Show us your SSD performance

[essenbe]

Ok then, how many Men in Black= 1MB

ok then, how many men in black= 1mb

1024-decimal
931- binary

.........or one badaxx Cowboy!

Yea, I no where close to being a mathmetician, but it is the difference in how manufactirers size Hard Drives and how computers size them. At least that was my take.

 

[Hopalong X]

Total writes on all drives at last postings.


SSD Write Endurance 25nm Vs 34nm - Page 40

 

[essenbe]

Total writes on all drives at last postings.


SSD Write Endurance 25nm Vs 34nm - Page 40

For those who have not kept up with this test: to show how fast the Samsung can write, the Knigston and the Intel 320 began this test on 5/16, The Samsung began on 6/28 and has already passed the Kingston and will soon pass the 320 unless it dies first.

 

[Dave76]

We may see a tortoise and the hair scenario

 

[essenbe]

We may see a tortoise and the hair scenario

That's what I think. But, the guy running the tests on the Samsung said it could write half its capacity (32GB) every day for 5 years and never slow down.

 

[Dave76]

He wrote something about the write amplification may be a factor in it's life span.
I'm not up to speed on write amplification, so will have to go with the SSD Guru's on that site.

I think the controller may fail before the nand.

 

[essenbe]

He wrote something about the write amplification may be a factor in it's life span.
I'm not up to speed on write amplification, so will have to go with the SSD Guru's on that site.

I think the controller may fail before the nand.

I don't understand a lot of what they say on that site. They've forgotten more than I'll ever know.

 

[zapp22]

mundane question

perfect question for a blue Monday :

I don't have a good grasp of SATA III backward compatibility. I want to drop a SSD in a 5 year old Cpq laptop [c306us] which has SATA controller [intel i94x chipset] - I assume it is SATA 1 but since the mftrs usually don't list with such precision someone may correct me.
Anyway, will I get lousy performance with a new SATA III SSD ??
and/or - is there some factor at work here that would make one SSD more suitable than another vis backward-compatibility??

thanx all... I love this forum

 

[essenbe]

Backward comatable simply means that it will run on sataII or sataI. However if you hook it up to a SATAII port, you will not get the advertised sataIII speed, you will get sataII speed. That being the case, in my opinion, if you have sataI or sata II I would not pay for a sataIII drive. I would just get a sataII drive. However, If you get a sataIII it will still work just not at sataIII speeds. Either way, it will work faster than a mechanical hard drive. Your performance will improve.

 

[A Guy]

I agree with Essenbe, however, if you are planning to upgrade your PC in the not to distant future, you can get the SataIII SSD now, and get whatever speed it is capable of now. Then take advantage of the Sata III speeds when you transfer it to your new PC.

A Guy

 

[essenbe]

I just put an SSD in my new laptop. What do you guys think?


Not bad for a laptop is it?

 

[paulpicks21]

That's sweet essenbe!

I need to get a new SSD, my old corsair F60 just aint cutting it anymore and I would like a bit more space too.

 

[essenbe]

I was lucky. I got a laptop with 2 hard drives. So, I used a 64GB for OS, and a Vertex2 for data. That's all I really need, and for some reason, if you put a mechanical hard drive in for a data drive, it drags down your speed on the OS. I have no earthly Idea why.

 

[paulpicks21]

I was lucky. I got a laptop with 2 hard drives. So, I used a 64GB for OS, and a Vertex2 for data. That's all I really need, and for some reason, if you put a mechanical hard drive in for a data drive, it drags down your speed on the OS. I have no earthly Idea why.

Strange one that , but hey ho , mechanical drives are so old school lol

Just looked at the specs for your new laptop, looks a real beauty! Bet it flys

 

[essenbe]

It does OK for a laptop. I'm not a laptop person, so they are all slow to me. But it has an 15-2410M, I put 8GB ram in it, and it has a POS Nvidia 540M with Optimus, which is worthless. It seems to do pretty good for a laptop though. I thought the specs were pretty good for 699.00. I couldn't find anything near that price so I got it.

 

[lnav83]

It does OK for a laptop. I'm not a laptop person, so they are all slow to me. But it has an 15-2410M, I put 8GB ram in it, and it has a POS Nvidia 540M with Optimus, which is worthless. It seems to do pretty good for a laptop though. I thought the specs were pretty good for 699.00. I couldn't find anything near that price so I got it.

That is a great deal for that set-up.

 

[lnav83]

I am really looking forward to upgrading to a SSD boot drive and a second data drive, but I've heard nothing but horror stories about failure rates and BSOD's, etc. any suggestions? I was think OCZ, Intel, or Kingston.

 

[Hopalong X]

Essenbe

My SSD was slow when I installed it at times.

The one HDD was still marked in Disk Management as ACTIVE and PRIMARY.

When I set it as just PRIMARY the SSD sped back up.
The SSD was continuously trying to Index the HDD when it was still marked ACTIVE.

Mike

 

[essenbe]

I am really looking forward to upgrading to a SSD boot drive and a second data drive, but I've heard nothing but horror stories about failure rates and BSOD's, etc. any suggestions? I was think OCZ, Intel, or Kingston.

I can't really advise you, but can tell you my thoughts. If you go to any online tech locations and read about any motherboard, hard drive or anything else, you will read horror stories. I don't believe the failure rate of SSD's are as high as mechanical hard drives, but any of them can fail, but with a good warranty just RMA it. I own 2 crucials, an OCZ vertex2, and an Intel X-25M. The OCZ failed when I first bought it and I RMA'd it and have had no problems with any of them since that one episode. The horror stories shouldn't bother you, or you would never buy any piece of technology. Go to Newegg and look up whatever hard drive you are using now and read the feedback. I can assure you that you will see some horror stories. You just have to take a chance. I consider myself lucky because i have had very few problems. BTW, I've RMA'd 5 mechanical hard drives, so I don't see the risk is any more than buying anything else.

 

[essenbe]

Essenbe

Something I ran into when I put mine in. The SSD with the OS was continuously Indexing the old HDD that was the Boot and System HDD.

In Disk Management "D" was still showing and marked "Active" and "Primary".
It was no longer marked Boot or System though.
All I had to do was right click and change it as I show in Snip.

Anyway when I got "D" set to just "Primary" it quit indexing.
This did slow the SSD down a bit.

Storage is just "Primary" which I know you know but like me did you double check it?
If that isn't the problem I'm not sure what it is.
Mike

Thanks Mike, I'll take a look and see.