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

[safemode]

Here's my 256GB Corsair Performance Pro.

Very nice, I'm hoping Sony will release new firmware for my notebook so I can take full advantage of SATA III speeds as well. This drive rocks.

[micahmatthew]

I'm looking into getting the Crucial Adrenaline 50GB SSD Cache for my Clevo Laptop when they release the P151EM with GTX 670M and Optimus.

Does anyone have experience with this product? For the price it seems awesome and could be allot better than the 750GB Seagate Momentus w/ 8GB SSD Cache.

I would just get a 500 or 750GB 32mb hard drive at 7200 RPM and set the Crucial Adrenaline to cache it. This would be amazing for a laptop and could really improve speeds.

Do you guys think that this would drastically improve Photoshop/Windows/Google Chrome/ and Video game load times[Skyrim, BF3, TF2, Diablo 3, League of Legends].

I've read a few reviews online but they aren't extremely helpful; they do say that it can give you near SSD performance[30-40% slower but still thats great] on all of your most used applications, and 50GB is a lot more cache space then the 8GB in the seagate.

Crucial Adrenaline 50GB
Newegg.com - Crucial Adrenaline CT050M4SSC2BDA 50GB Solid State Cache for Windows 7-based PCs

or is the Corsair Accelerator a better option? It is 60GB [the Crucial has 64GB but 14GB is saved for performance management].
Newegg.com - Corsair Accelerator Series CSSD-C60GB 2.5" 60GB SATA II Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

I'm looking into getting the Crucial Adrenaline 50GB SSD Cache for my Clevo Laptop when they release the P151EM with GTX 670M and Optimus.

Does anyone have experience with this product? For the price it seems awesome and could be allot better than the 750GB Seagate Momentus w/ 8GB SSD Cache.

I would just get a 500 or 750GB 32mb hard drive at 7200 RPM and set the Crucial Adrenaline to cache it. This would be amazing for a laptop and could really improve speeds.

Do you guys think that this would drastically improve Photoshop/Windows/Google Chrome/ and Video game load times[Skyrim, BF3, TF2, Diablo 3, League of Legends].

I've read a few reviews online but they aren't extremely helpful; they do say that it can give you near SSD performance[30-40% slower but still thats great] on all of your most used applications, and 50GB is a lot more cache space then the 8GB in the seagate.

Crucial Adrenaline 50GB
Newegg.com - Crucial Adrenaline CT050M4SSC2BDA 50GB Solid State Cache for Windows 7-based PCs

or is the Corsair Accelerator a better option? It is 60GB [the Crucial has 64GB but 14GB is saved for performance management].
Newegg.com - Corsair Accelerator Series CSSD-C60GB 2.5" 60GB SATA II Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)

Of these 2 I would stick with the Crucial because it has a Marvell controller and the Corsair has a Sandforce controller. There are far more problems with Sandforce controllers as there are with Marvell controllers. Crucial also is more active in updating their firmware.
It's difficult to say if it is a good choice having no personal experience.
It seems to be faster than the Momentus XT, but slower than a small real SSD.
Coming from a 5400rpm HDD ==> Momentus XT ==> Samsung 830 SSD I would rate the Momentus XT as having the biggest impact on the performance of my system. So go for it

[micahmatthew]

Thanks allot for your input; does anyone have experience using this in a laptop? Is it good? I'm hoping it works well because I would really like some increased load times/program opening times.

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

Thanks allot for your input; does anyone have experience using this in a laptop? Is it good? I'm hoping it works well because I would really like some increased load times/program opening times.

I edited my post. Bottom line is I really loved the Momentus XT and this solution seems to be a bit faster. The only real disadvantage is that it uses software that needs to run under windows 7 (I'm not completely sure) and if you get another operating system (Windows 8 or Linux) you don't know if or when it will be supported.

[micahmatthew]

Yeah it's Win 7 only; I don't like 8 though and plan on sticking with 7 until they release 9 at least. Its weird how every other OS Microsoft makes is good haha. And supposedly it's a lot faster than the Momentus XT; I had the 750GB momentus and it was way better than a stock 7200rpm drive but this has 6 times the cache space and does basically the same thing just with much more available space for caching! I'm going to put this in my main drive so I get SATA 3 and a 500GB or 750GB in my optical bay. :P.

Hopefully on a P151EM or P150EM from Clevo when they come out later this month.

[LAZAS]

Searched the Forum for thread dedicated to Intel Turbo Robson Memory and the closest result I got was this. Would like to ask if anyone tried or even heard about 8GB/16GB Turbo Memory modules as there are some interesting offers on AliBaba. They seem to be updated knockoffs, so just wondering if they are of any use...

Buy trubo memory 8gb, intel turbo memory 8gb, frmt, intel turbo memory 8gb robson,FRMT,speed up 2 times of the loading speed,enhance the performance,FRMT at Aliexpress.com

[dnocca]

Greetings , I'm new to the Forum . I just built my laptop from 2 identical units my kids trashed . I swapped the monitor, backlite keyboard , changed the CPU from 2.0 to 3.06 & added the 2nd. drive . Both are 320 HDD .Now I'm looking to upgrade to an Intel ssd . Can someone share some experience with either the 320 or the 520 series ? I'm also open for any suggestions.Thanks


Dell 1737/Intel core E8435@3.06/8gb ddr2 6400 (800MHz)/SamsungHMJ320JI x2/Mobil Intel 4 series Express Chip set/AO8 BIOS

[tijo]

320 Series is SATA 3Gbps and uses an Intel controller, 520 is SATA 6Gbps and uses the infamous SF-2281 controller.

[dnocca]

Thanks for the reply . Either one should work with what I have ?