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

[mafteah]

I guess you didn't run it in SafeMode - where it'll be faster.

But it looks right

A newer driver might give you a slightly better speed. - if you are not on Win7 - you may want to manually trim, but the difference is manual.

The 4K is good? I saw better results..

[Les]

Yes there are better results but it is truly hard to appreciate whether it is negligible without it being tested in safemode...

[Cape Consultant]

Is the Corsair FORCE SSD and the Vertex 2 SSD the same drive???

[sgogeta4]

Essentially. They both use the Sandforce-1200 controller, just like OWC Mercury Extreme, G.Skill Phoenix Pro, SuperTalent TeraDrive CT and ADATA S599.

[Cape Consultant]

Thanks. I am considering trading to one of these drives as that is my hobby, trading hard drives. Well, now SSD drives

I have researched and found out that the 120GB version of each are the NEWER versions. And therefore ergo SHOULD have the most recent firmware.

Cannot wait to see a nice price drop on these drives. I have seen them from$ 314 to $498. Wild!

[sgogeta4]

Yes, the older ones were 50/100GB, I believe.

[Phil]

Is the Corsair FORCE SSD and the Vertex 2 SSD the same drive???

Well explained here: SandForce showdown: Corsair's Force F100 and OCZ's Agility 2 and Vertex 2 SSDs - The Tech Report - Page 2

[DetlevCM]

I've got a couple SSD questions and hopefully this is the right thread to post it in.

I want to purchase the Intel X-25 M 160GB SSD for my new Macbook Pro. I have never owned an SSD before and heard a lot of great things about them, especially the Intel ones. As there are pros and cons with everything out there some of the cons on SSDs worry me. The biggest one is they degrade in time. I predominantly use OS X but run Windows 7 via Apple's boot camp. Windows 7 has TRIM built in whereas OS X does not. So will the SSD be ok if I occasionally run in Windows 7 which will have access to TRIM?

Is it true the more you fill up an SSD and get closer to the capacity the slower they get even if brand new? If so any ways to over come this? Hopefully I posted this in the right thread instead of making a new one. Thanks to anyone for advice.

Windows Trim just runs when a file is deleted - but you can run the Intel Toolbox from Win7 which trims the whole drive.
On the other hand - you'd not need to do that regularly - it would be a few hundred GB before you need a trim - at least mine on Vista was fine after 500GB of writes.

[DetlevCM]

The 4K is good? I saw better results..

As Les alluded to it - SafeMode - if you want the best results, try safemode.

After using the Sony discs to put the OS on my Vaio the speeds on the random bit were higher than they are now when using the OS normally - in SafeMode they are higher than both for me. (the actual paper spec)

My guess is that some software (most likely) is constantly accessing the disc and writing/reading little things.
So the results you get are pretty much normal for any computer - if you want the highest possible - use safemode - or even benchmark it outside an OS.
(As a secondary drive for example)

[mafteah]

How to speed up booting? (Bios takes a lot of time..)? And how to count the bootup time?