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  • Dr0id - Tuesday, December 13, 2011 - link

    How well should the OCZ Petrol drive perform against the Apple SSD in the 2011 MBP Pros?
  • euler007 - Tuesday, December 13, 2011 - link

    Well, if the MB Pro used the same Apple SSD (Toshiba) as the macbook air, it is way behind even an Intel G2 SSD I would say the OCZ Petrol would fare quite well against it.

    http://www.anandtech.com/show/3991/apples-2010-mac...
  • ochadd - Tuesday, December 13, 2011 - link

    This is a move in the right direction. We need space, lower $/GB, and reliability over performance. I'm already applying updates, installing apps, and loading data in a few seconds with a three year old X25-M. Being able to replace all my spinning platters would be a dream come true. Just five of these would replace the 76 spindles I've got in a small data center.
  • ShieTar - Wednesday, December 14, 2011 - link

    So one or two modern mechanical drives would also replace your 76 spindles, right? I think you should do that, the failure rate of 76 very old harddrives must be horribly high.
  • Minion4Hire - Wednesday, December 14, 2011 - link

    I don't think he's talking about a bunch of ancient 10GB HDDs. I believe he's referring to performance rather than capacity. Five SSDs could offer equivalent (or better?) performance than 76 hard drives, even if they were newer drives. Their random read/write is pretty sad.
  • ochadd - Wednesday, December 14, 2011 - link

    They range from 36-300GB of the 15k rpm variety spread across 5 servers. If you throw HA out the window I could run the whole mess from a Mid-tower ATX case with these drives and have enough performance and space.
  • Taft12 - Thursday, February 2, 2012 - link

    Buddy, he's talking about 10K or 15K SCSI or SAS drives. Smarten up!
  • Beenthere - Tuesday, December 13, 2011 - link

    OCZ must be hoping that their shotgun approach to SSDs will net them enough sales to pay for the RMAs.
  • MrSpadge - Tuesday, December 13, 2011 - link

    It's nice to hear which flash they're using, but other than this - not very exciting. Performance numbers for all capacities would have been very interesting.

    And for anyone complaining about SSDs still being too small & expensive: take a look here!
    http://www.traynier.com/software/steammover

    MrS
  • seamonkey79 - Tuesday, December 13, 2011 - link

    While I use that tool to move things around, it doesn't magically make SSDs any larger and it certainly doesn't make the files I moved to my large spinner load any faster just because the computer 'thinks' those files are located on my SSD... therefore... SSDs need to become larger and cheaper.
  • icrf - Tuesday, December 13, 2011 - link

    Honest question: is it doing Micron a disservice by referring to IMFT flash memory as "Intel MLC"
  • VxRaptor - Tuesday, December 13, 2011 - link

    It is Intel - Micron.. Its a 50 -50 joint venture !
  • ShieTar - Wednesday, December 14, 2011 - link

    Well, since consumers don't buy flash cells directly, I don't think Micron needs to care. But yeah, Anand may not get a Christmas Card from Micron this year ;-)
  • Coup27 - Wednesday, December 14, 2011 - link

    IMFT = Intel Micron Flash Technologies.

    I am not sure as to the exact percentages of ownership, but Micron has 51% of the NAND for their customers and Intel have 49% of the NAND for their customers.

    This means that although the NAND is manufactured in the same fab, Micron's customers get an M logo on their NAND, Intel customers get an Intel logo (figure of speech).

    OCZ have been using NAND bought from Intel, thus he is calling it Intel NAND.
  • gkaplan - Wednesday, December 14, 2011 - link

    It would be an added bonus if you could include drive height when writing overviews; I own a Lenovo X220 which is limited to 7mm drive heights. Just a "nice to have". :-)
  • lancid81 - Thursday, December 15, 2011 - link

    Right now.. Samsungs 830 series is the only SSD I know of that supports the 7mm height...
  • lizardview - Thursday, December 15, 2011 - link

    Why is reliability so hard for these drives? It is not like they are a new product? Obviously the technology landscape keeps shifting, but shouldn't overall reliability be coming down sequentially?

    Everyone has their own firmware, I guess because because their configurations are different, but it strikes me there is too wide a gap in 'reliability' (perceived or real)?
  • sunshinekhan - Wednesday, April 11, 2012 - link

    I would never recommend the Petrol to anybody until OCZ makes me happy; which I doubt!

    From a batch of about 80 OCZ Petrol (64Gb), 15 crashed on me within weeks, 10 Dead on Arrival.

    This could be a case of a bad lot, but what happened to their QA / QC?

    Tread cautiously with Petrol!

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