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Manufacturer Intel Intel Mtron Mtron
Family X25-E X25-M SSD MOBI SSD MOBI
Model Number SSDSA2SH032G1GN SSDSA2MH080G1 MSD-SATA3525-032 MSD-SATA3525-064
Capacity 32 GB 80 GB 32 GB 64 GB
Other Capacities 64 GB 160 GB 16, 64, 128 GB 16, 32, 128 GB
Flash Memory Type Flash SLC Flash MLC Flash SLC Flash SLC
Form Factor 2.5" 2.5" 2.5" 2.5"
Interface SATA/300 SATA/300 SATA/150 SATA/150
Cache ( MB) 16 MB 16 MB N/A N/A
NCQ Yes Yes No No
Height 6.5 mm 6.5 mm 9.5 mm 9.5 mm
Weight 78 g 80 g 60 g 84 g
MTBF 2 Million Hours 1.2 Million Hours 1 Million Hours 1 Million Hours
Operating Temperature 0-70°C 0-70°C 0-70°C 0-70°C
Specified Idle Power ( Low Power) 0.06 W 0.06 W N/A N/A
Measured Idle Power ( Low Power) 0.5 W 0.5 W 1.1 W 1.1 W
Operating Shock ( 2 ms, read) 1000 G 1000 G 1500 G 1500 G
Web site Intel Intel Mtron Mtron
Warranty Row 17 - Cell 1 Row 17 - Cell 2 3 years 3 years
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Manufacturer Samsung Samsung Solidata Solidata Super Talent
Family SSD SATA 3.0Gbps 2.5" PB22-J X Series X Series MasterDrive OX
Model Number MCCOE64G5MPP MMDOE56G5MXP-0VB X1-64 X2-128 FTM64GL25H
Capacity 64 GB 256 GB 64 GB 128 GB 64 GB
Other Capacities 32 GB 128 GB 128, 256 GB 256 , 512 GB 16, 32, 128 GB
Flash Memory Type Flash MLC Flash MLC Flash MLC Flash MLC Flash MLC
Form Factor 2.5" 2.5" 2.5" 2.5" 2.5"
Interface SATA/300 SATA/300 SATA/300 SATA/300 SATA/300
Cache (MB) No 128 MB N/A N/A N/A
NCQ No Yes No No No
Height 9.5 mm 9.5 mm 9.5 mm 9.5 mm 9.5 mm
Weight 74 g 82 g 98 g 98 g 66 g
MTBF 2 Million Hours 1 Million Hours 2 Million Hours 2 Million Hours 1 Million Hours
Operating Temperature 0-70°C 0-70°C 0-70°C 0-70°C 0-70°C
Specified Idle Power ( Low Power) 0.24 W 0.19 W 3 W 3 W N/A
Measured Idle Power (Low Power) 0.21 W 0.15 W 4.6 W 4.7 W 1.4 W
Operating Shock ( 2 ms, read) 1500 G 1500 G N/A N/A 1500 G
Web site Samsung Samsung Solidata solidata Super Talent
Warranty Row 17 - Cell 1 Row 17 - Cell 2 2 years 1 year Row 17 - Cell 5
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Manufacturer Mtron Mtron PhotoFast PhotoFast
Family SSD PRO SSD PRO G-Monster G-Monster-V2
Model Number MSD-SATA3525-032 MSD-SATA3525-032 Row 1 - Cell 3 Row 1 - Cell 4
Capacity 32 GB 32 GB 32 GB 128 GB
Other Capacities 16, 64, 128 GB 16, 64, 128 GB 64, 128 GB Row 3 - Cell 4
Flash Memory Type Flash SLC Flash SLC Flash SLC Flash MLC
Form Factor 2.5" 2.5" 2.5" 2.5"
Interface SATA/150 SATA/150 SATA/300 SATA/300
Cache (MB) N/A N/A N/A N/A
NCQ N N N/A N/A
Height 9.5 mm 14.8 mm 9.5 mm 9.5 mm
Weight 82 g 196 g 92 g 82 g
MTBF 1 Million Hours 1 Million Hours 1.75 Million Hours 1.75 Million Hours
Operating Temperature 0-70°C 0-70°C -10-70°C -10-70°C
Specified Idle Power ( Low Power) N/A N/A N/A N/A
Measured Idle Power (Low Power) 1.1 W 1.5 W 0.8 W 2.4 W
Operating Shock ( 2 ms, read) 2000 G 2000 G 1500 G 1500 G
Website Mtron Mtron PhotoFast PhotoFast
Warranty 5 years 5 years 1 year 1 year
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System Hardware
Hardware Details
CPU Intel Core i7 920 (45 nm, 2.66 GHz, 8 MB L3 Cache)
Motherboard Supermicro X8SAX (Socket LGA1366) Revision: 1.0 Cipsatz: Intel X58 + ICH10R BIOS: 1.0B
RAM 2 GB DDR3-1333 Corsair CM3X1024-1333C9DHX
System Hard Drive Seagate NL35 400 GB ST3400832NS 7,200 RPM, SATA/150, 8 MB cache
Power Supply OCZ EliteXstream 800W OCZ800EXS-EU
Benchmarks
Performance Measurements h2benchw 3.12PCMark Vantage 1.0
I/O Performance IOMeter 2006.07.27Fileserver-Benchmark; Webserver-Benchmark; Database-Benchmark; Workstation-Benchmark
Throughput Testing Streaming Read Test; Streaming Write Test
System Software and Drivers
Drivers Details
Intel Chipset Drivers 9.1.0.1007
AMD Graphics Drivers Radeon 8.12
Intel Matrix Storage Drivers 8.7.0.1007