http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3667&p=1
Notable points:
1. Official TRIM support has been released for OCZ & SuperTalent Indilix drives and Intel's G2 drives.
2. The various TRIM firmwares only work with W7 provided storage drivers. To get around this, Indilix and Intel both have released manual wiper tools that can TRIM within Windows.
3. The TRIM firmware update boosts the 160GB G2's seq. write speed to 100MB/s.
4. Kingston releases a sub-$100 AMIR 40GB X25-M G2 drive which suffers from a large decrease in max seq. write speed, a noticeable decrease in max. seq. read speed, and slight but not alarming decreases in everything else. Good buy for those with light OS installs wanting the SSD experience without forking the cash for a bigger drive.
The Intel speed increase has me interested. The initial X25-M G1 firmware update made everyone wonder whether or not Intel would be increasing speeds down the line with more updates. Odd that it doesn't do anything for the 80GB drive though.
Also interested in possibly getting the Kingston drive, it sounds like a great upgrade for my gaming box.
EDIT: Whoops, Shiggity created a thread about the update before I did. Might be a good idea for a mod to move this post into his thread.
Notable points:
1. Official TRIM support has been released for OCZ & SuperTalent Indilix drives and Intel's G2 drives.
2. The various TRIM firmwares only work with W7 provided storage drivers. To get around this, Indilix and Intel both have released manual wiper tools that can TRIM within Windows.
3. The TRIM firmware update boosts the 160GB G2's seq. write speed to 100MB/s.
4. Kingston releases a sub-$100 AMIR 40GB X25-M G2 drive which suffers from a large decrease in max seq. write speed, a noticeable decrease in max. seq. read speed, and slight but not alarming decreases in everything else. Good buy for those with light OS installs wanting the SSD experience without forking the cash for a bigger drive.
The Intel speed increase has me interested. The initial X25-M G1 firmware update made everyone wonder whether or not Intel would be increasing speeds down the line with more updates. Odd that it doesn't do anything for the 80GB drive though.
Also interested in possibly getting the Kingston drive, it sounds like a great upgrade for my gaming box.
EDIT: Whoops, Shiggity created a thread about the update before I did. Might be a good idea for a mod to move this post into his thread.
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