Hardware Corsair P256 256GB SSD Review

when it comes down to $1 a gig then I will consider it but until then no thank you.

 

the corsair S128 is very close to $1 an gig ( for it £171 or maybe $200 for you)

 

Every Part of this SSD is from Samsung... then why Samsung is not making it's own SSD

 

Samsung does make and sell it's own SSDs: www.samsungssd.com

However the distribution of said drives is very poor, and they often appear on the shelves months after the OEM drives do.

 

So expensive!

Though when I went to page 2 I thought I had been re-directed to a review about those keysonic keyboards:

Turns out it was just an ad :<

 

Why is the X25-E missing from so many graphs?
HD Tach Average Write
Iometer Random Write Speed
Iometer Random Write Response Time (average)
Iometer Random Write Response Time (Maximum)
etc.

 

Did you use the tweaks required for Vista when using ssd's? I.e. switching the inbuilt defrag off, for starters?

 

they most likely did not have the X25-e to do an IOmeter, HD tune/tach test on it (they did state that somewhere as they norm do not run these types of tests as to why Apex ended up in the CPC mag)

 

Because Intel pinched it back from us before we started running those tests. In the end it's pretty inconsequential though, as the X25-E is so ludicrously expensive that you'd have to be (a) rich and (b) mad to buy one for a home desktop system.

 

They do, out of stock though at the only uk shop that ever had any.
Lucky me got a 128GB one when they had some and I have to say SSDs are amazing fast.

 

The drive had to be returned to Intel before those results were compiled.

 

Quick Question: I'm considering buying and installing this SSD for a new Macbook Pro 17" 3Ghz 8GB RAM machine... my concern/question is: How can I clone the boot drive to the Corsair P256 [so I can install/swap it to be the only internal boot drive while completely avoiding a "full format" nightmare that was mentioned at the end to totally ruin the drive?

Thanks in advance for the advice!
-Glyph