Hynix SL301 250GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s SSD - Retail overview
SK hynixSATA Solid State Drive (SSD) has the highest level of SSD performance. SK hynixSATA SSD is the best suited for NAND storage solution that requires fast speed, low cost, and power saving features. SATA SSD provides robust and cost effective storage solution for PC application. SL301 is fully compliant with SATA revision 3.1, which is fully compatible with traditional HDD. SSD offers the customer an easy solution to replace HDD in PC-based systems. SL301 STD 2.5" is designed to recover from NAND degradation by providing TRIM functions.
Sequential Performance (128KB, Typ.)Read: Up to 540MB/s
Write: Up to 470MB/s
Random Performance (4KB, Typical)Read: Up to 95K IOPS
Write: Up to 85K IOPS
-good speed compared to SanDisk models and cheaper too
Free collection from Novatech or add £2.39 for economy postage
- spannerzone
Top comments
Rid1 to riccom
5 Mar 166#6
Sometimes the search function don't work mate, give him a break and there is free delivery on it.
fishmaster
5 Mar 164#5
6Gb/s means six gigabits per second and refers to it being SATA III capable. This means a theoretical speed of
6 x 1024 = 6144Mb/s which is megabits not megabytes, to convert to megabytes we need to divide by 8 this gives us a theoretical maximum of 768MB/s megabytes per second on this bus.
This drive has a theoretical max read of 540MB/s and write of 478MB/s. 4K random write will be massively below this and this is the figure that really matters. however it's better than a conventional hard drive, much better.
I'll vote HOT on this, but the deal description is poor, it needs the drive manufacturer and 6gb/s should be Gb/s as that's the correct notation to indicate gigabits and is less relevant as it relates to the theoretical SATA bus limit and not to the actual capability of the drive. You could just state SATA III.
TL;DR
Revise the title of this deal. Also understanding the item you're posting will help the deal.
ED: See Bogglesmith2 post below where he corrects some of the data I've posted here. I was working on SATA III being measured in Gigabits not Gibibits.
"Third-generation SATA interfaces run with a native transfer rate of 6.0 Gbit/s; taking 8b/10b encoding into account, the maximum uncoded transfer rate is 4.8 Gbit/s (600 MB/s). The theoretical burst throughput of SATA 6.0 Gbit/s is double that of SATA revision 2.0. It is backward compatible with SATA 3 Gbit/s"
You can be as pedantic as you like I certainly am :smiley: We're both correct and you supplemented further information to give greater meaning.
For example I can say Gb is the correct notation for Gigabits, now if I supplied GB is the correction notation for Gigabytes, it is therefore obvious which letter indicates the difference, since I only included Gb it wasn't obvious unless someone was aware of GB.
So I consider your reply to me to in fact not be pedantic but give clarifying information, vis a vis Gigabytes versus Gigabits. Therefore I should politely like your post which I have done :smiley:
I've just started programming Python, just getting my head around Modulus which I've never done before, and at first I really didn't get it, then after an hour or so I actually did get it, and from further experimentation I could see patterns in the Modulus as I decremented the divisor, I also noticed that incrementing the divisor positively over the dividend would not give me any number greater than the dividend. So why am I saying this? Well language gives us many variations of understanding and presentation of language, when I looked on stack exchange for answers, some people had left out important information that helped understanding of the material, I then kept looking and hunting for some one that could explain it and break it down fully so I could visualise what was happening.
Attention to detail is important, and my post whilst correct was lacking in detail that could help some one of little to no knowledge of the subject matter understand it correctly/fully.
dxx
5 Mar 163#13
To be a bit pedantic, it's the case of the B that denotes whether it's bits or bytes, not the G. Agree with the rest though.
I have some Hynix DDR2 RAM that has been going for over 8 years now.
What kind of nand does this unit sport?
bogglesmith2
6 Mar 16#28
Wow, that's pretty disreputable. Will avoid them where possible in the future.
huangxq2
6 Mar 162#27
There is no need to be rude, hwangeruk.
Watch your language!
I have used and seen their RAM in the past, never used or heard about their SSD. That does mean what I said was wrong.
huangxq2
6 Mar 16#24
Not one of the most recognised SSD.
Its price is not much cheaper than the mainstream SSDs.
Sorry, cold for me. Cannot recommend it.
krisward7955 to huangxq2
6 Mar 16#25
Hynix have been making memory chips or years and have been around since 1949. And im pretty sure they make chips for Crucial and some others.
