Micron starts shipping 6Gbps Crucial RealSSD C300

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Micron this week begun shipping what they claim is the "industry's fastest" solid-state drive. Sold under the Crucial brand, their new RealSSD C300 uses the SATA 6Gb/s and Open NAND Flash Interface (ONFI) 2.1 specifications, allowing it to deliver sequential read speeds of up to 355MB/s and sequential write speeds of up to 215MB/s. That's quite a bit faster than both Intel and OCZ's flagship products.


The RealSSD C300 is also backwards-compatible with the SATA 3Gb/s interface that most consumers are using today, where it supports maximum read and write speeds of 265MB/s and 215MB/s, respectively. The drives use high-speed synchronous MLC NAND flash memory, and will come in 1.8" and 2.5" form factors -- both of which will be available in 128GB and 256GB capacities.

Crucial is quoting a 1,000,000 hour MTBF rate for the drives and is backing them with a 3-year warranty. The only sticking point is the price, unsurprisingly. At either $799 for the 256GB version or $499 for 128GB, these aren't exactly a cheap upgrade, but if it's raw performance you are after then the Crucial RealSSD C300 will certainly deliver.

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They actually started selling it on Monday and technically started "shipping" it on Tuesday.
 
SATA 6Gbps is what? About 750 MBps? It's a shame that these drives don't quite approach half that bandwidth. But OMG they have a lot of performance to offer for where they're at. It's good to see this massive leap in performance over mechanical drives. And the warranty on the drive is attractive. I wonder how long before the street price has the little drive under $200? I think closer to the dollar per GB value I, and probably many others, would be more than willing to actually purchase these.
 
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