Samsung PB22-J 64GB.. impressed

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Ok so this morning I've just installed Windows 7 Ultimate 64 for the first time, and it's actually my first ever experience with windows 7!
I decided to go with a Samsung 64gb SSD because at the time it was one of the only ones in stock really!
I've installed the Asus drivers off their website for the motherboard, and a couple other apps and thats about it. Not done a single firmware update or messed around with any settings, and I thought i'd just share my Crystalmark screenie. I think it's not bad do you?

 
Can you run an AS SSD benchmark?

Nothing wrong with samsung drives, If Apple and Lenovo trust them you can be assured they are solid (no pun intended).

I put three first gen Samsung drives in RAID0 for a mate in early summer, Unbeatable price/performance. £270 got him 192GB 270MB read 210MB write and 4k scores roughly the same as a Vertex.
 
hmm, wasnt there something "wrong" (sorry) with these drives, controller? stutter? I looked into these a while ago but I'm pretty sure I dismissed them for some reason.. apparently those benchmarks seem good.
Just had a thought maybe it was they had no plans on supporting trim?
 
droyden said:
hmm, wasnt there something "wrong" (sorry) with these drives, controller? stutter? I looked into these a while ago but I'm pretty sure I dismissed them for some reason.. apparently those benchmarks seem good.
Just had a thought maybe it was they had no plans on supporting trim?
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Samsung drives have always been fine for stutter, It's JMicrons that sucked.
No TRIM support, but the PB22-J's do a background garbage collect whilst idle.
 
I know I looked at those drives and was thinking about getting one but went for Vertex drives in the end. They do look great for the money though and your benchmarks show its running very well!

Like Zarf said though, can you run an AS SSD benchmark? Its optomised for SSD's so gives more accurate results... or so it claims :p
 
Ok so I havn't quite got my pc stable yet at 4ghz, tried to copy old settings from memory with the motherboard change, seems it's not quite there yet.
I did however start to run AS SSD Benchmark, reads were a little lower at 211mb/s and 136mb/s write... never got much farther before BSOD. I guess P45 chipset is a little different from P35. I can't be bothered to run it again just now, but i'm assuming you guys knew the readings would be a little lower.
I'm not that bothered really, its still right up there with some of the best speed readings i've seen for 64gb drives.
 
Zarf said:
Samsung drives have always been fine for stutter, It's JMicrons that sucked.
No TRIM support, but the PB22-J's do a background garbage collect whilst idle.
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Correct, but not all PB22-Js have the GC firmware. OP's should be ok if it's new - only the earliest drives don't have it, but take a look at some of the threads on the Corsair forums who re-package these drives, IIRC it's the P-Series.

The biggest problem is the lack of user upgradeable firmware for these drives, especially if you're stuck with the first firmware without GC and/or you want to make use of TRIM.
 
Good job mines 18C1Q then. Tbh would you really notice the difference between them? I highly doubt it, i'm not a benchmark whore. It loads things fast, it doesn't pause, what more could I want?!
 
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