AS SSD Benchmark benchmarks!

stulid · 7 May 2013 at 17:48

parvumsystems said:
Impressive Always nice on Raid 0. Hows your experience been with Kingston SSDs? I've not used them before my self.

They are chugging along rather nicely, some people moan about Sandforce controllers, but I've never had anything bad to say about them, or indeed the previous Intel 520 series before these which again is a Sandforce based SSD.

What's really good is the the included USB caddy that is supplied with them, absolutely lovely.

parvumsystems · 8 May 2013 at 09:29

That is defiantly a nice touch. Personally only used OCZ, Corsair and Samsung. Need to decide who to go with on my new raid controller.

setter · 8 May 2013 at 19:41

My new samsung 840 250gb. Just installed today.

wazza300 · 8 May 2013 at 19:49

looks good,are you happy with it?

setter · 8 May 2013 at 19:57

Yep, extremely pleased with it so far wazza. Much faster than my old vertex 2e. Great to be able to boot into windows so quickly after using the old 2.5" laptop drive.

wazza300 · 8 May 2013 at 20:36

They are good drives for the money

Johnchristin · 9 May 2013 at 14:27

parvumsystems said:
That is defiantly a nice touch. Personally only used OCZ, Corsair and Samsung. Need to decide who to go with on my new raid controller.

OCZ SSDs embedded within SandForce controllers really work flawlessly as per my experience goes. OCZ vector series never had any kind performance issues,keep the controller firmware up to date & also SSD manufacturer firmware up to date as well.

wazza300 · 10 May 2013 at 00:48

setter said:
Yep, extremely pleased with it so far wazza. Much faster than my old vertex 2e. Great to be able to boot into windows so quickly after using the old 2.5" laptop drive.

remember to wait 14 days after purchase and fill in the forms to claim the cashback,ive just done mine and was simple,include a screenshot of purchase receipt

http://www.samsung.com/uk/ssdcashback/

Phil2008 · 10 May 2013 at 10:27

Here mine of my sammy 840 pro 128gb I received yesterday.....

Is 119gb the correct formatted size for a 128gb drive?

Phil2008 · 10 May 2013 at 10:47

Ah Yeah ppl who say that you wont notice the diff between sata 2 and 3 speeds, are wrong,, as my boot time has decreased by another 2-3secs going from the vertex 2e to the sammy pro

Phil2008 · 10 May 2013 at 12:20

Ive just posted a vid of my windows boot up with my sammy 840 pro 128gb ssd for any of you thats interested. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBqRHvpCiOo&feature=youtube_gdata

wazza300 · 10 May 2013 at 12:36

119gb is correct,every drive will show less than stated capacity,its just the way windows sees gigabytes

Well Splattered · 10 May 2013 at 17:50

Titan arrived

So room for fourth drive.

wazza300 · 10 May 2013 at 17:53

^^ good scores,nearly as fast as my single ssd

Well Splattered · 10 May 2013 at 17:56

wazza300 said:
^^ good scores,nearly as fast as my single ssd

Lol, what is that. I want it.....

Is that on a working server array? Those results are all over. Im stuggling to imagine how read/writes will be with different r/w sizes. Can you do an AS SSD bench?

wazza300 · 10 May 2013 at 18:01

hehe I knew it would get your attention,its supercache a ram disk

all it does is look pretty,it offers no performance boost

http://www.superspeed.com/desktop/supercache.php

Well Splattered · 10 May 2013 at 18:02

wazza300 said:
hehe I knew it would get your attention,its supercache a ram disk

all it does is look pretty,it offers no performance boost

I thought it was a ramdisk, but its drive c: which made me think otherwise.

wazza300 · 10 May 2013 at 18:06

I forget now its been ages since I used it,prett sure its a ram disk

Well Splattered · 10 May 2013 at 18:50

wazza300 said:
I forget now its been ages since I used it,prett sure its a ram disk

Made me dig out some old images from my NAS drive. Will make another thread rather than clutter this one!

setter · 10 May 2013 at 23:54

wazza300 said:
remember to wait 14 days after purchase and fill in the forms to claim the cashback,ive just done mine and was simple,include a screenshot of purchase receipt

http://www.samsung.com/uk/ssdcashback/

Will do mate, in my enthusiasm to get back up and running i almost forgot about the cashback deal. The drive is amazing, the write times are more than fine for me. I never write big files to an ssd, aside from a few games.My boot time now is extremely quick, and game load times are down an awful lot. Great bonus on the games i play most. If i can help it, my os and chosen games will never be on a mechanical drive again.