Spring 2010 Solid State Drive Roundup, Part 1

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Manufacturer Crucial Intel OCZ Solidata Toshiba
Family M225 X25-M 34nm Vertex K5 HG2
Model Number CT256M225 SSDSA2M160G2G2 OCZSSD2-1VTX120G K5 SLC Flash SSD THNS256GG8BBAA
Capacity 256GB 160GB 120GB 64GB 256GB
Other Capacities 64, 256GB 80GB 30, 60, 250GB 16, 32, 128GB 64, 128, 512GB
Flash Type MLC MLC MLC SLC MLC
Controller Indilinx Barefoot PC29AS21BA0 Indilinx Barefoot Indilinx Barefoot Toshiba T6UG1XBG
Form Factor 2.5" 2.5" 2.5" 2.5" 2.5"
Interface SATA 3Gb/s SATA 3Gb/s SATA 3Gb/s SATA 3Gb/s SATA 3Gb/s
Cache (MB) 64MB 32MB 64MB 64MB 128MB
NCQ Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Height 9.5 mm 9.5 mm 9.5 mm 9.5 mm 9.5 mm
Weight 94g 80g 92g N/A N/A
MTBF 1,000,000 h 1,200,000 h 1,500,000 h 2,000 000 h 1,000,000 h
Operating Temperature N/A 0-70°C 0-70°C 0-70°C 0-70°C
Specified Idle Power (low-power) 0.48W 0.06W 0.47W 0.50W 0.07W
Measured Idle Power (low-power) 0.39W 0.06W 0.47W 0.44W 0.06W

New: Highpoint Rocket X62 with SATA 6Gb/s support
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System Hardware
Hardware Details
CPU Intel Core i7-920 (45 nm, 2.66 GHz, 8MB shared L3 Cache)
Motherboard (Socket 1366) Supermicro X8SAX Revision: 1.0; Chipset Intel X58 + ICH10R (SATA 3Gb/s); BIOS: 1.0B
RAM 3 x 1GB DDR3-1333 Corsair CM3X1024-1333C9DHX
HDD Seagate NL35 400GB ST3400832NS; 7,200 RPM, SATA 1.5Gb/s, 8MB Cache
Host Adapter Highpoint Rocket 62X; SATA 6Gb/s, x1 PCI Express 2.0
Power Supply OCZ EliteXstream 800W; OCZ800EXS-EU
Benchmarks
Performance Measurements h2benchw 3.13PCMark Vantage 1.0.2.0
I/O Performance IOMeter 2008.08.18File server-BenchmarkWeb server-BenchmarkDatabase-BenchmarkWorkstation-BenchmarkStreaming ReadsStreaming Writes4k Random Reads4k Random Writes
System Software & Drivers
Operating System Windows 7 Ultimate