Re: Intel's X25-M SSD

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On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, Merlin Moncure wrote:

What's interesting about the X25 is that they managed to pull the
numbers they got out of a MLC flash product.  They managed this with a
DRAM buffer and the custom controller.

I finally found a good analysis of what's wrong with most of the cheap MLC drives:

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=3403&p=7

240ms random write latency...wow, no wonder I keep hearing so many reports of cheap SSD just performing miserably. JMicron is one of those companies I really avoid, never seen a design from them that wasn't cheap junk. Shame their awful part is in so many of the MLC flash products.

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* Greg Smith gsmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD


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