The SSD Diaries: Crucial's RealSSD C300
by Anand Lal Shimpi on July 13, 2010 12:39 AM ESTPower Consumption
At idle the Crucial and SandForce drives all use around 0.7W. The Corsair Nova manages to cut that down to 0.4W and the Intel G2 is down just under 0.6W.
In our highest load scenario the 128GB C300 draws as much power as the 160GB X25-M G2. The 256GB C300’s extra NAND that’s used in parallel eats up an additional watt of power consumption. We’re still below what you’d find from a 3.5” HDD but not necessarily from a low power 2.5” drive.
The SandForce based Vertex 2 simply offers lower power consumption than the C300, it doesn’t matter what sort of workload you throw at it. The C300’s power consumption isn’t overly high, it’s simply higher than the competition.
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Thevilpsycho666 - Sunday, February 6, 2011 - link
Hi !After reading Anand reviews on the c300, i was amazed by the performance of the drive even for the 128gb model and since i have a Rampage III gene with a 6gb Marvell 9128 controller i was thinking of buying one.
Finally 3 days ago the drive was 250$ on newegg so i bought it.
Going around on forum i discover with great disappointment that the 6gbs Marvell controller "apparently" don't issue the TRIM command, is it true ?
Nobodies seem to have a definitive answer, Crucial don't have one, Marvell are under NDA so they don't answer anyone, Asus Told somebody that they should use the Intel controller instead to ensure TRIM support.
1- Is the Marvell controller supporting Trim and is there a way to test that ? (the "fsutil behavior query DisableDeleteNotify" command is not the answer because it's only telling if the OS is issuing the command and that's not where the problem is.)
2- Some Claim that with the latest Marvell driver which is 1.0.00.1051 make the TRIM working. Some claim that it don't.
3-Other claim that the Microsoft ACHI drivers instead of Marvell's one work with TRIM.
It would be very nice if you Anand could test that particular scenario (C300 With Marvell 9128 6gbs windows 7 64) To see if the TRIM command work.
In the end not only me will benefit, but the whole community as well.
Thank you in advance!