Looking for Real-Life Benchmark SSD.

Anyone know where can I find Real-Life Benchmark for SSD?

I'm looking for fastest SSD that fasten my window boot-up speed.

What you guys think of HyperX SSD or OCZ Max Iops?

 

Well my opinions of Sandforce-based drives, both of those you mentioned being such ones, are widely known as, well, POOR. Sandforce has had major issues, both with last year's stuff and this year, and has shown a rather disappointing reluctance to try to fix things. They have essentially forced controllers out on the market with limited testing, causing the consumers to become guinea pigs for them.

My opinion is to stick with Crucial, Intel, or Samsung. All 3 companies have taken their time releasing drives, and are vastly better at releasing firmware updates to fix things. Right now, I'd have to lean towards Crucial as the best, as Intel has slightly bungled the 320 series, but the Intel 510s have apparently been very solid, and Samsung has some new SATA 3 drives due out in October.

And as for real-life performance in booting/launching programs, there is a very VERY small difference between the SATA 3 drives. Yes, the Sandforce ones tend to edge the M4 and 510, but BARELY and not by an amount noticeable unless you are timing everything with a stopwatch. In real life, the Crucial M4 and Intel 510 perform VERY similarly to the Vertex 3 and the other Sandforce ilk, while being vastly more reliable. The Vertex 3 has had failure rates in the 20% range. I'd run far away form that. Speed is great, but when your drive craps out in 2 months, you'll be wishing you got the more reliable brands. OCZ will not care about your troubles, they'll issue you an RMA drive that will probably die in 2 months as well.

 

The word is starting to spread that SF drives are crap With that being said I would use Madmatt's suggestion. However, I would put the Samsung 470 at the top of my suggestion list. I run the Intel and Samsung right now with the Samsung being a little more stable in my setting. With all that being said, if you ask 50 people you will more than likley get 50 different opinions. If there is one thing you should NOT do is buy a SF drive. My Corsair SSD was a headache to say the least.

 

I just want to know which is fastest in booting...I dun really mind about the failure rate or price , any suggestion? if the boot speed like 5sec save my time and my client's time lol.

 

Typical AW user.

Also, I'm pretty sure the 320gb hybrid drive is bottlenecking your system.

 

The 320gb drive is totally blank no os related , non raid.I use it as storage.

my current c300 is around 11-12sec boot time but I'm looking for something faster.

 

Do boot times really matter that much?

 

Haha yea , don't have to wait lol. Instant would be better.

 

I have been enjoying almost instant since XP in around 2002(say < 3 seconds to my document I was editing last night) as there is something called sleep/resume. Obsession with boot time is something I never quite understand.

Sleep/Resume AFAIK is also what MacBook has been using so anytime these wonder kids told me how fast their machine boots, I would just 'yawn' away.

 

For that, I generally put my notebook into standby. I've been doing that since Windows became stable enough for it.


edit: LOL ninja'd by an even longer post.

 

I wonder if during standby mode , I must have battery inside my laptop? I never thought about it , never tried/tested. Thanks for the hints too.

 

In standby mode, the battery needs to be present or the computer plugged in.

There's hybrid sleep mode which will put the computer into standby but if the battery/AC power is removed and the data in RAM is lost, it can fallback and restore via hibernate instead.. but that will be slow.

 

Any SSD no matter how fast the Read/Writes top out at are going to boot fast. A human might not be able to tell the difference between the boot times of different SSD's.

 

I might be weird , I'm really sensitive to every seconds for window boot.

Anyways , problem solved , Thanks.