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At the current moment the performance of an SSD drive is largely determined by its controller and firmware and is almost unaffected by the brand of its flash memory chips. It is the controller, the number of channels it supports, its ways of interacting with memory and its load optimization algorithms that determine the SSD’s top sequential speeds as well as its performance at random writing, which is the most difficult operation mode for flash memory.

In our previous SSD-related reports we paid much attention to products with controllers from Intel (both of the first and second generations) and Indilinx (with different firmware). We also tested SSDs with Samsung’s controller, e.g. the OCZ Summit. Up till now, we have only omitted to test widely available SSDs with a JMicron 602B controller. We will do this test now and will also throw in an Indilinx-based Corsair X128 and a couple of earlier-tested products.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/sto...icron-ssd.html

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