yes there is. id get the corsair force or mushkin castillo deluxe. IOPS are how many Input output operations per second your drive can perform. It comes into play when dealing with small files such as 4k read and writes. If you have a drive that can do 50k but its limit to 10k you feel kinda sad

 

Um, the Corsair Force still uses SF-1200. The OCZ Agility 2 drives have cheaper NAND, thus crippling the amount of IOPS to 10k.

Edit:

I kind of mis-read your question.

 

In that case, I'll try going for the Force.

Do you guys by any chance know if Newegg accepts refused packages as returns, and doesn't charge me the restock fee in the process?

I'm ordering the Force from NewEgg too, would they waive the fee?

Thanks again!

 

This is not totally true, the agility2 can sustain 50k for about 10 sec then it starts to degrade toward 10k.

10+ sec of 100% 4k random read is pretty rare, In real-world situations you will never notice it.

I'll update with the link, but the benchmark I saw they had to write a special case just to show this difference.

On the otherhand if its only $10 difference just buy the vertex2

 

I would like to see that, b/c its firmware capped at 10k, it shouldn't be able to exceed it.

 

Ok here is the question. What is the hardware difference between the 1200 and 1500???

This should be interesting eheh.

 

nothing, just firmware. trick question

 

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Originally Posted by SimpleTech Um, the Corsair Force still uses SF-1200. The OCZ Agility 2 drives have cheaper NAND, thus crippling the amount of IOPS to 10k. Edit: I kind of mis-read your question.

Nope. It is a firmware difference.

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Originally Posted by TheSSDReview Ok here is the question. What is the hardware difference between the 1200 and 1500??? This should be interesting eheh.

Read: http://www.anandtech.com/show/3661/u...ives-are-equal

 

basically what we already know also since its enterprise it works with a large cap that stores power to finish write in power failure.
"Let's start with the obvious and what I suspected: there is no physical difference between the SF-1200 and SF-1500. It's the same die. The difference between the two amounts to firmware, validation and settings on the chips themselves. It's akin to Intel disabling Hyper Threading on the Core i5 750 but leaving it enabled on the Core i7 860; same die, different features."

 

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Originally Posted by TheSSDReview Ok here is the question. What is the hardware difference between the 1200 and 1500??? This should be interesting eheh.

1500 comes with a big capacitor for enterprise data security.

 

Confirmed through SF. There is no difference in hardware whatsoever between the two. The next question is whether there has been a FW recently released that will make the 1200 perform near the specs of the 1500 without it being classified as a 1500.

 

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Originally Posted by TheSSDReview Confirmed through SF. There is no difference in hardware whatsoever between the two. The next question is whether there has been a FW recently released that will make the 1200 perform near the specs of the 1500 without it being classified as a 1500.

There are three firmware lines.... SF-1500, SF-1200 "SE", and SF-1200. While the physical controller is basically the same, the SF-1500 platform does have a physical difference. It expects a large cap to allow it to complete writes from cache in event of power loss.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/3661/u...ives-are-equal