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

[yuio]

yes basically the ligh turns on a 1 1/2seconds then stops and seems to wait untill the log finished animating then waits an addition 20secs or so, then the light turns back and it flys.

[davepermen]

some hw or driver issue. can't be fixed by msconfig. disable all hw you can in the bios and hope that fixes it. in my case, i opened the desktop and ripped everything off the motherboard that wasn't needed for booting. suddenly, vista boot time went down from 2.5 minutes (with dual ssd raid0!!) to <30secs.. hw intialisation can sometimes take ages for nothing..

[yuio]

hmm I do have one 'unknown device' in device manager but i have no idea what it is.

[davepermen]

just disable everything you can in the bios. all you want really is keyboard, screen, hdd.

you can enable it all later again if you want. check if that fixes something. or can you unplug some devices? like dvd rom or what ever. get rid of everthing you can and check if that changes anything.

is it a clean installation? if not, consider that, too.

[yuio]

it's a clean install, and it on a HP Elitebook, so the bios is limited and I can't remove alot of the stuff. I'm going to try and see what I can disable.

[davepermen]

i'm on an elitebook, too. i was able to disable quite some stuff, but, to be fair, i still have a 10sec idling that i can't fix.

[yuio]

ok, 10sec is better than what I have now. now to figure out the new HP bios...

edit: ok, that's seems to have done the trick more or less. it's now down to asbout 10seconds wait or so.

it's too bad windows isn't as fast as linux. Ubuntu completely loads in less than 10seconds.

[davepermen]

ok, 10sec is better than what I have now. now to figure out the new HP bios...

edit: ok, that's seems to have done the trick more or less. it's now down to asbout 10seconds wait or so.

it's too bad windows isn't as fast as linux. Ubuntu completely loads in less than 10seconds.

well, i see win7 loading in <20 secs on the intel ssd, so it's mainly dependent on the hw that has to initialise. blame the driver developers for having failed.. why ever.

[zephir]

Toshiba SSD benchmark borrowed from the Lenovo forum. Unknown controller, but most likely Toshiba controller. Pretty impressive

[sgilmore62]

Toshiba SSD benchmark borrowed from the Lenovo forum. Unknown controller, but most likely Toshiba controller. Pretty impressive

yeah, JMicron got hooked up with Toshiba -- that takes a lot of balls to buy a JMicron SSD but apparantltly it is paying off! That would be cool if JMicron ended up being the SSD to buy in 2010 instead of Intel.

What is interesting is the headline benchmark that everybody advertises is sequential 64k read and write ends up being the least relevant. Everybody that reviews SSD's uses random 4k writes to separate the wheat from the chaff.