Furthered by the evidence that a number of bit-tech and CustomPC staffers are in the process of, or have already upgraded to a few dozen GBs of solid state speediness – an endorsement that perhaps from now on is the time to consider replacing you’re systems boot drive.The G.Skill Falcon 128GB is then a possible candidate for that ever more tempting SSD upgrade, as it’s based around the same Indilinx drive design as the OCZ Vertex that so impressed last month, yet manages to weigh in at a good £50 cheaper. Not only are we seeing prices starting to drop into a somewhat affordable price range (from their previous levels of wallet melting financo-fury), but with the newer ARM drive controllers from Indilinx and Samsung, as well as the uptake of decent sized onboard cache, SSDs are now convincingly faster than their mechanical brethren in every single circumstance.The fact is that an SSD is now a worthy addition to a high performance system. You might remember this application being called SSD Guru, but it has been renamed.After something of a rocky start, it really feels like SSDs are coming of age recently.
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In addition, the G.Skill update wipes the whole drive, whereas the OCZ does not. As we’ve seen before, SSD performance is almost entirely dependent on firmware, with bug fixes and performance tweaks needing to be easily rolled out for users to keep their SSD up to date.However, you cannot update the firmware on the drive if it's your primary system drive - you have to plug it into another system and boot from that to flash it. These are for use with an (included) 2-pin jumper for putting the drive into a state where its firmware can be flashed, using a simple windows based installation program. Which is no bad thing.There is a very minor difference though and it’s in the form of two jumper pins recessed inside the drive (they’re flush with the exterior on the Vertex). If you put the two PCBs together it’d be near impossible to tell the difference and, where it counts, the Falcon is identical to the OCZ Vertex. There’s the same banks of Samsung MLC NAND flash memory using sixteen 8GB K9HCG08U1M modules, the same Indilinx IDX110M00 ARM “Barefoot” chip and the same Elpida S51321CBH-6DTT-F 64MB SDRAM cache.
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