Uh, actually, that's pretty cheap. Most of the 256GB drives cost about $800. and those are all the crappy and slow MLC type drives. The nicer SLC drives don't even come in capacities that high, I think. I've seen a 64GB SLC drive for $800, for example.
So, if you see a 256GB MLC drive for $350, it is probably junk. No way anything has that capacity at that price with any type of performance. Its using flash, but they're probably stacking 10 values per cell or something crazy insane like that. Your write speed will crawl, and the rewrite cycles will be very short. You can get a slow knock-off brand 64GB MLC type drive for about $150. Speed won't be great on that, but it will still be immune to most mechanical failure. OCZ Vertex series SSDs are pretty good performance with a fair amount of storage for not a lot of money. However, their memory controllers aren't made well, and so they suck down a huge amount of power. So, they are a nice cheap solution for a desktop, but they'll run out your laptop's battery in a flash. 60GB for about $240. My favorite compromise are the Intel X25M drives. Low power draw, reasonable though not blindingly fast performance, Intel makes their own memory controller, and not too highly priced. You can get 80GB for about $300. Oh well. There are thousands of choices. Good luck. *smile* You can have fast performance, efficient use of power, or affordable. Choose two, or pay through the nose. Bryan -----Original Message----- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Yuma Antoine Decaux Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 10:15 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: SSD? Hi list, I read that SSD's increase disk read/write speeds by a 2 multiplier, and checked some of the options out there so that i can use the SSD for the SL OS, but found incredibly high prices. The best though that i found is the OCZ SDD 2.5 drive specially made for the mac with a speed of 249MBps/Seconds for read and 170MBPS/Seconds for write. Their 256GB model goes for about 399 which is way out of price. Does anyone know where i can find some smaller capacity drives with about the same R/W performance? THanks a bunch Yuma Decaux Light has no value without darkness Skype: shainobi1 blog: www.theblindsamurai.com twitter: www.twitter.com/triple7 Tel: +85513623378 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
