SSD's, what is your performance?

DenSweeP

DenSweeP

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  1. So, who has a SSD in their PC/notebook?
  2. What is your transfer speed when copying say a 10GB file from one folder on the SSD to another folder on the same SSD?
  3. SATA 2 or SATA 3?
  4. What SSD you using?
 
Patriot Wildfire 120GB SATA III
Sustained Sequential Read:
Up to 555MB/s

Sustained Sequential Write:
Up to 520MB/s

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/foru...431-patriot-wildfire-120gb-ssd-review-13.html

Haven't bothered checking how quickly it copies from or too the drive lol
Its fast enough.


Anyone looking at getting a SSD I can report that this is one fantastic drive. I have had no issues with it whatsoever, and considering how many people I know who have had their Vertex 3's fail on them, I am glad I took a chance with Patriot.
 
1. In my Desktop(Have tested it in my Acer Aspire Notebook)
2. I went cheap with my SSD so transfer speed isnt that good. Obviously way better than on my normal HDD's. Will test it tonight and give the time.
3. SATA 3
4. Kingston SSDNow V100 96GB SSD
 
Cranky said:
bang for buck adata s511 is the best but the best drive SSd 120GB is the OCZ vertex 3
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I have the Adata, but I'm not convinced of it's speed. And yes, it's on a SATA 3 capable mobo. Any suggestions as to reliable benchmarks and where I can compare my results?

And yes, my file copy test is a very laymans test, but still interesting to see. Also just state which copy program you are using? Standard windows copy or Toalcopy or whatever.
 
DenSweeP said:
I have the Adata, but I'm not convinced of it's speed. And yes, it's on a SATA 3 capable mobo. Any suggestions as to reliable benchmarks and where I can compare my results?

And yes, my file copy test is a very laymans test, but still interesting to see. Also just state which copy program you are using? Standard windows copy or Toalcopy or whatever.
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Try these:

CrystalDiskmark

http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskMark/index-e.html

Pc Mark 7 (Hard drive suit)

http://www.pcmark.com/benchmarks/pcmark7/
 
I have Intel X25M 160Gb drive, surely it makes your PC boot faster and Install programs faster as well :)
 
I got the OCZ Vertex 3 120GB, no problems so far. I've heard about a batch of them failing - but I am king, it shall not fail me! It's amazing for load times, my PC logs into windows faster than a fresh install on any hard drive I've ever had, by a mile.
 
gwainw said:
What is the average failure rate? was looking at getting some for xmas but don't want to be replacing every few months
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The SSD


- Intel 0.1% (against 0.3%)
- Crucial 0.8% (against 1.9%)
- Corsair 2.9% (against 2.7%)
- OCZ 4.2% (against 3.5%)

Intel confirms its first place with a return rate of the most impressive. It is followed from Crucial, which significantly improves the rate but it must be said that the latter was heavily impacted by the M225 - the C300 is only reached 1%. The return rate for failure are up against Corsair and OCZ especially in the latter confirmed by far his last position. 8 SSDs are beyond the 5%:

- 9.14% 2 240 GB OCZ Vertex
- 8.61% 2 120 GB OCZ Agility
- 7.27% 40GB OCZ Agility 2
- 6.20% 60GB OCZ Agility 2
- 5.83% 80 GB Corsair Force
- 5.31% 90GB OCZ Agility 2
- 5.31% 2 100 GB OCZ Vertex
- 5.04% OCZ Agility 2 3.5 "120 GB

Note the courage of Corsair Force 80, who came to be inserted between cousins ​​OCZ based SandForce ... sic.
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http://translate.googleusercontent....d.html&usg=ALkJrhhdJMB1xqrgKEZ5TpzkmZ94Gu5qdg

Those are some worldwide statistics.
Personally I know 4 people that have had these drives fail and I know of a supplier that stopped stocking them because of the return rate.
 
ive got a friend that has run ocz drives for the last 2 years and never had a problem ? he has a 4 x raid setup in 1 pcwith vertex 2s and now 2 x vertex 3s .. no problem.

regarding the adata s511 speed problem.. It sucks on marvell. fyi.

also there is a firmware upgrade for it.
 
