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

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@ DetlevCM

+1 on the 2nd one

@ Forge

I'm curious why Crucial over Samsung 256GB?

[Forge]

It was cheaper ($380 versus $425+ for the Samsungs) and the reviews/specs of it made it look perfectly stable, so I went with it. If the drives as a whole are borked, I'll RMA it and resell it. I still have my Hitachi 7k500 around. I wasn't comfortable with the heat (43c) after I gamed on Crysis for an hour, but eh, I don't do it often. Then again, 43C isn't all that hot, is it.

I don't know though. You recommend Samsung over Crucial?

As for Intels, I eagerly await a 320GB. Even if the speeds aren't any better than the G2 series, I'd still go for it in a heartbeat.


On a secondary note, it looks like the newest IRST drivers don't pass on TRIM, despite what some techs on the Crucial boards said to me.

[DetlevCM]

It was cheaper ($380 versus $425+ for the Samsungs) and the reviews/specs of it made it look perfectly stable, so I went with it. If the drives as a whole are borked, I'll RMA it and resell it. I still have my Hitachi 7k500 around. I wasn't comfortable with the heat (43c) after I gamed on Crysis for an hour, but eh, I don't do it often. Then again, 43C isn't all that hot, is it.

I don't know though. You recommend Samsung over Crucial?

As for Intels, I eagerly await a 320GB. Even if the speeds aren't any better than the G2 series, I'd still go for it in a heartbeat.


On a secondary note, it looks like the newest IRST drivers don't pass on TRIM, despite what some techs on the Crucial boards said to me.

But on the Intel drives they apparently do?

[LOUSYGREATWALLGM]

Could say yes since I haven't seen a Samsung SSD (256GB) having any performance issue except for the older firmware which has no TRIM feature.

Just like my current Samsung SSD, its still performing smoothly after taking some abuse. (wrong formatting, secure erased multiple times, filled all 256GB space multiple times, reinstalled OS multiple times etc.)

Still getting 13.5 sec windows boot time.

TRIM on RAID setup: Not sure on this since I'm not very keen on going that route but just days ago I saw someone said the newest IRST still can't pass the TRIM command on RAID setup.

[Forge]

But on the Intel drives they apparently do?

Actually, the Intel drive doesn't, either. After two weeks without running the SSD cleaner tool, the Intel got about 89 MB/s on the CDM sequential, and after I did the toolbox it hit 102 MB/s (This was the only number I remember off the top of my head; I forgot the other scores).

And the TRIM isn't on a RAID array. My SSDs are separate.

I would rather use the MS AHCI drivers, but they make my eSata hotswap all funky (I think I've said this like twelve times this week, haha), and hotswap is something I use fairly often.


And, I don't know. I'm so used to the reliability of the Intel drive I might just ditch the Crucial and replace the 7k500. It never gave me problems, but I'm always worried about the high temperatures. I hit 46C once when doing a virus scan, and that was with a cooler.

Choices, choices.

[DetlevCM]

Actually, the Intel drive doesn't, either. After two weeks without running the SSD cleaner tool, the Intel got about 89 MB/s on the CDM sequential, and after I did the toolbox it hit 102 MB/s (This was the only number I remember off the top of my head; I forgot the other scores).

And the TRIM isn't on a RAID array. My SSDs are separate.

I would rather use the MS AHCI drivers, but they make my eSata hotswap all funky (I think I've said this like twelve times this week, haha), and hotswap is something I use fairly often.


And, I don't know. I'm so used to the reliability of the Intel drive I might just ditch the Crucial and replace the 7k500. It never gave me problems, but I'm always worried about the high temperatures. I hit 46C once when doing a virus scan, and that was with a cooler.

Choices, choices.

That's strange - I once didn't trim my Intel over a few hundred GB and it didn't loose any performance - at least not in any noticeable way, and CrystalDisk Mark was still over 100MB/s write for sequential, and oddly enough the 4K writes got quicker???

It shouldn't "degrade" that much.

[Forge]

What drivers were you using? If TRIM was running in the background you wouldn't have taken a notable performance boost from the toolbox since you were TRIMing.

And to be honest, I didn't notice any different performance. The numbers were all that indicated that I was "getting slower".

[DetlevCM]

What drivers were you using? If TRIM was running in the background you wouldn't have taken a notable performance boost from the toolbox since you were TRIMing.

And to be honest, I didn't notice any different performance. The numbers were all that indicated that I was "getting slower".

Vista Doesn't matter which drivers.
And the CrystalDisk Mark was pretty similar - not such a large difference as you had, and oddly enough 4K reads and writes were faster.

[Forge]

My 4k didn't change much, that I remember. But I did notice that the sequential and 512 writes were definitely lower when I benched.

I don't know. Maybe Vista just isn't as stressful on an SSD?

[DetlevCM]

My 4k didn't change much, that I remember. But I did notice that the sequential and 512 writes were definitely lower when I benched.

I don't know. Maybe Vista just isn't as stressful on an SSD?

I don't know... did you "tweak"? (Except switching off Scheduled Defragmentations)

It shouldn't be much different.