1.8" ZIF PATA SSDs available

[Alexkass]

with driver do you use for the ICH8M in windows7?

and which for the graphics?

thnx a lot.

[keos2000]

These are the #s for the SuperTalent ZT2 60gb installed in my D430, U7700, 1.33GHz, Win7 x64

Unfortunately the drive is OOS at superbiiz but they currently have a $15 off with coupon HELLO2011.

Keos2000

[User Retired 2]

These are the #s for the SuperTalent ZT2 60gb installed in my D430, U7700, 1.33GHz, Win7 x64

Hi Keos2000,

Can you post a CrystalDiskInfo screenshot of the drive to give some clues on the firmware string and thus underlying controller? Try the ICH8M tweak to get faster write performance as confirmed on a MX-Nano+D430 here.

[keos2000]

here is the diskinfo for the zt2, will try the tweak in a day or so.

[User Retired 2]

here is the diskinfo for the zt2, will try the tweak in a day or so.

Great. The VATE1511 string confirms the SuperTalent ZT2 is a EWS720-based SSD. My Renice K3VLAR-E has the VATE1523 firmware, so is a slightly newer. I'll update the first post with this finding.

[keos2000]

Great - thanks for confirming. I just did the tweak with bar-edit, set the field to 1033 but my seq write speeds only went up slightly, now at 41MB/s. Wonder if there is anything else I can do to get them up further. Thanks!

keos2000

[User Retired 2]

Great - thanks for confirming. I just did the tweak with bar-edit, set the field to 1033 but my seq write speeds only went up slightly, now at 41MB/s. Wonder if there is anything else I can do to get them up further. Thanks!

You have the 60GB version which has 33% slower writes than the 120/240GB version. Not much can be done other than do a manual Tony Trim or sdelete as outlined on the first post if you find write performance becomes unsatisfactory. So far I have not have to do any of that with my EWS720-based 60GB K3VLAR-E. My sequential writes are b/w 50-55MB/s. A 120GB unit will have 70MB/s+.

Can you update your previously posted benchmarks with the 0x1033 results?

[Alexkass]

70MB/s+ for 120GB with EWS720-based is far to high.

with the mx-nano 120GB i notice a limit by 60MB/s. and from the Benchs in here i can see that the nano-ssds are a bit faster than the others.

[keos2000]

BTW, I just downloaded and installed the VATP1522 Photofast G-Monster V4 1.8 ZIF firmware (from the photofast.se site) on my ZT2 drive, it works all fine, did not wipe the data but the speeds are unchanged. By enabling 66mhz writes on ICH7, seq write speed is now 42MB/s, still far below what others are posting for the other EWS720 drives.

Keos

[Alexkass]

is there a way to use a 1.8 ZIF drive in a laptop with 2.5 sata slot as internal boot drive?