Who else is running an SSD in their Netbook?

Besides me who else here on these forums is so bold to be running an aftermarket SSD in their Netbook?

Can you please state what SSD and which Netbook you're using and some Benchmarks if possible please.

Edit: CDM Benchmark added.
Ran the Wiper utility before running. This is supposedly my third bench. My previous two numbers from a couple months back were (for comparison sake):

1st Run:
Seq 120.0 93.54

512K 101.5 89.18

4K 16.55 7.351
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2nd Run:
Seq 122.5 92.74

512K 106.1 87.80

4K 16.33 6.624

Overall not to shabby at all for a Netbook capped by SATA I speeds. With approx. 38 programs installed according to Control Panel (Programs and Features) my toughest programs on the SSD being Outlook '07, Google Earth and Roxio. All three work amazingly as flawless as they possibly can. No jitters no stuttering. Of course that's a thing of the past; {:cough: jmicron}. And with 2GB of Mem. my only bottleneck is my Atom processor which can be seen when I attempted watching 720p movies with minor and very minor hiccups...of course that's expected with an Atom kicking-in overdrive.

 

Hello
I don't use SSD because of these reasons :
They still are not ready yet ..
They still have some bugs and firmware updates ..
They need to be tuned up ..
They will be speed up and up
They are very expensive ..

 

I run an OCZ Vertex 60GB in my HP 2140. Makes the experience much more tolerable.

 

ready and in use since over a year in all my systems
everything has bugs, but ssd's so far where rockstable over the time other bugs annoyed the hell out of me
no tuning or what ever needed, they just out of the box kick every other hdd's ***.
no speedup needed, the 80x faster in random access time can't be beat, and currently they limit the sata bus => we wait for other hw to allow for faster ssds.
they are not expensive compared to their gain at all.

you can get a netbook and an ssd together for the price of an ordinary laptop, but it will feel and perform faster for most tasks and should be the much more balanced and portable system.


i don't have a netbook currently, but will later get one, again.. when i'm bored i'll just buy one for playing with an ssd in it

 

^^^ Thank you Dave!

Super cool, do you think you can run a CrystalDiskMark on that drive and post some screenshots?

 

I totally second Dave up there. I just replaced my last mechanical hard drive (as a boot drive that is) two months ago, and I don't intend on going back. After using an SSD on my main machine for almost a year now, I just can't stand mechanical drives; everytime I boot a machine with a spinner it just makes me cringe.

 

Would be interested too...

 

my Dell Mini 9 uses mPCI-E SSDs,but I did upgrade to a aftermarket RunCore 64 GB.

Of course,the machine dosent use HDDs,so I cant compare what the difference would be

 

^^^ Cool, you can still post some Benchmarks so viewers can get an idea of SSD performance on various Netbooks/Configurations. Imma edit my OP and post a screenshot of mine shortly.

 

I've been contemplating getting one for my laptop. The price is a killer though.

 

Benchmarks from CrystalDisk.

 

How do you like the 2140? Personally being a previous owner of the 8.9 Aspire one, that is the netbook I had my eye on next.

 

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CrystalDiskMark 2.2 (C) 2007-2008 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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Sequential Read : 74.388 MB/s
Sequential Write : 34.906 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 70.710 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 24.467 MB/s
Random Read 4KB : 9.654 MB/s
Random Write 4KB : 1.737 MB/s

Test Size : 100 MB
Date : 2009/09/01 7:48:05

 

It's awesome as a netbook. The high-resolution screen is bright, clear and awesome for web browsing and quick reading. It's cool and relatively quiet and the aluminium casing is very sleek. Build quality is great, no keyboard flex, very solid screen hinges, but the license stickers are peeling all over the laptop's bottom.

Battery life is a tad disappointing though, with only a poor 3-cell battery or gigantic 6-cell battery that destroys the netbook's profile.

I hate that HP has discontinued such an awesome device and replace it with a less than compelling 5101.

 

Not bad at all for a Mini PCI Express SSD. I take it this is the one you've got. They rate it at 78/48 Read/Write respectively, and your numbers aren't far from that at all. And I notice the specs in your Sig, you have ample space and also 2GB RAM.

 

yeah,except I bought it here

http://www.mydigitaldiscount.com/SP...dell-inspiron-mini-9--800008DE-1224564428.jsp

lil cheaper

 

I normally run a gSkill Titan 128MB MLC in my Linux notebook (HP DV9000) and am currently borrowing an Intel X25-E 32GB SLC from my office. I can't give you Windows-based benchmark scores, but in either case (and believe it or not, the difference is really quite negligible from either the Titan or the Intel) the improvement is quite worth it. I guess I could post a bonnie++ result if someone cares to see it.

Also, I dunno what that one guy is talking about WRT reliability and/or readiness- I'm running the ext4 filesystem on my SSDs and haven't lost a single byte of data in 9 mos of daily, heavy use (SW development).

 

You can always use windows media player 12's h.264 cdoec or coreavc codec to enable flawless 720P video playback up to 10-15Mbps or 1080P playback up to 10Mbps.

 

^^^ Thanks for the tip, the movies I watch are normally Divx/Xvid/Avi format. I'll have to give .h264 a try.

 

.avi isn't a format. Movies with .avi extension can be encoded in h.264 codec. ALSO, another popular container is .mkv and it can also contain h.264 video streams.

 

Yeah that is definitely one reason that I strayed away from it despite its clean looks, for school 2-3 hours is not enough for me and that 9 cell HP could have designed better, however you are right I would stick with the 2140 over the 5101 from seeing the pics

 

The 1000HE that I have gives me at least 6hrs minimum on normal use.