Kingston SSD Deal. Very sweet!!

Supremacy · 27 Aug 2012 at 18:15

kool

Defy Belief · 27 Aug 2012 at 20:42

NightSt@lk3r said:
Yes that is correct, Windows calculates GB's differently than the hardware manufacturers do.

Yep you'll notice this with all drives.

It's basically because the hard drive manufacturers say a GB is 1000 MB's, and 1MB is 1000 KB, rather than 1024 like windows reads it.

PapaLazaru · 28 Aug 2012 at 14:24

Well apart from the fact that I cannot update the firmware, I ran a bench and am getting speeds less than half of advertised.

It is in the correct port and I have it running AHCI (it is only a storage drive my boot drive is a Crucial M4).

How so?

chippy08 · 28 Aug 2012 at 14:46

PapaLazaru said:
Well apart from the fact that I cannot update the firmware, I ran a bench and am getting speeds less than half of advertised.

It is in the correct port and I have it running AHCI (it is only a storage drive my boot drive is a Crucial M4).

How so?

Are you using it on a sata 3 connector and not sata 2 connector ?

PapaLazaru · 28 Aug 2012 at 15:48

chippy08 said:
Are you using it on a sata 3 connector and not sata 2 connector ?

I only have sata 3 ports on my mobo.

chippy08 · 28 Aug 2012 at 15:51

PapaLazaru said:
I only have sata 3 ports on my mobo.

What mobo do you have ?

PapaLazaru · 28 Aug 2012 at 15:53

chippy08 said:
What mobo do you have ?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-460-AS

It is in one of the brown ones, the same as all my other hard drives.

chippy08 · 28 Aug 2012 at 16:04

6 x SATA 6Gb/s port(s), brown
2 x SATA 3Gb/s port(s), black

So you using the brown sockets ?

kedge · 28 Aug 2012 at 16:09

Sweet deal indeed, not that long ago i paid £90 + vat for a 64gb ssd and £170 +vat for a 128gb ssd, nice slice of price

PapaLazaru · 28 Aug 2012 at 18:01

chippy08 said:
6 x SATA 6Gb/s port(s), brown
2 x SATA 3Gb/s port(s), black

So you using the brown sockets ?

Yeah brown only. It is most confusing.

Defy Belief · 28 Aug 2012 at 21:00

PapaLazaru said:
Well apart from the fact that I cannot update the firmware, I ran a bench and am getting speeds less than half of advertised.

It is in the correct port and I have it running AHCI (it is only a storage drive my boot drive is a Crucial M4).

How so?

I thought seeing as people had benched them i'd give it a go, same result as you.

203mb/s read 148mb/s write.

My VERTEX 2 OCZ drive which is old and on sata 2 gets 226.3mb/s read and 59mb/s write, confused. The OCZ drive beat it everytime on the read speeds.

Does benching a drive that's the boot/OS drive hinder bench results? As it has to still us run the system whilst the bench runs? Either way, in terms of figures, it's nothing like what was stated.