Show us your SSD performance

[profdlp]

of course but it does show how good this drive is. over at AS SSD Benchmark thread the Crucial is beating everything (as a single drive) by a long way

Thought you might notice that

They're getting good benchmarks and reviews.

Why did you have to point this out? My student loan dough should be here in a few days - hope I get a good deal on used textbooks and have some money left over for, uh...pencils...

 

[Dave76]

You might want to hold off on those...uh....pencils for a month or two

It's been predicted by several sources that the SSD prices are going to drop in Q4 this year.

The release of the new 25nm G3 Intel SSDs are going to be in the next month or two.

For these two reasons I would wait for a while.

 

[tw33k]

i pointed it out because a few of us here have been having a friendly debate about which drive performs best "in the real world". it's not that I'm a Crucial fanboy. If/when new drives come out that out perform this one (noticeably outperform that is) then I'll get one no matter who makes it

 

[Zenith2009]

But to perform at this speed you need SATA III interface?!

 

[tw33k]

That's why I have this

 

[Dave76]

Some motherboards have 6Gb/s controllers or you can get an add on card.

 

[pparks1]

i pointed it out because a few of us here have been having a friendly debate about which drive performs best "in the real world". it's not that I'm a Crucial fanboy. If/when new drives come out that out perform this one (noticeably outperform that is) then I'll get one no matter who makes it

Of course, one always has to remember that the raw throughput numbers do not tell the whole story. When it comes to an OS drive, your random I/O scores count more than anything else. This is not to say that the Crucial isn't a great drive...it's fantastic...but benchmarks can be misleading.

 

[tw33k]

I agree that they can be misleading but benchmarks are what people want to see (otherwise threads like this wouldn't exist)

 

[pparks1]

I agree that they can be misleading but benchmarks are what people want to see (otherwise threads like this wouldn't exist)

True, but a drive that is number 1 on a benchmark might not perform number in the real world. Far too many people don't know what to pay attention to to truly get the best performance possible.

 

[omnimodis78]

While I understand that SSD's are great with read speeds and almost non-existent access times.....there is no denying that their write speeds are staggeringly bad.

So, my question for the SSD's users out here is what you really think overall about the SSD drive? I'm not talking about a screenshot of a benchmark, or a timed reboot of your machine...but rather what is performance like installing the OS, installing some software, installing some games, etc.

I just upgraded my system drive to an SSD drive, and let me say that the word "upgrade" is almost not even the right word to use. The speeds are so insane that I've never experienced such a shift in performance before, not when I upgraded my CPU, or RAM, or anything. I haven't even done a benchmark (and won't be doing one as it's pointless and silly, unless you suspect problems and need to confirm that something isn't quite right), but other than that, read speeds and write speeds are both substantially faster. Loading Windows is faster, though it doesn't blow me away, but once I'm in Windows, it's like night and day from using an HDD as a system drive. From the moment I press the power button, to the moment Windows is ready is about 10-12 seconds. Shutting down, so, from the point of clicking on 'Shut down" to the the moment when the power light on my tower goes off is about 2-4 seconds. I timed them both btw, but instead of giving the average, I gave the min and max times. Impressive. I can click on anything, within seconds of Windows starting, and there's no delay. Windows having to "warm up" is a thing of the past. Installing small to medium programs are so fast that I swear sometimes I don't even see that installation progress screen. It just goes from the installation confirmation screen to the "installation completed" screen. I thought something was wrong actually, but to my joy I realized that's just the nature of SSD performance. Games, Office 2010, etc install fast also.

 

[paulpicks21]

Heres mine , not sure what to make of the AS results , doesnt look good.

 

[whs]

That does not look too bad. You apparently had something else running when you took the HD Tune test.

 

[Dave76]

Just did a quick search on your SSD, seems to be some issues with the low benchmark scores.

Even the Corsair site review posted them a little low, Corsair Labs Report: Force Series F40 SSD.

Check the Corsair forum F60 Disgusting Performance, search the site for more info.
Looks like everyone is waiting for a firmware update.


Have you updated your BIOS?
Some issues mentioned about Corsair SSDs and Gigabyte MOBO.

Check for new SSD firmware from Corsair.

You will get better performance if using AHCI instead of IDE.

AHCI : Enable in Windows 7 / Vista

A more thorough review and comparison of benchmarks can be found at the AnandTech SSD Bench site.

 

[Mangofire]

4 x F60's in Raid 0

Well I've been real happy with my Corsair F60's, picked up 4 of them and I'm still waiting on my raid controller card but the intel onboard raid controller is doing very well. I would highly recommend these SSD's.

 

[Dave76]

Looks good, four of them has got to be fast.

Nice set up.

 

[whs]

I am still puzzled with this benchmark program. Why are the 4K reads always so slow and how come the access time for reads is a lot slower than for writes. (see post 714 as example)

 

[fseal]

Part of the problem with Paulpicks21 setup is that he is using IDE mode instead of AHCI. That /kills/ the 4k multi threaded read mode at least. Not sure how much impact o nthe plain read write scrores there is but it seems pretty common that ide mode does not work for multi threaded disk reads.

 

[pparks1]

Part of the problem with Paulpicks21 setup is that he is using IDE mode instead of AHCI. That /kills/ the 4k multi threaded read mode at least. Not sure how much impact o nthe plain read write scrores there is but it seems pretty common that ide mode does not work for multi threaded disk reads.

For me, switching to AHCI really did bring up the 4k benchmark numbers. The other scores didn't move much at all. In real life use through, i have been totally unable to quantify any change from switching from IDE to AHCI...other than the couple of seconds that I lose at boot time now.

 

[paulpicks21]

Ok so I have a new motherboard being delivered tomorrow as the current one is very cheap.

I know how to enable AHCI in windows now.

Apart from that , where is the best place to plug the SSD on the new mobo?

And I keep hearing about RAID , is this something I need to know about that will benefit the SSD?

Heres the ports on the new mobo -

5 xSATA 3 Gb/s ports
Intel® Matrix Storage Technology Support RAID 0,1,5,10
JMicron® JMB361 SATA & PATA controllers:
1 x Ultra DMA 133 / 100 / 66 for up to 2 PATA devices
1 x External SATA 3Gb/s port (SATA On-the-Go)
Silicon Image Sil5723 (Drive Xpert technology):
2 x SATA 3Gb/s ports

Thanks for the help guys

Paul.

 

[whs]

I don't think it matters where on the mobo you plug it in. You can always arrange the boot sequence in the BIOS.
Raid is complex and I don't think it gives you a lot of benefit for the SSD as system disk. It shows impressive data transfer rates in the test programs, but your access time will not be any better - and the access time of the SSD gives you the punch. The amount of data that the system reads/writes is small and a fast data transfer rate will not impact the overall performance a lot. Maybe installing a big program would be a little faster - but how often do you do that.