Show us your SSD performance 2

[paulpicks21]

Looks to score very well Steve, nice one

 

[Britton30]

Nice Acc.time and 4K scores Steve. Does it "feel" faster than other SSDs?

 

[paulpicks21]

Nice Acc.time and 4K scores Steve. Does it "feel" faster than other SSDs?

I think me and you both know what the answer to that is gonna be Gary!

Steve just has an addiction to buying SSD's

 

[essenbe]

Nice Acc.time and 4K scores Steve. Does it "feel" faster than other SSDs?

I think me and you both know what the answer to that is gonna be Gary!

Steve just has an addiction to buying SSD's

That is absolutely wrong, Paul. And you know better than to make statements like that about me. I only have an addiction to buying computer parts of any kind. And, yes it feels faster, so there.

 

[paulpicks21]

Nice Acc.time and 4K scores Steve. Does it "feel" faster than other SSDs?

I think me and you both know what the answer to that is gonna be Gary!

Steve just has an addiction to buying SSD's

That is absolutely wrong, Paul. And you know better than to make statements like that about me. I only have an addiction to buying computer parts of any kind. And, yes it feels faster, so there.

Lol whatever!

 

[whs]

Steve, that looks like a healthy bugger.

 

[LeftC]

It seems that I am startinng to have an affliction somewhat similar to essenbe's.

I already have a 512GB Samsung 840 Pro SSD installed in a caddy which is in the CD/DVD drive bay to work with my laptop's 1TB hard drive. I just ordered a 256GB 840 Pro SSD for $199.99 from NewEgg.

When the other 840 Pro comes, would there be an advantage to move the 512GB SSD where the stock 1TB HDD is and then put the 256GB in the caddy in the optical drive where the 512 used to sit? Then use the 1TB HDD for external storage? The stock CD/DVD is used externally now.

 

[essenbe]

LeftC, that would work if that is what you're asking. It would be OK if it gives you enough space with the 2 SSDs for what you need to be portable. If stationary, you could hook up the external and it wouldn't matter, a lot. But, 750 GB is quite a lot of space.

 

[whs]

It seems that I am startinng to have an affliction somewhat similar to essenbe's.

I already have a 512GB Samsung 840 Pro SSD installed in a caddy which is in the CD/DVD drive bay to work with my laptop's 1TB hard drive. I just ordered a 256GB 840 Pro SSD for $199.99 from NewEgg.

When the other 840 Pro comes, would there be an advantage to move the 512GB SSD where the stock 1TB HDD is and then put the 256GB in the caddy in the optical drive where the 512 used to sit? Then use the 1TB HDD for external storage? The stock CD/DVD is used externally now.

I use an SSD externally attached via USB3 and run Windows 8 and some Linux distros that are installed in VMware Player from there. That works really very well and I can carry that SSD to any PC and run the systems there too (provided that PC has VMware Player installed). Maybe that gives you some idea. Here are some tutorials and a demo to get you started.

VMware Player - Install Windows 8

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/276540-portable-os-carry-your-os-external-drive.html

http://www.sevenforums.com/virtualization/277690-vmware-player-windows-8-demo.html

 

[LeftC]

LeftC, that would work if that is what you're asking. It would be OK if it gives you enough space with the 2 SSDs for what you need to be portable. If stationary, you could hook up the external and it wouldn't matter, a lot. But, 750 GB is quite a lot of space.

It seems that I am starting to have an affliction somewhat similar to essenbe's.

I already have a 512GB Samsung 840 Pro SSD installed in a caddy which is in the CD/DVD drive bay to work with my laptop's 1TB hard drive. I just ordered a 256GB 840 Pro SSD for $199.99 from NewEgg.

When the other 840 Pro comes, would there be an advantage to move the 512GB SSD where the stock 1TB HDD is and then put the 256GB in the caddy in the optical drive where the 512 used to sit? Then use the 1TB HDD for external storage? The stock CD/DVD is used externally now.

I use an SSD externally attached via USB3 and run Windows 8 and some Linux distros that are installed in VMware Player from there. That works really very well and I can carry that SSD to any PC and run the systems there too (provided that PC has VMware Player installed). Maybe that gives you some idea. Here are some tutorials and a demo to get you started.

VMware Player - Install Windows 8

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/276540-portable-os-carry-your-os-external-drive.html

http://www.sevenforums.com/virtualization/277690-vmware-player-windows-8-demo.html

Thank you both essenbe and whs very much for the suggestions. I will check out those links tonight. $200 seemed like a decent deal on the 256GB Pro. It is $228 on Amazon.

I don't store a lot of pictures, videos and music. Most are documents.

 

[crankypenguin]

Cranky penguin wobbles on into this convo and posts his results and wobbles out

 

[Britton30]

Good SSD Mr. Penguin. why does a penguin have a dinosaur as an avatar?

 

[crankypenguin]

Good SSD Mr. Penguin. why does a penguin have a dinosaur as an avatar?

Thank you very much

 

[ICIT2LOL]

Well, it could be Keep It Stupidly Simple.

No mate it is KIRSS Keep It Really Simple Stupid LOL!!

Seriously found this on Youtube with some interesting results near the end of the video

Samsung 840 Pro 256GB SSD Unboxing + Overview and Benchmarks - YouTube

 

[Britton30]

Good SSD Mr. Penguin. why does a penguin have a dinosaur as an avatar?

Thank you very much

You're welcome.

 

[AddRAM]

I still think it`s lousy, and how can I change the msahci to intel ?

 

[essenbe]

Nice scores, AddRam. I always got better results using the IaStor driver ( Intel's AHCI driver) instead of Microsoft's. But, you can't complain about those scores.

 

[paulpicks21]

I still think it`s lousy, and how can I change the msahci to intel ?

I don't think its lousy at all AddRam, my 128GB Vertex scores pretty much the same as yours. And from what I have seen it is about correct for AS SSD test. Try running ATTO benchmark instead, I bet you get the advertised Read speeds in that.

Paul.

 

[AddRAM]

That`s what I`m trying to figure out, how to get it to use Intel`s driver. The 1st thing I did after the install was drop in the cd to get intel`s sata drivers, is there a way to switch it or something, can`t grasp this one.:sarc: Why aren`t I wayyyy closer to 6GB/s what gives with this ?

 

[essenbe]

I still think it`s lousy, and how can I change the msahci to intel ?

AddRam, It's not lousy at all. It is a very good score on AS SSD. But, If you install the Intel rapid Storage Tchnology (Intel's Raid driver) it contains the AHCI driver from Intel. You don't have to run raid, but that is the only way to get it that I know of. If you don't like the raid technology, disable it(IRST) in services.msc, but you will have the IaStor driver. I just leave it and have no problems. Some people don't like having a raid technology if they aren't going to run raid. As soon as you install it and reboot, you will have the IaStor driver as your AHCI driver.