You write in pages (4KB) but you can only erase in blocks (128 pages or 512KB) thus SSDs don't erase data when you delete it, only when they run out of space to write internally. The falling performance was actually a side effect of the way NAND flash works. Simply not stuttering wasn't enough, a good SSD had to maintain a reasonable amount of performance over the life of the drive. Samsung and Indilinx emerged with high performance, non-stuttering alternatives, and then we once again had to thin the herd.
Performance degradation over time didn't matter because all of the SSDs on the market were slow out of the box and as I later showed, the pre-Intel MLC SSDs didn’t perform worse over time, they sucked all of the time. In my X25-M review the focus was on why the mainstream drives at the time stuttered and why the X25-M didn't. No we're not going back to the stuttering crap that shipped for months before Intel released their X25-M last year, but we are going back in the way we have to look at SSD performance. Here's hoping that this one doesn't have Ewoks in it. Plus, we all know how trilogies turn out. JMicron is all but gone from the market for now, Indilinx came and improved (a lot) and TRIM is nearly upon us. It's a daunting, no, deflating task to write what I view as the third part in this trilogy of articles. We've found the undiscovered country, we've left no stone unturned, everyone knows how these things work - now SSD reviews join the rest as a bunch of graphs and analysis, hopefully with witty commentary in between. The material is all there, but it just seems so mature and at the same time, so clouded and so done. OCZ's Vertex: The first Indilinx drive I reviewed, the drive that gave us hope there might be another.īut today, as I write this, the words just aren't coming to me. I just had to do the testing and writing. It took a while to put together, but the concept and the article were handed to me on a silver platter: just use an SSD for a while and you’ll spot the issue. The Anthology all began with a spark: the SSD performance degradation issue. Intel's X25-M SSDs: The drives that started a revolution Intel gave me gold with that drive the article wrote itself, the X25-M was awesome, everything else in the market was crap.
The article that started all of this was the Intel X25-M review. And today I'm charged with the task of producing its successor. The Anthology took me six months to piece together I wrote and re-wrote parts of that article more times than I'd care to admit. Microsoft linked it, Wikipedia linked it, my esteemed colleagues in the press linked it, Linus freakin Torvalds linked it. I'll go Fleabay / Bumtree in a week, but most won't understand the DC conversion or benefits of using a Linear Power Supply.What have I gotten myself into? The SSD Anthology I wrote back in March was read over 2 million times. Mini has been factory reset and running Catalina OS-X.Ĭan send securely packed at buyer's expense, or pickup Forestville NSW. Depending on your library size it may fit on this drive, or any other NAS or usb drive.Īccessories will include wireless mouse & keyboard, and a SuperDrive CD Drive that can be used for ripping. I will include a SMPS (Meanwell) that absolutely will boot the Mini.Īdditional upgrades that made it better for handling Roon Server duties is replacing the HDD with a Samsung SSD 840 EVO 1TB and upgrading the memory to capacity 16 Gb (DDR3 8 Gb x 2). I was using it with Uptone's JS-2 LPS (not for sale) but any sufficiently powerful LPS could be used in its place (12V power supply capable of delivering at least 4.5 amps from the website). It has had the Uptone Audio MMK DC Conversion installed - see Further information: This i5 2.5GHz Mac Mini from 2012 (Model A1347) was used as an always-on headless Roon Server.
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