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Why Size Matters For Your SSD Purchase
Vigile writes "Performance analysis on solid state drives is still coming into clarity as more manufacturers enter the fold and more of the drives find their way into users' hands. While Intel's dominance in the SSD market was once undoubted, newer garbage collection methods from Indilinx and Samsung are now balancing performance across the the major players. What hasn't been discussed in great detail yet is the effect that drive capacity can have on overall performance. Some smaller drives (64GB versus 128GB) will actually use fewer data channels from the controller chip and thus will have lower transfer speeds. The article compares drives using controllers from Indilinx, Samsung and Intel." Note that PCPer greedily spans this review over 12 pages. Next time maybe they can keep it down to something more reasonable.
They all meet the definition of 'blisteringly fast' when compared to my current disk, but they also all meet the definition of 'cost more than I want to pay'.
I guess it is still useful to figure out which one provides the best value.
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I use adblock primarily for these sites.
When I come across a site that doesn't do this bullshit, I make sure to allow their ads.
Hell, Slashdot is giving me the option of disabling advertising just by clicking a checkbox; I'm not doing it.
APK quotes people (including myself) without context and should not be trusted. Just thought you should know.
From the article:
I was going to include a price comparison, but a few of the units tested (like the Corsair P64) don't seem to be carried anywhere as of yet. That said, prices generally do not sway far from the cost/GB of ~$2.75 set by Intel when they released their G2 drives at record low prices. The exception here is the SLC-based PhotoFast V4S, which will retail for a whopping $499 (that's $15/GB in case you ran out of fingers and toes).
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Sad economic truth: Free articles aren't free. 12 pages = 12 advert refreshes.
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OCZ also has forums dedicated to tweaking ram. There are thousands of forums on the internet dedicated to tweaking every part of a computer. Working "right" isn't "as fast as possible". Most components are configured to run less than optimum so they last longer. Granted, early SSD drives had issues with the abysmal cache causing stuttering, but really, that's just a design fault, not something endemic to the hardware line.
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1)pricegrabber.com
2)skimlinks.com
3)googleadservices.com
4)quantserv.com
5)tribalfusion.com
6)pcper.com
You far exceeded my acceptable level of third party scripts by 400%. I don't care whether those scripts are advertisements or statistics or revenue generation or whatever. I do not consider your choices wise. I will block your advertisements until such time as you learn to understand your market.
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No, your premise is wrong. It all starts with: you are under no obligation to put free content out there. Should you, in spite of this, choose to do so yet, you shouldn't be surprised if people leech it. If you disagree with this, then I'm sure (since you're posting on Slashdot), that you have the technological acumen to invent and implement and popularize a protocol that will provide content to people, all the while forcing them to see it as you want them to see it - including ads.
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