Summit has just arrived

[Tony]

More soon

[Wendy]

Nice.
I'm very curious to see how the Summit stacks up against the Vertex.

[Tony]

me to Wendy...120Vertex Vs 120 Summit is where I will be from the getgo

[slickric21]

Tony I hope you're going to find theres not much difference in performance, otherwise i'm going to have to spend a load of money very soon !!!

[Brahmzy]

Yeah me too. I'm extremely happy with my 2 120GB Vertexes - please don't change that.

[FZ1]

Nice.
I'm very curious to see how the Summit stacks up against the Vertex.

+1 I'm loving all of the new SSD products.

[Tony]

Quick comparison, Windows 7 7137 64bit. IOmeter bootup config and Crystaldiskmark.

system specs:

i7 965
Foxconn Bloodrage
6GB animal 1600plats
IDE mode







Windows 7 did see the Summit as an SSD and applied the SSD setup, for some reason it did not with the Vertex so I manually applied the same tweaks.

Will continue testing, I have also asked if we will see a TRIM application, and if Summit supports native ATA TRIM also.

More as I get it..Summit bench has been updated to have 1000MB run of crystal

[Tony]

Just noticed Crystaldiskmark needs to be rerun, will do this now

[Digikid]

According to those pics....so far Vertex is still top notch.

[rhys]

Summit has AUTO Internal TRIM, this differs to Vertex where by during an extended idle period the drives will TRIM all deleted blocks and restore its self.

30mins to 1Hr at idle will engage AUTO TRIM...

Sounds cool! (god, that sounded so old in my head when I typed that)
This may be a particularly good drive to use in raid 0 + MFT, IOPS should be through the roof!
That is of course if the drive still restores itself in raid 0.

MFT particularly on the new FW with Vertex adds a shed-load of IOP performance, it even adds about 1-2-mb/s to 4k reads.

Edit:
Below, 1x 30gb Vertex fw 1.3 + MFT IOmeter Bootup config!

[Hargak]

Newegg is showing two models, 60 and 250.


$899 for 250! Interface Type: Mini PCIe (PATA)?

$239 for 60 Interface Type: SATA II

Sequential write:
60GB write speed is 120MBps
250GB write speed is 220MBps?
hmm, this isn't slc either

[RyderOCZ]

$899 for 250! Interface Type: Mini PCIe (PATA)?

This is not the Summit mentioned in this thread.

That is our Mini PCI SSD for laptops only. Not the Summit in 2.5" form.

EDIT... Newegg just has the interface wrong...l will let the office know.

[Tony]

rhys

That is seriously fast for 1 drive

[smitterson]

Any word on if Summit is firmware upgradeable? I'm due for an SSD upgrade, and the Summit may be it......

[Tony]

I believe is it although Samsung (who supply the drives) have not issued any FW for end user upgrade...