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

[QuadAllegory]

The Samsung has always been good. You need to compare the good SSDs against HDDs because that's where the major improvement is seen. Going from a Samsung to Intel/Indilinx, despite differences in benchmarks, isn't much in real life situations.

Cool. I'm thinking of running two of them in raid 0 in my HP Envy 15.

[sgogeta4]

Just note that (I've read this, so I'm not 100% sure but) the HP Envy takes 2x1.8" drives or 1x2.5" drive. So you'll need to make sure you get the right product.

[MegaMan X]

MegaMan X, you may want to leave it for more than a few hours (I've read to do this at least once a week to keep the drives 'fresh'). You may also want to reboot, logoff, wait a few hours and repeat a couple of times and see if your HD light stays on 'solid' or not (after a few minutes that you've logged off).

Ok, so I rebooted the computer, did a CCleaner, erased all Prior Shadow Copies, restarted, logged off, had the machine "GC" for ~8 hours, restarted, logged off, "GC" for another ~8 hours.

Ran the WEI, still only a 6.9

Yes gc should happen within the drives themselves. So an array should have no affect on the gc. It is simply the contorler doing it's thing.

Windows 7 and Trim is still brand spanking new as far as I'm concerned (even though ppl have been using 7 for months). I'm sure they will come up with a way to give RAID the Trim commands in the not too distant future it just seems like too big of a miss to not.

Mega, have u done any benchmarks on ur drive? I'd I'd be interested to see a crystaldiskmarks score or atto. These results may better expose an issue.

I'm not really familiar with the scoring on these tests, I just ran them so that I have you guys to explain to me if I got dud Samsung SSDs in Raid 0 or not.

Or these scores good? Like...in terms of comparing them to the famed Intel Drives?

[tilleroftheearth]

Maybe installing Win 7 on OEM HDD and then cloning to X18-M will work.

Acronis True Image will keep original alignment.

Tomy B.

I have read numerous times (on this forum as well) that Acronis True Image does not keep the original alignment unless you are restoring to the exact same hard drive and restoring the whole drive (and not only the Windows partition).

When either of these conditions fail, or you are restoring to a different drive than what the clone was made from, then the O/S partition will not stay aligned. It will default to a 63K offset (just like Windows XP, wrongly (for SSD's) does).

[tilleroftheearth]

LOL my 32gb SDHC just came in today. got it on eBay for <25us$ shipped. couldn't resist. but lets just say i don't plan on making it my os/apps drive.

However, i do think it will serve the purpose i got it for; just gonno thorw my mp3s and some other random stuff on there.

Mormegil83,

This will be the perfect way to test eBoostr Beta!

http://beta.eboostr.com/download/

I have to run away in a few minutes, but I will be posting my experience with installing/upgrading Win 7 on a Samsung and an Intel SSD - and comparing it to my Scorpio Blue running eBoostr Beta with the cache on an eSata 16GB SSD.

Stay tuned!

[tilleroftheearth]

Ok, so I rebooted the computer, did a CCleaner, erased all Prior Shadow Copies, restarted, logged off, had the machine "GC" for ~8 hours, restarted, logged off, "GC" for another ~8 hours.

Ran the WEI, still only a 6.9



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I'm not really familiar with the scoring on these tests, I just ran them so that I have you guys to explain to me if I got dud Samsung SSDs in Raid 0 or not.

Or these scores good? Like...in terms of comparing them to the famed Intel Drives?

MegaMan X,

Please look for a more complete post later tonight or tomorrow, but the quick and the short of it:

Samsung 128 GB SSD; WEI score 5.4
Intel 160 GB SSD; WEI score 7.5

Maybe this is as good as it gets for your drives/system WEI score?

[sgogeta4]

Mormegil83,

This will be the perfect way to test eBoostr Beta!

http://beta.eboostr.com/download/

I have to run away in a few minutes, but I will be posting my experience with installing/upgrading Win 7 on a Samsung and an Intel SSD - and comparing it to my Scorpio Blue running eBoostr Beta with the cache on an eSata 16GB SSD.

Stay tuned!

I've run the beta for the past little while, but it expired today. To tell you the truth, I haven't noticed a single difference with and without eBoostr.

[Mormegil83]

@megaman X

It looks like u don't have write cache enabled. I forget if that was mentioned otherwise I'd say u look pretty good. Really it just looks like ur drives are in a "used" state an don't have gc to clean up...

WE score and benches aside does it feel like something is wrong?

[MegaMan X]

@megaman X

It looks like u don't have write cache enabled. I forget if that was mentioned otherwise I'd say u look pretty good. Really it just looks like ur drives are in a "used" state an don't have gc to clean up...

WE score and benches aside does it feel like something is wrong?

well...not really, but its a nagging feeling that I'm running Windows 7 with no TRIM, and I thought I had GC...but I guess the benchmarks say otherwise.

I dont know, I just feel like I wasted money on these SSDs. I wish I had saved my money and bought the Intel or OCZ SSDs instead.

I do have to ask though, without GC and TRIM, is there anything I can do restore the drives back to "new" performance? Like reformat? Or does that not even work?

[Mormegil83]

Yeah there is a way to set the drive to "like new". Is it secure erase or something. The thing people use for their intel drives if I didn't have a first gen iPhone still I'd do some research for ya, but this thing is so damn slow

don't worry you didn't get ripped off. I'm sure sammies will get Trim.