Show us your SSD performance

[pparks1]

Geez, those X25s were porkers.

It's been a perfectly good drive for me. And I don't have SATA 6.0Gbps on my mobo and have no interest in adding a controller card...so that X25-M G2 meets my needs perfectly.

 

[Dave76]

Agree.

X25s don't write as fast as some SSDs, but the read is good and the access time is lower than any other SSD I've seen, which makes them fast for daily use.

Other SSDs seem to have focused on the write speed numbers, this is meant to impress the masses.
Actual performance is achieved by a combination of things.

IMHO, the write speeds, (not the most important factor, read and access time is more important for the large majority of users) are at a level where the increase in performance is not noticeable to the human senses, and can only be seen in benchmark scores.

Benchmarks use different methods to test, the manufacturer uses the benchmark that gives them the highest number, which is used by marketing to increase sales.

 

[essenbe]

I know that I'm quite happy with my X25. Access time is the most important for an OS, and the X25 is up there with any of them.

 

[pparks1]

I don't care about the write speeds at all on my SSD's. They are my OS and application drives. I rarely write large files to them.

 

[A Guy]

My X25M G2 is the fastest SSD I have ever had!

A Guy

 

[Britton30]

I don't care about the write speeds at all on my SSD's. They are my OS and application drives. I rarely write large files to them.

So...no adavantage to having a SSD?

 

[essenbe]

I don't care about the write speeds at all on my SSD's. They are my OS and application drives. I rarely write large files to them.

So...no adavantage to having a SSD?

 

[pparks1]

I don't care about the write speeds at all on my SSD's. They are my OS and application drives. I rarely write large files to them.

So...no adavantage to having a SSD?

The advantage to the SSD is fast read speeds, more more importantly nearly instantaneous access to any file on the drive. This makes the OS fly and apps open almost instantly. It doesn't really matter to me if it writes 70MB/sec, 90MB/sec, 120MB/sec or 180MB/sec. I don't usually write enough data to care. If I write a 2MB file or 30,000 bytes to a log file, even at 70MB/sec it's so fast I couldn't possibly time it.

 

[Dave76]

The write speed isn't near as important as the read speed and access time.

 

[Wordsworth]

I'm in complete agreement with both ppparks1's and Dave76's above posts. The OS and apps on the SSD fly. But games will also benefit like Dirt 3 which is the one game I have on it. I've got Dirt 2 on a platter (Black Caviar) and it's much slower to load and displays some occasional hiccups during play; conversely, Dirt 3 on the SSD is smooth as silk. I attribute this to the technology rather than better code, although I may one day install Dirt 2 on the SSD just to compare.

 

[Hopalong X]

Update Aug 18th

SSD Write Endurance 25nm Vs 34nm - Page 54

Post #1251, #1330, #1350

Kingston SSDNow 40GB- Intel 25 rebrand
236.7 TiB writes
MWI- 1 July 25th
RaS-6

Intel 320 40GB
314.00 TiB writes.
MWI- 1 - Since July 9th. @ 190.5 TB
RaS-58

Samsung 470
460.056 TiB writes
MWI-1 (approx. 6 weeks ago)

Samsung broke 450TiB yesterday.

 

[kellymac35]

Just added a second 240 gig SSD Raid0.

 

[essenbe]

Great job, Kellymac. Good numbers. I bet that rig will really fly now.

 

[kellymac35]

Thanks Steve, I am pretty excited I can get a 7.6 on my WEI with the lowest being my processor. X58 platform still has a lot of life in it.

 

[essenbe]

Thanks Steve, I am pretty excited I can get a 7.6 on my WEI with the lowest being my processor. X58 platform still has a lot of life in it.

Don't feel bad about that. I have a 2500K and OC'd it to 4.7 and could only get a 7.6. It thought with it oc'd like that it would do better. But, that's life.

 

[A Guy]

Just added a second 240 gig SSD Raid0.

Great numbers

A Guy

 

[Dave76]

There are a total of 10 entries now in the SSD Endurance test.
One has had to stop due to lifetime throttling, the Samsung 470 finally died at 525.6 TB, 478 TiB.
The other eight are still going.

SSD Write Endurance 25nm Vs 34nm page 62.

​

 

[A Guy]

Curious how the Samsung died? Just stopped responding?

A Guy

 

[Dave76]

Started slowing down over a couple of days and then stopped writing.
Still can read from it, they are going to do read tests for a while to see how long it can be read from.

It started dying on page Page 55 post #1360.

 

[startas]

Has anybody tried ssd as external drive via usb 3.0 ?