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WD, Intel, Corsair, Kingston, Plextor SSDs Collide

Posted by timothy on from the will-it-collide dept.

J. Dzhugashvili writes "New SSDs just keep coming out from all corners of the market, and keeping track of all of them isn't the easiest job in the world. Good thing SSD roundups pop up every once in a while. This time, Western Digital's recently launched SiliconEdge Blue solid-state drive has been compared against new entrants from Corsair, Kingston, and Plextor. The newcomers faced off against not just each other, but also Intel's famous X25-M G2, WD's new VelociRaptor VR200M mechanical hard drive, and a plain-old WD Caviar Black 2TB thrown in for good measure. Who came out on top? Priced at about the same level, the WD and Plextor drives each seem to have deal-breaking performance weaknesses. The Kingston drive is more affordable than the rest, but it yielded poor IOMeter results. In the end, the winner appeared to be Corsair's Nova V128, which had similar all-around performance as Intel's 160GB X25-M G2 but with a slightly lower capacity and a more attractive price." Thanks to that summary, you might not need to wade through all 10 of the pages into which the linked article's been split.

5 of 56 comments (clear)

  1. Hmm... by the_one_wesp · · Score: 5, Funny

    Westelsairkingxtor!

  2. Good summary by amicusNYCL · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Thanks for taking the time to write a decent summary.

    --
    "Our two-party system is like a bowl of shit looking at itself in a mirror." - Lewis Black
  3. Aha.. by comm2k · · Score: 5, Funny

    I guess all measurements were done at the Large Harddisk Collider?

  4. Better article on anandtech by CreamyG31337 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Better because it examines the performance of a new controller series from SandForce which beats the performance of these ones by using lossless compression to write less data.

    http://www.anandtech.com/print/3656

    (printed view has no ads and no margins and is one big long page...)

  5. Re:Can we really trust comments on reviews? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Not in your case. Perhaps if you had more than skimmed through TFA you would have seen this on page two in TFC:

    Kingston Controller : Toshiba T6UG1XBG

    I know for a fact that the Intel SSD's do NOT use the Toshiba controller, that they in fact use their own Intel controller. My fact trumps your so-called 'fact' that you think is a fact and is not in fact a fact. Thus the Kingston drive should not perform identically to the Intel drive and in fact it does not.

    Next time read the details of TFA and then make an intelligent comment...oh wait, this is slashdot. Sorry.

    In my opinion The Tech Report does some of the best storage device performance reviews and this review is hardly 'bunk'.