As a follow-upward to our previous SSD coverage, today nosotros will be looking at 4 pop mainstream SSD offerings which include the A-Information S592 128GB, Corsair P Series 128GB, OCZ Agility 120GB and the OCZ Vertex Turbo 120GB.

Although all these products are MLC flash-based and target the consumer enthusiast market, they do vary in price, on-lath controllers, memory chips, and cache sizes, which should make for some very interesting results.

With dozens of manufacturers now offer some kind of solid state drive, you should know at that place are only a handful of them you should business concern yourself with. MLC drives based on either the Samsung S3C29RBB01-YK40, Indilinx Barefoot or Intel'south own controller are all you should exist looking at today. While the Intel controller remains the superior performer when information technology comes to minor data writes, the Samsung and Indilinx controllers are worthy alternatives.

Picking between an SSD based on the Samsung and Indilinx controllers is no easy chore. Overall we accept observed that drives using the Indilinx controller are slightly faster, only with functioning nigh as well close to be called, it usually comes downwardly to price. Given that the OCZ Summit (Samsung) is more expensive than the Vertex (Indilinx) we would probable option the latter.

But throwing more drives into the mix, it will be interesting to see how the Corsair P Serial (Samsung) stands up against the new OCZ Vertex Turbo SSD. We also have included a cutting-downward OCZ entry-level drive named Agility, which tin exist had for but $300 with a 120GB chapters. A-Information also sent in their new S592 series 128GB SSD, based on the Indilinx controller.