Questions about SSDs (o/t)

Questions about SSDs (o/t)

[John Robinson]

On 05/05/2010 08:47, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote ("Re: Questions about 4k 
sector drives"):
> On Wed, 5 May 2010, John Robinson wrote:
>> You can? Which one(s)? Would they be good for putting md bitmaps and filesystem journals on?
> 
> Yes. The Intel X25-V 40G drive is the one I would recommend, I use it as a system drive in one box, it's not as fast (linear write speed) as the X25-M drives, but it's definitely a step up from the 5400rpm 2.5" drive I used in the system before :P 

Ah that sounds good for md bitmaps and filesystem journals on 
small-medium sized machines.

But definitely going o/t now I'm also thinking of upgrading my laptop to 
an SSD, 4GB RAM and Windows 7 (sorry for swearing ;-) so that's probably 
a bit small and slow. Even the X25-M's 70MB/s quoted write speed sounds 
a bit slow (a minute to hibernate?) but are Intel still the only ones 
with sane firmware? (A look at Anandtech's storage pages suggest this 
area is a minefield.) So I was wondering what to get, whether getting 
anything with faster writes than Intel's current generation is risky?

Cheers,

John.