Show us your SSD performance

[paulpicks21]

Essenbe

Something I ran into when I put mine in. The SSD with the OS was continuously Indexing the old HDD that was the Boot and System HDD.

In Disk Management "D" was still showing and marked "Active" and "Primary".
It was no longer marked Boot or System though.
All I had to do was right click and change it as I show in Snip.

Anyway when I got "D" set to just "Primary" it quit indexing.
This did slow the SSD down a bit.

Storage is just "Primary" which I know you know but like me did you double check it?
If that isn't the problem I'm not sure what it is.
Mike

That's interesting hopalong, never given a thought to mine but it looks like this.

Is this wrong and if so then is there any way to change it keeping all the data intact on it?

 

[Hopalong X]

Essenbe

Something I ran into when I put mine in. The SSD with the OS was continuously Indexing the old HDD that was the Boot and System HDD.

In Disk Management "D" was still showing and marked "Active" and "Primary".
It was no longer marked Boot or System though.
All I had to do was right click and change it as I show in Snip.

Anyway when I got "D" set to just "Primary" it quit indexing.
This did slow the SSD down a bit.

Storage is just "Primary" which I know you know but like me did you double check it?
If that isn't the problem I'm not sure what it is.
Mike

That's interesting hopalong, never given a thought to mine but it looks like this.

Is this wrong and if so then is there any way to change it keeping all the data intact on it?

Paul

Yours is right.

Only one, Disk 1 is "Active" on your system.
System Reserve is on the same disk as the OS. So it is also "Active".


I edited my original post on the last page. It made sense to me but might not have to others.
Sometimes the brain plays Scrambled eggs instead of "Scrabble" with what your trying to state.

 

[paulpicks21]

Ok thanks for clearing that up bud

I think I understand but I have had a beer so my mind is not as sharp as usual lol

Paul.

 

[Hopalong X]

Mine isn't working at 100% either so it seems if you read my "red add on" above.

I haven't had any alcohol!!!!! :shock:

 

[essenbe]

Ok thanks for clearing that up bud

I think I understand but I have had a beer so my mind is not as sharp as usual lol

Paul.

Have another for me. I can't have one but sure would like to.

 

[Hopalong X]

SSD Write Endurance 25nm Vs 34nm - Page 43

 

[Dave76]

I just put an SSD in my new laptop. What do you guys think?
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Not bad for a laptop is it?

Not bad at all.

That is a really nice laptop, and a very good price.

I like having two hard drive bays.

With two SSDs, do you see better battery life?
Mine almost doubled when I put the SSD in, still have a spinner in there.

 

[essenbe]

I just put an SSD in my new laptop. What do you guys think?
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Not bad for a laptop is it?

Not bad at all.

That is a really nice laptop, and a very good price.

I like having two hard drive bays.

With two SSDs, do you see better battery life?
Mine almost doubled when I put the SSD in, still have a spinner in there.

I really can't tell you. I took the battery out. We never use it. It is mostly for my Wife and she only usus it at home plugged in. In order to save the battery, I 5thought it best to just remove it until such time as we need it. But, yes I had been shopping for laptops for a long time. This was the best price for a similarly equipped laptop I could find. Consume research reviewed laptops and this one came out #5 of several hundred reviewed. I really don't put a lot of faith in that unless they rate them after using them for 5 years. But, so far it seems to be good.

 

[Magron]

I don't see the price/performance/benefit ratio as being good yet. You guys help them develop the bleeding edge and I'll jump in when it's cheap and effective, k?

 

[Wishmaster]

I don't see the price/performance/benefit ratio as being good yet. You guys help them develop the bleeding edge and I'll jump in when it's cheap and effective, k?

For an SSD?


I've done many,many upgrades over the years. Motherboards, CPUs, GPUs, Ram etc ...

I can honestly say the SSD was the only upgrade that made such an immediate difference I was amazed. Far more than any other component upgrade.
Installing Windows was faster, but even after 1st boot I could tell.

