Show us your SSD performance

[apuntsel]

Thanks everyone for your help. I take it that if I decide to do a fresh install of Windows 7, it will take care of the alignment for me?

 

[whs]

Answer is yes. And it will make some other automatic settings like defrag = off, etc.

 

[apuntsel]

Answer is yes. And it will make some other automatic settings like defrag = off, etc.

Thanks WHS, do you yhink I can just delete the partitions during the reinstall or do I need to wipe the drive somehow? I read about HDDErase 3.3 and I can boot it off of a USB drive, but after the inital screens with the y/n answers, it just sits and does not seem to see my drives. I did change the SATA mode to IDE in the bios before booting up.

 

[whs]

I would not bother with wiping. If you install Win7 and the SSD supports Trim, things will come in order over time.

 

[exia]

Is my SSD boot up time OK?

YouTube - OCZ Vertex 30GB SSD + Windows 7 x64 Boot Time

Here is the programs list

 

[whs]

It is easier to compare if you measure the reboot time: ReBoot Time - Vista Forums

BTW: A tripod would help - LOL

 

[topman]

Here's mine

 

[nate42nd]

Nice numbers, If you can try to let us know what brand and model SSD we are seeing. I can see this is probably an Intel 80GB but what model?

Thanks again for the numbers....looks great!

 

[whs]

Nice numbers, If you can try to let us know what brand and model SSD we are seeing. I can see this is probably an Intel 80GB but what model?

Thanks again for the numbers....looks great!

That looks like a second generation 80GB Intel. Must be brand new.

 

[DaGooN]

Here's mine

nice looks to be the same as my intel 80G2 02HD..

only diff i have is my alignment is 1024k-ok

 

[Wolfert]

here's mine! 2 OCZ 30 gb discs in raid-0. Works fine

 

[whs]

here's mine! 2 OCZ 30 gb discs in raid-0. Works fine

How come they are slower than a single disk. And where do those spikes come from? Did you do a proper alignment.

 

[Wishmaster]

here's mine! 2 OCZ 30 gb discs in raid-0. Works fine

If those are in RAID 0, theres something bad wrong.

My single 30g Vertex with FW 1.5 is right at 200Mb/s read --101Mb/s Write and doesnt spike like that.


What FW are you using on them?
What raid controller/drivers?
IDE or AHCI?

 

[topman]

Nice numbers, If you can try to let us know what brand and model SSD we are seeing. I can see this is probably an Intel 80GB but what model?

Thanks again for the numbers....looks great!

Sorry it is a second generation 80GB Intel and its only three days old. Best thing I bought in a long time

 

[Wolfert]

@ Wishmaster:

I'll check the firmware of the disks, and I will check the drivers on my MB tonight.

Thnx!

Grtz Wolf

 

[Wolfert]

@ WHS:

How do you do a proper alignment? It's a Raid on my MB, no controller. Most recent BIOS. As you can read, I'm gonna check my drivers and firmware on the ssd's.

Thnx and Grtz!

 

[dajogejr]

Sorry if this has been covered, but I'm getting up to speed slowly on the SSD drives.
Can someone tell me the clear difference between the M series and the E series (regular vs. Extreme)
Obviously, there's a big price difference. For what?

 

[pparks1]

Can someone tell me the clear difference between the M series and the E series (regular vs. Extreme)
Obviously, there's a big price difference. For what?

The Extreme edition uses SLC (single level cells), while the Mainstream series uses the cheaper MLC (multi level cells). The SLC's are more expensive, but are faster and technically should be more reliable.

This wikipedia page covers the difference between the two types
Solid-state drive - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I have the M series Intel drive myself and have no complaints or concerns with it.

 

[Wolfert]

At last a proper benchmark result of my 2 OCZ 30gb disks in Raid-0. Found out I had the proper firmware already on the disks, 1.5, updated my mobo drivers and found out the benchmark was set on 64 kb. 1 mb were the best results.

How do you all think of these results?

 

[whs]

This looks pretty good although I have seen 2 SSDs in Raid0 up to 400MB/sec. Yours is 250 which compares to around 200 for a single SSD. But it does not matter either way. What's important is the access time. Given the capacity of those disks, you will not be moving tons of data around anyway. The rest is academic.