Show us your SSD performance 2

[Britton30]

Good new Paul, I didn't know you had a dead one. Is it the 070H firmware?

 

[whs]

I forgot to give an update on my dead Crucial M4.

I updated the firmware and it is working fine again.

Was probably that 5000 hour problem.

 

[paulpicks21]

Good new Paul, I didn't know you had a dead one. Is it the 070H firmware?

Yeah I posted here maybe a month or so back saying it had died, it was an OS drive for my lounge PC but had a very old firmware on it. I updated it to the latest firmware in the end I think as I couldn't find the 0301? that everyone said was good anywhere online.

I forgot to give an update on my dead Crucial M4.

I updated the firmware and it is working fine again.

Was probably that 5000 hour problem.

Yeah Wolfgang, I get the feeling it was that too.

 

[paulpicks21]

Here was my original post - http://www.sevenforums.com/hardware...your-ssd-performance-2-a-142.html#post2622747

 

[Britton30]

Well slap my face and pull my hair, I remember you mentioning the lounge PC now, although I don't know what a lounge PC is.

 

[A Guy]

Gonna venture its a PC in the lounge

A Guy

 

[COMPUTIAC]

Gonna venture its a PC in the lounge

A Guy

Those of us on "this side" lounge = living room.
Lord knows, I will be corrected if I am wrong.

 

[socrgy9]

Good new Paul, I didn't know you had a dead one. Is it the 070H firmware?

Yeah I posted here maybe a month or so back saying it had died, it was an OS drive for my lounge PC but had a very old firmware on it. I updated it to the latest firmware in the end I think as I couldn't find the 0301? that everyone said was good anywhere online.

I forgot to give an update on my dead Crucial M4.

I updated the firmware and it is working fine again.

Was probably that 5000 hour problem.

Yeah Wolfgang, I get the feeling it was that too.

don't mean to jump in on you guys' topic, but i was poking around and noticed you guys talking about a crucial M4 issue. I have one as well and a few months ago i found out about the 5k hour deadline and started digging.

i ended up web chatting with Crucial tech support and they confirmed this issue. they said as long as you update the firmware to 070H (<--at the time, it may be "or higher" now) the SSD would be fine. it's a bit more difficult process for those of us with UEFI bios, but they gave me step by step instructions on how to do it.

so in the end, its real, its confirmed, and i think that was most likely your cause of failure.

 

[Britton30]

Gonna venture its a PC in the lounge

A Guy

Why yes, yes it is. some of our bars are called lounges too, or a doctor's waiting room.

 

[A Guy]

Paul has a bar in his house...quite scandalous actually :shock:

A Guy

 

[essenbe]

I'm envious. I think that means we all should have a New Years party at Paul's house.

 

[paulpicks21]

The bar is closed today, I drank everything in it last night

 

[essenbe]

You have time to replinish it before we get there. But, hurrry, we're on the way.

 

[Britton30]

You have time to replinish it before we get there. But, hurrry, we're on the way.

Yeah, it'll take a couple of day I think.

 

[sisrace]

I love how some SSD's accually is getting beat by my 1Tb SSHD from Seagate ( in the tops. It loses when it comes to long term work becouse the SSD Runs out)
But you cant beat how stable ssd speeds are. Thoose are amazing

 

[whs]

I love how some SSD's accually is getting beat by my 1Tb SSHD from Seagate ( in the tops. It loses when it comes to long term work becouse the SSD Runs out)
But you cant beat how stable ssd speeds are. Thoose are amazing

For the OS it is not the data transfer speed that counts but the random access time. And for that my SSDs are 130 times faster than my SSHD - 0.1ms versus 13ms.

 

[user31]

 

[Cr00zng]

Size does make a difference, but still...

Replaced this OCZ Vertex 3 128 GBs SSD:



With Samsung 840 Pro 256 GBs SSD:



Doing so, pretty much cut the access time to half. And that's with stock setting, without the rapid mode, that may or may not be activated.

I've got to replace my Intel 520 240 GBs SSD, it pails in comparison to Samsung 840 Pro. Especially the write speed:

 

[Britton30]

Very good upgrade Cr00zng. I have an 840Pro and EVO and I'm happy with both. I think it's more to do with the Samsung multi-core controller and using their own NAND that makes them faster.

 

[sygnus21]

I don't suppose there's anyone here running Windows 8.1? I ask because AS SSD hasn't never run for me under 8.1 without error....



That said, after closing out the error box I got this score....



Don't know how accurate it is, but it is with Rapid Mode enabled using Samsung's Magician software.

Interestingly enough though, I can bench my Vertex 4 SSD drive without error. Not however though that it's not the OC drive, but E-drive instead...