Id say they are certainly worth the investment. At least as a OS/App drive.

As a drive for Storage or for lots of games, it may not be worth the investment.
Too expensive for that much space, and it wont make enough of a difference here to justify it IMHO. Not like it does for the OS.

 

[essenbe]

I don't see the price/performance/benefit ratio as being good yet. You guys help them develop the bleeding edge and I'll jump in when it's cheap and effective, k?

Magron, if that comment was directed at me, I will tell you right now that there is nothing on the market that will compete price/performance, against Sandy Bridge. I know because I investigated tirelessly before building this rig. No matter what I looked at, it couldn't match up. This 2500K was $219 and it will OC to 5+. For the price, you can't find anything that will come close. I'm very sure that within 6 months that won't be the case, but I'm happy, I have a computer that will go faster than I want or need to go. A faster one at any price is of no benefit to me.

 

[zrtom]

I don't see the price/performance/benefit ratio as being good yet. You guys help them develop the bleeding edge and I'll jump in when it's cheap and effective, k?

For an SSD?


I've done many,many upgrades over the years. Motherboards, CPUs, GPUs, Ram etc ...

I can honestly say the SSD was the only upgrade that made such an immediate difference I was amazed. Far more than any other component upgrade.
Installing Windows was faster, but even after 1st boot I could tell.

Id say they are certainly worth the investment. At least as a OS/App drive.

As a drive for Storage or for lots of games, it may not be worth the investment.
Too expensive for that much space, and it wont make enough of a difference here to justify it IMHO. Not like it does for the OS.

Ditto that. I've yet to see any upgrade, at any price, that compares to the performance gains from simply switching to a good SSD.
Tom

 

[Dave76]

It is a truly amazing upgrade, when using a non-SSD computer it seems like they take forever to do anything.

A SSD made my three year old laptop just fly.

 

[Hopalong X]

New Bench app.

Download> Anvil Storage Utilities Releases New Storage and SSD Benchmark | The SSD Review

Added info and discussion in progress> Anvil's Storage Utilities

Top is Anvils Samsung 470 128GB for comparison to kick things off.
Bottom is my Intel 320 120GB

Anvil used 2GB test write. I used the default 1GB. Shown in middle top as "Test size".
Click "Screenshot" when done and save it where you want.

The testing is based on IOmeter for benching without all the headaches of using the stand alone IOmeter software.
I found IOmeter web site quite confusing just finding what app is the download.

Plus there are extras in Anvils software if you want such as "Endurance Testing".

 

[Hopalong X]

SSD Write Endurance 25nm Vs 34nm - Page 45

 

[essenbe]

Hoppy, what am I missing? Look at the response times, that is wrong, isn't it?

 

[Hopalong X]

Response time evidently includes "load" time of the info to run.
When you run the test it "loads" the info to be run and shows this to you as it is doing so.
The Reads and Writes.

It is using 1GB not a few KBs of info as other Benchmarks use.
So it takes longer to run IOmeter than AS SSD which is done in 10 seconds or less.

It also may give better results overall on a partitioned area. I'm not sure.

I made no partition I just ran it.

 

[essenbe]

Response time evidently includes "load" time of the info to run.
When you run the test it "loads" the info to be run and shows this to you as it is doing so.
The Reads and Writes.

It is using 1GB not a few KBs of info as other Benchmarks use.
So it takes longer to run IOmeter than AS SSD which is done in 10 seconds or less.

It also may give better results overall on a partitioned area. I'm not sure.

I made no partition I just ran it.

I've never run an iometer test that I am aware of. Probably won't either.

 

[A Guy]

Ran it, but will probably be the only time. Don't want all my read/writes to be tests, lol.

A Guy

 

[essenbe]

Ran it, but will probably be the only time. Don't want all my read/writes to be tests, lol.

A Guy

A Guy, what settings did you use?