The new SSD Thread (Benchmarks, Brands, News and Advice)

[sitecharts.com]

I have the Mtron 64GB (but 3.5") and the Mtron 32GB but 1.8". they all perform similar (while raw read/write performance is slower on the 1.8" due to limits of my notebook, this difference is not really noticable.. )

i'd need a samsung to test

and, well, the 2.5" will perform equal to the 3.5" ones (as well as the 1.8" ones, which are identical in speed, too).

How is it?
Can you do some real world benchmarks?

e.g. boot time, shutdown, starting photoshop, opening a very large file, starting outlook, ...

[davepermen]

i stated them before. on the 2710p, the perf is limited due to the older umda modus.

vista boot: 40 sec. (from 5min)
firefox boot: 2 sec. (from 1min)

installing adobe reader: much faster than harddrive (thats the "lots of small writes in reallife test" ).

and this, as said, with capped read/write due to UMDA 5: http://davepermen.net/SSDs.aspx

[hankaaron57]

2.5" will perform just as well as the 3.5"? This I need to see...

[davepermen]

2.5" will perform just as well as the 3.5"? This I need to see...

why? they all since the first one perform the same in the same category, no mather the size.

the 3.5" btw are half as thick as ordinary harddrives. so in fact, they're just a bit bigger 2.5" drives..

everything is the same from 2.5" to 3.5". they're both s-ata, they are identical internally. the only gain from 2.5" to 3.5" is the ability to just put more chips in to have more storage (that's why there isn't a 1.8" 64gb slc around yet from mtron, i'd guess).

[davepermen]

Thank you for sharing useful information.We want you to come up with advanced information so that will be helpful to everyone.

what advanced information do you want? be specific. starting and timing apps i've done, running different hd benches, i've done. loving it because it's hell of a difference for me, i've done. what else do you want? (and yes, the worst case test iops 4k random write i've done, too.. as written on my page)

[mobytoby]

The waiting is over:

http://www.businesswire.com/portal/s...08&newsLang=en

[davepermen]

looks nice.. if it gets awailable in shops at a fair price, then that'll be excellent (mr. burns style)

[Spare Tire]

It says it consumes 1.1W, i assume that's at writes. How about idle? That's more important to me since i don't write much to the disk. Just need it to boot up and start programs fast.

[miro_gt]

The waiting is over:

http://www.businesswire.com/portal/s...08&newsLang=en

so there should be a 128GB SLC drive shortly, nice

[sgogeta4]

so there should be a 128GB SLC drive shortly, nice

How do you figure??