Just bought an SSD

on the other hand ask 100 people a year ago who they would prefer to buy a hard disk from Samsung or Seagate, I think 95% would say the latter

(I have an Evo in my desktop now and I swear by it, but seagate are imo a hdd manufacturer you can trust - as I have done on majority of my server hdd 6 of which are seagate's and 3 are WD's lol)

well found OP hope it serves you well.
 
bloodhunter said:
Got my SSD delivered today. When I got home I quickly had it in the PC and then installed Windows 7. This is the fastest install I have ever seen. Now in the process of downloading and installing the mass of Windows updates.
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Sweet, mines coming this week (chose free delivery) I'd be interested in your findings on how you're finding it and the retail packaging etc :)
 
Space Monkey said:
Sweet, mines coming this week (chose free delivery) I'd be interested in your findings on how you're finding it and the retail packaging etc :)
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Finding ok so far. No retail packaging just a plain brown box. Windows installed very quickly. I have mine connected to a 3gb/s port as all my 6gb/s ports are being used but plan to rearrange that at some point.
 
Benchmarks



Click to enlarge. Seagate 600 series 480Gb

Using AMD chipset Sata 6Gb/s port.

Feels a speedy drive when copying software. It will be a program drive, not a boot.

Arrived in OEM packaging (antistatic bag) in a shipping box. Also with a £50 wine voucher
 
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Sweet, mines coming this week (chose free delivery) I'd be interested in your findings on how you're finding it and the retail packaging etc :)
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@spacemonkey

Have you installed this yet?

The drive was instantly recognised in the bios and only required assigning a drive letter to the partition and a quick format to be up and running.

I have it working on MS drivers as previously I have used AMD drivers with little overall difference on throughput. In ATTO it reaches a wall of 466/540 Write /read approx which I assume is the limit with the (AMD?) chipset.

4K results in Crystal are a bit lower than my 2y old Sandisk extreme, but overall it is a speedy SSD.

The SSD controller chipset LAMD is comparable with the Sandforce SF-2281 in the Sandisk and I will be interested to see the longer term reliability of the drive and whether Seagate releases firmware updates and the level of support provided.

Although the retail price of this drive seems to be holding at above 50p/GB, I hope that major storage entrants into the SSD market will eventually pull the costs and prices down to more enduser friendly levels. TBH the lack of retail packaging, adaptor bracket and cables or even a handbook are no big issue to me if it means the downward travel of SSD pricing

andy.
 
Hi Andy,

Thanks for the info, seems like a decent little drive, especially for the price we paid :)

I've received mine but can't install it yet as still waiting to complete my build. I'll be using it as my primary drive on an Intel SATA port, so once I've finally built the system I'll report back to see if that makes any difference?

And I agree with the pricing thing too, SSDs really need to come down even more in price, though 480GB for £160 was a good deal, I remember buying my first Maxtor 20GB HDD years ago which retailed for over £200! :eek:
 
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