I would highly recommend them, but not Novatech.. Like others have said, they sell 2nd hand stuff as new..
hwangeruk to huangxq2
6 Mar 16#26
Plonker. Just because you've never heard of them?
From Wikipedia: A very well know semiconductor maker. (Probably in some electronics in your house as we speak)
Voted hot, to combat your lack of knowledge :smiley:
dilbertov
5 Mar 162#7
Ordered a Samsung SSD from them three weeks ago. It never appeared. Had to wait 7 working days beyond expected delivery date, then fill in a claim form. Was only refunded item price and not delivery. Was told it was policy not to refund P&P. Had to argue the case with them. They even tried to wriggle out saying I had returned the non-faulty item and the package was damaged, despite having told them twice it hadn't been delivered and must have been returned by their courier. Eventually coughed up the carriage as well. Very poor. Will not be using them again.
Rid1 to dilbertov
6 Mar 16#18
I ordered my PSU, EVGA 500B, was entitled to free delivery chose it. My PSU came the next day :smiley: No faults. or anything.
huangxq2 to dilbertov
6 Mar 161#23
Bought a brand new hard drive from them.
It turned out to be a used, they faked the white label with date and sticked over the original lable on the hard drive. The fake label is so thin you can actually see through there is another label underneath it. They put it in those hard drive plastic bags, sealed it and sell as brand new.
And the hard drive turn out to be faulty as well, when plug into my computer, it does not even power on, spin or make any noise. It is dead.
I returned and got my money back.
But they went so far to fake an used hard drive as a brand new is so unethical.
I will never touch them ever again.
GDB2222
6 Mar 161#22
This takes me back to the time of dial up modems, where I usually divided the quoted speed in bits by 10 to get the actual achievable speed in bytes. You had to allow an extra couple of bits per byte for hand shaking and error correction.
manc007
6 Mar 16#21
Tempted but have bills to pay!
Note that orders over £50 will get free delivery & it does come with a 3 year warranty.
M1sterDeeds
6 Mar 161#20
How many bytes in a donut.
alexjameshaines
6 Mar 16#19
That's the problem though, no consistency. I've ordered a lot from EBuyer for next day and have it arrive upto 5 days later and then have to return it as I really did need it the next day. on the other hand you get stories like yours!
SaltyCDogg
6 Mar 161#17
Personally I'd like to see less absolutely pointless semantics about the SATA III (6Gb/s) connection on this and nearly every other drive for the last 6 years and more about if this drive is worth choosing over other drives at this price point.
This drive seems pretty decent to me. Better than a lot of the others below £50
Tivolian
6 Mar 16#16
Lol .... "Being lanA" ..... read lanA reversed.
Some odd words in the swear filter here.
Tivolian
6 Mar 16#15
Better known as "Being ****". :wink:
fishmaster
5 Mar 163#14
You can be as pedantic as you like I certainly am :smiley: We're both correct and you supplemented further information to give greater meaning.
For example I can say Gb is the correct notation for Gigabits, now if I supplied GB is the correction notation for Gigabytes, it is therefore obvious which letter indicates the difference, since I only included Gb it wasn't obvious unless someone was aware of GB.
So I consider your reply to me to in fact not be pedantic but give clarifying information, vis a vis Gigabytes versus Gigabits. Therefore I should politely like your post which I have done :smiley:
I've just started programming Python, just getting my head around Modulus which I've never done before, and at first I really didn't get it, then after an hour or so I actually did get it, and from further experimentation I could see patterns in the Modulus as I decremented the divisor, I also noticed that incrementing the divisor positively over the dividend would not give me any number greater than the dividend. So why am I saying this? Well language gives us many variations of understanding and presentation of language, when I looked on stack exchange for answers, some people had left out important information that helped understanding of the material, I then kept looking and hunting for some one that could explain it and break it down fully so I could visualise what was happening.
Attention to detail is important, and my post whilst correct was lacking in detail that could help some one of little to no knowledge of the subject matter understand it correctly/fully.
dxx
5 Mar 163#13
To be a bit pedantic, it's the case of the B that denotes whether it's bits or bytes, not the G. Agree with the rest though.
bogglesmith2
5 Mar 161#12
It's gigabits not gibibits, so 6000/8 = 750MB/s data rate. SATA also uses 8b/10b encoding, so the max throughput is 600MB/s (750*(8/10)).
SFconvert
5 Mar 16#11
True but ebuyer have some enclosures for about £3, so I can use the old HDD to plug into the TV.
