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MTRON SSD 32GB: Wile E. Coyote or Road Runner?

@ 2007/08/15

The final HD Tach results showed the NVIDIA 680i generating a sustained transfer rate of 95.1 MB/sec, write speeds of 74.7 MB/sec, and a burst rate of 100.4 MB/sec. The same MTRON drive on the Intel P35/ICH9R boards scored a sustained transfer rate of 79.4 MB/sec, write speeds of 67.2 MB/sec, and a burst rate of 82.7 MB/sec. For those keeping count, the NVIDIA 680i chipset was showing a 17% improvement in sustained transfer rates, 11% improvement in write speeds, and a 21% increase in burst rates. Some of the synthetic benchmarks show improvements up to 88% in certain cases while our current application benchmarks show anywhere from a 1% to 20% gain when using the NVIDIA 680i instead of the Intel ICH9R.

Comment from Kougar @ 2007/08/16

Last I checked, it looks like Anandtech.com got some wires crossed! Entire site & forums are returning errors at the moment. Was halfway through the review.

Edit: They're back up.

Comment from jmke @ 2007/08/15

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Originally Posted by Rutar

price doesn't really matter

last time I checked, price is all that matters

Comment from Sidney @ 2007/08/15

Technology will push everything further. Price does matter in everything we do.

Comment from Rutar @ 2007/08/15

price doesn't really matter as it pushes the speed of SSD further

Comment from Sidney @ 2007/08/15

$1499!!!!

Coyote head and Road Runner legs.... it's highway robbery

Comment from jmke @ 2007/08/15

faster at what? reading some files, where it matters, write speed, it's slower, and at 32gb it's way too small.

did you read my sentence? AT THAT PRICE it's NO GOOD DEAL. What price?

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the current introductory price of $1499

so this drive, is in fact, the worse deal I saw this week, worse than that 8600 GT with 1Gb!

Comment from Rutar @ 2007/08/15

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Originally Posted by jmke

average at best, and at the price, no good deal.

WHAT?

It's is finally a drive that is faster than 7200 RPM HDs.

Comment from jmke @ 2007/08/15

average at best, and at the price, no good deal.

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