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[Wishmaster]

Anyone have a Intel X25-V 40GB?
I've only found benchies for the 80GB version, and they look really good.

Im curious what kind of numbers these 40GB ones are getting as I might want to pick one up.

 

[tw33k]

Most here (as far as I know) use the M series drives. Have a look here for good info on the V series: Intel X25-V 40GB Review by Aeogenia - Overclock.net - Overclocking.net

 

[Wishmaster]

Most here (as far as I know) use the M series drives. Have a look here for good info on the V series: Intel X25-V 40GB Review by Aeogenia - Overclock.net - Overclocking.net

Perfect. Thanks!

 

[tw33k]

No worries

 

[b00bie]

Forgive me for being so dense but after looking at the link and watching the video, I am still confused. It appears that the drive has to be a spare drive, so that means that the SSD has to be moved to a different SATA connection and I have to put back my old drive to make the clone from and boot from that drive to accomplish this. Can someone just explain it to me VERY SLOWLY as to why reinstalling windows on the SSD and allowing it to reformat the drive to the proper size and then restoring it from the restore image will not work. Quite frankly I don't have the confidence that I can accomplish the currently outlined method and might just live with what I have rather than screw it up completely. Thanks again for your patience and help.

Tom

Because

Window's 7 backup and other backup programs image the whole drive, including the free unformated space before any partition. By alignment, it means that you are creating your first partition after the 63rd sector or the 1023rd sector or any other setup that makes it aligned. The point is there has to be a predetermined amount of free space before the fire partition to ensure that it is aligned.

If you were to simply reinstall windows, it will not delete any existing partition but will just install itself on the already misaligned partition. Misaligned means it's not starting at the proper sector.

If you were to delete all the partitions, then reinstall Windows, it will create a partition for you, which will be aligned and it's fine until there. But when you restore the image, it will restore the whole drive back to how it was before. It doesn't matter what partitions you've already aligned on the drive.

Alignment refers to the position of a partition, not some physical property of the drive. So when you restore restore the image, you're restoring one or more of the misaligned partitions back to the drive.

Now you could back an image of just the misaligned partition and attempt to restore it onto an aligned partition. The success of this depends on how the backup program works. If it simply write the data bit to bit in order on the new partition, then it stays aligned. But if it deletes the partition and creates a new partition to write the image on, it depends if the software creates the new partition aligned or not

Thank you very much for that explanation, I think that I understand, I'm not sure what I am going to do at this point but all the info is greatly appreciated.

Tom

 

[fatedquest]

Anyone have a Intel X25-V 40GB?
I've only found benchies for the 80GB version, and they look really good.

Im curious what kind of numbers these 40GB ones are getting as I might want to pick one up.

I think you can find of the benchmarks for the V series in AnandTech forum

 

[Gildor]

[...]
BTW Where do I have to stick the english dll (be nice) for the benchmark to find it.

Where did you d/l the benchmark? Did you get it here? I got my copy by clicking the word "download" right at the top of the page. Installed it, ran it, and it worked fine, giving results in English.

 

[b00bie]

[...]
BTW Where do I have to stick the english dll (be nice) for the benchmark to find it.

Where did you d/l the benchmark? Did you get it here? I got my copy by clicking the word "download" right at the top of the page. Installed it, ran it, and it worked fine, giving results in English.

Thanks Gildor, I redownloaded it and now it works fine............go figure.

Tom

 

[Zahl]

Just a heads up that the .zip version of crystal disk info pops up in Japanese for me too. Easy fix is to go into Language/A-N/English (it's the last option on the right of the menu bar and should still be labeled in English). You should only have to do it once when you unzip it or better option is to just grab the installer version (.exe).

 

[Wishmaster]

I went ahead and picked up a Intel X25 V Series SSD.
Hopefully I'll have some more benchmarks for those who are interested in how these perform.

Just curious. For those with Intel SSDs, what kind of useable space do you have VS advertised size?

My Vertex for example says its a 30Gb and has 30GB (29.8) available to use.

But from what Ive been reading, Intel rates them differently, similar to how regualr HDs show size VS whats actually available.

Just curious if the 40GB will actually be 40GB or more like 35-37 available.

 

[fatedquest]

Intel's 80GB comes with

80 x(2^30) bytes of flash storage with 74.5 x (2^30) bytes of usable space. 5.5Gibibytes are set aside for the various things the controllers does to keep the drive at it's optimum.

Or

85.9 x(10^9) bytes of flash storage with 80 x (10^9) bytes of usable space.

Windows uses binary bytes (gibibytes here), so you will see 74.5 in Windows.

 

[Wishmaster]

What i wanted to know. Thanks.

 

[whs]

My 80GB Intel shows 74.5 in Computer. That is just the difference between decimal and binary. So it is still 80 Billion bytes.

 

[xtreme3881]

2- SSD Intel X25's 80GBx2 RAID0

 

[whs]

This is amazing. Over 500MB/sec transfer rate would correspond to about 5000Mb/sec - that is 5Gb/sec. I wonder how the Sata bus (3Gb/sec) handles that.

 

[xtreme3881]

I am running it on a SATA III (6.0) board

This way i am future proof and dont bottleneck

Here at Newegg

 

[whs]

SSD comparison and ranking

I found this SSD evaluation in the reputable German Chip magazine. Although it is in German, you can probably make it out. I thought it might be intersting for the SSD fans. The prices are in Euro and way higher than the US prices (1€ = $1.36).


PS: xtreme3881, understand how you get all that data across. But I guess only RAM can keep up with it.

 

[mpcrsc562]

Mr. Budget is back!

got a deal on another kingston drive--the SNV425-S2--the former i posted about was the SNV125-S2. this is not the v+ drive, but a newer version of the regular v series drive. along with the better read and write speeds over the SNV125-S2, the SNV425-S2 supports trim as well.

so the former drive, the SNV125-S2 is now residing in my daughter's computer running vista home premium (and the patriot ps-100 will be boxed up and sent to patriot probably monday)

 

[Wishmaster]

Just got my Intel x25-V 40Gb SSD. Just got Windows re-installed and most of my software - the games.

So far i love this little drive. It does feel faster and snappier than my vertex, but then again, the Vertex was a bit sick and this a a clean instal.

The Intel looks slower looking at the Seq. Reads/Writes, but WEI and AS SSD score it higher. It feels faster too, but that may just be me.

Vertex had a 7.3 score in WEI, Intel gets 7.6.

Comparison, 1st one is my Vertex 30GB.
Not as good as the M series, But for the price, the V series is pretty good IMO. Especially considering its Intels value/Entry level SSD.

 

[pparks1]

This is amazing. Over 500MB/sec transfer rate would correspond to about 5000Mb/sec - that is 5Gb/sec. I wonder how the Sata bus (3Gb/sec) handles that.

SATA bus handles it just fine as each SATA port gets 3Gb/s. So until SSD drives individually can push over 300MB/s the SATA 3.0Gb/s is more than adequate.

The entire drive controller obviously has some sort of limit, but I believe that with the Intel ICHxR controller can handle around 800MB/s in total.