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    Is ssd worth the price or will it drop

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by smackrs6, Apr 26, 2010.

  1. DetlevCM

    DetlevCM Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    What 5400rpm drive will have a sequential write speed of 100MB/s and a 4K write speed of around 40MB/s (or maybe up to 60 which is what I got from a benchmark in Safe mode)
     
    DetlevCM, May 3, 2010
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  2. Phil

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    I'd rather see real life benchmarks instead of synthetic.

    If you can dig up some real life write benchmarks other than the ones I already quoted that would be fantastic.
     
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    lackofcheese Notebook Virtuoso

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    Well, the Mac OSX boot time benchmark from those you linked was heavily in favour of the SSDs, for one. There is a paucity of instances of actual applications used for SSD testing, though. It's quite unfortunate.
     
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  4. DetlevCM

    DetlevCM Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Not sure where to find such...

    On a Synthetic test - there is a nice one here - might even be a G1 if I judge by the photographs on the first page.
    PCMark Benchmark
    Intel X25-M SSD: Intel Delivers One of the World's Fastest Drives - AnandTech :: Your Source for Hardware Analysis and News

    And about "real life" benchmarks - they are difficult to do as you don't know if the systems are identical.
     
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  5. TechAnimal

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    Visit the link below for more benchies. They are specific to mac but the general trend holds true for windows based systems, just the numbers might differ. In the optimising your mac section, look at the SSD tests.

    Macintosh Performance Guide
     
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  6. TANWare

    TANWare Just This Side of Senile, I think. Super Moderator

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    You have to understand MAC OSx and Linux handle the drive differently where the data is stored. By default since the data is all over the drive with those OS's and their file system the HDD does HUGE amounts of large seeks. SSD's were made for this, HDD's aren't. In a windows NTFS disk system this is different, epecially if you constantly defragment and optimize the drive.

    OSX will quickly deoptimize a drive in an effort to lower defragmentation. Without the optimization HDD's are quickly reduced in performance. SSD's may be reduced slightly but to a much lesser extent.

    This is why synthetic's mean squat in real life. If the file system kept everything allways 100% neatly in a sequential order and wrote the same way, yippie, synthetics will mean something. Untill that day Phill is right, real world usage means a whole lot more.............
     
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