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

[jedisolo]

I have 2 256 GB Samsungs in my Thinkpad T400. I have a express card 64 GB SSD in the express card slot and a 32 GB compact flash card in the Cardbus slot.

[MadBoris]

Originally Posted by Mormegil83

Hell yeah! where did u get that price? or was it with purchase of new notebook?

I was getting a laptop anyway, so it was good timing to get an SSD upgrade option on a Dell Studio XPS 16.
This thread helped me out months ago to get up to speed, so thx to all.

[ashura]

Okay, here's a description of my typical usage from earlier in the thread:

Originally Posted by ashura

Hrm, I typically keep Chrome open with about 125 or so tabs split amongst 3 windows and Firefox open with about 30 tabs in 1 window, and I've never experienced the freezing mentioned a bit earlier in this thread with my X25-M. Is it simply a matter of time? This is with a X25-M that has roughly 20GB free space left.

I also do the occasionally heavy usenet and torrent download.

The drive was purchased in February and has been in that sort of environment since, almost nonstop except for a small gap of a few days. My torrent and usenet downloading has gone from occasionally to quite often. It's never been HDDErased.

Here's a ATTO bench performed just now, as you can see my synthetic bench degradation is much worse than what the PCPer guy got:



One thing I should point out is that even with this degradation, actual performance never seemed to really be affected aside from when moving big files around. The Intel at its worst has felt as good or better than the Titan 128 and Corsair 128 at their best.

I'll be flashing the new firmware tonight and posting a new ATTO bench afterwards. I'll also post another ATTO bench after a week of my typical use to see if there's been any major change.

[tuan209]

Guys,

I have the x200 and it doesnt have a cd/dvd drive. Is there a work around to updating the intel drive via a usb thumb drive?

Tuan

[darQ96]

Originally Posted by IntelUser

Really? Look here:

http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/c...09_110626.html
http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/img/pc...hot_5.jpg.html
http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/img/pc...hot_6.jpg.html
http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/img/pc...hot_7.jpg.html

And then look here:

http://img.hexus.net/v2/internationa...iostar-big.jpg
http://img.hexus.net/v2/internationa...Jetway-big.jpg

The first couple pics are from JEDEC presentation and second two are the pic from a P55 motherboard on display. Right of the memory slots you'll see a similar looking slot but much shorter. One of the pic says "ONFI" beside and another says "High Speed NAND flash". Remember for Turbo Memory it uses a 500MB/s connection PCI-Express x1 slot for it. That's almost double the bandwidth for SATA2-300.

Its not guaranteed it'll be how future boards look like but its a start...

yeah, well, if ssd controller is on board, all you need to plug is slc or mlc memory chips integrated on green pbc, so, what is the point in that, I mean, then all ssd-s will be the same...
I think this is stupid
I see it like this, if controller is standard, than it means that we all will have same performance ssd-s, and that is stupid, I just can't believe it...
those p55 boards, well, it is some kind off desktop card ssd slot, but, this does not mean by any way that p55 has ssd controller chipset integrated...
or does it

[laserbullet]

Samsung 256GB in spotted in 1.8" form factor

This makes it obvious that SSDs are easily capable of matching, even surpassing HDD storage density...the largest 1.8" HDD is 250GB, and Samsung has matched that...2.5" drives are surpassing HDDs already, though nobody has spotted one of the 1TB 2.5" drives at retail. All we need to wait for now is for someone to be crazy enough to stick enough flash chips in a 3.5" enclosure, and then price will be a SSD's only barrier.

[IntelUser]

Originally Posted by darQ96

yeah, well, if ssd controller is on board, all you need to plug is slc or mlc memory chips integrated on green pbc, so, what is the point in that, I mean, then all ssd-s will be the same...
I think this is stupid
I see it like this, if controller is standard, than it means that we all will have same performance ssd-s, and that is stupid, I just can't believe it...
those p55 boards, well, it is some kind off desktop card ssd slot, but, this does not mean by any way that p55 has ssd controller chipset integrated...
or does it

Yea. I have said multiple times. The "Ibexpeak-PCH will have versions with integrated non-volatile controller".

It's not stupid at all. This is one way to reduce prices of SSDs to acceptable level. Current SSDs are really not acceptable because of the ridiculously high $/GB cost.

[ashura]

ATTO bench immediately after firmware update:



ATTO bench immediately following first bench:



One last run:




Pretty drastic difference compared to the pre-update results. I'll bench once more after a week of my typical usage to see if anything changes.

[sgogeta4]

Man I hope Intel fixed that degradation issue with this new firmware. I guess we will have to wait and see how it performs over time.

[tax-man]

Someone requested some benchmarks for an Indilinx based SLC drive. Just put one in today. No time to really test right now but here's a look. Seems pretty good compared to other single drives I've seen posted. Have no idea what firmware it is. I just put it in and did a quick format. No tweaks (yet) that I'm aware of.