SSD Thread (Benchmarks, Brands, News, and Advice)

what's up with the samsung drives only being $450 plus a 320 or 500gb hdd from dell, and the intel being almost that much for a fraction of the storage space?

oh, and lol

lol, internet at it's best. i love how peoples position goes from "blah blah this is true." but then when they are wrong, they're singin "Well, that doesn't matter anyways. "

then why did you bother to say it in the first place?

 

max420,

I can only hope it means that the Intel will live up to its hype - even if it means I pay more.

lol, glad someone else caught that as well!

 

http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/...etail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19&sku=341-9999
http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/...oductdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&cs=19&sku=341-8981

 

All current consumer SSDs have their flaws, Intel included, so don't hold your breath in thinking that if you get an Intel it will be the perfect SSD. Just remember, more expensive doesn't necessarily means it's better.

In Canada, when the sXPS 1645 came out, upgrading from 500GB 7200RPM HDD to 256GB Samsung was only +$200!

 

sgogeta4, don't need it perfect, just need it to be better than a Scorpio Blue - in all aspects.

 

all i need is a fast random writting and reading, so I decide to get another intel 160G as my OS partition.

 

I'm in vancouver, the SSD was listed as a $450 upgrade from 320GB, but i got it for $250 cause i upgraded the out of my lap, and they lied to me when i got the one i sent back.

a la carte its always more. dell sells that for so much on it's own because they can, these drives aren't available to general public yet.

EDIT: this is the list price as of now @ Dell.ca.....and I do have to say they DO have room to move on that price.

 

sellers like to make money, and can, as people pay that much. technically, the intel would be much cheaper by now..

no, my statement still holds: the batch helps, and it helps in it's default setting. and i don't bother if some stuff gets skipped, or not, as i know that it HELPS AS A WHOLE. => it does not change the way i should use it at all. still nice to have learned something.

 

the current intels only have one flaw: a short time public available firmware update that could fail and brick the drive. but the drive itself is perfectly working. no clue what you dream of. (and yes, seeing that some might have issues doesn't make the product as a whole buggy. it makes the the one they got buggy => they should rma. just like ANYTHING on the whole world)

 

OK, I got it, cloned it with Acronis TI Home 2010, renooted and I am in business. It is very zippy. Me, I feel like the dentist hit me with a truck and then gave me a couple pain pills. At least part of that sentence is true n So, no benchmarks yet. I do not really wnat to go there. I want to use the computer the way UI usually do, and get a FEELING. As that to me tells much mroe than some numbers.

So far, all is good. No slow downs, at least that i can attribute to the drive. Slow down between the ears for sure this will be a great test to see if, in today's level of consumer SSD, one can clone and run so to speak.

I have done NO tweaks. How do I check to make sure defrag is OFF? And is there any other "tweak" worth doing/checking. I have Win 7 32 bit, but since it is not a fresh install, I am not sure that it "knows" it is an SSD.

I love the quiet. Just chip and power supply fan now. I MAY even look into the quietest power supply I could put there for grins. But so far, I am very happy but have not done any real work, so cannot yet say on the multitasking etc. Did a quick Security essentials scxan and that was nice and fast. I guess the really really BIG question is where shold I put my SSD sticker? Car Bumper? Forehead? Cat? Dave

 

no, put the sticker on your head!!!!
lol, JK~~
i would stick on my laptop. hahaha

 

one thing you could do is the windows benchmarking thing (winsat?). just to make sure it tests the drive. it will detect that it's an ssd based on this check. after that, no need to disable defrag, as it won't defrag that drive.

 

Cape Consultant,

Congrats on your new SSD! I'll be eagerly watching for your impressions with it. Must say the quiet is what I also noticed with SSD powered systems.

Hope you feel better soon to tell us all about it!

 

Good idea, doing winsat as soon as I can find it. I have a feeling that this drive is a keeper, unline the Gskill and Samung from years ago.

 

Disk score is 7.3. Up from somehitng, but I was watching the overall score for a change, and then realized that that score does not changed, is tied to the lowest score, which is my admittedly yesteryear graphics card. I do no gaming cept for solitaies. I think the disk was previously about 5.9, but may have been 4.9. So, 7.3 is pretty good, eh? BTW, this is my only drive.

 

yeah sounds nice. now win7 should 'know' your ssd, and not missbehave.

 

This is my WEI, and I dont know why it is SO SLOW on graphics!!!!
DAMN!!!

 

must be the ssd...

 

Sorry I've been MIA. My laptop now flies because of the intel. Its avery expensive upgrade, but given the wicked fast everything and the reasonable price made it worth it. $2.60 per gig. Perhaps even better though are the inherent traits of the current SSDs. No vibration, no noise, no heat, lower power consumption in comparison to regular hard drives. I'm sold.

I bit the bullet and clean-installed Vista. Ill upgrade to 7 when the fixed trim firmware is out.

