SSD Comparison Chart

[mason.kramer]

Your dad is a smart man. I wouldn't have smacked you in the head though, I would have stolen your kidney and thrown you out a window.

Good one! Ha, ha, ha. Oh you rascal you.

 

[Walt Dizzle]

Ha, ha. I am quite a rascal. j/k about the kidney thing

 

[mls64]

New 13" MBP with 128gb SSD.

 

[Ricanlegend]

New 13" MBP with 128gb SSD.

Can you run some test on it, i want to see how fast it is

 

[jav6454]

New 13" MBP with 128gb SSD.
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Yup, those appear in MacBooks/MacBook Pros alot. Toshiba or Samsung drives are the common thing.

 

[mls64]

Can you run some test on it, i want to see how fast it is

In 8 or 10 days when I get it. The photo was taken by the guy who sold it to me, it is being shipped now. Let me know what tests you want run and I'll gladly help.

 

[Hal1980]

I did read the article after it came out. I understand that randoms are important, but you must understand that we are not minimizing the importance of random. Just the fact that we can't provide random speeds because we have nothing to test. Can we use help? Yes we can. Anyone who has an SSD listed here can post their results. Those help greatly as we fill in the chart.

Also, performance varies (degrades)in the write portion only, the read of any SSD is never affected as time passes.

That's all I was suggesting. Just requesting that people post the random speeds as they find them. Since the max speeds are more or less worthless, I almost think it is a disservice to put much emphasis on them at all. I think this is a good pursuit, was just making a suggestion to make it much more valuable, and to clearly explain to people that max speeds are misleading and not necessarily a true indicator of quality.

 

[jav6454]

That's all I was suggesting. Just requesting that people post the random speeds as they find them. Since the max speeds are more or less worthless, I almost think it is a disservice to put much emphasis on them at all. I think this is a good pursuit, was just making a suggestion to make it much more valuable, and to clearly explain to people that max speeds are misleading and not necessarily a true indicator of quality.

We take suggestions in pursuit of perfection, but I think it was your initial wording that got everything started off wrong.

 

[jav6454]

I'm going to have to bump this... sorry mods :S

 

[raymondu999]

the 256 G.Skill Falcon seems like a good buy

 

[emt1]

Chart updated. Not many changes since the last update. SSD prices seem to be stagnant.

 

[raymondu999]

How come all the random read/writes are empty?

 

[emt1]

How come all the random read/writes are empty?

Do you have info for me to put in?

 

[MrGando]

Haven't the new Intel drives arrived yet ?

 

[emt1]

Haven't the new Intel drives arrived yet ?

Have you checked newegg.com?

Any other questions anyone?

 

[jav6454]

They just anounced them... sad part its still the same capacity....

 

[emt1]

Updated chart with some info about new Intel drives. Added lots more random 4K times!! Woohoo! Also made the columns for max speed a gray color, to de-emphasize the importance of those speeds.

 

[617]

The most important question to many many users is: how do the intel SSDs compare to the ones that are provided by apple, especially the 256GB one. And how does the intel one compare to the "Apple" ones benchmarkwise. I am checking the forum every day, but no one so far has posted a direct comparison chart: thus I am pleading for a chart:

intel X25M 2nd gen 160 GB vs. Apple CTO 256 GB
random writes
random reads
xbench score

The best would be if the two SSDs would be compared in the same machine (same RAM, Processor, generation, etc.) - this would make sense and some decisions much easier

 

[emt1]

The most important question to many many users is: how do the intel SSDs compare to the ones that are provided by apple, especially the 256GB one. And how does the intel one compare to the "Apple" ones benchmarkwise. I am checking the forum every day, but no one so far has posted a direct comparison chart: thus I am pleading for a chart:

intel X25M 2nd gen 160 GB vs. Apple CTO 256 GB
random writes
random reads
xbench score

The best would be if the two SSDs would be compared in the same machine (same RAM, Processor, generation, etc.) - this would make sense and some decisions much easier

The SSDs that Apple puts in their computers are usually either a Toshiba or a Samsung, as far as I know. It depends on when you bought it, and the size of the SSD. Does anyone have further information?

 

[emt1]

Updated with some pretty steep Intel and OCZ price cuts

 

[Atoria]

Is it me or does the OCZ Vertex 120GB seem like a ridiculously good deal?

 

[MacModMachine]

Is it me or does the OCZ Vertex 120GB seem like a ridiculously good deal?

its you....

the intel 160gb is a good deal....499cad vs 415cad for the vertex with less space and slower sequential speed and somtimes has issues.

the intel is now cheap and has a very reliable track record.

 

[stormtroopar]

Cool, thanks for the continuous updates!! Much appreciated.

 

[emt1]

Here's the current chart, sorted as $/GB ascending. The cheapest $/GB is at the top.

 

[stormtroopar]

its you....

the intel 160gb is a good deal....499cad vs 415cad for the vertex with less space and slower sequential speed and somtimes has issues.

the intel is now cheap and has a very reliable track record.

It is true, I think the Intel 160 is a good deal... The other one would be the G.Skill Falcon 256 (good price for a 256gig, not the best performance).

I would consider the Intel. The max read and write of the the intel still worries me a bit, lets not get into the whole debate again, i know the importance of random read and write vs sustain / max read and write, and even though it matters less, its still important at times to me, like doing a big file transfer, which I do do.

For those that don't know, just be aware of the new Intel gen2 SSD's data corruption issue... Intel is trying to come up with a firmware fix for it in the meantime.
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