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G.Skill releases the Falcon

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G.Skill releases the Falcon
By The Inquirer
Apr 21, 2009 | 5 Comments
Tags: g.skill | ssd | solid | state | drive

New contender G.Skill to prey on the SSD market.

Memory manufacturer G.Skill has launched its latest piece of kit, the Falcon SATA II 2.5in, an MLC-based Solid State Drive (SSD) Series complete with Korean-based Indilink's controller.

G.Skill reckons its Falcon series sporting a 64MB DRAM buffer scores "the best read/write performance stability" in its words, because it doesn't cause any OS stutter, whatever that is. The Falcon series has apparently been hatched in three different capacities - 64GB, 128GB and 256GB.

G.Skill claims that the 128GB and 256GB drives have a read/write performance of230/190 MB/Sec, whilst it says the 64GB drives are capable of 230/135 MB/Sec.

The Taiwanese memory maker also posits its SSDs have a good 1.5 million hour mean time before failure (MTBF) rating, and also mentions that they come with a worldwide two-year warranty, just in case.

 

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Trekker
Apr 21, 2009 10:29 AM
i think this might be the one to get.. been in the market but then i read about the os stutter...

price ideas or out yet?
Hawkeye
Apr 21, 2009 11:31 AM
Wait and see, I'm afraid, but I'm chasing them up :)

- DH
RaRaDawg
Apr 21, 2009 7:34 PM
Hmm, that seems fast and in a good size as well... something to consider!
Trekker
Apr 22, 2009 11:49 AM
are they out yet i cannot find them on the net pages
RaRaDawg
Apr 22, 2009 5:17 PM
Lol... i doubt they would be out right now...its the latest from G.Skill. Latest products take their time to come down here
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