Crucial RealSSD C300 Has 355MB/s Read Speed

Ha, hahaha. No, I can wait 3 months for it to be $200 (and in its third, less-buggy, longer-lasting revision), thanks.

Wow that IS fast...jebus.

That $800 price is just a lil above the norm for 256GB. I'll prob be able to afford one when SATA 6 and USB 3.0 are the standard maybe next quarter/May

wow, very nice price for a first SATA 3.0 SSD... i see SATA 3.0 being adopted very nicely this year, next year SATA 2.0 will be history

Waiting for Intel's SATA III version to see where this market has gotten.

More useless sequential information. Randoms please.

I'll stick with my 6 drive RAID5 array, thanks. Can build a 5TB for cheaper with ICH10R.

Come on Tom's, we want tests. Especially if the product is available. What if we got 4 of these and put them on a software RAID 5 on a SATA III compatible mobo vs the same 4 and put them on a hardware RAID 5 on a SATA II card. I would love to see how much of a impact the SATA III controllers really make vs a very fast SSD.

I can't pay top dollar for speed storage.

TH i think you guy should give this away in a contest.

Anandtech clearly says that the C300 beats the Vertex 2 Pro in almost all tests, especially in likely real world tests because the sanforce controller uses some type of compression algorithm which means it doesn't get any better numbers than a regular vertex if your transferring compressed files.

Just so you guys know, Anand (sorry to bring him up here!) is saying prices wont drop until Q4 when intel/micron starts producing the smaller flash.

When SATA3 is standard , hell yeah.

Half that price, I'll take one.

Awesome, but with the $800 you can build an entire rig for gaming.

Holy sweet jesus, this drive is pretty much right on the barrier of the SATAII interface speed (3.0Gbps or 384MB/s). Obviously a drive only for those with SATA3 to avoid possible bottlenecking.

That's impressive considering it's only slightly above mainstream prices.

For 800 bucks you could build a mean RAID that not only competes with that performance but has capacity and data integrity. Granted, that SSD is impressive and for a small form factor, but seriously? My 5 disk RAID array maxes out my Adaptec SATA controller and is over 3.5TB's and cost a little more than half as much. Not sure who would want to spend that kind of money on such a tiny drive. It seems pointless to me to even own a drive less then 500GB's unless its intended use is in a RAID.

I like the contest idea. I won't be able to afford one o these until the 4th quarter of 2020...

Intel Micron flash technologies www.imftech.com will be the driving force for Intel and Micron in the future... This setup consolidates the resources of two very large players in this industry making production cheaper every iteration.

It wont be long until ALL HDDs are replaced by solid state tech. I give it 5-7 at the current rate of growth. go go 3bpc!

Ah! Does this mean prices of prior SSDs will drop?

A lot of people may be thinking about buying an SSD for Christmas.
10 months away is a long time for prices to drop.

Very fast for a SATA drive, however the costs are putting it in OCZ Z-Drive territory that double the transfer speeds of these drives.

At the rate that SSDs are increasing in transfer speed, the problem will be having to get a new standard of SATA every 12-18 months.

Will this mean every year I have to invest in a new SATA PCI-e card?

SSD Kat is not impressed. These speeds been around for a while and on Sata2. We have Intel and OCZ pushing 500 meg + barrier already on sata2! It is awesome to see this for Sata 3, but seriously push the barrier if you are going to be the first to try standardize it.

Wow, that is fast! Crucial's SSDs are great these days. I've got one of their current gen 256GB drives and it's an absolute dream. Wish I could afford one of those now so that I could put this one in my laptop!