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I am happy and will buy another
- Pros: I won't bore everyone with the deep tech talk as it seems like that's been well covered. Look, the drive is faster than any platter-based device I've ever owned. It's silent (obviously), and it doesn't heat up. Like, at all; you can put your hand on it and you can't even tell if it's on or not. I've been using it with Windows 7 RC (Build 7100) and it has been flawless. Love it and can't wait till this tech goes more mainstream!
- Cons: It's a lot of money for 128GB. Yeah, it's an SSD drive, I know, but that's still a little rough on the pocketbook IMO. If they can get these things close to the $1/GB category I don't know why anyone would ever go back to platter-based other than need LARGE (>1TB) storage. With that said, however, I obviously still bought it. :)
Makes my pc responsive
- Pros: Summary: No more waiting for tsvncache, visualsvn, resharper, or visual studio 2008 to update so I can start working. PC is very responsive as compared to when it was just running a single 74GB WD Raptor.
Great ssd drive, cheaper and larger than Intel X80 ssd which I looked at before buying this ssd. Comes flashed with 1370 firmware. Instantly recognized by vista 64 business and I was able to use vista complete back up and restore to move to this ssd.
- Cons: Make sure you shut down your PC fully and correctly when using this ssd.
I was rushing to put my PC back together and apparently corrupted my initial restore to the ssd. This wasn't as bad as having to re-install vista then having to go back and restore my vista backup back on the drive. For some reason after the ssd corruption the drive would not take the image from vista's repair my computer tools and would error on a win32.sys bsod, which makes no sense since I am running vista 64 business. So I had to do a throw-away install of vista in order to restore my vista backup image to the drive. I know this is a ssd but maybe Super Talent has to make something similar to auto-park in the next firmware update to prevent corruption.
- Other Thoughts: Even though I make weekly backups, hopefully this is drive does not die anytime soon.
After the shutdown debacle, I am fearing any power outages.
Pleas have a clue before making claims
- Pros: As can be PROVEN by the recent test on anandtech.com, these are the exact same controllers and 1275 firmware for those controllers as the Vertex drives, and no, they don't "beat the intel drives" in any way except the totally useless artificial world benchmark of sequential read speeds.
Why?
Because they are optimized to give high SR numbers to go after the people who buy on the "ooooo shiney" mentality.
I own several of the vertex drives, two of these drives, and several of the Intel X25-M drives.
The Intel drives stomp all over the vertex and ST drives in real world random access situations.
The difference is of course, the price. For the price of this drive (or the Vertex drive) these are a GREAT value and unlike any of the JMicron based drives, you will not have the same stuttering and pausing issues.
- Cons: The new Indilinx Barefoot controller used on this drive is totally untested and has no history for durability and longevity.
- Other Thoughts: Indilinx appears to putting out firmware updates for their controller on a fairly regular basis, so you might want to keep up with that as well as watching anantech.com for their upcoming tests of these controllers.
They appear to be the only online reviewer who actually cares about anything other than Sequential read/write performance as well as understanding the way in which SSD's work and do not work.
| General |
| Brand |
SUPER TALENT |
| Series |
UltraDrive ME |
| Model |
FTM28GX25H |
| Device Type |
Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) |
| Architecture |
MLC |
| Dimensions |
| Width |
3.45" |
| Depth |
2.75" |
| Height |
0.38" |
| Expansion / Connectivity |
| Form Factor |
2.5" |
| Capacity |
128GB |
| Interface Type |
SATA II |
| Features |
MLC NAND Flash
Compatibility: Most SATA compatible Notebooks and Desktops, Apple MacBook, MacBook Pro, Mac Pro |
| Performance |
| Max Shock Resistance |
1500G |
| Max Vibration Resistance |
16G |
| Sequential Access - Read |
Up to 260MB/sec |
| Sequential Access - Write |
Up to 195MB/sec |
| MTBF |
1,000,000 hours |
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Reviewed By: GregS on 9/6/2009
Tech Level: average - Ownership: 1 month to 1 year
