The Intel SSD 320 Review: 25nm G3 is Finally Here

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• NandFlashGuy - Monday, March 28, 2011 - link

  Actual data shows that Intel's G2 SSD Reliability is already ahead of mechanical drives:
  
  Here's a paper at the 1997 FAST conference discussing actual hard drive failure rates:
  http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~bianca/papers/fast07.pd...
  
  A link to the French e-tailer return rate data showing Intel SSDs better than mechanical drives:
  http://www.hardware.fr/articles/810-6/taux-pannes-...
  
  A good talk discussing SSD failure rates and mechanisms:
  http://intelstudios.edgesuite.net/idf/2010/sf/aep/...
  
  Have any real data to support your claim?

• NandFlashGuy - Monday, March 28, 2011 - link

  Correcxtion. The FAST paper was from 2007.

• nonzenze - Monday, March 28, 2011 - link

  We were promised Vertex 3 end of March. Didn't happen. At least the Intel 510s are on Newegg ... This review has no mention at all of availability, which I take to be a terrible sign that we won't actually see these in time.
  
  Meanwhile it's utterly impossible to plan a build for a new machine with a next-gen SSD because I have no idea when I'll actually be able to order and receive one!
  
  Soft launches suck!

• turbodreams - Monday, March 28, 2011 - link

  You write "The AS-SSD sequential benchmark takes place at a very high queue depth of 32". This is not correct, as it takes place at QD 1. I asked the author of the benchmark about this, *only* the 4K-64 test uses a higher QD of 64.

• Anand Lal Shimpi - Monday, March 28, 2011 - link

  That's very odd. Perfmon reports a queue depth of 1 however one of our internal monitoring tools indicates a queue depth of 32. I will remove the reference but I'm curious to see what's going on here.
  
  Take care,
  Anand

• WintersEdge - Monday, March 28, 2011 - link

  I'm confused. The benchmarks show results for the Crucial M4. Where is the full review for that drive? Did I miss something? Thanks.

• Shadowmaster625 - Monday, March 28, 2011 - link

  $160 for a 74GB SSD? And it is just as slow as the last generation? They are absolutely out of their freakin minds. They're gouging the hell out of their trusting victims. I wont even comment on how awful the 40GB version is, for $90. LOL I just bought an Agility 2 for $90.

• Chloiber - Tuesday, March 29, 2011 - link

  And how happy are you with 35MB/s seq. Write and less than 200 seq. Read?

• erple2 - Monday, March 28, 2011 - link

  What? So you did a hack that Apple doesn't fully support, and expect that if it implodes, you get to complain about it?
  
  Really?
  
  I'm disappointed in you, Brian.

• overzealot - Tuesday, March 29, 2011 - link

  It was a joke. Lighten up.