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Intel to the rescue?: mainstream SSDs

looks like intel is implying they have a drive cluster size an order of magnitude smaller than current mainstream MLC drives.

This (obviously?) yields much better random small write performance, and according to this info, Intel did it w/o sacrificing STR…

I stole the photos from this anandtech piece.

After my 2 previous SSD investigations, I can’t wait to get my hands on these.

medicine

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 the knife

i like:

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germlin

do i like this?

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tonite only

this didn’t come from a video game

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clap your hands and say yeah

a good foo fighters song?

I like it anyway:

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this came from a video game

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Storage, Raid, and intel’s ICHxR

If you look in the Internet, in various forums including storagereview, hardocp, and anandtech you will find hundreds of people talking about RAID.  I’d say almost all of them involve someone thinking about using some onboard raid solution that came with their computer, and a bunch of other more “experienced” forum members posting replies to the effect of: “don’t even bother with it, buy a “real” raid controller and go from there”.

Let’s take a deep look at storage, and while we are there we can stop and see if the if Intel’s ubiquitous ich9r is any good at raid.

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Sometimes I can’t stop listening to a song.

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This is the only Sonic Youth song I know/like.

RiDATA Ultra-S Plus 64GB SSD

Let’s take a look at how RiDATA’s $270 64GB SSD compares with OCZ’s Core SSD:

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