Show us your SSD performance

[whs]

nate, it's As SSD Benchmark, a German Tool. There is an English version - look on the bottom of the linked page (above Donate)..

 

[Gildor]

Welcome to the forum and thanks for posting the results. Very interesting to see,. What are you using there to test? I recognize it from somewhere, but can't remember what program that is....

Thanks for the welcome. I am loving the SSD, despite the steep price of entry. The benchmark I am using is as whs says.

nate, it's As SSD Benchmark, a German Tool. There is an English version - look on the bottom of the linked page (above Donate)..

Also, at the top of the page the word "download" is clickable. The version is switchable between English and German.

Its a nice tool, developed especially for benchmarking SSD's. There is even a handy Screenshot function to generate the picture you see posted.

 

[nate42nd]

Welcome to the forum and thanks for posting the results. Very interesting to see,. What are you using there to test? I recognize it from somewhere, but can't remember what program that is....

Thanks for the welcome. I am loving the SSD, despite the steep price of entry. The benchmark I am using is as whs says.

nate, it's As SSD Benchmark, a German Tool. There is an English version - look on the bottom of the linked page (above Donate)..

Also, at the top of the page the word "download" is clickable. The version is switchable between English and German.

Its a nice tool, developed especially for benchmarking SSD's. There is even a handy Screenshot function to generate the picture you see posted.

Thanks a lot for the info.

 

[lightningltd]

Here is my Patriot M28 64-G (using the evil :devil: forbidden unapproved (at least by patriot)VBM19C1Q firmware) in Win 7 64-bit (optimized mine further for SSD)...

 

[whs]

Hmm, how come it jerks around so much. Usually it is pretty much a flat line. And 2ms access time sounds very high - it should be in the nanosec range (which this program cannot show, it usually shows 0.0ms or 0.1ms instead). Maybe your unapproved firmware is not all that good for the bit.

 

[lightningltd]

Samsung based SSD has always had the jagged line from HDTune. My guess is that it is the 128M cache... The older firmware did not have trim support in Win 7... This run was done 10 minutes after filling up the drive and deleting the file to test trim support. When I did it with the old version, reads went down to 100 MBS and were a lot 'spikier'. Still fast! (7.2 Win experience... Ya, could be better)
ALTHOUGH.... A few more charges on the CC and I can get an Intel X25 drive with the points.....

PLUS... This is on my laptop with the MS AHCI drivers with 3 VMs running in the background.

 

[whs]

Samsung based SSD has always had the jagged line from HDTune. My guess is that it is the 128M cache... The older firmware did not have trim support in Win 7... This run was done 10 minutes after filling up the drive and deleting the file to test trim support. When I did it with the old version, reads went down to 100 MBS and were a lot 'spikier'. Still fast!
ALTHOUGH.... A few more charges on the CC and I can get an Intel X25 drive with the points.....

PLUS... This is on my laptop with the MS AHCI drivers with 3 VMs running in the background.

Understand. Trim is worth having. I had to mail my OCZ Vertex to OCZ to upgrade it to FW 1.4. My firmware level was so old, I could not flash it myself. But they did it free of charge - even paid the return postage. But on this system I have an 80GB Intel.

 

[lightningltd]

I think the 0.2ms is actually accurate..... I have seen quite a few that reported 0.0ms with HDTune that got worse read performance than my hard drive... The fastest theoretical access speed would be limited to just how many clock ticks it takes to execute the command plus drive speed plus overhead, so it could never be 0.0.. Must be the way some MFGRs do the caching.... For me, HDTune numbers are only a reference in the reads and I take the other stats with a grain of salt.

 

[lightningltd]

OK... Here is my latest HDTune... The reason my other screenshot was so wierd is that I was running HDTune on my boot disk with everything running.
Here it is when running in safe mode (no virus scanner slowing it down (Darn MS virus scanner!)):

Better??? :devil2:
Ok... Little more tweaks to the M28... New numbers from top to bottom:
179.7, 246.1, 224.4, 0.1, 180.4, -1

 

[nate42nd]

^^^^^Wow! nice numbers......245.7 is a good looking number, my Torqx has never been that high at it's peak!

