“Perhaps the biggest take-home on all of this is the fact that sequential performance was restored to like-new conditions, on its own, and completely independent of any partition being present on the drive. Other controllers, like those from Samsung, have resorted to a so called ‘auto-TRIM’ feature, which is only compatible with NTFS partitions at present, and cannot work properly when those units are behind a RAID.”Here are some more Storage reviews from around the web:
- OCZ Agility SATA 2.0 SSD 120GB @ Phoronix
- Corsair P64 Performance Series 64GB SSD @ CCE Reviews
- Half a Terabyte on 2.5 Inches: Nine Hard Disk Drives Roundup @ X-bit Labs
- Areca ARC-1680ix-16 SAS RAID Controller @ X-bit Labs
- SSD Roundup August 2009 @ Driverheaven
- OCZ Vertex 60GB & Agility 128GB @ Bjorn3D
- OCZ and Indilinx Collaborate On New SSD Garbage Collection Scheme @ HotHardware
- Synology Disk Station DS409+ NAS Review @ HotHardware
- In Win AMMO 2.5 External SATA HDD Enclosure @ Gamepyre
- SPlextor PX-B310U External PX-B310U Blu-Ray USB DVD Writer Review @ PCSTATS
- Raidsonic Icybox IB-NAS902 @ Rbmods
- Patriot Corza NAS PCZ35SNAS2 @ Benchmark Reviews
- Vizo Arius II ARS-250 Dual 2.5-inch SATA Drive Bay @ Tweaktown
That’s waste management to the other PC types
Allyn has been hard at work on the new OZC Vertex custom Indilinx firmware
which enables garbage collection, perhaps one of the most interesting features an SSD can have. Think of it as a way for SSDs to heal themselves from the damage of file transfers and deletions that defragmenting took care of on platter based drives. Allyn subjects the poor drive to his custom made SSD killing test and watched in amazement as the drive healed its self over time without his needing to repair it.