Experience with SZ series and SDD (Patriot Warp)

Hey!

I bought a PATRIOT Warp 64GB SSD 2.5 SATA drive and installed it in my Vaio SZ2 M/B. Overall performance is quite good! Software like Photoshop loads very fast. Although i measured the real drive speed with HD Tune.
Before I reinstalled Windows XP and installed the latest drivers from Sony support / Intel.

Patriot claims:
Sequential Read: up to 175MB/s
Sequential Write: up to 100MB/s

On my SZ2 i can hardly reach 100 MB/s read speed (measured with different tools). I also tried the SDD on my Desktop Mainboard (ASUS P5Q Pro) with P45 Chipset. The read rates are higher (around 120-130 MB/s). It seems that the Intel ICH7 Chipset slows down the possible read and write speed.

Did anyone make the same experience with the same or compareable SSD?
Is there any possibility (Driver Update?) to reach faster transfer rates with the Intel ICH7 ?

thx

 

I cant comment on how to make your SSD experience better, but its always good to hear a happy SSD user. Every positive testimony brings me one step closer to buying one!

 

Without SZ Fan noise it would be the perfect solution. Absolutely no noise.

 

I want to share my experience of SZ and SSD

I got my Corsair S128 which is actually a Samsung 128 MLC under the case.

I got around 105 average read and 80 average write. The is bottleneck in terms of performance because the chipset is not that fast.

Under battery saving mode the CPU fan will turn off and everything is dead silent.

 

I just got a Samsung SLC 64GB in my SZ71WN:

 

Here is my result with a SZ2 M/B and a Patriot WARP V2 64 GB

Windows XP SP3

64 KB Block Size

 

Well, when I change the block size from 64KB to 128KB, I have a better result. I wonder why my SSD is not stable.

 

Are you running antivirus software or other background processes?

 

No, I don't have anything like that.

 

From the looks of your graph, looks like you have 3 partition.

The reason why it has unstable read speed is because the the drive is still need. Try full up the entire drive and run HD Tune again, you will notice your average read will drop to 100 mb/sec.

This is what a freshly install drive looks like. I install Window XP SP3 and ran HD Tune right away. You notice there is 2 bumps on the graph. The first part is Windows XP System, and then the second part is all the windows update. The rest of the drive has not be written yet.



Here is a HD Tune 2 weeks after. Ignore the CPU Usage cause I was multitasking like crazy when HD Tune was running. I fill up my 128 GB pretty fast and I only have around 18 GB left.



So yeah, your 64 GB SLC will have more consistent graph as soon as you fill it up.

 

I think you are right. Here is my lastest test:
Vista 64bit - 128KB Block size - about 50% filled up: