Crucial’s RealSSD C300 is one of the the fastest – if not the fastest – solid state drives on the market presently, but has recently suffered from serious firmware problem, where some units went inoperable after the manufacturer’s latest update. Lexar withdrew the offending firmware update, but now they are releasing it again with a [...]
Both Indilinx and Sand Force are extremely powerful SSD controllers, and the only thing holding them back right now is the need for more bandwidth. The SATA 3.0 Gbps interface, which effectively caps the bandwidth at around 280MB/s, this is currently the barrier for performance improvements.
Unfortunately this is not scheduled to appear until the end [...]
As of August 2010, the Crucial SSD C300 series Solid State Drives is still one of the fastest consumer drives that money can buy in terms of read speed – at least if you can tap into its SATA 3.0, 6Gbps support. They’re definitely not cheap, but considering the performance gain many power users will [...]
OCZ Agility 2 100GB
