OCZ Summit Series 250GB SSD Preview - New Samsung MLC

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The OCZ Summit line of solid state drives uses a new controller from Samsung

as well as 64MB of cache to speed up performance, in particular write

speeds. Does this new 250GB SSD have what it takes to compete against the

Intel X25-M?

 

URL: http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=666

 

Quote: "The cache on the OCZ Summit drive is really what will help it stand

out from previous solid state offerings. While having cache on board with

standard hard drives has been the norm for many years, it was long thought

that the speed of flash memory negated the need to have dedicate memory on

drives for performance reasons. After all of our experience with JMicron

controller and the very slow writes they were famous for, we have learned

that cache is still a technology SSDs can take advantage of."

 

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Ryan Shrout

PC Perspective

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