Solid State Drives have evolved in several ways, not the least the technology found with the different drives available today. The first generation of SSDs used almost identical components and the lack of competition, not the least among the memory controller makers, rendered most SSDs identical in terms of drawbacks and problems. A lot has happened over the last year and we have more SSD companies than ever before, considerably more circuit makers have launched their own NAND flash memory controllers with better functionality and performance.
At HotHardware they have taken a closer look at four different SSDs using three different platforms. OCZ Vertex and SuperTalent UltraDrive ME both sport memory controller from IndiLinx and NAND flash memory chips from Samsung.
Kingston SSD Now M is simply an Intel X25-M SSD with a new sticker and house Intel’s own flash memory controller and Samsung’s memory chips.
Last but not least we have Corsair P256 that use both memory chips and controller from Samsung.
These are all very competent SSDs and whichever you may choose will be a good upgrade for most systems. It’s fun to see how far the development has come and that there is are great differences as to how the drives handle specific workloads.
