G.Skill Displays Phoenix II SATA 6 Gbps SSD with Blazing 550 MB/s Speeds

G.Skill showed off its fastest SATA solid state drive (SSD) at CeBIT, the Phoenix II series. Based on the SandForce SF-2000 series controller, Phoenix II pushes the limits of SF-2000 series in terms of throughput, and advertises some of the highest transfer rates for the chipset: 550 MB/s read, and 500 MB/s write. The company even validated these speeds using a session of ATTO disk benchmark. The 120 GB Phoenix II SSD was connected to an AMD SB850 SATA 6 Gb/s controller, on a system headed by Phenom II X6 processor. G.Skill said that the 120 GB model would be priced at €299.

Corsair Unveils Flaming Red Force GT Series SATA 6 Gb/s SSDs

Corsair's best memory modules come under the Dominator line, the best Dominator modules are marked under Dominator GT, with their distinctive flaming red heatsinks. Corsair is looking to extend the "GT" marker even to its SSDs, and is ready with the Force GT line of 2.5-inch SATA 6 Gb/s SSDs. As you can see, the flaming red product scheme is carried over. Driven by the latest SandForce SF-2000 series controllers, Force GT offers read speeds of up to 520 MB/s, and 500 MB/s write speeds. It is available in number of capacities in the higher quadrant. At least the 240 GB model will be launched very soon.



This post has been edited by owikh84: Mar 10 2011, 09:11 PM

Intel X18-M G2 160GB x2 raid0



This post has been edited by owikh84: Mar 10 2011, 09:09 PM

ur SATA2 based SSD will performance similarly on both SATA2 and SATA3 ports.
it wont get anything extra from SATA3 port.

New tech and cheaper than G2 when it launched.
I would say the prices are reasonable. Most importantly is reliability as compared to other brands. U wont go wrong with Intel.

I suspect this is microSATA to SATA adapter issue. Some types adapters are working fine, although cheap.

This post has been edited by owikh84: Apr 2 2011, 04:40 PM

eBay search for "1.8 to 2.5"
But beware u might find it incompatible with this SSD.

I strongly believe it's the adapter issues like what I encountered just recently.
it will work like 2-3 times then kaput. I got one adapter which is very durable and working until now, slightly different from the problematic ones.
Too bad don't have any extra for sale. But i can source for it thru my supplier.

Tried these?
unplug and replug the SSD
Device Manager > scan for new hardware
Disk Mgt > rescan disk

then nothing can be done d btw bro which type of adapter r u using?

sorry to hear that bro, but Stableau hmm i tot it will detect the SSD nicely.
but i'm still thinking that the SSD is still working perfectly if correct adapter is used.
mine is brandless but working excellently, physically it looked exactly like this:

but has a white bar code sticker pasted on the adapter. It has been serving me since 4 months+ for main OS.

Use AHCI to enable TRIM support.

IDE vs AHCI

IDE mode :
read seq. : 255,1
write seq : 91.61
read 512k : 169.3
write 512k : 91.11
read 4k : 23.80
write 4k : 64.17

AHCI mode :
read seq. : 268,8 (+ 5.37%)
write seq : 90,43 (-1.29%)
read 512k : 205,2 (+21,20% !!!)
write 512k : 90,82 (-0.32%)
read 4k : 24.02 (+ 0.92%)
write 4k : 66.41 (+ 3.49%)

Sorry im not comfortable to copy n paste here using my phone.
U may refer to my thread HERE for tips to enable ACHI in win7.
Or google as well.

Thanks for sharing bro. I was about to pull the trigger to pay 20pcs until i saw this. If not, RM3k wasted like that.

did u do the registry tweak?

can u pass error checking and benchmark with Crystaldiskmark and HDTune?

this is odd, boot time wont take that long unless ur storage device is partially faulty it will drag the IDE detection longer until recognition successful.
change back to AHCI again but this time unplug any other HDDs and see. just to error out any placebo effects.

after reinstall windows how is it? still slow booting?
hv u tried unplugging other optical devices and let the SSD alone booting?

This post has been edited by owikh84: Apr 9 2011, 06:47 PM

it is initializing for devices. did u install all drivers included in ur mobo driver disc?
might try flash to the latest bios as well, as it will boot faster like mine.
first of all if u removed the other HDD will SSD boot faster? sorry I'm not sure if u had answered me before but i suspect ur HDD is the problem.

"It should be noted that Intel’s announcement about TRIM support only applies to single SSD’s that are present in a system with a RAID array, and not to a RAID array of SSD’s"

"SSD's" word in the sentence makes confusion.
raid two SSDs WONT be supported by TRIM
single none-raid SSD in a system which has raided HDDs is TRIM supported

most likely the energy savings settings in the bios/win7 performance settings slowing it down.
disable all cpu energy saving options in the bios.
in win7 power management performance option set to high then in advanced set the hard disk to never power down/never sleep.
log off and idle overnight twice a week to keep performance up.