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    Solid State Drive Benchmarks

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by MAG, Sep 23, 2008.

  1. MAG

    MAG Notebook Deity

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    I just got my m15x recently with the 128GB SSD. So, I ran HD Tune to see what kind of results I would get and here they are :D

    I have a question; does the graph look weird? Isn't it supposed to stay around the same speed (or close) without any big ups and downs?
     

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  2. Ennea

    Ennea wwwwww

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    How does this compare to other SSDs? I'm not very knowledgeable on them, but your average speed is about x3 mine! Would you say it's worth the cash?
     
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    high cpu usage for ssd as far as I know, and yes they tend to stay somewhat in a range rather then up and down
     
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    Well everything does load faster than a normal hard drive of course, however, I thought it would boot windows "way" faster. While it does, but not "2 times" faster like in comparison videos. Maybe I was expecting too much. In the end, it depends on each system configuration, the drive it self and the OS.

    I hope someone who knows more about SSD take a look at the graphs and tell me if it okay.

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    Thanks for the info :D I see the CPU usage is close to my previous hard drive. Some applications were running while I was doing the test could that explain why it is high?
     
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