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    New SSD, some benchmark results

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by joeking78, Mar 14, 2009.

  1. joeking78

    joeking78 Notebook Enthusiast

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    My GSkill Titan arrived this morning and I've spent most of the day installing & tweaking.

    Thought I would post some benchmarks & stats.

    OS Boot Time - 26 seconds - 50 seconds with the Scorpio
    WEI - 5.9 - up from 5.7 (harddrive score only)

    HD Tune Pro results:

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    Minimum: 115.2 MB/s
    Maximum: 185.2 MB/s
    Average: 157.1 MB/s
    Access time: 0.2 ms
    Burst rate: 150.7 MB/s

    Sisandra results:

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    Drive index: 165.07 MB/s
    Random access time: 1ms

    I'm really impressed with it. OS feels snappier, programs install lightning fast and boot times are speedy. Took just over 20 minutes to install Vista but I can't remember how long that took with the Scorpio.

    Wish I had enough space for two :D
     
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    idiotpilot Notebook Evangelist

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    2 of them in RAID 0 *drools*
     
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    goofball Notebook Deity

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    run crystalmark. HDTune is a horrible benchmark for SSD's.
     
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    joeking78 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Here's Crystal Mark.

    4k write is a little lacking but the JMicron controllers are a bit of a bottleneck. Still amazing performance apart from that.

    For the price I think its hard to beat a Titan right now
     

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    You should also try the IOMeter benchmark as well.

    Definitely great to have SSD's that are pushing the price point lower. I'll wait until they come out with better controllers and lower $/GB
     
    goofball, Mar 14, 2009
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