Show us your SSD performance

TechTune said:

whs said:

Why do you think this is bad - it is actually pretty good. And how come you cannot update the F/W (not that you need to do that).

Thought the finer the line was the more stable the drive was, still in learning mode with my new SSD..
Yeah, Intel sad it was eighter the lack of ACHI mode in BIOS or the fact that I have a nvidia chipset

No, the ups and downs are from some processes running on your system. Stop all applications on your system and run it again. Your line will be flatter.

Yeah, makes sense really..
pparks1, did you update yours? see any preformance increase after doing that Intel maintenance tool?

pparks1 said:

I just reinstalled my OS after a BIOS upgrade and switched over to using AHCI rather than IDE. I don't have any Intel maintenance tools installed....I stuck 100% with the built-in Windows 7 drivers.

Did the switch to AHCI yield any better performance?

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pparks1 said:

While I understand that SSD's are great with read speeds and almost non-existent access times.....there is no denying that their write speeds are staggeringly bad.
Staggeringly bad wrandom write speeds in real life use plauge a lot of SSDs it's true, but Intel and OCZ have seen the light and they both post random write speeds as good as a single high perfoamance hard drives at the cost of a slight reduction in "overall" write speeds in benchmarks.

Many drives when brand new post great sequential write speeds out of the gate and that's what the manufacturers tout and most people never look further from, but then fail to almost useless when they start to fill up or use random write block sizes. Not so with the latest offerings with latest firmware from Intel and OCZ.

Intel and OCZ had rough starts with this but have clered up dramatically in the last few months. I finally was willing to actually buy an SSD for myself after months of seeing them fail miserably when put to real use.

Toms and Anandtech have some pretty in depth articles on the subject.

[Edit]
I got the 160 gig X-25M, not really benchmarked it yet but in a test install of 7100 I got a WEI score of 7.6 for the drive :) The harddrive is no longer by far the slowest thing in my mahcine but is now by far the fastest.

Saving pennies to get a 2nd X-25M 160GB and then put it in RAID 0. That'll be a screamer.:)

For those wanting to get into the SSD world, without spending alot to do so, 30GB Vertex and Intels 40Gb X25-V.

Granted, some others shown here are faster, but these are value drives at just over $100 mark.

IMO, they Intel is the better bargan as it has 37.1GB useable space VS the Vertex 29.8. and seem slightly faster for the OS.
Non-the-less, they are both good drives.

Heres a look at both side by side:

Given those numbers, I would say the Intel is the better deal - even at a few Dollars more. If I remember right you could get one for around $130 and the Vertex was offered at $89 - both with MIR.

there were initial problems running TRIM in RAID arrays, but intel have just released a new driver:
Intel release TRIM for RAID | bit-tech.net

-quote:
"There are caveats to the driver, of course: your operating system needs in-built TRIM support, and all drives in the array must be TRIM-compatible. You're also out of luck if you're running RAID 5, for some reason – although the home-use scenarios of RAID 0 or RAID 1 are well covered."