Show us your SSD performance

sphred · 08 Oct 2010

oops

Dave76 · 10 Oct 2010

@sphred
That first one

Next ones look good

Bet it seems faster as well.

nate42nd said:

Wow! As the thread starter I have really enjoyed going through the pages and pages of great data. It opens up a whole computing world to get your first SSD.

I just ordered a Patriot Inferno 120GB SSD to replace mine. It has the new SandForce controller and it should be a good performer. I don't see any numbers here yet on the Inferno. If anyone has run some benches, I would love to see them.

I will post mine when I get it and have it formatted, blank, and connected to my system. Have a good one!

Hi Nate, good to see you around again.

Will be nice to see what the benches for the Inferno are :)

sphred · 12 Oct 2010

Sorry I'm late I had to be in town for a couple days. Back at my house in the the bush with my dog and my computers. This is the first is the first system I've built choosing and buying ( within my means ) and don't feel to bad about my choices, but the SSd after waiting and reading for months was The best investment of all, regardless of the cost. Just to blink and miss the boot is almost worth it.

Airbot · 15 Oct 2010

Airbot said:

Read about these Intel RST beta 10.0.0.1043 drivers. A lot of users saying they show marked improvement in reboot/boot up time, and some overall improvements running ssds in RAID and single. Rumors saying they might enable trim in RAID, from users reporting marked improvements in their RAID setups after a few days. No solid proof of the working trim in RAID that I found though. I installed them, went just fine for me. Only showing a 2 or 3 second reboot time difference so far my single setup, but going to wait a day or so and run a test or two again.

If you google Intel RST 10.0.0.1043, you can read the different reports of them being used. All good reviews pretty much so far.

Regular 9.6.0.1014

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Beta 10.0.0.1043

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Dave76 said:

Thanks for the link, just installed the RST 10.0.0.1043.

WHQL intel RST drivers.
10.0.0.1046
9/13/2010

Intel Rapid Storage Technology Version 10.0.0.1046 WHQL

Download
intel drivers pour Raid/Sata/Ata/Ahci

Run as admin-installed, and OK so far.

Dave76 · 15 Oct 2010

Thanks again, installed 10.0.0.1046, running ok.

Nid · 23 Oct 2010

Oh, just found this thread.

Crucial 2 x C300-64GB RAID 0 on board.

whs · 23 Oct 2010

Nid, these are very good timings for the transfer rates. But is there really a big effect of a Raid setup if you use the SSDs for the OS. After all, it is the access time that counts in those cases and the data volume transferred by the OS is only minimal.
I have only single SSDs (in 3 different systems) and I am asking myself whether a Raid0 would buy me anything. I have little user data (appr. 15GBs worth) and do not move a lot of that data around.

Nid · 23 Oct 2010

No, it didn't really buy me much. Just want to see what a $130 SSD can do when raid. Since I RAID my HDD on the same controller so I might as well.

I do use LabVIEW at home a lot, with this read speed I am now feel like working from home often LoL.

I write to it as well but not much, at the amount of data I am writing on to these SSD probably takes me about 90 years to complete the cycle of these MLC NANDs.

whs · 23 Oct 2010

Nid, thanks for the answer. That's what I was figuring.

profdlp · 23 Oct 2010

With companies racing to increase capacity of their SSDs, I have seen the price on some of the smaller drives drop significantly over the past month or two. That's enough to make me think about experimenting with a pair of 64GB SSDs in RAID. If nothing else, it would be a nice capacity bump from my current 80GB SSD drive.

Nice info!