SSD=Amazing

adam_castell · 20 Sep 2010 at 14:20

bhavv said:
Funny that the WD Black Sata III drive is slower than a Sata II Sammy F3, do you actually have that connected to a Sata III port?

The Samsung F3 is still the king of 1 Tb drives, and the new 2 Tb F4 is awesome for <£85 with speeds almost as good as the WD Black, and 1 Tb F3.

yes, that is on a 6GB/s port

Greebo · 20 Sep 2010 at 14:49

adam_castell said:
yes, that is on a 6GB/s port

Probably where you're going wrong then. I put my two vortex 2e on my asus 6gb/s sata and it has crippled them. Although my read speeds are good, they are not great and my write speeds are about a 5th of the single vortex 2e on here.

I'm going to put them on the Intel sata II controller tonight to see if there is an improvement.

Sata III may be good for the crucial drives but does seem to cripple write speeds or at least with the marvel controller.

Greebo · 20 Sep 2010 at 21:32

Well I've just moved my vertex 2e in raid 0 to my intel controller and my results have gone through the roof.

reygjabla · 21 Sep 2010 at 09:08

Would love to see your benchmark mate.

adam_castell · 21 Sep 2010 at 09:35

Greebo said:
Well I've just moved my vertex 2e in raid 0 to my intel controller and my results have gone through the roof.

i will give this a try tonight

Greebo · 21 Sep 2010 at 09:37

I'll post my benchies tonight, was too late last night as I discovered that since they were on raid, moving them from the marvel sata 3 controller to the intel one required a new array forming and a re-install of windows (again)

reygjabla · 21 Sep 2010 at 10:21

Before you re-install, make sure you do a secure erase using HDDErase 3.3.

Greebo · 21 Sep 2010 at 11:53

reygjabla said:
Before you re-install, make sure you do a secure erase using HDDErase 3.3.

Too late for me then.

How much of a difference would it make? SHould I kill windows and do it again?

Dancer · 21 Sep 2010 at 17:13

bhavv said:
I cant use Achi mode though because I'm using Raid, and that makes boot time about 5s longer while it detecs the drives, but Windows is super fast, and after it finishes booting, everything is loaded and ready to use in just 2 seconds.

Sorry if this is obvious, but why can't you use ACHI for raid?

Greebo · 21 Sep 2010 at 18:17

Dancer said:
Sorry if this is obvious, but why can't you use ACHI for raid?

You can. Well at least on my board when you select raid it is ACHI enabled by default.

Participant · 21 Sep 2010 at 19:12

Dancer said:
Sorry if this is obvious, but why can't you use ACHI for raid?

As far as I know, AHCI is just the interface standard referred to for single disks. RAID does not eliminate any of the benefits of AHCI mode.

Greebo · 21 Sep 2010 at 19:27

Here's my two vertex 2e 60Gb

Here's my old crucial M225 64gb as comparison

PCM2 · 21 Sep 2010 at 20:01

The access time is relatively slow. I'm not sure how much difference it makes in reality, but my X25-M has access times of 0.066ms read and 0.083ms write.

Euphoria · 21 Sep 2010 at 20:03

i am so tempted to go SSD for my 10" netbook as i think it might bring some life back into it, i always thought the OCZ range were the best, but crucial seem to be doing ok

Greebo · 21 Sep 2010 at 20:33

PCM2 said:
The access time is relatively slow. I'm not sure how much difference it makes in reality, but my X25-M has access times of 0.066ms read and 0.083ms write.

to be honest I;m still not sure I have these set up to the best of their ability. On the Marvel sata 3 they were only doing around 12 mb/s on the 4k writes.

I never erased then before starting and were 2nd hand. They are still miles faster than my old ssd though

Greebo · 21 Sep 2010 at 20:34

Euphoria said:
i am so tempted to go SSD for my 10" netbook as i think it might bring some life back into it, i always thought the OCZ range were the best, but crucial seem to be doing ok

Crucial great for sata 3, on sata 2 their read are no better than the vertex and the writes can;t come anywhere near.

If your netbook is sata 3 go crucial, if not go vertex.

reygjabla · 21 Sep 2010 at 22:30

Greebo said:
Too late for me then. How much of a difference would it make? SHould I kill windows and do it again?

Greebo said:
to be honest I;m still not sure I have these set up to the best of their ability. On the Marvel sata 3 they were only doing around 12 mb/s on the 4k writes.

I never erased then before starting and were 2nd hand. They are still miles faster than my old ssd though

Greebo, this is how its going to look like if you've done an HDDErase.

Here's some interesting info from OCZ http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/f...3-*-Windows-7-Ultimate-Tweaks-amp-Utilities-*

Greebo · 22 Sep 2010 at 08:46

reygjabla said:
Greebo, this is how its going to look like if you've done an HDDErase.

Here's some interesting info from OCZ http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/f...3-*-Windows-7-Ultimate-Tweaks-amp-Utilities-*

I thought it still wasn;t as good as it could have been.

Which hd erase do you use?
Which chipset drivers are you using please?
Did you set them as 100Gb in the array or max size and then a 100Gb partition?
What cluster size is best in the array? OCZ say 4k which is what mine is set to. What did you use?

Thanks. Looks like another fresh install tonight.

reygjabla · 22 Sep 2010 at 09:12

I used HDDErase 3.3
I'm using the latest Intel RST driver.
Yes, I set them as 100GB in the array.
Yes, i'm using 4K cluster.
Plus, I used some of the SSD enhancement on the link I gave you.

Greebo · 22 Sep 2010 at 09:50

Thanks for that, will hdderase them tonight and start again. I presume I have only one drive connected at a time?

Any reason why 3.3 and not the latest version 4.0?

Is this the latest RST?

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&ProdId=2101&DwnldID=18859&lang=eng