 

nop, when my hard drive score was 7.4, the graphic was still low

 

you've seen the smiley, right?

 

hahah, nop, i am drunk now~~my eyes cant focus haha

 

I could not resiste:

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CrystalDiskMark 2.2 (C) 2007-2008 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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Sequential Read : 239.910 MB/s
Sequential Write : 98.074 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 165.034 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 101.553 MB/s
Random Read 4KB : 19.467 MB/s
Random Write 4KB : 45.419 MB/s

Test Size : 100 MB
Date : 2009/11/24 2:25:17

Pretty good, yes?

 

Well, I'm no fan of benchmarks, but yes! More than pretty good - I can see from the 98MB/s Seq Write that you have the Trim enabled firmware!

Looking Good!

 

Try test size with 1000MB, and 10 runs.

 

OK, will do tomorrow. Sleep now.

 

just got my alienware M15x today. when i took it apart to put the kingston ssdnow drive in it, i was shocked to find that the drives had different connectors. the HDD that came in it had long thin metal connectors and my ssd drive had more plastic and thin metal connectors, anyone know about this?

 

It is probably just an adaptor that slips over the SATA and Power connections on the original drive. Gently work it off and put it on your new Kingston and enjoy!

 

i'll give that a try now, thanks

 

you are either a genius or i am an idiot, or a combination of both lol! sure enough, the plastic piece came right off and it fit right over the solid state drive

 

=D *chuckle* sorry, couldn't resist.

 

Hey, we were all there at one time or another, right?

kevblah, you're welcome.

 

Hi guys, just thought i would chime in on this SSD thread. I've got a Dell Precision M4400 and installed a OCZ Vertex EX SSD. Been up and running for a week and so far i'm pretty damn happy. Boot times are not "super fast" but are still 10x faster than my old HDD. what is the most widely used benchmark software so i can test the actual speed of my SSD?

also, how is this score compared to others?

 

Try Crystal Disc Mark to test speeds

I'm a rcent addition to the SSD club
See here:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=169759&page=85

 

offtopic

dude, you don't even know.

I did it. on my first comp, ~10 years ago, a desktop Dell P3 800mhz, I forced the sd ram stick in the wrong way, and I turned it on. ohya. didn't even notice it was keyed.

/offtopic


jholty, i've been using this:

here is my Samsung:



i see a lot of people using crystal disk as well

 

@max420, The AS benchmark is reading your firmware as VBM1, that is a clue that you may not have the best SATA drivers for your SSD. I would try uninstalling them, check the box, delete drivers for this device and let the default Windows 7 drivers install.

 

My WEI HDD score for 60gb Summit was 7.4 when it was new, it now fluctuates between 6.8 and 7.1.

 

i tried to uninstall them via device manager, but i see no option to delete the driver.

 

It could be that you have the correct SATA drivers. My assumption that you don't is that hardware ids reported VBM1 as the firmware for my SSD when I had the wrong SATA drivers installed. When I installed default Windows 7 SATA drivers, VBM1 became VBM18C1Q. Of course that is what it was all along, hardware ids was just incapable of reading it with the wrong drivers installed. The default Windows 7 driver is 6.1.7600.16385.

 

ya, thats one i have installed.

 

just try to avoid bench mark, never look at the value, so you won't notice if ur drive is slow or not.

 

WEI Score looks fine, but did you see this?
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showpost.php?p=5551845&postcount=33

Also for more info see:
http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=63480

 

FYI, it looks like the Intel-branded 40GB X25V will be shipping December 29. It's reasonable to guess that it will ship with TRIM support, meaning that the already released Kingston-branded version will have a firmware update available around that time.

link 1

link 2

I wonder if the 320GB drive will be released at the same time?

 

the price looks pretty high..

 

I see where toshibadirect has the Intel 160gb G2 for $472.
http://www.toshibadirect.com/td/b2c/adet.to?poid=450026

EDIT: usually ships within 8-9 weeks? ouch!

 

Neat utility! Thought I'd give it a run (Intel X-25M G2 160GB - Microsoft AHCI Drivers):



Cheers,
Kermee

 

I thought Intel 160G G2 4k random reading could reach 20Mb/s at least..

 

Doesn't it depend on the benchmark used?

Kermee, you should try the new Intel Rapid Storage Technology drivers and see if you see a difference.

Download:
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showpost.php?p=5551845&postcount=33

More Info:
http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=63480

 

Can we enable win7 TRIM if we install this ?

 

From what I understand, as long as the SSD's firmware is Trim capable, then this will pass Trim commands to the drive. Supposedly, this works much better than the MS default drivers and the old 8.9 IMSM.

As long as your notebook's chipset supports the IMSM, then you should be able to try this.

I'm using it right now on my VAIO with a Scorpio Blue and it is noticeably more 'zippy' the HD.