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PsychoSaysDie   08-19-2009 at 07:30:49 PM

CJ.. Get in here. :)

Whats the good and whats the bad?

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Sequential Read : 126.468 MB/s
Sequential Write : 81.462 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 120.186 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 39.647 MB/s
Random Read 4KB : 14.939 MB/s
Random Write 4KB : 1.911 MB/s

Test Size : 100 MB
Date : 2009/08/19 10:28:08

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raybob95   08-19-2009 at 08:20:51 PM
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My SSD which I bought for $240 3 months ago.... (Pisses me off because now you can get a 120GB SSD @ 250 MB/s for $330)

Fresh out of the box:

http://i361.photobucket.com/albums/oo57/RayBob328/HDTune_Benchmark_OCZ-VERTEX_v110.png

2.5 months later:

http://i361.photobucket.com/albums/oo57/RayBob328/HDTune_Benchmark_OCZ-VERTEX_v110-2.png


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wuzy   08-20-2009 at 01:23:31 AM
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Random Write 4KB : 1.911 MB/s


It's stutter-free. And you said it's cheap. $/GB?
Looks good. I would've preferred at least 6MB/s which is what the OCZ Vertex with newest firmware are doing now. While Intel X25-M are doing over 20MB/s!

I don't read into sequential read/write speed for SSD because they're not useful to my usage, which is typical desktop usage pattern. PCMark Vantage's HDD tests output a comparable data for those tasks.
For manipulating multi-GB files I have my 4x1TB hardware RAID5 array providing me with >380MB/s of sequential read/write to do that instead.

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PsychoSaysDie   08-20-2009 at 01:34:35 AM
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wuzy wrote :

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Random Write 4KB : 1.911 MB/s


It's stutter-free. And you said it's cheap. $/GB?
Looks good. I would've preferred at least 6MB/s which is what the OCZ Vertex with newest firmware are doing now. While Intel X25-M are doing over 20MB/s!

I don't read into sequential read/write speed for SSD because they're not useful to my usage, which is typical desktop usage pattern. PCMark Vantage's HDD tests output a comparable data for those tasks.
For manipulating multi-GB files I have my 4x1TB hardware RAID5 array providing me with >380MB/s of sequential read/write to do that instead.




It's a 32GB Patriot SSD i picked up at fry's for 99.99

http://www.patriotmemory.com/products/specs/32GB%20SSD_300px.jpg

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wuzy   08-20-2009 at 01:48:14 AM
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Ouch, that's $3.125/GB. 128-64GB Indilinx controller based SSD are below $2.4 now.
OCZ Agility with slightly lower binned MLC than Vertex can be found for $2.1/GB oftenly.

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PsychoSaysDie   08-20-2009 at 01:52:33 AM
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wuzy wrote :

Ouch, that's $3.125/GB. 128-64GB Indilinx controller based SSD are below $2.4 now.
OCZ Agility with slightly lower binned MLC than Vertex can be found for $2.1/GB oftenly.



I needed something cheap for the OS and i absolutley love this drive so i picked it up. I'm waiting on the new intel G2's to upgrade too. :)

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Bronze Storage badge cjl   08-20-2009 at 02:23:26 AM
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Not bad on the whole, though the random writes are abysmal.

 

Here are results for my Velociraptor array:
Seq read: 210.2
Seq write: 190.7
Rand read 512k: 47.62
Rand write 512k: 73.75
Rand read 4k: 1.138
Rand write 4k: 6.413

 

Note that I beat you on every random write test. That's because the cheaper SSDs really have a problem with random writes, as I've said before. The random reads on the SSD are great though.


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Bronze Storage badge cjl   10-11-2009 at 08:58:58 AM
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I know this is a slightly old thread, but I just got my X25-M G2, so here are some results for that one:

Seq. read: 265.3
Seq write: 87.03
512k rand read: 212.1
512k rand write: 86.2
4k rand read: 22.04
4k rand write: 53.20

The random writes on this thing are phenomenal :D

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Bronze Storage badge sub mesa   10-11-2009 at 04:26:56 PM
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I've been posting these everywhere - but i guess some people didn't see 'em yet. It shows key differences between SSD controllers regarding random write:

http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/intelx25mg2perfpreview_072209165207/19508.png

This clearly shows why Intel is so much praised; and why they have no real competition regarding performance.

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