![]() ![]() ![]() My order of preference if price were no concern:ġ. This is because the market was obviously going to shake out as margins compressed, and companies that make their own NAND held a big survival advantage. I'd also add to that group enterprise drives and Plextor (which has to date not cost-cut in objectionable ways). For the last several years I have always recommended buying SSDs from companies that produce their own NAND and SSDs with known controllers. This is like Kingston switching NAND in the middle of their SSD production run without changing the product number, but PNY/Newegg did post a warning that they could switch suppliers for this SSD's controller, thus PNY wasn't quite as underhanded as Kingston. I haven't read the other posts in this thread so forgive me if I'm redundant, but once I read that PNY Optimas can have pretty much any crappy controller up to and including JMicron (although so far PNY seems to have not actually done that, the mere fact that they reserved the right to switch the controller to JMicron made me shudder), I steered clear of the OBVIOUS bait-and-switch trap. Optima 240GB SSD on Firmware 5.4.1 using a Sata II connection Windows 7 Enterprise with all current updates Stock machine was a Dell Optiplex 790, i5-2500 with 12GB ram Assuming the quality is there and it lasts 2 to 3 years in my opinion it will be well worth having the controller that it came with. I provided benchmarks for each firmware using 3 different tools and the results are more than decent and I am certainly happy with my purchase. I ran a simple benchmark on both ( 3Gbps SATA-II interface) and ( 6Gbps SATA-III interface). This isn't my first SSD as I also have purchased and currently still use 2 M500 240gb, 1 M500 480GB, 1 Kingston Hyper X 120gb, and 1 Toshiba Q Series Pro 256. As it turns out the Optima that I have also came with a SandForce controller. After doing some research with drive in hand I'm now postng here. The price was the main reason behind the purchase and I didn't do any real research ect prior to the purchase. I purchased the PNY Optima 240GB SSD from TigerDirect on (Price was 109.99 with a 20 rebate = $89 after rebate). (stopped at 64k since it's hitting SATA limit after that) I noticed my Atto scores were about half those of the Tweaktown review, though. (I see a decent difference on my machine between Microsoft and Nforce drivers) Not terribly different, and can't tell if the difference in random writes would be from hardware or drivers. ![]() CrystalDiskMark 3.0.3 Shizuku Edition (C) 2007-2013 hiyohiyo ![]()
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