Will I get any performance increase from an SDD on my Asus P5Q
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Not quite as black and white as that is it... ie: If you MB can't make use of the extra speed...
That's a similar spec MB to mine isn't it? Did you move from a regular HD to a SDD one? And you notice a difference?
What SDD would you recommend?
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An SSD will give you a big performance boost in tasks that rely heavily on the storage drive (and are usually bottlenecked by a mechanical drive).
For most tasks the SATA2 bandwidth limit of your motherboard won't limit the performance of a modern SSD - since the work that makes an SSD feel so much quicker than a mechanical hard drive is the handling of lots of very small files, and these transfer speeds rarely get close to the SATA2 limit of ~285MB/s.
I personally use a P6T Dlx board which only has SATA2 ports and when I added my SSD the performance in storage-heavy task notably increased and the computer as a whole feels so much faster.
If you are buying now, the SSD I would go for is the Crucial M4 - it is a fast, reliable and good value SSD.
For most tasks the SATA2 bandwidth limit of your motherboard won't limit the performance of a modern SSD - since the work that makes an SSD feel so much quicker than a mechanical hard drive is the handling of lots of very small files, and these transfer speeds rarely get close to the SATA2 limit of ~285MB/s.
I personally use a P6T Dlx board which only has SATA2 ports and when I added my SSD the performance in storage-heavy task notably increased and the computer as a whole feels so much faster.
If you are buying now, the SSD I would go for is the Crucial M4 - it is a fast, reliable and good value SSD.
Why's that? Ssd is faster than mechanical hdd's whether its SATA,sata2 or sata3
It actually as as black and white as that, SSDs have faster throughput and near enough 0ms seek times.
The Crucial M4 is a popular choice, I have the OCZ Agility 3 and it's spot on though. And yeah the boards are near enough the same. I went from a 1TB Samsung F3, which is one of the fastest 7200rpm drives around, and the speed difference was night and day. Windows boots in 15 seconds flat. I can open Firefox with 6 saved tabs as quick as I can hit the button when it boots up, and within a second it's there
It actually as as black and white as that, SSDs have faster throughput and near enough 0ms seek times.
The Crucial M4 is a popular choice, I have the OCZ Agility 3 and it's spot on though. And yeah the boards are near enough the same. I went from a 1TB Samsung F3, which is one of the fastest 7200rpm drives around, and the speed difference was night and day. Windows boots in 15 seconds flat. I can open Firefox with 6 saved tabs as quick as I can hit the button when it boots up, and within a second it's there
My C drive partion is 90GB, so if I could find a 90GB replacement that would be cool!
i have the corsair gt 60gb,and with install of win7 ultimate i only have 20gb free,luckily i can use ssd caching on z68 but given my time again id have gone for the 120gb drive,better to have too much than too little regarding space
Thanks!
Noticed in my bios my SATA was set to IDE (by default)?
If yours is the same you'll ideally want to change it so ACHI - GOOGLE IT FIRST! YOU'LL NEED TO DO A REGEDIT BEFORE HAND!
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I just changed mine over... for the sake of it...
Make a note of boot up time before/afterwards!
Using a M4 128gb on a P5Q-E and it seems to be quite fast considering its on sataII.
I did update the ICH10R option rom quite a while ago.
With the usual tweaks boot times are 13-15secs with bootracer
Crystaldiskmark reads seem reasonable but obviously low sequential speeds.
Boot times alone make it a worthwhile upgrade imho.
I did update the ICH10R option rom quite a while ago.
With the usual tweaks boot times are 13-15secs with bootracer
Crystaldiskmark reads seem reasonable but obviously low sequential speeds.
Boot times alone make it a worthwhile upgrade imho.
It's quality mate, can get from clicking restart to being able to click it again in like 30 seconds.
Speeds here: