Is this an OK bench?

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I took several benchmarks of my internal HDD and really don't have anything to compare them against.

Are these benches normal or should I be concerned?

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EDIT: Those are read times, I can't perform a write times bench due to partitions.


A friend of mine just got scores that knocked mine out of the park:

Transfer Rate Minimum : 2.5 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Maximum : 116.5 MB/sec
Transfer Rate Average : 88.9 MB/sec
Access Time : 12.2 ms
Burst Rate : 142.6 MB/sec
CPU Usage : -1.0%
 
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Yeh I would got for the Crucial C300 64gb, I have it on a new asus u3s6 card and its amazing. I get a read of over 350mb/s and write of about 75mb/s. I only used it as my os drive and so don't need a fast writing SSD.
 
See the Crucial C300 is still ridiculously expensive for me. That's the main thing keeping me away from SSDs.

However I did find the Intel X25-V, it's 40GB and the reviews are through the roof.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-006-IN&tool=3

Is it really as simple as plugging in an SSD to your SATA port and installing windows? Or do I have to troubleshoot inside my BIOS and switch between AHCI or find a mode that enables TRIM and install some crazy software?
 
Zarf said:
Those scores are crap, Defrag it and see if they improve.
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Thanks (no srsly) I figured as much. I did think about defragging it but after checking the HDD with W7 defrag analysis, it said it was 99% efficient and did not require a defrag.

Is it better to use a third party defrag tool instead? I normally always do but W7 defrags by itself so I've never messed with it.
 
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Setting up the Intel X25-V 40GB SSD should be something like...

1.) Download firmware utility and update the SSD firmware
2.) Set BIOS to ACHI
3.) Set SATA ports to IDE
4.) After all this THEN install Windows 7
5.) Download Intel Rapid Storage Technology and install on SSD OS
6.) Disable auto defrag

Am I missing any steps?
 
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trentlad said:
Thanks (no srsly) I figured as much. I did think about defragging it but after checking the HDD with W7 defrag analysis, it said it was 99% efficient and did not require a defrag.

Is it better to use a third party defrag tool instead? I normally always do but W7 defrags by itself so I've never messed with it.
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Third party tools are good (reorders files for quicker boots etc), but if the windows defrag says that the drive is ok fragmentation isn't the issue here.

What make/model drive is it? I was assuming it was something fairly modern like a Samsung F1, but if it's an old Seagate 7200.10 with 188GB platters those speeds arn't far off what i'd expect.
Modern drives like the Samsung F3 and WD Caviar Black will average almost 120MB/s.
 
Wow did you call it or what!!

Series: Seagate Barracuda 7200.10
Interface: SATA 3.0 Gb/s
Capacity: 750 GB
RPM: 7200
Cache: 16 MB
Recording: Perpendicular
Purchased: 2008

At a guess it uses 3 x 250 GB platters, but I have no clue where to find that information.

I'm not sure if the perpendicular recording is a limiting factor, it does get fairly warm but I don't have other regular 3.5" drives to compare it against. At the time of purchase it was next to near impossible to research information about perpendicular drives.
 
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manishpatel80 said:
I have it on a new asus u3s6 card and its amazing. I get a read of over 350mb/s and write of about 75mb/s.
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BLOODY HELL!!

So could someone explain the concept of using a card like this? The one mentioned is an Asus u3s6, which provides the following:
2 x external USB 3.0 ports
2 x internal SATA 6Gb/s ports.

Is this what most SSD users are purchasing to get speeds up if their mobo doesn't support SATA 6Gb/s natively? My mobo only has a PCIe 2.0 so that's a max of 5 Gb/s, would I really notice much difference if I used this card rather than using just the bare SSD?

I'd only use the SSD for my OS.
 
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Wasn't there a thread on here that showed everyone's SSD benchmarks? Found it.

The Intel X25-V 40GB seems to be blown out of the water by the OCZ Vertex 30GB... but they costs the same.

So it looks like the X25-V seems to have decent benchmarks which does pretty well compared to the rest. However his mobo has 2 x SATA 6Gb/s ports, so I'd never get this speed.
bifday2k said:
Heres my Intel X25 - V 40Gb, Latest Firmware and using MS's AHCI drivers, recently bought from the members market for £80, 20gb used for win7 64bit and all my Apps, 17gb free space.

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Looks like manishpatel80 also shared his benchmarks and gets almost double speeds (not sure why the total score isn't double). What mobo do you have?
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Well I updated the sata 3 drivers to Marvel v1.0.0.1036 and the results are slightly better
I am very happy with this new SSD its much faster then my M225 120GB except for write speeds, but I use my C drive for reading more.

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I really don't know if it's worth it with my mobo, Phil_07 has pretty much the same mobo as mine (SATA 3Gb/s and PCIe 2.0) and seems disappointed by the performance difference. I wonder if adding a SATA card to my rig would really make that much of a difference, especially if I only have PCIe 2.0 and loose out on 1 Gb/s.
phil_07 said:
hi guys.
i recently purchased the Intel X25-V Value 40GB, installed win7 x64 in 11 min (thought wow!) but have been unimpressed ever since. windows boots in about 30-40 secs which is good, but i cant say that everything else is so dramatic unlike the reviews i have read of other peoples experiences of ssd`s. all i have on it is windows and steam (about 8gb), prior to this i had one of the first 74gb raptors running everything and it seems no faster than that.
after much forum bashing i noticed having the drive set to achi would improve things, after trying the registry fix (no chance) i decided on a fresh install of windows. with this done my benchmark on AS SSD went up by about 100 to around 290. but windows was now taking about 2-3 min to start and just didnt feel right.
so i visited the gigabyte support page, downloaded the latest AMD Chipset Driver, installed......boot time back to normal, but AS SSD no longer says my drive is achi but amdsata ( its still set to achi in bios)
am now stumped, am i just expecting too much from my ssd? have i installed the wrong chipset drivers?....help guys!
thanks in advance phil.
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I'd almost be better off buying a SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ 1TB... unless I'm focusing on entirely the wrong thing and the SATA speed difference has nothing to do with this since the SSD read/write speeds don't even reach anywhere near 3Gb/s!
 
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Well, I've asked some pretty major techy questions here.

Hopefully it isn't over most members heads, they almost each deserve their own thread... rather than being hidden under such a inconspicuous thread name.

I'll see if these four get answered and open a separate thread for them if they don't.
 
You could always try it using motherboard S-ATA ports. As I doubt you'd notice the difference in speed unless all you do is benchmark and reinstall apps.

Then if you want to get nearer the quoted figures get an add-in card or new motherboard. But probably be some newer SSD's around by that time too.

Edit: Reading that Phil_07 quote, I would be wanting less than 15 seconds boot time for the awe factor. I've seen that with a Kingston V+ 64GB drive on an AMD budget bundle system, and I'd imagine there are better SSD's around for £100 ish region.
 
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Really, that's pretty cool... but the main question: is the SATA 3Gb/s speed a limiting factor of how fast your motherboard can access an SSD.

If it is... there's no point!

Especially after reading phil_07's quoted post above... granted he used to have a Raptor HDD before hand.
 
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I ran a M225 on numerous sata 3 boards and it reads about 190mbs, my C300 is getting 267 mbs also on sata 3. I didn't notice any speed difference between them so not really bothered about getting the most out of the C300..

You will be impressed if you move to ssd. I was and I was using a VelociRaptor previously..
 
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