Solved Samsung SSD vs. Sandisk

[PSCO2007]

That is really good for a mechanical HD. It is almost identical to my Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB storage drive. In my opinion, the only set of numbers that you will be able to "feel" are the 4K numbers (3rd row of numbers). The difference between HDD and SSD 4K reads/writes is what makes it worth it to get a SSD. Start/Restart time and application load time is what you will see and feel everyday when you are running a SSD. You can do the math for yourself but look at the difference between your 4K read speed and mine.....that is, as they say, "where it's at!"

Hope you catch a good deal on it and good luck! You'll love it

Thanks again,
I'm going to order the Samsung tomorrow - same one as yours.

BTW - the read speeds are from my Seagate Barracuda 7200 2tb- must be same as yours.

 

[kbrady1979]

No problem! Glad I could help out. I have recommended Samsung SSD's numerous times to friends and family and everybody that has picked one up has raved about it. It is honestly the only SSD I have had experience with that I can recommend, as far as new generation SSD's go. I do have an Intel X25-M that will probably be running when I'm old and gray lol!

 

[PSCO2007]

Samsung SSD

Look on Newegg for the Samsung. 3 weeks out of 4 it is $100 or less for the OEM model (not the desktop or laptop model). Cheapest I've seen it for was $85 about a month ago. Well worth it, Samsung has surpassed Intel for reliability in my eyes, and I have/had both.

A quick note about Samsung drives: They don't use Sandforce controllers, so the read/write speeds are the same across the board, no matter what data you are dealing with......compressible or incompressible.

Hi Kbrady,
I just went to Amazon and they are having a sale at $99.00.
I also received an email from my Discover card that said I had $15.00 in rebates that I could use at Amazon, so the total price for this drive was $88.00!

Thanks again for your time and advice.

Paul

 

[kbrady1979]

Awesome find! You won't be disappointed.

 

[PSCO2007]

...Sandisk is not heard of much, so it's tough to rate its support/reliability...

I can give you an idea of Sandisk's support. Several years ago, I had a 16GB SD card go south only two years into a five year warranty. I emailed them about getting it replaced under warranty. That started a string of emails in which they played twenty questions until they found a loophole they could use to deny my claim; it had been purchased from Amazon.com with their so called "frustration free" packaging (it wasn't in their sealed package). Their website said nothing about their products having to be in their packaging to have the warranty honored. I can understand their concern for counterfeits but they could have at least looked at the darned thing instead of just blowing me off like they did. I haven't bought a single SanDisk product since then, nor will I ever buy any of those weasel's products again.

Thanks for the advice.
I purchased the Samsung 830.
I added to your rep.

 

[PSCO2007]

Awesome find! You won't be disappointed.

Hi Kerry,

I thought my computer was sluggish and ran a test on the ssd- I am sick


I disconnected the other drives and ran the Crystal disc test - the nos. are terrible.
When I got it a couple of weeks ago, they were great.

Do you think the ssd failed or something else?

Disc Mgmt shows it as being in port O

Thanks,

Paul

 

[ignatzatsonic]

Have you run a benchmark such as AS SSD which also shows access times? How do access times now compared to access times previously?

Sluggishness has many causes.

 

[PSCO2007]

Have you run a benchmark such as AS SSD which also shows access times? How do access times now compared to access times previously?

Sluggishness has many causes.

I am running the Samsung cd Benchmark now.
It says it takes 55 minutes.

I'll let you know the results.

 

[kbrady1979]

Have you ran the OS Optimization to make sure everything is the way it needs to be? Also, run the Performance Optimization, and keep an eye on it because when it gets done with that, it will start right in on a performance benchmark, which you can manually stop. After it's stopped, run AS SSD and show us those results.

Kelly

 

[PSCO2007]

Have you ran the OS Optimization to make sure everything is the way it needs to be? Also, run the Performance Optimization, and keep an eye on it because when it gets done with that, it will start right in on a performance benchmark, which you can manually stop. After it's stopped, run AS SSD and show us those results.

Kelly

Will do.

 

[PSCO2007]

Have you ran the OS Optimization to make sure everything is the way it needs to be? Also, run the Performance Optimization, and keep an eye on it because when it gets done with that, it will start right in on a performance benchmark, which you can manually stop. After it's stopped, run AS SSD and show us those results.

Kelly

Will do.

Here are the results after I did the Performance Optimization and the OS Optimization.
The nos. are worse.

 

[kbrady1979]

Holy crap......that's not good. So I have this right, the drive previously had better results, correct? You haven't been defragmenting this drive have you?

 

[PSCO2007]

Holy crap......that's not good. So I have this right, the drive previously had better results, correct? You haven't been defragmenting this drive have you?

When I got the drive, the results were the same as yours.

I made sure to disable defrag on that drive.

 

[kbrady1979]

When you first noticed the poor results, had you changed anything to your system recently?

 

[PSCO2007]

When you first noticed the poor results, had you changed anything to your system recently?

Nothing.

When I got it, I xsferred the Windows 7 image to that and ran the Crystal test.

The results were about like yours.

 

[kbrady1979]

You might try using another SATA data cable if you have one. I have heard of cables going wonky and affecting performance. It's not likely the case, but I like to try the easy things first.

 

[PSCO2007]

You might try using another SATA data cable if you have one. I have heard of cables going wonky and affecting performance. It's not likely the case, but I like to try the easy things first.

Okay, I'll change the cable now and rerun the Crystal test.

 

[PSCO2007]

You might try using another SATA data cable if you have one. I have heard of cables going wonky and affecting performance. It's not likely the case, but I like to try the easy things first.

Okay, I'll change the cable now and rerun the Crystal test.[/QUOTE

Here is the latest after changing the cables - same results.

 

[kbrady1979]

That is actually a big improvement in some areas. Very strange results though!

 

[PSCO2007]

That is actually a big improvement in some areas. Very strange results though!

Still not anywhere near what they should be.

It goes back in the morning.

Is there something I could have done to affect this drive?