About a year and a half ago I laid out almost $300 for 2 of these drives (one on 12/18/2008, one on 1/8/2009), one for my laptop and one for my desktop. Since that time I have had to do a complete drive reset (using HDD Erase) several times because of the infamous "stuttering" issue. Is/did G.SKILL are/ever give any support for these drives or are people like me stuck with these garbage drives? I have since bought an OCZ Vertex LE for my laptop and now have both in my desktop in RAID0 and performance is still very bad. I know the Vertex LE is a gen2 Sandforce-1500 based drives and these two are J.Micron based gen1 drvies, but the performance is garbage! Performance across the board, except in sequential reads) is 2-24x SLOWER on these 2 drives in RAID0 compared to my OCZ.
For reference, my systems are:
Desktop: ASUS Crosshair IV, Phenom II x4 965 C3 4ghz, 8GiB OCZ Platinum DDR3 1600 7-7-7-16 1T, Sapphire Radeon HD 5970 915/1200, 2x64GB G.SKILL SSD RAID0 + 1TB WD Black + 500GB Seagate, Creative X-Fi Titanium, SeaSonic X750, Antec 1200, Samsung 2433BW, Win 7 Ultimate x64
Laptop: MSI GT735, Turion Ultra x2 2.6ghz, 4GiB DDR2 800, Mobility Radeon HD 3850, 100GB OCZ Vertex LE SSD, Windows 7 Pro x64
For reference, my systems are:
Desktop: ASUS Crosshair IV, Phenom II x4 965 C3 4ghz, 8GiB OCZ Platinum DDR3 1600 7-7-7-16 1T, Sapphire Radeon HD 5970 915/1200, 2x64GB G.SKILL SSD RAID0 + 1TB WD Black + 500GB Seagate, Creative X-Fi Titanium, SeaSonic X750, Antec 1200, Samsung 2433BW, Win 7 Ultimate x64
Laptop: MSI GT735, Turion Ultra x2 2.6ghz, 4GiB DDR2 800, Mobility Radeon HD 3850, 100GB OCZ Vertex LE SSD, Windows 7 Pro x64
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