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When will Anand do his official review of the Vertex 3 with the new SF-2200? I know he did one like 6 weeks ago, but he said he would do another, the "official" one.
I doubt Anand would hold it back if he had it finished. Could be waiting on more information from OCZ or any number of things. I would rather have the quality of an Anand review instead of have him rush the review out.
It was shocking to me when some were declaring a pre-release Vertex3 as "SSD Nirvana".And the conclusion may shock you...this is not a slam dunk win for the Vertex 3.
The shipping Vertex 3s are using RC firmware from SandForce, the MP label can't be assigned to anything that hasn't completely gone through SandForce's validation suite. However, SF assured me that there are no known issues that would preclude the Vertex 3 from being released today
These drives will only use IMFT NAND - Hynix is out. The idea is that you should expect all Vertex 2.25 drives to perform the same at the same capacity point, and all Vertex 2.34 drives will perform the same at the same capacity as well
Are the specs that different?it looks like my G1 raid0 replacement might be an intel 510.
And the conclusion may shock you...this is not a slam dunk win for the Vertex 3.
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What I did find interesting is the controllers' firmware isn't finalized.....
Are the specs that different?
Sure, but would it be better if they just called it the release firmware and released fw+1 two weeks after release? Because that's more or less what all other companies have been doing anyhow (hello Intel), so practically the differences are rather negligible imhoYeah, they're doing this again. I don't care if they say "oh it's the same thing just not validated." They are selling it with pre-production firmware and thus people buying the drives now are essentially paying for the right to beta test. Companies should not be rewarded for pulling this kind of crap.
Tell ya the truth, I didn't even notice. LOL!I find it funny that you guys are enjoying the fact that the 120GB model doesn't live up to the 240GB hype when in fact it nearly keeps up with drives that are twice its capacity.
is there a reason why the Vertex 2 isn't in the benches to compare against the Vertex 3? Isn't this kinda a no brainer?
I'm referring to the difference between a RAID0 of Intel 80GB G1's (what nanaki333 is running) and a single Intel 510.Yes. You might be thinking of the Intel 320 (AKA G3), not the 510.