Samsung 64GB 2.5" SATA-II MLC Solid State Hard Drive

ihatelag · 19 Mar 2009 at 20:36

i think this sums up the awesomeness http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96dWOEa4Djs

matt100 · 23 Mar 2009 at 08:48

took the plunge, followed the OCZ forum thing almost to the letter so now I have 2 x 64GB SSD in RAID 0 with a 128kb stripe and 64kb offset, write back cache enabled etc etc.

Fresh install of vista 64 and it all looks good, feels very snappy.

I'll give the benchmarks a crack tonight, what sort of numbers should I be expecting?

Nick1881 · 23 Mar 2009 at 17:14

I re-installed Vista fresh on my SSD's after doing the drive alignment but now the system seems to hang quite a bit, I'm running 128kb stripe and 128kb offset, is this wrong? Would this cause the freezing problems I'm having?

If I was going to change the stripe could I ghost my OS onto a spare drive then re-align the SSD's and ghost the image back or would I need a fresh install?

Supertaff · 23 Mar 2009 at 17:25

Hi Leminster,

Have received the mounting bay, one thing I forgot to ask you was how you managed to get the bay mounted into the standard grill of the Antec 900.

Did you do DIY to get it to fit into the grill or is there a third party grill available to mount it in.

I've had a look on the Overclockers site and can't find one.

Cheers again for yor assistance.

Taff

VortexA1 · 23 Mar 2009 at 17:56

mr_x_plosion said:
I re-installed Vista fresh on my SSD's after doing the drive alignment but now the system seems to hang quite a bit, I'm running 128kb stripe and 128kb offset, is this wrong? Would this cause the freezing problems I'm having?

If I was going to change the stripe could I ghost my OS onto a spare drive then re-align the SSD's and ghost the image back or would I need a fresh install?

I can't see the stripe and offset causing the hanging.

I'm sure you would need a fresh install for the drive to be re-aligned again.

matt100 · 23 Mar 2009 at 18:45

stupid apple keyboard can't do print screen..

Just run the atto benchmark and on the 32 to 8192 tests I'm getting about 160mbs write and 190mbs read.

Is that where it should be?

[timko] · 23 Mar 2009 at 21:09

matt100 said:
I'm getting about 160mbs write and 190mbs read.

Is that where it should be?

For Vista that is pretty much where you should be. Here's another Vista result from earlier on in this thread...

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=13703634&postcount=402

Go even further back for more

matt100 · 23 Mar 2009 at 21:53

sweet, just ran mine again and it comes out slightly higher than that.

Did i see somewhere there's an indexing/defragging function I need to switch off?

shine · 23 Mar 2009 at 21:54

matt100 said:
Did i see somewhere there's an indexing/defragging function I need to switch off?

Yep - My Computer - Right Click properties of the SSD and uncheck the indexing option.

matt100 · 23 Mar 2009 at 22:07

cheers dude....all done

all feels remarkably snappy like I've had a massive cpu upgrade.

Lovely

fergie128 · 24 Mar 2009 at 02:33

Recently ive been getting a lot of 5-10 second lockups using 2 of these drives in raid 0. System locks for 5-10 seconds then my Realtek sound tool thing tells me ive plugged in an audio device.

Anyone else had this ?

vcl_X1 · 24 Mar 2009 at 20:13

I've taken the plunge with a pair of the 64GB beauties raided up, tweaked per above, offset, stripe size etc...it's certainly snappy, everything opens instantly.

HD Tach is showing average reads at 180, bursts at upto 1700!

How do you all post the screen prints, Ctrl-ALT-print screen doesn't seem to work for me.

[timko] · 24 Mar 2009 at 21:06

vcl_X1 said:
How do you all post the screen prints, Ctrl-ALT-print screen doesn't seem to work for me.

It's just Alt + PrtSc and then open up MSPaint, or another image handling application and then paste it. Save the image file and then do the following...

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=13684786&postcount=368

Also, the high burst speed is a bug in HDTach that occurs when using that app to bench empty SSDs.

vcl_X1 · 24 Mar 2009 at 21:11

[timko];13747845 said:
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Also, the high burst speed is a bug in HDTach that occurs when using that app to bench empty SSDs.

Thanks re the alt-prtscrn.

It's not empty, it has Vista 64 Ultimate on it.

I've set up a 110 gb partition for os and set aside 10 gb as scratch disc for Photoshop, anyone else does anything like this?

Yurka · 25 Mar 2009 at 06:49

OcUK don't seem to be selling these drives... just wanted to confirm that, yes? or did they used to?

Supertaff · 25 Mar 2009 at 07:55

Yurka said:
OcUK don't seem to be selling these drives... just wanted to confirm that, yes? or did they used to?

Unfortunately they are not selling them and I don't believe they have ever sold them.

Regards

Taff

LeJimster · 25 Mar 2009 at 10:56

Supertaff said:
Hi Leminster,

Have received the mounting bay, one thing I forgot to ask you was how you managed to get the bay mounted into the standard grill of the Antec 900.

Did you do DIY to get it to fit into the grill or is there a third party grill available to mount it in.

I've had a look on the Overclockers site and can't find one.

Cheers again for yor assistance.

Taff

Sorry m8, only just noticed your post.

You should have a floppy drive mounting kit with a precut hole for the 2.5 drive bay? It came with my Antec 900 at least.

LeJimster · 25 Mar 2009 at 11:04

vcl_X1 said:
Thanks re the alt-prtscrn.

It's not empty, it has Vista 64 Ultimate on it.

I've set up a 110 gb partition for os and set aside 10 gb as scratch disc for Photoshop, anyone else does anything like this?

If you still got a regular HDD, i would recommend reclaiming the partition you've made for the scratch disk (and merge it with your system partition if possible) and just move the scratch disk to the HDD. Unless you're not bothered about the longevity of your drive.

At least, thats the way I run my system and it's still very fast.

vcl_X1 · 25 Mar 2009 at 12:25

LeJimster said:
If you still got a regular HDD, i would recommend reclaiming the partition you've made for the scratch disk (and merge it with your system partition if possible) and just move the scratch disk to the HDD. Unless you're not bothered about the longevity of your drive.

At least, thats the way I run my system and it's still very fast.

The old longevity question...to be safe I'll move the scratch disk off the ssd's and onto another hd, tbf I kind of though this was a bad idea just after I did it, i.e. no page file on ssd, no indexing.

I've just been doing some tidying up on old os partition, i.e running from hd, very sluggish, I'm not going back now unless I have to.

Supertaff · 25 Mar 2009 at 13:57

LeJimster said:
Sorry m8, only just noticed your post.

You should have a floppy drive mounting kit with a precut hole for the 2.5 drive bay? It came with my Antec 900 at least.

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Cheers for the response mate. I bought my system pre-built from overclockers and I don't remember seeing one of those in the box of bits they gave me with the system. I'll have another look through the box, otherwise I'll get in touch with Overclockers and see if they have one lying around they can send me.

Regards

Taff