SFconvert
5 Mar 161#9
Tempted to pull the trigger on this, if only novatech had a reasonable priced hdd enclosure though as i need one in order to transfer the drives. Cheapest they have seems to be around £10
You have not listed a retailer in title, plus delivery charge on top of that, and that model has now been posted 5 times already if you search for it for!
Rid1 to riccom
5 Mar 166#6
Sometimes the search function don't work mate, give him a break and there is free delivery on it.
fishmaster
5 Mar 164#5
6Gb/s means six gigabits per second and refers to it being SATA III capable. This means a theoretical speed of
6 x 1024 = 6144Mb/s which is megabits not megabytes, to convert to megabytes we need to divide by 8 this gives us a theoretical maximum of 768MB/s megabytes per second on this bus.
This drive has a theoretical max read of 540MB/s and write of 478MB/s. 4K random write will be massively below this and this is the figure that really matters. however it's better than a conventional hard drive, much better.
I'll vote HOT on this, but the deal description is poor, it needs the drive manufacturer and 6gb/s should be Gb/s as that's the correct notation to indicate gigabits and is less relevant as it relates to the theoretical SATA bus limit and not to the actual capability of the drive. You could just state SATA III.
TL;DR
Revise the title of this deal. Also understanding the item you're posting will help the deal.
ED: See Bogglesmith2 post below where he corrects some of the data I've posted here. I was working on SATA III being measured in Gigabits not Gibibits.
"Third-generation SATA interfaces run with a native transfer rate of 6.0 Gbit/s; taking 8b/10b encoding into account, the maximum uncoded transfer rate is 4.8 Gbit/s (600 MB/s). The theoretical burst throughput of SATA 6.0 Gbit/s is double that of SATA revision 2.0. It is backward compatible with SATA 3 Gbit/s"
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Opening post
SK hynixSATA Solid State Drive (SSD) has the highest level of SSD performance. SK hynixSATA SSD is the best suited for NAND storage solution that requires fast speed, low cost, and power saving features. SATA SSD provides robust and cost effective storage solution for PC application. SL301 is fully compliant with SATA revision 3.1, which is fully compatible with traditional HDD. SSD offers the customer an easy solution to replace HDD in PC-based systems. SL301 STD 2.5" is designed to recover from NAND degradation by providing TRIM functions.
Sequential Performance (128KB, Typ.)Read: Up to 540MB/s
Write: Up to 470MB/s
Random Performance (4KB, Typical)Read: Up to 95K IOPS
Write: Up to 85K IOPS
-good speed compared to SanDisk models and cheaper too
Free collection from Novatech or add £2.39 for economy postage
- spannerzone
Top comments
6 x 1024 = 6144Mb/s which is megabits not megabytes, to convert to megabytes we need to divide by 8 this gives us a theoretical maximum of 768MB/s megabytes per second on this bus.
This drive has a theoretical max read of 540MB/s and write of 478MB/s. 4K random write will be massively below this and this is the figure that really matters. however it's better than a conventional hard drive, much better.
I'll vote HOT on this, but the deal description is poor, it needs the drive manufacturer and 6gb/s should be Gb/s as that's the correct notation to indicate gigabits and is less relevant as it relates to the theoretical SATA bus limit and not to the actual capability of the drive. You could just state SATA III.
TL;DR
Revise the title of this deal. Also understanding the item you're posting will help the deal.
ED: See Bogglesmith2 post below where he corrects some of the data I've posted here. I was working on SATA III being measured in Gigabits not Gibibits.
"Third-generation SATA interfaces run with a native transfer rate of 6.0 Gbit/s; taking 8b/10b encoding into account, the maximum uncoded transfer rate is 4.8 Gbit/s (600 MB/s). The theoretical burst throughput of SATA 6.0 Gbit/s is double that of SATA revision 2.0. It is backward compatible with SATA 3 Gbit/s"
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA#SATA_revision_3.0_.286_Gbit.2Fs.2C_600_MB.2Fs.29
For example I can say Gb is the correct notation for Gigabits, now if I supplied GB is the correction notation for Gigabytes, it is therefore obvious which letter indicates the difference, since I only included Gb it wasn't obvious unless someone was aware of GB.
So I consider your reply to me to in fact not be pedantic but give clarifying information, vis a vis Gigabytes versus Gigabits. Therefore I should politely like your post which I have done :smiley:
I've just started programming Python, just getting my head around Modulus which I've never done before, and at first I really didn't get it, then after an hour or so I actually did get it, and from further experimentation I could see patterns in the Modulus as I decremented the divisor, I also noticed that incrementing the divisor positively over the dividend would not give me any number greater than the dividend. So why am I saying this? Well language gives us many variations of understanding and presentation of language, when I looked on stack exchange for answers, some people had left out important information that helped understanding of the material, I then kept looking and hunting for some one that could explain it and break it down fully so I could visualise what was happening.
