Intel X25-V Value 40GB

phil_07

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hi guys.
i recently purchased the Intel X25-V Value 40GB, installed win7 x64 in 11 min (thought wow!) but have been unimpressed ever since. windows boots in about 30-40 secs which is good, but i cant say that everything else is so dramatic unlike the reviews i have read of other peoples experiences of ssd`s. all i have on it is windows and steam (about 8gb), prior to this i had one of the first 74gb raptors running everything and it seems no faster than that.
after much forum bashing i noticed having the drive set to achi would improve things, after trying the registry fix (no chance) i decided on a fresh install of windows. with this done my benchmark on AS SSD went up by about 100 to around 290. but windows was now taking about 2-3 min to start and just didnt feel right.
so i visited the gigabyte support page, downloaded the latest AMD Chipset Driver, installed......boot time back to normal, but AS SSD no longer says my drive is achi but amdsata ( its still set to achi in bios)
am now stumped, am i just expecting too much from my ssd? have i installed the wrong chipset drivers?....help guys!
thanks in advance phil.
 
Well i tested the Kingston 40gb one which is supposed to be the same model and yeh I wasnt that impressed. To be honest you got to look at the write speeds. They are pretty bad lol. Im going to pay £160 because i dont think its worth it for me to but a £80 ssd.
 
hi mate, and thanks for the reply...point im also trying to make is though, surley even an £80 ssd should wipe the floor with most standard hd`s?
 
Try going back to your raptor and then see how slow the raptor feels.

My M225 64gb didn't seem that fast but I went back to a Velociraptor for a few days and that felt slow after the ssd.
 
Yes but the point is, if you're loading say CS:S which is uber old, small and loaded in seconds anyway, its going to be hard to see the difference between 2.5 and 2.2seconds, even though its a fairly big increase.

LIkewise not at all do all games show an improvement in loading, some games uncompress tonnes of data, or do lots of boring video's to hide loading, that still play even if the loadings done and some games will load ridiculously faster.

LIkewise windows boot as LOTS of variables, firstly boot initialisation doesn't count, some motherboards are incredibly slow to get to the start of windows actually loading, some take ages to recognise AHCI or raid drives as theres a second HDD detect screen before windows. Then you've got things like a specific app holding up booting and because its doing something odd and hanging it could be slowing down both systems.

IN general its VERY hard to find a SSD that won't spank the pants off an HDD, ALL of them will destroy a HDD in benchmarks but most will be noticeably faster in real life aswell, be it in games or general use.

Open up firefox with 20 tabs saved and watch them open almost instantly on a SSD and take a while on a HDD. Open up a blank Firefox, it should still be faster but again you're talking about the difference between 2 and 3 seconds, hardly noticeable.

Try transfering a large file in the background, then open up a high def video file, then open up Firefox and watch the HDD chug to a halt and hang as it decides what to load next, an SSD maintains basically instant loading and stays responsive throughout.

The question is, if you open your computer, open IE with one tab open, then play an old game, were your old hard drives slow in the first place?

Just like a i7 980XE cpu is by far the fastest CPU out there, if all you ever do is play games, you won't notice a lick of difference between the i7 clocked at 8Ghz and a P2 at 4Ghz, because you aren't CPU limited in gaming. If you aren't limited by your HDD, you won't see an improvement in going to an SSD.

Lots of people get them for laptops because 5400rpm laptop slow ass drives are painfully bad and opening up just IE can be a bit of a pain if you've got anything else running. My parents laptop was painfully slow to open google earth, stick a £50 SSD 64gb in there and while its no quad core raid 0 SSD system, its hugely more responsive and usable.
 
thanks for the replys, yes drunkenmaster, i think you may be right, i reckon im worrying over nothing, just puzzled me why the system was slower when in ahci mode than in native ide, even though bench mark scores went up.
now its showing as amdsata in AS SSD ? and the intel toolbox wont work anymore, gives "error connecting to drive" fault......god i love computers!!:o
 
I’ve got 2 Intel X25-V Value 40GB in the same system one boots win XP on IDE mode, the other boots Win 7 64 in ACHI. (Gigabyte Motherboard)

Out of both the operating systems Win XP is faster at opening programs, and in general use, but in benchmarks achi mode on win 7 is faster but in reality it’s not.

At some point I will switch to see if IDE mode in win 7 is quicker.

Download something like Batch Launcher and load up 20+ programs you will probably find that your SSD is still very quick.

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