Cranky said:
ive got a friend that has run ocz drives for the last 2 years and never had a problem ? he has a 4 x raid setup in 1 pcwith vertex 2s and now 2 x vertex 3s .. no problem.

regarding the adata s511 speed problem.. It sucks on marvell. fyi.

also there is a firmware upgrade for it.
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Running Marvell, so lovely. And did the firmware already, as it initially crashed the hell out of my pc.
 
Cranky said:
ive got a friend that has run ocz drives for the last 2 years and never had a problem ? he has a 4 x raid setup in 1 pcwith vertex 2s and now 2 x vertex 3s .. no problem.

regarding the adata s511 speed problem.. It sucks on marvell. fyi.

also there is a firmware upgrade for it.
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2 Years? That's kind of impossible as the vertex 2 drives only launched end of august last year and they weren't available in SA till around November. The statistics just prove my point, read my above post. If his has lasted how ever long he has had them then, I'm happy for him, but I know for a fact they fail a lot and will gladly get my supplier to speak to you if you doubt me.
 
Transfering within the drive should be instantaneous. The way to test read/write within the drive is benchmarking.

SSDs are pretty unreliable from what i have experienced over the last couple years of mainstream emergence.

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The Joker said:
2 Years? That's kind of impossible as the vertex 2 drives only launched end of august last year and they weren't available in SA till around November. The statistics just prove my point, read my above post. If his has lasted how ever long he has had them then, I'm happy for him, but I know for a fact they fail a lot and will gladly get my supplier to speak to you if you doubt me.
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Agree with your post didn't say you were wrong .. just saying my friend has been using his for long. I must be wrong about the 2 years but its just been ages :D haha

His dad fills a passport yearly. so he gets all his products"imported"
 
Cranky said:
Agree with your post didn't say you were wrong .. just saying my friend has been using his for long. I must be wrong about the 2 years but its just been ages :D haha

His dad fills a passport yearly. so he gets all his products"imported"
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Well then has a good set and he should keep them. I am not saying its a piece of crap, but they do fail quite a lot.
 
DenSweeP said:
Running Marvell, so lovely. And did the firmware already, as it initially crashed the hell out of my pc.
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I don't know anything about the "Marvell" stuff, but I'm using the A-DATA S599 which was the best size/speed/price combination when I bought it and mine works like a dream. No issues or crashes, PC boots up into Windows 7 x64 in under 30 seconds from cold and my Windows Experience Index for the data transfer rate is 7.2.

Just a quick thing, and I'm probably not correct (so correct me if I'm wrong), but back when I decided to buy the SSD, I heard that transferring a large file, like a 10Gb file, would be approx the same as a normal hard drive, but the advantage of the SSD is in the speed it accesses random files thus the speed of applications, Windows, etc should increase rather than the transfer rate of large files.
My main advantage is in Visual Studio where my toolbox usually took 30 seconds or even longer to populate that basically caused VS to freeze during that loading time... that is now not an issue anymore with the SSD.


P.S.
Ok, I looked under device manager now and under Storage Controllers, I've got a JMicron and two Marvell controllers listed. Suppose that is what you were referring to.
 
There are two major advantages experienced with ssd currently: throughput and latency. Platter drives could only spin so fast without overheating or vibrating too much.

Latency was due to physical moving parts as well.

Ssds have seen a huge improvement in these two aspects and markedly so with the sata3 interface.

They also are meant to last longer as there are no wearing/moving parts however they are not displaying this characteristic at all.

All in all, they are expensive and unreliable yet very fast. So my recommendation is put tempory files on them. Backup often and possibly mirror them.

Otherwise stick to velociraptors and cheetahs striping.

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Well, with the prices of normal HDDs currently, it might be worth a look at SSD? Yes, the R/GB is till way in favour of HDD, but myabe, just myabe it might be worth a look.

As for same drive transferring data, if you actually copy it from one folder to another, it should still take a while as ooposed to moving said file.
 
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