Thanks for posting, keep us updated.

 

[whs]

Nice performance. I still wonder how that -1% CPU usage comes about. Several samples show that.

 

[nate42nd]

Nice performance. I still wonder how that -1% CPU usage comes about. Several samples show that.

I have looked around the net a bit. It's showing up everywhere. I am going to watch the task manager next time I do a test. It's not real great for SSDs to do HDTune tests over and over. It writes to them.......what I'm trying to avoid.

 

[lightningltd]

I wonder why my SSD numbers are so much better in safe mode than normal mode in Windows 7.... Still trying to analyze what different is running that would account for the differences. Something is definately odd, or is it supposed to be this way? Any ideas?

 

[dmex]

I wonder why my SSD numbers are so much better in safe mode than normal mode in Windows 7.... Still trying to analyze what different is running that would account for the differences. Something is definately odd, or is it supposed to be this way? Any ideas?

SafeMode uses default drivers

 

[lightningltd]

I wonder why my SSD numbers are so much better in safe mode than normal mode in Windows 7.... Still trying to analyze what different is running that would account for the differences. Something is definately odd, or is it supposed to be this way? Any ideas?

SafeMode uses default drivers

Uses the same drivers on my machine... I checked...
I finally ran procmon while HDTune was running... It is all the little things that run (like services, etc) that sive the apparent differences. Perhaps we should do our bench-marking in safe mode to keep everyone even as far as the OS goes?

And yes, I run with minimal services for what I do... BUT I like the Windows 7 look, so will put up with slower benchmark but faster 'feel'.

As far as the -1 processor usage goes, it looks like HDTune sends the ATA command to read and lets the controller do the work so HDTune is not consuming any real measurable processor time. I think the author needed to add an if statement... If <0 then 0.

 

[theronin]

This is where I'm at currently with my 60GB Vertex upgraded firmware w/ TRIM ...

On an AMD 785G chipset (SB710) with a 9950 BE OC'ed ...

 

[mfx]

I was reading yesterday regarding SSD that the format will not be mainstream until 2012, this is to sort out the life logativity of the units. particularly to in conjunction with constant programs that perform short read/write sequences. I may be wrong, but is it not really the case that SSD is really more use at the moment for data storage rather than using as OS HD or projects that require constant read/write like audio (DAWS) and rendering?

Just a thought of what I read

 

[nate42nd]

2012 is the year "they" say SSDs will become price competitive (or not price prohibitive) You can pretty much do anything with an SSD now you would like. They're just expensive.

There are some problems, but new controllers are coming out every few months to combat the problems. They are ready for prime time now.....just have to spend a lot of money.

 

[Gildor]

I was reading yesterday regarding SSD that the format will not be mainstream until 2012, this is to sort out the life logativity of the units. particularly to in conjunction with constant programs that perform short read/write sequences. I may be wrong, but is it not really the case that SSD is really more use at the moment for data storage rather than using as OS HD or projects that require constant read/write like audio (DAWS) and rendering?

Just a thought of what I read

SSD's are easily on par with spindle based hard drives in terms of being ready to host the OS. They are now at least as reliable as mechanical hard drives. There are a few things you need to pay attention to when using them, although its getting to the point where it's on par with spindle drives, which have their own set of maintenance issues. As nate says, the only real barrier now is price. Its definitely in the luxury/enthusiast class of computer hardware right now. Hopefully this will change in the next year or two.

You have to be careful when reading articles on SSD's. The technology is in a period of rapid change right now. In many cases, what was true just six month ago, is no longer applicable today.

 

[fseal]

Yeah and even among all the currently selling SSDs the technology ranges widly. Some are current and robust and there are still others for sale that have all the same old problems.

Definately an area to research before buying.

The Intel drives and the OCZ Vertex drives seem top notch (I have an Intel one). There may be others that have caught up as well, But definately research and seek out the good reivew sites for reviews of any particular model before buying.