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

[Darth Bane]

I have the 128gb corsair. I plan on upgrading soon and might be selling it cheap.

[laserbullet]

I'm going to have a look at a second hand Dell E4200 tomorrow with "UltraPerformance Solid State Drive 64GB".

Does anyone know what kind of performance I should be getting from this drive?
And is there an easy way to establish whether it suffers from performance degradation?

Thanks.

That's the 64GB Samsung SLC drive. My dad has an E6400 with one in it, it works great. Being SLC, it will suffer much less degradation than an MLC drive.

[Mormegil83]

Its a good drive (100mb/s read and 90mb/s write). A lot of places still seem to be selling it for ~$500 but i got mine when geeks.com had them $179 I think it was. Windows loads yada yada yada... Multi tasking with your HD taxed will be incredable! and depending on what drive your used to the load time benefits will vary. I came from a 7k200gb and is seems to load my games 25-50% faster not at the blink of an eye, but noticably faster. Mine has suffered no degradation tested via ATTO... (and it's already been through a few write cycles)

Oh yeah and that virus scan time question... i only have about 40gb to scan but it takes less than 3min and i don't even notice it going on for me.

Darth Bane might help any decissions people thinking about the corsair might have to make... on one hand he might let it go for cheap, on the other hand he is already upgrading... It's always a question of how much are you willing to spend and how much performance do you want to gain.

Do to the sammy SLC's slower seq but better MTBF, I too am planning to get a faster seq SSD for storage and games and keep my sammy for OS and apps.

[Phil]

That's the 64GB Samsung SLC drive. My dad has an E6400 with one in it, it works great. Being SLC, it will suffer much less degradation than an MLC drive.

Thanks. That sounds good.

Any idea of read speeds I should be getting? I plan to run HDTune or something like that.

[Mormegil83]

Thanks. That sounds good.

Any idea of read speeds I should be getting? I plan to run HDTune or something like that.

That's what i'm trying to explain in my above post.

[QuadAllegory]

Unless you're running a home Exchange server, the X-25M is the better choice.

I won't be running a home server, but I don't need 80GB and I thought the X25-E SLC drives were much better for longevity and fragmentation than MLC. But, if the firmware sucks on the X25-E, I guess I have no choice but the X25-M. I'm just looking for the best option possible.

[Phil]

Its a good drive (100mb/s read and 90mb/s write). A lot of places still seem to be selling it for ~$500 but i got mine when geeks.com had them $179 I think it was. Windows loads yada yada yada... Multi tasking with your HD taxed will be incredable! and depending on what drive your used to the load time benefits will vary. I came from a 7k200gb and is seems to load my games 25-50% faster not at the blink of an eye, but noticably faster. Mine has suffered no degradation tested via ATTO... (and it's already been through a few write cycles)

Thanks. At first I missed your post.

What do you mean with Windows loads yada yada yada? not so good?

[Mormegil83]

Actually it's quite good, kinda the what everyone always says faster windows load desktop ready instantly kinda stuff.

[Darth Bane]

Kingston now has a v-sereis ssd's

[Jlbrightbill]

I won't be running a home server, but I don't need 80GB and I thought the X25-E SLC drives were much better for longevity and fragmentation than MLC. But, if the firmware sucks on the X25-E, I guess I have no choice but the X25-M. I'm just looking for the best option possible.

Nobody ever said the firmware sucks, it's a solid SLC drive and they simply haven't needed to upgrade the firmware because they got it right the first time.

By the time the X-25M is too slow, you'll be buying SATA 6 SSDs for less than what we're paying now.