m4 help plzzz

nope but i think gb is different to GB. If you have a quick search then youll see everyone is in the same boat. 120gb is 111GB. Something to do with windows using binary capacity measurements
 
How much RAM do you have in your machine as Windows 7 be default will create a hibernation file equal to the size of your RAM.

You can turn that off though a elevated command prompt something like powercfg -h off I think

Kimbie
 
pinched from somewhere.....

"hard drive sizes are measured assuming 1k = 1000. Windows shows drive sizes assumign 1k =1024
So to Windows a 128gb drive = 128 x 1000 x 1000 x 1000 / 1024 /1024 /1024 = approx 119GB"
 
Sounds right just looked at my M4 and that has capacity of 119GB you can reclaim 6Gb by turning off the hibernation side of Windows.

To be honest 100Gb is more than enough, install steam onto a mechanical drive and use "Steam Mover" to move your games onto the SSD

Kimbie
 
Jmicron were the first manufacturer to create controllers for SSD's, they started off at very low speeds of approx 50mb/s read and 30mb/s write. The Jmicron controller JMF601A/602A used in the OCZ Core v1 SSD's suffered from stuttering problems, sometimes 3seconds of the system stalling due to the poor controller and lack of cache memory. The JMF601B/602B was released in june 2008 which improved the stuttering somewhat but required to use several GB of the SSD as temporary storage space as there was no cache, which is why the sizes were 30GB, 60GB, 120GB instead of 32/64/128gb, these still had a lot of problems. The OCZ Vertex drives were released using an indilynx controller and 64mb cache which removing the stuttering problem.

Jmicron have released newer controllers that fix the stuttering write problem (JMF618 & JMF612), currently indilynx is the most popular controller, it is used in gskill falcon, ocz vertex, crucial m225 and many other drives. Intel's controller is regarded as the best in terms of IOPS, however their write speed can be hampered in certain situations by the relatively low 70mb/s write speed. Sanforce's F-100 controller is the best overall controller, its either faster or nearly as fast as the intel in all areas, its definately the best bang for buck controller which was released in around March 2010.

Samsung's controller doesn't perform as well as the indilynx, intel or sandforce controllers at random read/write or other normal usage situations but those drives generally cost quite a bit less. The Sandforce F-100 Controller is pretty much the best controller there is, it offers 285mb/s read and 275mb/s write and IOPS of around 50,000 which is incredibly fast, it is used in the high-end OCZ Vertex 2E, Corsair Force F100, GSkill Phoenix and some other high-end drives. The Marvell controller is in the Crucial C300 line, the Crucial C300 256GB is the fastest SATA SSD you can buy, the 128GB and 64GB versions use slower memory which is why the write speeds and benchmarks are lower, overall the 64GB and 128GB versions are slower than the Sandforce controller-based drives.
 
lackofskill said:
Jmicron were the first manufacturer to create controllers for SSD's, they started off at very low speeds of approx 50mb/s read and 30mb/s write. The Jmicron controller JMF601A/602A used in the OCZ Core v1 SSD's suffered from stuttering problems, sometimes 3seconds of the system stalling due to the poor controller and lack of cache memory. The JMF601B/602B was released in june 2008 which improved the stuttering somewhat but required to use several GB of the SSD as temporary storage space as there was no cache, which is why the sizes were 30GB, 60GB, 120GB instead of 32/64/128gb, these still had a lot of problems. The OCZ Vertex drives were released using an indilynx controller and 64mb cache which removing the stuttering problem.

Jmicron have released newer controllers that fix the stuttering write problem (JMF618 & JMF612), currently indilynx is the most popular controller, it is used in gskill falcon, ocz vertex, crucial m225 and many other drives. Intel's controller is regarded as the best in terms of IOPS, however their write speed can be hampered in certain situations by the relatively low 70mb/s write speed. Sanforce's F-100 controller is the best overall controller, its either faster or nearly as fast as the intel in all areas, its definately the best bang for buck controller which was released in around March 2010.

Samsung's controller doesn't perform as well as the indilynx, intel or sandforce controllers at random read/write or other normal usage situations but those drives generally cost quite a bit less. The Sandforce F-100 Controller is pretty much the best controller there is, it offers 285mb/s read and 275mb/s write and IOPS of around 50,000 which is incredibly fast, it is used in the high-end OCZ Vertex 2E, Corsair Force F100, GSkill Phoenix and some other high-end drives. The Marvell controller is in the Crucial C300 line, the Crucial C300 256GB is the fastest SATA SSD you can buy, the 128GB and 64GB versions use slower memory which is why the write speeds and benchmarks are lower, overall the 64GB and 128GB versions are slower than the Sandforce controller-based drives.
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You might as well just link to the thread you copied that from ;)

Solid State Drives (SSD's) explained
 
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lackofskill said:
Jmicron were the first manufacturer to create controllers for SSD's, they started off at very low speeds of approx 50mb/s read and 30mb/s write. The Jmicron controller JMF601A/602A used in the OCZ Core v1 SSD's suffered from stuttering problems, sometimes 3seconds of the system stalling due to the poor controller and lack of cache memory. The JMF601B/602B was released in june 2008 which improved the stuttering somewhat but required to use several GB of the SSD as temporary storage space as there was no cache, which is why the sizes were 30GB, 60GB, 120GB instead of 32/64/128gb, these still had a lot of problems. The OCZ Vertex drives were released using an indilynx controller and 64mb cache which removing the stuttering problem.

Jmicron have released newer controllers that fix the stuttering write problem (JMF618 & JMF612), currently indilynx is the most popular controller, it is used in gskill falcon, ocz vertex, crucial m225 and many other drives. Intel's controller is regarded as the best in terms of IOPS, however their write speed can be hampered in certain situations by the relatively low 70mb/s write speed. Sanforce's F-100 controller is the best overall controller, its either faster or nearly as fast as the intel in all areas, its definately the best bang for buck controller which was released in around March 2010.

Samsung's controller doesn't perform as well as the indilynx, intel or sandforce controllers at random read/write or other normal usage situations but those drives generally cost quite a bit less. The Sandforce F-100 Controller is pretty much the best controller there is, it offers 285mb/s read and 275mb/s write and IOPS of around 50,000 which is incredibly fast, it is used in the high-end OCZ Vertex 2E, Corsair Force F100, GSkill Phoenix and some other high-end drives. The Marvell controller is in the Crucial C300 line, the Crucial C300 256GB is the fastest SATA SSD you can buy, the 128GB and 64GB versions use slower memory which is why the write speeds and benchmarks are lower, overall the 64GB and 128GB versions are slower than the Sandforce controller-based drives.
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Don't quite see the relevance of this to the post? :)
 
well i said i got a 128gb ssd and it was only saying 119gb if you read that then it will tell you why if your on jmicron controller JMF601B/602B then it will use several GB of the ssd as temporary storage space as there was no cache so this tells me what i was trying to find out ;p
 
lackofskill said:
well i said i got a 128gb ssd and it was only saying 119gb if you read that then it will tell you why if your on jmicron controller JMF601B/602B then it will use several GB of the ssd as temporary storage space as there was no cache so this tells me what i was trying to find out ;p
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Having 119GB instead of 128 GB is entirely down to the difference between the SI (decimal) unit of measurement used by disk manufacturers and the binary unit of measurement used by Windows.
 
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