Attention to detail is important, and my post whilst correct was lacking in detail that could help some one of little to no knowledge of the subject matter understand it correctly/fully.
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What kind of nand does this unit sport?
Watch your language!
I have used and seen their RAM in the past, never used or heard about their SSD. That does mean what I said was wrong.
Its price is not much cheaper than the mainstream SSDs.
Sorry, cold for me. Cannot recommend it.
I would highly recommend them, but not Novatech.. Like others have said, they sell 2nd hand stuff as new..
From Wikipedia:
A very well know semiconductor maker. (Probably in some electronics in your house as we speak)
Voted hot, to combat your lack of knowledge :smiley:
It turned out to be a used, they faked the white label with date and sticked over the original lable on the hard drive. The fake label is so thin you can actually see through there is another label underneath it. They put it in those hard drive plastic bags, sealed it and sell as brand new.
And the hard drive turn out to be faulty as well, when plug into my computer, it does not even power on, spin or make any noise. It is dead.
I returned and got my money back.
But they went so far to fake an used hard drive as a brand new is so unethical.
I will never touch them ever again.
Note that orders over £50 will get free delivery & it does come with a 3 year warranty.
This drive seems pretty decent to me. Better than a lot of the others below £50
Some odd words in the swear filter here.
For example I can say Gb is the correct notation for Gigabits, now if I supplied GB is the correction notation for Gigabytes, it is therefore obvious which letter indicates the difference, since I only included Gb it wasn't obvious unless someone was aware of GB.
So I consider your reply to me to in fact not be pedantic but give clarifying information, vis a vis Gigabytes versus Gigabits. Therefore I should politely like your post which I have done :smiley:
I've just started programming Python, just getting my head around Modulus which I've never done before, and at first I really didn't get it, then after an hour or so I actually did get it, and from further experimentation I could see patterns in the Modulus as I decremented the divisor, I also noticed that incrementing the divisor positively over the dividend would not give me any number greater than the dividend. So why am I saying this? Well language gives us many variations of understanding and presentation of language, when I looked on stack exchange for answers, some people had left out important information that helped understanding of the material, I then kept looking and hunting for some one that could explain it and break it down fully so I could visualise what was happening.
Attention to detail is important, and my post whilst correct was lacking in detail that could help some one of little to no knowledge of the subject matter understand it correctly/fully.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B00Q4W3262/ref=mp_s_a_1_6?qid=1457206858&sr=8-6&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=sata+to+usb&dpPl=1&dpID=4122YfI4GpL&ref=plSrch
6 x 1024 = 6144Mb/s which is megabits not megabytes, to convert to megabytes we need to divide by 8 this gives us a theoretical maximum of 768MB/s megabytes per second on this bus.
This drive has a theoretical max read of 540MB/s and write of 478MB/s. 4K random write will be massively below this and this is the figure that really matters. however it's better than a conventional hard drive, much better.
I'll vote HOT on this, but the deal description is poor, it needs the drive manufacturer and 6gb/s should be Gb/s as that's the correct notation to indicate gigabits and is less relevant as it relates to the theoretical SATA bus limit and not to the actual capability of the drive. You could just state SATA III.
TL;DR
Revise the title of this deal. Also understanding the item you're posting will help the deal.
ED: See Bogglesmith2 post below where he corrects some of the data I've posted here. I was working on SATA III being measured in Gigabits not Gibibits.
"Third-generation SATA interfaces run with a native transfer rate of 6.0 Gbit/s; taking 8b/10b encoding into account, the maximum uncoded transfer rate is 4.8 Gbit/s (600 MB/s). The theoretical burst throughput of SATA 6.0 Gbit/s is double that of SATA revision 2.0. It is backward compatible with SATA 3 Gbit/s"
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA#SATA_revision_3.0_.286_Gbit.2Fs.2C_600_MB.2Fs.29
You can save more with the San Disk drive (44.99) or pop the extra for the Samsung, seems a bit meh.
free delivery on orders over £49.99
I got the 3.5" -2.5" 2slot drive bay converter to get the free delivery.
http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/components/harddrives-internal/ssdsolidstate/ssdaccessories/ak-hda-03.html
-although today the price has reduced so no longer would qualify the free delivery