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G.Skill Announces New SandForce-powered SSDs

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Looking for a SandForce-powered SSD? Another one is about to hit the market.

G.Skill has revealed three new capacities to its Phoenix Pro series SSD in 40GB, 80GB and 160GB models.

The key magic behind these drives is the SandForce SF-1200 SSD controller that's been tuned for a 4k random write speed up to 50,000 IOPS.

"After impressing the G.Skill engineering team, the extremely high performance of the Phoenix Pro 40GB drives in RAID 0 offers the ultimate price : performance package, along with the additional benefits of SSDs." said Benson Chun, Senior Product Manager at G.Skill.

Curious to know how two Phoenix Pro 40GB drives perform in RAID 0? Check it:

Sadly, no pricing or availability yet, but hopefully that increasing competition between SandForce drives will help out the consumer.

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    hemburger , August 23, 2010 12:04 PM
    :o  !!!
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    willgart , August 23, 2010 12:10 PM
    not bad :) 
    The new generation arrives and I hope this will reduce the prices
    also we have to wait to see the new generation from Intel and other companies to get a good picture of the performance we can get.
    But this start to become interesting...
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    Miharu , August 23, 2010 12:19 PM
    Weak on write.
    But good product.
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    cmartin011 , August 23, 2010 12:26 PM
    Excuse me TOM and editors! how about a update to graphics and SSD Charts i'm dieing to know how all the new SSD, Inferno,collosus LT,Real SSD, Phoenix Series Stack up against old rival Intel, maybe price performance comparison with raid zero configurations to make up of low capacity of some of these drives.
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    ares1214 , August 23, 2010 12:55 PM
    Intel better come out with something fast. The only reason id buy one of their was for the capacities, as 80 gigs seems perfect for a ssd. Now with a decent competitor at those capacities, Intel drives lose that, and to be honest are fairly slow compared to a lot of new drives out now. No ssd is really slow though. They just have have the write speed of this, and no where near the read.
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    ares1214 , August 23, 2010 12:55 PM
    AND WHEN IS SATA III GONNA BE USED?!?!?!?!
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    makaveli316 , August 23, 2010 1:03 PM
    SSDs need few more years, maybe 2011 or early 2012 to see some decent prices with these drives. They are still too expensive for most people.
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    Mark Heath , August 23, 2010 1:04 PM
    Quote:
    AND WHEN IS SATA III GONNA BE USED?!?!?!?!

    When SATA II is saturated. Until you use up all of SATA II's bandwidth, then there's not much point using SATA III.
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    scook9 , August 23, 2010 1:19 PM
    I currently get the same 4k performance out of my Intel G2 SSD........which will definitely be cheaper than this
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    Kaiser_25 , August 23, 2010 1:21 PM
    MiharuWeak on write.But good product.

    really? those write speeds are weak? you dont know what your talking about, they are still amazing.
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    ares1214 , August 23, 2010 1:27 PM
    Mark HeathWhen SATA II is saturated. Until you use up all of SATA II's bandwidth, then there's not much point using SATA III.


    SATA II actually is saturated at about 375 GB/s. I mean, look at that, and look at other ssds. I think its time :lol: 
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    Anonymous , August 23, 2010 2:20 PM
    "SATA II actually is saturated at about 375 GB/s. I mean, look at that, and look at other ssds. I think its time :lol: "

    wat

    384MB/s is SATA II's theoretical max throughput. :lol: :lol: :lol: 
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    ares1214 , August 23, 2010 2:27 PM
    Yeah, close enough :p  All the same though. Except I mistyped, I mean MB/s, not GB/s :lol: 
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    squallypie , August 23, 2010 3:09 PM
    ares1214Yeah, close enough All the same though. Except I mistyped, I mean MB/s, not GB/s


    yup, i must try that one on my ISP "HEY, WHERE IS MY 8GB INTERNET??""Sir, its 8MB""whatever.."
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    Anonymous , August 23, 2010 3:26 PM
    I paid $ 235 for my Intel Gen2 80GB SSD, and am loving it in my desktop with SC2 , Win7 ULT 64, 4GB DDR3 and GTX460 1GB. Oh and get this, I am using an AMD Tricore BE720 (default 2.8GHz) overclocked to 3.6 GHz using a Zalman 9900 cooler. I won't be feeling any need to upgrade, besides adding 2TB NAS drives to the system, or if Intel or AMD release a molecular CPU, till then, I'll enjoy what I have and pay down my debts. doh, a SLI GTX460 is calling, and so is a 2nd SSD RAID aaargh, i'll never save money!
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    The Greater Good , August 23, 2010 5:19 PM
    I have 3 (120GB) on their way to my home right now via Newegg. 2 for a friend of mine (new build)and one for my parents (old 80 GB just gave out). I can't wait to see how they preform! It just sucks that out of the three, none are for me. :-(
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    danwat1234 , August 23, 2010 5:34 PM
    ares1214Intel better come out with something fast. The only reason id buy one of their was for the capacities, as 80 gigs seems perfect for a ssd. Now with a decent competitor at those capacities, Intel drives lose that, and to be honest are fairly slow compared to a lot of new drives out now. No ssd is really slow though. They just have have the write speed of this, and no where near the read.


    Intel still edges out with the Random Read performance as king. All other aspects of course it is trailing behind the new stuff.
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    JOSHSKORN , August 23, 2010 6:08 PM
    I hope my current computer lasts long enough so that when I need a new one, prices of SSDs will have dropped to an affordable level.
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    eklipz330 , August 23, 2010 7:09 PM
    ares1214Intel better come out with something fast. The only reason id buy one of their was for the capacities, as 80 gigs seems perfect for a ssd. Now with a decent competitor at those capacities, Intel drives lose that, and to be honest are fairly slow compared to a lot of new drives out now. No ssd is really slow though. They just have have the write speed of this, and no where near the read.

    Intel is leading the market of SSD's. They are the first ones to drop prices and increase competition, and they are releasing their new 25nm[?] SSD's at the end of the year, and today's 80gb is suppsoed to be replaced by a 160gb... That will lower prices TREMENDOUSLY
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    WarraWarra , August 23, 2010 7:41 PM
    Is this the Sata III or why is the write speeds so pathetic ?

    I love G-Skill but not at this pathetic write speeds slower than Sata II .

    Sata II avg 260MB/s read and write with bursts upto 285MB/s so why waist money on this slow write speed drive ?

    OWC released a 40gb for $99.99
    "Industry leading sustained Read AND Write speeds over 260MB/s (with peak speeds up to 285MB/s)"
    http://techpowerup.com/129308/OWC_Announces_the_Most_Affordable_SandForce-Driven_SSD_40_GB_Mercury_Pro_Under_$100.html
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