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f0dder:
SKA & Eóin: read the tomshardware article I linked, there's perfectly good reasons why capacity is reduced (better ECC); speed seems to be linked to this as well, but can hopefully be remedied with newer firmwares. It's "a bit unfortunate" that OCZ did the 34->25nm change without introducing a new SKU, but:
1) reducing capacity is the proper & responsible thing to do, and other companies probably aren't doing it.
2) OCZ will replace a 25nm SSD with a 34nm SSD free of charge.
It's a bit of a blooper, but I've got respect for how OCZ have handled the situation. They generally seem like decent people - previously, they've done cool stuff like sacrificing the sequential read/write speed (which marketing fsckheads love) in order to gain random I/O speed, after Anandtech took up the issue with them. This put them at a marketing disadvantage compared to other SSD makers, but meant their drives were faster in real-world situations.
Eóin:
Fascinating article, it'll be interesting to see what type of drive I get, though it most likely will be the new 24nm ones. From those benchmarks though I can't see myself being too bothered if it is the 24nm model.
SKA:
Maybe OT but SSD related :
File remnants remain on SSDs after deletion:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/21/flash_drive_erasing_peril/
SK
f0dder:
Maybe OT but SSD related :
File remnants remain on SSDs after deletion:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/21/flash_drive_erasing_peril/-SKA (February 22, 2011, 04:01 AM)
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No wonder, given that flash drives use (and require) overprovisioning for speed and wear-leveling... but it's definitely something to keep in mind.
Eóin:
OT perhaps, but very interesting.
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