Mtron kicks out 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB SSD drives

It's one thing to toot your own horn, but it looks like Mtron has gone a bit overboard with this one. Apparently, the company firmly believes that its new SSD lineup is faster than anything similar on the planet, but in all honestly, it's not. Nevertheless, the firm is hyping up its new 16GB, 32GB and 64GB solid state discs, claiming that the read speed of 120MB/s and write speed of 90MB/s trumps that of "other SSD" drives. 'Course, it must not be counting those SLC NAND flash-based iterations (like the Simpletech ZeusIOPS) as true competitors, and until we see unbiased benchmarks to prove these claims, we're ain't buyin'.

[Via DailyTech]

[Jagannath A @ Sep 4th 2007 10:46PM]

price drop > speed increase

[JohnTitor @ Sep 4th 2007 10:54PM]

price drop Harder than speed increase

but I agree with you

[I LOVE THE CAPS LOCK KEY @ Sep 5th 2007 12:10AM]

At $2,336.95 the price of this 32GB drive has a long way to fall. Falcon N-W is also offering The Mtron 32GB SSD on their Notebook and Frag Box (desktop) line of Mini-ATX computers as a $1,495 option.


http://www.computers4sure.com/product.asp?productid=5623741&affid=10000483
http://www.falcon-nw.com/

[I LOVE THE CAPS LOCK KEY @ Sep 5th 2007 4:34AM]

Although, these Mtrons are still no match for Seagate 15k.5 SAS drives and the Western Digital Raptor 150 barely beats this SSD in almost all tests, except I/O performance.

See for your self, three Articles for you:
Desktop Review
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3064

Notebook Review:
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3067

Seagate 15k.5
http://www.storagereview.com/ST3300655LW.sr

[dfn_doe @ Sep 5th 2007 1:54PM]

@I LOVE THE CAPS LOCK KEY

Well, I can see you aren't really the consumer these are designed for. Your link to the drives which "beat" the mtron SSD in performance don't really beat the SSD at all in the measure that matters to me. Seek time, random access speed.... The SSD has a seek time of

[dfn_doe @ Sep 5th 2007 1:56PM]

@I LOVE THE CAPS LOCK KEY

Well, I can see you aren't really the consumer these are designed for. Your link to the drives which "beat" the mtron SSD in performance don't really beat the SSD at all in the measure that matters to me. Seek time, random access speed.... The SSD has a seek time of less than .1ms vs. the 3.5ms of the 15k raptor. This is where the rubber hits the road for any large mail infrastructure. The 300M emails my servers see daily means that the mtron drive is effective at keeping the spools moving smoothly without any penalty for fragmentation or other physical data orientation problems that become an issue with a standard hard drive.

You also bitch about the cost, but rest assured that the "list" price is not the street price... Not even close. I don't want to alienate our vendor by putting a number out there, but I can tell you this much. Moving away from 15k SAS drives to these SSD drives eliminated a disk bottle neck that allows each of our servers to do about 6x the number of transactions that they were able to do previously. Which means that we saved about 45,000 USD in total hardware outlay by reducing the number of servers we'd need to deploy to account for future growth AND at the same time we've bought ourselves devices which come with a 5 year warranty and a MTBF which is much higher than the equivalent magnetic media. And that doesn't even take into account the power/heat savings we're seeing.

As I said at the beginning you are not the market for these drives. But the market does exist AND we will keep buying these until something faster comes along.

[dfn_doe @ Sep 4th 2007 11:07PM]

Just stuck a bunch of these in Sun Coolthreads T1000 boxes @ work and have been very pleased with the performance boost. Even came in a nice 2.5" formfactor :)

[Abencerraje @ Sep 4th 2007 11:09PM]

its perfect

[scott @ Sep 4th 2007 11:10PM]

Great, that's what I've been waiting for, I'll just skip down to Fry's and...

oh wait...

[ark_v2 @ Sep 4th 2007 11:10PM]

Nice. Now, what about a cheaper drive? I really really want a SSD.

[seoultrain @ Sep 4th 2007 11:15PM]

"we're ain't buyin'."

nice.

[96rt10 @ Sep 5th 2007 11:48AM]

"in all honestly"

Nice, as well.

[Alexrma @ Sep 4th 2007 11:17PM]

It´s great. i need this

[Neil @ Sep 4th 2007 11:23PM]

Don't know if these are exactly the same drives, but Anandtech has a couple of reviews up of the Mtron 32GB:
One on a desktop: http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.aspx?i=3064&p=1
One on a laptop: http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.aspx?i=3067&p=1

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[ED @ Sep 5th 2007 12:17AM]

I have two words for you: The first is 'go' and the second is 'away'. I'm sure other people would give you two different words though.

[dj-kenpo @ Sep 5th 2007 1:56AM]

I really want one, but not until they hit less than $300 will I even consider opening my wallet.

$1400+ to.. what.. save 18minutes of battery?

those 18 minutes are worth it if it's cheap enough...

[brett.chandler @ Sep 5th 2007 3:18AM]

Like any useful technology, this one costs WAY too much money for mere mortals. Doesn't mean it isn't worthwhile.

It's been POSSIBLE to do this kind of thing for years, but there wasn't any market. Now, there is (if only just barely).

Production will bring the price of this down.

[Wwhat @ Sep 5th 2007 7:23AM]

At those speeds it would be nice for a swap partition too if they released say a 4GB one for cheap.

[mkstevo @ Sep 6th 2007 3:31AM]

I see the term SSD , and wonder if Psion/Symbian ever copyrighted or trademarked the term . Going back to the early 90's the Psion Series 3 machines used SSD disk drives for their storage . Always thought of it as a Psion owned phrase . Maybe everyone is paying Psion a licence fee ...

[SimbaDogg @ Sep 6th 2007 2:46PM]

i know SSD will def trump hard disks in terms of power usage, one thing i'm really looking forward to. but how are they in terms of their seek and write times...any idea guys? i would assume they'd be quite a bit faster all things being equal (interface), but...thats just an asssumption...