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This is the ‘non deluxe' Chronos 240GB drive, which can be reflected by the sticker of the drive itself. It is plain black and not a gradient style green.
The bundle includes a 3.5 inch bay adapter and mounting screws. They also include a support card which has a American phone number on it.
The Chronos 240GB drive looks almost identical to the 120GB Deluxe version. The sticker colour is different.
This drive uses NAND flash memory, marked '29F16B08 CAME1′. This is actually Intel NAND which we have seen used before in other drives, such as the ADATA S511. It is good memory, but we noticed that it tended to suffer a little when dealing with incompressible data.
As many already know Sandforce controllers use real time compression. The controllers store a ‘representation’ of your data, not the actual data itself which is achieved by creating a partition of the available NAND flash memory.
Excellent price for the 240GB drive, under 150 is excellent. why the sudden drop in price for all SSDs lately?
So many sandforce drives out now, id just go for the cheapest. which right now seems to be the 240GB on OCUK for £139.
thats a detailed review. I think id go for the vertex 4, but I noticed the 128GB drive is slower than the 512gb you reviewed a while ago. I dont think that was pointed out too clearly.