Show us your SSD performance

[whs]

For those that get a generous Christmas allowance Newegg.com - OCZ Colossus LT Series OCZSSD2-1CLSLT1T 3.5" 1TB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

 

[essenbe]

WHS, I was seriously considering that Colossus. However, Santa has just informed me, with a wide grin I might add, that I have not been nearly that good this year. He further said that I should not expect to see that under the tree, not this year or next.

 

[whs]

WHS, I was seriously considering that Colossus. However, Santa has just informed me, with a wide grin I might add, that I have not been nearly that good this year. He further said that I should not expect to see that under the tree, not this year or next.

You must have been reall bad.

 

[essenbe]

WHS, I was told that it was not that I was really that bad, it was that I was just not quite that good. Go figure!

 

[essenbe]

SSD Driver help

Perhaps this should be postrd in the Drivers forum. However, I thought the SSd forum may provide better results as this is about SSD performance.

I have a Vertex2 and an MSI 890GXM MB. I have just updated the chipset drivers for the 890 chipset. Under ATI/Atapi in device manager it used to read msahci device. Since the update (which was for AHCI) MSAHCI is no longer there, it now lists AMD Sata controller. and only lists two ports - I have 3 sata disks. All of the disks are listed under disk drives.

Should I leave as is or try to do a restore, or uninstal the driver and let windows reinstall it. Device manager does not allow me to roll back the driver. There seems to be little difference in performance with OCZ's Winsat test and As SSD test. The only big difference is the 16.0 write
EDIT: BTW, device manager also shows the OCZ running in DMA 4 mode now.





Thnks for any help you can give

 

[profdlp]

For those that get a generous Christmas allowance Newegg.com - OCZ Colossus LT Series OCZSSD2-1CLSLT1T 3.5" 1TB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

I don't know, man. $5.99 for shipping seems a little steep...

 

[Koyfo]

Mine (Used for operating system)

 

[whs]

Here is one of those new OCZ Revo drives - amazing. Unfortunately it is not mine.

 

[nate42nd]

Those new OCZ Revo drives are amazing WHS. Here is my inferno about a month ago with Windows 7 already on the drive and Intel Rapid Storage Technology drivers. (9.6)

 

[linnemeyerhere]

I just ordered two of these to Raid. I'll post my SSD score soon.
PROVANTAGE: OCZSSD2-1CLSLT1T 1TB Colossus LT Series SATA II 3.5" SSD By OCZ Technology (Overview)
Sorry gang I dozed off and woke up realizing it was all a dream at the moment !

 

[whs]

Those new OCZ Revo drives are amazing WHS. Here is my inferno about a month ago with Windows 7 already on the drive and Intel Rapid Storage Technology drivers. (9.6)

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That inferno is not so bad either. I have been reading up on the Revos. It looks like they are not yet ready for prime time. They apparently had a lot of problems with the microcode and were constantly fixing them. They also do not seem to run with all boards. So if anybody wants to buy one, you better get well informed ahead of time.

 

[mickey megabyte]

my brand-spanking new ocz vertex 2e

 

[Dave76]

Nice drive mm

 

[whs]

Nice drive mm

I agree. I am looking at a Crucial C300 now - I wonder whether that is any better. I have a Vertex 60GB and two Intel 80GB right now. Want to put the C300 - 120GB (or any other) into a laptop.

 

[pparks1]

What about the 120GB intel. it's around $220 these days in the states...which makes it one of the less expensive drives over 80GB.

 

[whs]

What about the 120GB intel. it's around $220 these days in the states...which makes it one of the less expensive drives over 80GB.

That is an option too. But the C300 is so blasting fast - it is tempting. I'll wait until it is on sale.

 

[pparks1]

I don't have SATA 6 controllers on my board and I'm not as motivated by raw throughput on my OS drive. It's so rare to even load such a large file continuously on anything but a storage drive.

 

[essenbe]

Crucial 128 GB on sale at Newegg 259.00 right now

Newegg.com - Crucial RealSSD C300 CTFDDAC128MAG-1G1CCA 2.5" 128GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

 

[simplecj]

SOOO... I'm now running the 2 OCZ Vertex2 drives in RAID0 on a clean install... SOO much more responsive! Windows User Experience rated my Hard Drives a 7.9, everything else in my system is at a 6.8...

Still, seems to benchmark a bit slower than I thought it would... check the benchmark... Something doesn't seem right. The "4k" sequence seems way off and my write speeds in general are slower than others have posted in non-raid configs.

EDIT: I'm using the Intel Matrix drivers right now, but I've read that the Intel RTS drivers are better and still compatible with my hardware...

 

[Beginning]

Hey guys... I noticed there are a lot of these SSD drives available out there, They have such a wide range of pricing. What does a person really choose. Crucial has the 64gig SATA 6Gb/s at a nice price... $134 bucks, Looks very tempting. Someone said we should wait for SLC technology not just MLC.. Whats you're guys take on that?