Intel SSD 335 (240GB) Review

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• sheh - Tuesday, October 30, 2012 - link

  Thanks for the clarification.

• jwilliams4200 - Thursday, November 1, 2012 - link

  I think the most accurate figure is the write amplification during the 4KiB QD32 test.
  
  In your first table, E1 = 1.51 TiB (Intel seems to have the same bug as Windows, labeling TB when they mean TiB)
  
  And F9 = 1208 GiB (I am assuming it is GiB not GB, since Intel usually seems to use the binary power units)
  
  Then in the last table, E1 = 3.90 TiB and F9 = 37791 GiB.
  
  Then WA = (37791 - 1208) / (3.90 - 1.51) / 1024 = 14.95
  
  So WA is about 15 for the QD32 4KiB random writes.

• jwilliams4200 - Monday, October 29, 2012 - link

  What is the exact wording from Intel for the $184 price?
  
  The article says MSRP, but in the past, Intel has often quoted their distributor price for 1000 units. In other words, how much newegg would pay Intel if they ordered 1000 units.
  
  So I am wondering whether $184 is really the MSRP, or whether it is the 1000 unit price (in which case the street price would be higher than $184)

• Kristian Vättö - Monday, October 29, 2012 - link

  Intel said the $184 is the RCP/MSRP (Recommended Customer Price/Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price).

• jwilliams4200 - Monday, October 29, 2012 - link

  Thank you for the clarification. So apparently newegg is selling for significantly more than the RCP (currently $210).

• Kristian Vättö - Monday, October 29, 2012 - link

  Thanks for the heads up, I updated the article with the NewEgg pricing info. I guess this once again proves that MSRPs are totally meaningless.

• MadMan007 - Monday, October 29, 2012 - link

  Or it proves that Newegg prices a bit high on newly launched tech. Maybe Newegg shouldn't be used as the sole basis for pricing any more.

• jwilliams4200 - Monday, October 29, 2012 - link

  No, it is not just newegg. The cheapest price (from a major retailer) that I see for the 335 now is $195 from buy.com. Most of the others want more than $200 including shipping.

• meloz - Monday, October 29, 2012 - link

  SSDs continue to be a minefield for consumers. It is pathetic that this SSD wore out as quickly as it did. Such a fundamental issue should have been caught in Intel's internal testing before the drive was dispatched for reviewing, specially when the drive started with MWI of 92. No one at Intel thought this was odd?
  
  Looks like we will have to wait another 18 months for SSDs to become truly reliable. But I thought the same 18 months ago. Ugh. Only the Samsung 840 inspires some sort of confidence.
  
  I shudder to think how these manufacturers will cope with newer NAND in future which will have even lesser write-erase cycle life.
  
  Reading about all these laughable "oops" by SSD manufacturers makes you *really* appreciate the job Segate, WD and Samsung do with their platter drives.

• jeffrey - Monday, October 29, 2012 - link

  After Anandtech's 840 Pro review sample died, I'm not super inspired with confidence about the plain 840.