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[willhub]

The M4 does look like a faster drive though.


On another note, looking at the M4 I noticed a comment from someone:

"You can't defrag SSD drives, but I clone this drive to a spare SATA drive with O&O Drive image, I then defrag the SATA drive and clone it back to the SSD. I don't know if there is an easier way, but this works fine for me."

 

[The__Malteser]

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[casual123]

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this :c

 

[ggidd]

Missed it... lol... after Samsungs anyway

 

[foster grant]

I have a Samsung 830 128Gig SSD and from the pc being off....when i turn it on and it takes about 25 seconds to get to the login screen....but i dunno if thats faster or slower than other SSD's though

 

[willhub]

Is that including the really long bios post screens and all that?

 

[Tuvoc]

The M4 does look like a faster drive though.

Yes, but it was on a SATA II controller, so limited by that (potentially)

 

[willhub]

Yes, but it was on a SATA II controller, so limited by that (potentially)

But the Vertex 2E does not even hit the limit, so even on Sata 2 it can be faster.

 

[foster grant]

Is that including the really long bios post screens and all that?

Yeah pretty much, and what really long BIOS post screens ? lol

 

[willhub]

My BIOS post lasts forever, I think from turning the PC on I'm looking at around 30-35 seconds to log on screen.

 

[foster grant]

My BIOS post lasts forever, I think from turning the PC on I'm looking at around 30-35 seconds to log on screen.

ahh ok well i might time it later....see if im wrong lol....have to say though i time it from when i can hear that Beep "

 

[willhub]

Ah, I time from pushing the power button.

I'm thinking of Getting an OCZ Solid 3 HDD, it's SATA3 and my mobo does not support SATA 3, will it still be faster than the OCZ Vertex 2E?

 

[foster grant]

aahh from pushing on/off button..yeah 30+ seconds sounds about right lol

I have to be honest with you......i have no idea sorry

 

[willhub]

I'm swapping my Vertex 2E for an Agility 3, the 2E is off in me Laptop.

 

[foster grant]

I'm swapping my Vertex 2E for an Agility 3, the 2E is off in me Laptop.

well i think the Agility 3 is seen in a better light than the vertex ? i think lol

 

[chippy08]

My BIOS post lasts forever, I think from turning the PC on I'm looking at around 30-35 seconds to log on screen.

my lappy takes 38 seconds and thats using a mech drive.

 

[pc_monkey]

The M4 does look like a faster drive though.


On another note, looking at the M4 I noticed a comment from someone:

he re-writes everything back to SSD so it is the same

 

[willhub]

Any point in putting it on an HDD to defrag then put it back? Data does not get fragmented on an SSD no?

 

[Confused Stu]

Data doesn't need to be defragged on an SSD. This is only done on a HDD so as to put files together to reduce the time it takes the seek head to get from one portion of file to another. With SSD, no seek head, no time to get the other portion, so absolutely no need to defrag. Defragging is actually bad for them as you're increasing the number of writes on the drive for no reason.

Humorously, the process Willhub quoted won't work anyway because of the way SSDs spread data over the memory internally to avoid wearing out one memory block by writing to it too many times.

Data on SSD 1 3 8 2 7 9 4 6 5
Copy to HDD 1 3 8 2 7 9 4 6 5
Defrag 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Copy to SSD 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Actually saved to SSD following wear leveling 8 4 1 3 5 6 7 9 2

 

[willhub]

So the SSD frags it all over the place really