Show us your SSD performance

[whs]

I am glad that all of you finally came to that conclusion. There are too many sagas floating around regarding the "fragility" of the SSDs.

 

[pparks1]

I am glad that all of you finally came to that conclusion. There are too many sagas floating around regarding the "fragility" of the SSDs.

Agreed. I plan to long retire my SSD due to it's small size long before I come close to wearing it out. I think we as techies worry and exaggerate the amount of wear and tear we place onto our machines.

 

[essenbe]

I am glad that all of you finally came to that conclusion. There are too many sagas floating around regarding the "fragility" of the SSDs.

Agreed. I plan to long retire my SSD due to it's small size long before I come close to wearing it out. I think we as techies worry and exaggerate the amount of wear and tear we place onto our machines.

I agree. I know WHS has 2 of the 1st gen SSDs, but some of the 1st gen, did have some issues. But, 2nd and 3rd GEN are pretty rugged.

 

[pooch]

This is without a doubt an interesting subject. My outlook is this, at the moment SSD's are relatively small and compared to HDD's very expensive. The only real use for one is as the main drive with Windows installed on it which allows the user to benefit from the extra speed.
This is however going to change SSD's will grow in size, the speed will also increase, the price will keep falling and my upgraditis will sometime get the better of me.
When I upgrade there is no way I am going to just stop using the SSD's that I already have. Because of the small size, using them as a secondary drive is at the moment not an option. I plan therefore to use my drives as backups most likely using USB3, but due to the speed limitations I may well connect them internally.
I see in the not too distant future that HDD's will be used less and despite the cries that there is no point using an SSD as a secondary drive it will become more common place.
SSD's have a limited life, just how limited is unsure at the moment, so it makes sense to me to use this life sensibly.
I look forward to the day when I have superfast backups and data transfers. Even if my drives only last 6 months longer I feel that I will be getting a better return for the high price that I have payed out for this pleasure.
Just my two cents

 

[pparks1]

When I upgrade there is no way I am going to just stop using the SSD's that I already have.

I remember thinking the same thing about my first 250GB and 500GB standard hard drives and now those are long gone.

SSD's have a limited life, just how limited is unsure at the moment, so it makes sense to me to use this life sensibly.

I just use it. If I paid for it, I want to use it. I don't limit my use, I make sure that I get my monies worth out of it.

 

[Taliseian]

Not good with screenshots, but here's my info so far...

Intel 80g X25-M
Work Time - 5mo 7dys
Health 99%
Est Lifetime - 8yr 7mo (Feb 17, 2020)
Total Data Written -- 3533.5gb
Re-allocated Sector Count - 0
Media Wearout Indicator - 0


T

 

[pooch]

When I upgrade there is no way I am going to just stop using the SSD's that I already have.

I remember thinking the same thing about my first 250GB and 500GB standard hard drives and now those are long gone.

I still have one 250 GB drive it seems like I bought it a long time ago, but it can only be maybe 3 years old and it still has plenty of life in it

SSD's have a limited life, just how limited is unsure at the moment, so it makes sense to me to use this life sensibly.

I just use it. If I paid for it, I want to use it. I don't limit my use, I make sure that I get my monies worth out of it.

same thought just a different way of going about it

 

[Dave76]

Now the Xtreme Systems SSD testing thread will be joined by a C300 64GB and a M4 64 GB, this will be a great addition to the testing.
Will be interesting even though they have a lot of catching up to do.

 

[whs]

Not good with screenshots, but here's my info so far...

Intel 80g X25-M
Work Time - 5mo 7dys
Health 99%
Est Lifetime - 8yr 7mo (Feb 17, 2020)
Total Data Written -- 3533.5gb
Re-allocated Sector Count - 0
Media Wearout Indicator - 0


T

My oldest Intel Gen1 shows similar data:

 

[Hopalong X]

Now the Xtreme Systems SSD testing thread will be joined by a C300 64GB and a M4 64 GB, this will be a great addition to the testing.
Will be interesting even though they have a lot of catching up to do.

