Samsung SSD

i`ve just ordered :

Samsung PB22-J 64GB 2.5" SATA-II Solid State Hard Drive (MMCRE64G5MXP-OVB) x2 £260.86


but there on pre order atmo .. no date for instock ..
 
Why? For an extra tenner you could get the 128GB version - faster (though not perhaps faster than two 64GBs RAIDed), and with more upgrade potential. Plus better if you ever decided to stick it in a laptop.
 
D D Danneh said:
Ahhh, good point raised. I bought a 64GB Sammy SSD, which is supposedly the PB22-J, just looked and it's actually an MMCRE64G5MPP-0VA, which, upon googling, suggests it is also 90MB/s read. But, running it through HD Tune gives me an average of about 160MB/s (lowest being 80, highest being 200). Which, although higher than 90MB/s, is still slower than I was expecting, and isn't what the PB22-J is meant to do. I know figures get manipulated and biased, but even my maximum speed isn't hitting 220.
Click to expand...

There was a bug with the samsung drives wherby they report double read speeds with hdtune for empty areas of the disk and report correctly for areas with data on.

Is the ratio between the time at the peaks vs time at the troughs roughly equal to how much space you have filled on your disk?

Try running ATTO to get a better performance reading
 
miniyazz said:
Double? 23% more, roughly, for 128gb and 15% more for 256gb. Plus a more consumer-focussed company, also offering firmware updates..

Yes the 64gb ones were good value when they were cheap. Now there's more competition.
Click to expand...

Unlike the vertexes the samsungs don't need updates they just work out of the box.
 
@ minyazz ..

you`ve answered ya own Q :

for a tenner less i got 128gb on 2 drives instead off one big drive
though not perhaps faster than two 64GBs RAIDed
Click to expand...

thats why i ordered a adaptec SATA card aswell so i could raid the 2 together :)
 
Are you not paying VAT then? It's £300 for those two drives from OcUK compared to £270 for the 128GB. Still a decent saving even if you miss out on raid 0.
 
Last edited:
I bought two Samsung 64GB SSDs and put them in RAID0. They are ****** quick :D But sold one as I didn't really need the speed. Just got one now and it is still very snappy in Windows 7.

Here are the benchmark results for RAID0 64k stripe..

hdtach.jpg


hdtune.jpg
 
explicit4u said:
Unlike the vertexes the samsungs don't need updates they just work out of the box.
Click to expand...

I wouldn't say Vertexes don't work out of the box.. I'd more say they both work out the box, but OCZ are a lot more proactive about optimising Vertex performance further. A bit like BIOS updates for motherboards.. you don't have to upgrade them, but if you do, you get better performance (more features)
 
I also looked at these drives and they look very good, but i think there was a recent price hike as there wasn't enough supply for a part used in the SSD's. I'm really tempted to get some of these, but 1, i dont have the money at the moment. And 2, they will come down in price over the next few months (hopefully)
 
miniyazz said:
Where are your figures from?

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-014-OC&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=910
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-015-OC&groupid=701&catid=14&subcat=1427

200mb/s read 160mb/s write across the series. Although 120gb+ has 64mb cache, smaller only has 32mb
Click to expand...

Humm, my 60 Gb vertex (and all other vertex, including the smaller 30 GB) HAS 64 mb cache

What is the cache size on my xxGB Vertex drive?
64MB for all Vertex SSD's (do you doubt Tony??? )
Click to expand...

From OCZ forums
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom