INTEL X25 G2 RAID 0...INSANE!!!!

OK I ALWAYS THOUGHT MY BIGGEST UPGRADE PC WISE WOULD BE COMING FROM AN ALTHON XP 2400 CPU...TO A PHENOM X4 940...A BIG LEAP FROM 1 CORE..TO 4...

BUT I WAS WAS MISTAKEN, WHILE THAT WAS A GREAT UPGRADE...IT FAILS IN COMPARISON UPGRADING FROM AND HARD DRIVE TO SOLID STATE DRIVE..I JUS RECENTLY BOUGHT 2 INTEL X25-M G2S...I HAVE READ ABOUT SSDS FOR QUITE SOME TIME..BUT I NEVER USED ONE TO JUSTIFY THE PRICE INCREASE AND STORAGE SHORTAGE...

NEVERTHELESS..I FOUND 2 INTEL DRIVES 80GB FOR 240 A PIECE..AND DECIDED TO GO FOR IT..IM GLAD I DID...THE BEST INVESTMENT I EVER MADE...I DNT KNW ALL THE TECH TALK ON WHY SSDS ARE BETTER THAN HDS...BUT I DO KNW THAT REAL WORLD IMPACT IS AMAZING..

I DID A COMPARISON OF THE INTEL DRIVES..VS..MY OLD BOOT DRIVE WD 640 CAVIER BLUE..

INTEL RAID 0 2X80 GB


WD CAVIER BLUE 640 GB


RESULTS SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES.. IF THESE GRAPHS MEAN NOTHING TO YOU..CONSIDER THIS THAT WEN I PUSH MY POWER BUTTON..IM ABLE TO SURF THE WEB IN 30 SECS...CAN YOUR RAPTOR DO THAT?...IF IT CAN, SHUT UP! I DNT WANT YOUR OPINIONS...IF U CAN AFFORD THESE DRIVES..GET THEM..GRANTED THIS IS A RAID VS NON RAID..BUT STILL AMAZING..!!!

Uh... what do you mean "surf the web in 30 sec" if you mean your websites open in 30 seconds then thats pretty sad i have a 4 year old laptop that i dont use anymore but it has a 4200rpm drive with a 37mb read speed and has a P4 processor can render webpages as fast your monster SSDs can, i dont think you have any idea what you are talking about. And if you mean you can surf the entire internet in 30seconds then thats not true...what do you mean by 30secs? Internet speed is affect by your Download speed, DNS, and browser...not your hard drive. And even if your pages are cached in storage opening them on an HD vs an SSD will be a difference of milliseconds.

Typing in all caps doesnt take away or add to the message.

And blackhawk...I mean as sminlal already pointed out..When I hit the power button, to turn the machine on, I am able to surf the web 30 seconds later. Meaning my pc posts, boots windows and is ready to surf the web in 30 seconds..

I couldnt do that b4 I got these drives..took at least a minute sometimes longer..

Well my password is all caps..I just be too lazy to turn it off. But I understand now, make sure I make it easier to read.

No you dnt overestimate sdds...The booting of windows only takes about 5-10 seconds...the bios is the painful part...after it posts...it has to locate the raid drivers..which take about 10-20 seconds by themselves...maybe if i got a dedicated raid controller I could decrease the times a bit...as of right now I am only using the onboard raid controller.

Also i havent tweaked windows 7 at all..its all pretty stock..I should look into some tweaks to increase..but im pretty content as of now..

With my luck, I tweak the bios and my motherboard might explode.

XP was a great O.S...everything feels snappy on XP from quad cores and SSDs to single cores and ATA HDs..without a doubt XP is there best O.S ever released..at least to me. Windows 7 could be a great hit to. If microsoft put dx 11 and fixed up xp 64..im pretty sure they would have a hard time sellin anythin in the future..XP is close 2 perfect

that benchmark really isnt that impressive I put together a 3-500GB raid array and short stroked it and the average read write was over 400MB/sec

you want an IOPS benchmark to show off SSD's not a transfer benchmark