New, Faster SSDs From Crucial up to 256 GB
Lexar announces new Crucial SSDs.
More and more SSDs are hitting the market, hopefully spurring competition and eventually leading to lower prices. The latest entry comes from Lexar, today announcing its fastest Crucial solid-state drive (SSD) products to date.
These line-topping new Crucial SSDs is led by the 256 GB MLC NAND Crucial M225 SSD which gives a 250 MB/sec. read speed and a 200 MB/sec. write speed.
“By upgrading their system with a solid-state drive, mobile computer users will enjoy a faster, more rugged system with storage built for mobility. The fact that SSDs don’t have any moving parts makes Crucial solid-state drives quieter, cooler, and more durable than traditional hard drives,” said Robert Wheadon, Lexar Media’s senior worldwide product marketing manager.
The new SSDs come in a 2.5-inch form factor, but those who wish to run them in a desktop can use the Crucial SK01 External Drive Storage Kit (sold separately), which includes a 2.5-inch USB 2.0 external enclosure, a 3.5-inch SATA 3Gb/sec. hot-swappable drive bay, and a 5.25-inch drive bay bracket.
Capacities and prices of the new Crucial SSDs are: 64 GB (currently $169.99/£104.99/€120.99), 128 GB (currently $329.99/£201.99/€143.99), and 256 GB (currently $599.99/£367.99/€424.99).
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Little confused about raid0 and these ssd's...If I was to raid0 two of these drives their performance would go above the 300MB/s bandswidth of sataII....would the raid0 set up allow them to go above that limit? Never used raid before.
If I am not wrong then each sata port is 300MB/s and each of disks would be working full speed for 2 disks in Raid 0 almost double speed close to 500/400 MB/s. Read this article:http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/10tb-hdd-raid,review-31629-5.html they used 12 normal hdd's in Raid 0 and 5 and read speeds were up to 980 MB/s
Thanks for that...had a look at the link...I see they used a pcie raid adapter card....would it be posible to use my onboard mobo raid connectors to see performance above 300MB/s also would such a raid setup be bootable?
I believe You would see similar performance with onboard RAID for RAID 0 or RAID 1, and little slower for RAID 5 or 6, but still You should get over 300 MB/s. And Yes it would be bootable but it might be little tricky when you go over 2TB size
Thanks again...don't think I'll be going anywhere near 2TB...was just thinking a couple (or more) of those 64GB ssd's in the article in raid config would give similar performance to those pcie ssd that are being touted lately...and at a fraction of the cost. Would just use it for the OS and few applications and have larger conventional HDD for storage.
2 SSD's in Raid 0 would be fast and 4 would blow Your mind. Onboard Raid should have no problem handling 4 in Raid 0, 1, 0+1 or 1+0 and you should get almost double(for 2) or 4x(for 4)speed in Raid 0
Sounds great...can onboard raid handle the throughput of 4 of those drives..about 1000MB/s?....are there any advantages of the pcie ssd's over standard ssd's in a raid config?
Am I correct in thinking that two 64GB drives in a raid 0 config would give you a 128GB drive size?
Yes , In raid 0 the Capacity it is added , so 64 + 64 128 GB disk.