Transcend SSD 2.5" Drives at Rectron

howardb

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Latest pricing as follows:
R1,399 - Transcend® 2.5" SATA SSD Drive - 8GB SLC Flash Memory - Read Speed Up To 30MB/s, Write Speed Up To 22MB/s
R2,499 - Transcend® 2.5" SATA SSD Drive - 16GB SLC Flash Memory - Read Speed Up To 30MB/s, Write Speed Up To 22MB/s
R2,999 - Transcend® 2.5" SATA SSD Drive - 32GB MLC Flash Memory - Read Speed Up To 26MB/s, Write Speed Up To 14MB/s

...not too bad considering others are selling in excess of R7000...
 

howardb

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This is where my knowledge gets scary...correct me if I'm wrong

Read Speed == 30 (megabytes per second) = 240 megabits per second
Write Speed == 22 (megabytes per second) = 176 megabits per second

I'm not sure what it means though... I think SATA 150 is 150 megabits per second? and SATA2 is 300 mbps? I think the SSD's are quicker as they don't have seek time, and the I/O transfer is quicker.

I know the Samsung SSD's are faster - the streaming R/W speeds are 57 MB/s and 32 MB/s, respectively, but the most significant performance advantage comes from its latency feature - less than 1 millisecond; roughly 10-15x faster than a hard disk drive.
 
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TheRift

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What's the life on those things? There's only so many times one can write to flash. Either way, they'd make a great boot and basic application disc, like the old Gigabyte RAM-based SATA drives (which were pricey).
 

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I'd like one of these, but they aren't on the latest (29 April) pricelist... a 32GB model would do very nicely for the laptop I intend to purchase for coding during power outages. (Compilers love fast disk drives.)
 
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