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Super Talent revises MasterDrive SSDs, makes them quicker, again

by Parm Mann on 17 September 2008, 10:44

Tags: MasterDrive PX, MasterDrive OX, Super Talent

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Super Talent has today announced the third-generation of its MasterDrive solid-state drives (SSDs). The two new series, MasterDrive OX and MasterDrive PX, deliver faster read and write speeds than the second-generation MasterDrive SSDs announced a few months back.

The MasterDrive OX series uses cheaper-to-produce multi-level cell (MLC) technology, and Super Talent has added a new multi-channel SATA-II controller to increase performance. The result is a drive that offers sequential read and write speeds of 150MB/s and 100MB/s, respectively.

Not, therefore, as quick on the read-front as Intel's SSD offerings, but Super Talent's drives are cheaper. The MasterDrive OX will be available in 32GB, 64GB and 128GB models, priced at $149, $259 and $419, respectively.

The single-level cell (SLC) MasterDrive PX series raises the bar further, offering even quicker speeds - 170MB/s read and 130MB/s write - at a significantly higher cost. Available in only 32GB and 64GB capacities, the MasterDrive PX will fetch $499 and $849, respectively.

Official press release: Super Talent Launches Dangerously Fast New SATA-II SSDs



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More and more reasonable on the price front, another 6 months of this and I might even consider buying one. ;)

Does anyone know if MS have managed to optimise Windows for these yet or is that problem still present?
Lanky123
Does anyone know if MS have managed to optimise Windows for these yet or is that problem still present?

I think they're still quite a way behind, last I read. The lower these get, the more and more I think of changing the OS drive in the HTPC.
I'm hoping for a nice Intel (SLC) drive at a competitive price in the near future.
If anything purely for driving the price and performance bars down and up respectively.

*Edit: Unless I missed a Hexus press release more recently, it seems the enterprise level disk specs are public: http://www.intel.com/design/flash/nand/extreme/index.htm

250mb/s read
170mb/s write

Yum.
Do these drives use the same JMicron SataII controller that the OCZ core v2 use?
kalniel
Do these drives use the same JMicron SataII controller that the OCZ core v2 use?
Presuming this is the bridge controller, the demo from their site would indicate that they have their own custom solution with a native serial interface.