E's in my time, so I know the benefit of SLC and I would still own them if Intel did not screw me on TRIM..

However, an area the Samsung 840P looks to be faster and pretty substancially so, is random read QD(1)2-6, this is where my priority are as always. RR QD2-6 will not loose steam on the samsung when it's filled to an reasonable level (XS OS levels, sub 50-60%), Sandforce on the other hand do loose abit of steam on RR QD2-6 as it fills up to the same levels, don't know if this SLC edition is more resilliant, and won't find out myself as the SLC drive is nowhere to find in norway..

Would have liked to see the SuperSSpeed use another controller like the latest marvel, I think that would have been even more impressive, and it's not to late for that..

As for the linking between the reviewsite and this SSD in this manner, it might seem a little iffy imho, add the SuperSSpeed "talkup" by you, working for the same site, and a few eyebrowes might be raised on XS No pun intended, just voicing my opinion, and I tend to love me a good conspiracy in the late night hours..

As for the SSD itself, it would, for that price, probably be in my box already if I could get one here, but the Samsung 840P will be here on the 15th and I want one.. I'm wondering why an SSD-maker like this again do not get it into the shelves in norway, we are buying SSD's like butter here, and have a few bucks to spend (!). This is a fiering offence by the resposible party imho...