I registered at xtremeforums so I can ask questions if and when.
If they need any help they can come post over here.
I'll let all of you get them straight.

 

[essenbe]

Now the Xtreme Systems SSD testing thread will be joined by a C300 64GB and a M4 64 GB, this will be a great addition to the testing.
Will be interesting even though they have a lot of catching up to do.

I saw that yesterday. I think it is great, I wish they would include an M4 too. They seem to be trying to test the Sandforce controller but Vertex firmware won't allow them to

 

[Dave76]

They got a M4, post #597.

With the C300 and M4, another 34 vs 25 nand contest, this should be good to watch develop.

 

[essenbe]

Some of you may find this intresting. We have always said the the Paragon alignment tool was the only way to align an SSD without data loss. On the Crucial forums, they say it can be done with the free gparted live CD.

EDIT: for some reason that link dosen't work for me. Here is the link:

http://forums.crucial.com/t5/Solid-State-Drives-SSD/Re-alignment-without-data-loss/td-p/4829

 

[whs]

Some of you may find this intresting. We have always said the the Paragon alignment tool was the only way to align an SSD without data loss. On the Crucial forums, they say it can be done with the free gparted live CD.

EDIT: for some reason that link dosen't work for me. Here is the link:

Re-alignment without data loss. - Crucial Community

Yeah, I had seen several tutorials on how to do that. But you have to jump thru an awful lot of hops and there is space for error at every step. I would rather use the Paragon tool - a lot easier.

 

[stereo]

OCZ Vertex2
How do you know how many TB writes ... ?!
Thanks

 

[Hopalong X]

stereo

Bottom right corner. Yours is showing 128.0 GB at the moment. It is only 2 days old. When it gets to 999MB it will show 1.0 GB next.

 

[Hopalong X]

First Samsung 470 for comparison.
Second my Intel 320 120GB. Intel SATA 3.0Gbs controller iastor driver.
Third my Intel 320. Marvell 61xx (P55 moboard) SATA 6.0Gbs controller.

 

[carwiz]

I sure would hate to read through the whole 190 pages of this thread so could someone provide a short update on what everyone is comparing and why? Thanks, Ken

Here's my C300-128

 

[essenbe]

Basically they have a script that writes Different types of data to several models of SSDs. A lot of Data. They are basically trying to kill the SSDs by writes to them. The results so far are quite surprising. They started with a 40GB Kingston (Intel rebrand-34nm), a 40GB Intel 320 (22NM) and a vertex2. They have recently added a Samsung, C300 and an M4. The Vertex2 had to be pulled because of the firmware will only allow a certain amount of writes per day then it basically stops. Idle time revives it, but they couldn't continue. The last I saw it they had written 135TB to the 320 with a MWI of 30. I don't recall the Kingston but it wasn't far behind. The Crucials and the Samsung have just started. The Samsung is writing at 140MB/s probably faster than the others combined. That's the short version. Hopalong can give better details.

EDIT: If you keep up with it, you will laugh every time someone asks if he should put his pagefile on a mechanical hard drive.

 

[Hopalong X]

I sure would hate to read through the whole 190 pages of this thread so could someone provide a short update on what everyone is comparing and why? Thanks, Ken

Here's my C300-128

Overall this thread was to compare SSD performace on our persoanl SSD's with different software.
AS SSD and ATTO or the common ones used.

My posting about the xtreme forums is just an update to what Essenbe posted about.
For those interested.

My last posting was for Essenbe and anyone else interested.
My comparison of of the Samsung 470 to my Intel 320 120GB.
I have SATA 3.0Gbs and SATA 6.0Gbs ports so I thought I would see if performance might be better on the SATA 6.0Gbs.
It wasn't.
The Samsung was included from someone elses testing as a comparison.
A curiosity by Essenbe and myself on the read and write compared to my Intel.
A bit big to post in a Private Message so there it is.

Mike