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Comment on RealSSD C300 Demo: MacBook® Side-by-Side by Steve

Steve — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:42:45 +0000

Zeph,
The C300 is compatible with any system that uses a SATA hard drive connection. I’ve never done an iMac drive swap, but from what I’ve seen online, it’s pretty involved—make sure you know what you’re getting into before you start. You might want to get an adapter to make the 2.5″ C300 fit the 3.5″ drive slot, too. Let us know if you decide to take the plunge.

Comment on RealSSD C300 Demo: MacBook® Side-by-Side by zeph

zeph — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:08:05 +0000

Could I replace my 2007 iMac system drive with an SSD?

Comment on Crucial Launches RealSSD™ C300 Drives by jw

jw — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:51:57 +0000

I understand that you cannot give a number for 25nm NAND. But I was asking specifically for the unpowered data retention spec for the C300, which I belive uses 34nm NAND. I also understand that it depends on the writes. That is why I specifically asked for the spec for a brand new C300 and/or for a C300 that has been written to for half its endurance.

As for real-world use, I just mentioned putting it in a drawer to create a vivid picture that what I was asking for was unpowered data retention. This does have a real-world use. Someone may have a computer in storage for a long time and then take it out and expect it to work. My question is, how long before the data decays and it cannot be used?

Surely someone at micron can give a reasonable estimate of the unpowered data retention time for the C300?

Comment on Crucial Launches RealSSD™ C300 Drives by Justin Sykes

Justin Sykes — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:01:36 +0000

JW,
We’ve just begun to sample 25nm NAND (and the parts we have now aren’t the same as parts that would eventually go into SSDs) so you should be skeptical of forum posters who claim to have expertise in next-generation SSD data retention.

We do spec NAND retention to our customers, but SSD data retention is dependent upon total bytes written and multiple other factors that make it difficult to give a simple, definitive spec. That said, we’re very confident in the quality of our NAND and the durability that it lends to our SSDs. No one recommends using an SSD as archive media (throwing it in a drawer for years), but when it’s used as a normal drive in real-world conditions, data retention is really a non-issue for the C300.

Comment on Crucial Launches RealSSD™ C300 Drives by Jack

Jack — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 10:39:45 +0000

Hi,
Im thinking of buying a Micron RealSSD C300 but i need a host bus adapter to run it at 6Gb/s. In one of the videos he uses a Marvell host bus adapter but i couldn’t find it anywhere. What is a good host bus adapter for this ssd? Can you give me a link?

Thank You

Comment on RealSSD C300 Demo: MacBook® Side-by-Side by Steve

Steve — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:58:27 +0000

Alice,

You’ll notice that Crucial has responded on their forum, but I think the answer bears repeating here:

“Yes, we are aware of the issue Anand has encountered, and have been working to understand the conditions and parameters he was using to recreate the scenario in our own labs. We’ve done thousands of hours of testing on the C300 and have sent the drive to dozens of independent testers, receiving phenomenal response on how it has performed. We are confident in the high quality and unmatched performance of the C300.”

In short — our engineers are on top of this.

Comment on RealSSD C300 Demo: MacBook® Side-by-Side by StationStops

StationStops — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:56:21 +0000

I have been using several different brands of SSDs for years – MTRON, OCZ, G.Skill Falcon…and its true, its hard to go back to an HDD…not only is the performance difference tremendous, but the lack of noise is much more appreciated then one would expect.

I do a lot of video transcoding, which is actually more CPU intensive, but not having a noisy 15k SATA drive thrashing away under my desk is wonderful.

I also recently ordered an SSD for one of my production database servers, as some of my queries were taking too long on a Fujitsu MAS Ultra-SCSI.

Now, I could have sat down and laboriously reworked my already-optimized SQL for 20-30 hours, but after testing an SSD as the data drive, the problem queries sped up by a factor of 10. Problem solved.

Comment on RealSSD C300 Demo: MacBook® Side-by-Side by Alice

Alice — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:44:53 +0000

Problems with the RealSS?

http://forum.crucial.com/t5/Solid-State-Drives-SSD/Serious-problem-with-RealSSD-C300/td-p/10599

Comment on RealSSD C300—The Mac Experience by Joe L.

Joe L. — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:43:01 +0000

I think the real question is…. how are you managing to use a Mac in the office!? I figured IT wouldn’t even allow you to set foot in the door carrying a Mac.

Comment on Crucial Launches RealSSD™ C300 Drives by jw

jw — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:53:09 +0000

I’ve been reading in some forums that data retention is quite short for current and next-gen (25nm) SSDs. But I cannot find a spec on data retention for the C300.

If I took a brand new C300, filled it up with 256GB of data, and then put it in a drawer (unpowered, room temperature) for months or years, how long will it be before the data cannot be read back without errors?

Additionally, same question except the drive is first written to for half of its endurance (15K cycles?) before being filled with data and put in a drawer.