check what is coming real soon

[Tony]

Sneaky FYI

[managerman]

Tony....You are killing me! You definitely have a flair for the dramatic...

-M

P.S. Please give some details!

[Pyrolistical]

Ok, time to start guessing!

Can't be SLC, since that's EX. Should be the same controller family, since its a vertex.

So here's a few possibilities:

- new Indilinx Jetstream controller, which features SATA 6
- more cache (very likely)
- multiple barefoot controllers
- better use of a single barefoot controller (unlikely)
- faster MLC chips

[Tony]

MLC

Up to 278 reads 213 writes.

hand picked nand

Its around 10% or so faster than Vertex and 10% or so more expensive

[m.oreilly]

for a single drive scenario this would be sweet.

[MikhailT]

MLC

Up to 278 reads 213 writes.

hand picked nand

Its around 10% or so faster than Vertex and 10% or so more expensive

No offense, but you said the same thing about Agility being 10% cheaper.

This is probably going to be around 500$ or more for the 120GB with our luck. :P

I guess with more Indilinx based products, the more reason to keep working on the firmware.

Is there any news on the firmware lately?

[Tony]

Agility should be 10% cheaper or better...if its not moan at the resellers

FW is still in the works...

[barty1978]

Tony,

Having just got a Vertex 30Gb a couple of weeks ago, and being my first foray into the world of SSD, I am a bit of a noob.

Is there any performance gains to be had with the upcoming FW releases for the Indilinx controller, or is it already at the maximum performance?

[Pyrolistical]

Hmm, so you can get a vertex +/- 10% heh

I don't really see the point of having a -10%, 0% and +10% drive. The cost of SSD will always get lower over time, so these percentages get smaller relative to an absolute dollar.

[FZ1]

Nice...I was wondering when binned drives were coming.

[cantankerous]

bAH, and I just got my 120GB Vertex last week. I hate when that happens.

[floridonet]

What is "real soon"? July?? Where can I pre-order??

[pher]

Want. I've been obsessively reading these forums and almost pulled the trigger the other night to have one ready for Win 7 launch. I think I'll wait for the Turbo =D

[HDCHOPPER]

ROCKEN Tony
I love hand picked things or at least on me

That puppy would be great !

[lwang23]

Just want to know whether there's any improvement on random write. Maybe bigger cache and better compatibility?

The top speed 10% add does not mean much...It's already fast enough, close to SATA limitation, and far behind raid 0 of old ones.