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Why does the intel have much lower write speed than any of the other drives?
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Looking at the raw numbers isn't always going to help you much unfortunately. Even the benchmarks don't give a full picture because most are artificial and don't necessarily represent the real world usage, and those that do won't necessarily match your own usage patterns.
But when it comes down to it, the timings on these drives are so fast that for practical purposes you're not going really going to be able to tell the difference. If money isn't a big factor then choose an Intel or Crucial drive on the basis of the size of drive you want. And if you really want crazy speed out of it and don't mind spending money then you can always put two of whichever drive you choose into a RAID0 array. What I said above about benchmarks notwithstanding, this is what you get with two Crucial M225 128GB drives in RAID0:
But when it comes down to it, the timings on these drives are so fast that for practical purposes you're not going really going to be able to tell the difference. If money isn't a big factor then choose an Intel or Crucial drive on the basis of the size of drive you want. And if you really want crazy speed out of it and don't mind spending money then you can always put two of whichever drive you choose into a RAID0 array. What I said above about benchmarks notwithstanding, this is what you get with two Crucial M225 128GB drives in RAID0:
For info here is 2 160GB Intel x-25 m (2nd gen latest firmware) drives in raid 0
Basicaly for writting large sequenal files to the drive the crucial beats the Intel. However for small read and writes the intel beats the crucial and its these small reads and writes that give the most impression of a general 'fast system' - almost all everday useage involves loads of small random reads and writes.
Basicaly for writting large sequenal files to the drive the crucial beats the Intel. However for small read and writes the intel beats the crucial and its these small reads and writes that give the most impression of a general 'fast system' - almost all everday useage involves loads of small random reads and writes.
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Geez.. thanks guys! Can anyone supply one of these ATTO disk benchmark screenies for the OCZ vertex in raid 0? And maybe some fast normal SATA drives in raid 0 using the same software? It would be some good info for people as if you now search google for "best performing ssd". This post comes up 4th on the list 
I did some intel x25-m vs velociraptor in raid 0 comparisions when I first got my intels and the results are here.
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=14662712&postcount=39
The intels are a bit faster on write speeds now with latest firmware (160gb not the 80gb) - especialy large sequerntial writes, but you get the general idea.
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Just so you can understand the actual speed of your net connection versus HDD/SDD speeds better:
Your Virgin connection has a potential maximum of 50Mbit per second. To convert that into MBytes you have to divide by 8. So we have 50 divide by 8 = 6.25MBytes per second (6.25MB/s).
I don't use newsgroups (torrents instead) and so I am not familiar with the Newsleecher program. Is this where you are getting your 27MB/s statistic from? Like torrent clients, NewsLeecher can be particularly disk I/O intensive if you have multiple downloads happening at the same time. It can get even more intensive if you also have it set to:
a) Preallocate hard drive space before each new download starts. Disabling this and letting NL eat up space as it downloads will improve things at the cost of potentially running out of space if you don't keep on eye on the size of the downloads.
b) Automatically unrar/unzip downloads that have finished. You can keep this on but reduce its impact quite a bit by having it extract the download to a separate physical hard drive. Not just a different partition on the same drive but a totally different physical drive. If at the moment you only have one drive drive perhaps thinking about disabling auto unzip/unrar and just do it manually later.
If you want to check the speed of your current drive(s) then grab ATTO from...
http://downloads.guru3d.com/ATTO-Disk-Benchmark-v2.41-download-2343.html
Or the free version of HDTune and HDTach...
http://www.hdtune.com/
http://www.simplisoftware.com/Publi...isoftware.com/Public/index.php?request=HdTach
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Geez.. thanks guys! Can anyone supply one of these ATTO disk benchmark screenies for the OCZ vertex in raid 0? And maybe some fast normal SATA drives in raid 0 using the same software? It would be some good info for people as if you now search google for "best performing ssd". This post comes up 4th on the list
The OCZ Vertex and Crucial M225 use the same drive controller and are almost identicial in performance;
This is 2x Crucial M225 256's in RAID0
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