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 don't have them right available, but Micron published some and Anandtech seemed to agree with their numbers. So a little googling will show it's a big time performer. Second to the Vertex 2 Pro though.

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...