How about some SSD reviews and comparisons to spindles. - Page 6

dallas2727 · 02-02-2010, 07:09 PM

I'm on a laptop, I'm tied to the controller. :-(

N.V.M. · 02-04-2010, 06:23 PM

check this out(not related to your laptop issue):

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/news/...nce-hdd-space/

dallas2727 · 02-06-2010, 11:49 AM

That's pretty interesting NVM. Seems like a less of a Raid system, more of a chip that turns the SDD into massive read Cache for the norm HDD.

dallas2727 · 05-31-2010, 01:07 PM

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Startup/Shutdown/login was near lightning speed, but I will reserve judgement until I have more than just the OS alone installed. But there was definatley none of that login, get a task bar, wait for systray and sidebar stuff to slowly load. It was all instant.

So now that I have been running for 6 months. Speed is still awesome. However, I just had to install MS office, and we all know how that changes your boot time so the pure lightning speed is noticably slower. I of course have 80 other smaller apps installed over this time also.

Still damn fast at everything, faster than any HDD I've ever owned. And it would seem to me my bottle neck on boot is not my disk at all, but my processer as it's pretty much pegged on both cores for about 20-30 seconds on boot.

NVM, how's things running for you?

N.V.M. · 05-31-2010, 01:21 PM

still waiting for a Trim/Raid feature, and 64bit Flash player. other than that,same. and working on the golf swing while waiting.

Winged Poop · 05-31-2010, 05:09 PM

You know you'd think after 49 years he'd have perfected that damn swing by now. And yes I said 49, I'm sure he was swinging in the womb.

N.V.M. · 08-21-2010, 04:57 PM

so, this looks like if you have an Intel board(which i don't) :

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/deta...&DwnldID=15251

dallas2727 · 08-21-2010, 06:48 PM

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Originally Posted by N.V.M.

so, this looks like if you have an Intel board(which i don't) :

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/deta...&DwnldID=15251

so what, that let's us RAID an SSD?

got a link to the doc's?

Is it special hardware? or just software?

Flunk · 08-21-2010, 07:18 PM

It's a software update if you have an Intel chipset. It only supports trim when you're using the drive by itself with the controller in RAID mode. I'm using that very same driver right now with that exact configuration.

N.V.M. · 08-21-2010, 07:37 PM

oh crap, had my hopes up there, i was almost ready to dump my AMD Quad core.

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It will support TRIM with SSDs in an AHCI configuration, or with the RAID controller enabled and the SSD is used as a pass through device. An example of this use case is for users that want to use the SSD as a boot drive but still be able to RAID multiple HDDs together to allow for large protect data storage – a great use for the home theater PC. TRIM support for SSDs in a RAID configuration is under investigation and is not included in Intel® RST 9.6.

so this will allow you to TRIM a single SSD(as a "C" drive) , with a RAID array(for storage) behind it? is that it?

all i can say guys, is, made you look!

02-04-2010, 06:23 PM	#52
N.V.M. now...a cartoon Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: North Vancouver,B.C.. Posts: 5,843	Re: How about some SSD reviews and comparisons to spindles. check this out(not related to your laptop issue): http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/news/...nce-hdd-space/

05-31-2010, 01:21 PM	#55
N.V.M. now...a cartoon Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: North Vancouver,B.C.. Posts: 5,843	Re: How about some SSD reviews and comparisons to spindles. still waiting for a Trim/Raid feature, and 64bit Flash player. other than that,same. and working on the golf swing while waiting.

05-31-2010, 05:09 PM	#56
Winged Poop y helo thar Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Wauseon, Ohio Posts: 9,125	Re: How about some SSD reviews and comparisons to spindles. You know you'd think after 49 years he'd have perfected that damn swing by now. And yes I said 49, I'm sure he was swinging in the womb. __________________ Finally a system thats sigworthy? Asus M4A79XTD EVO AM3 AMD Phenom II X4 965 4Gb GSkill DDR3 1333 Powercolor Radeon 5770 WD Caviar Green 1TB Corsair 650W PSU

08-21-2010, 04:57 PM	#57
N.V.M. now...a cartoon Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: North Vancouver,B.C.. Posts: 5,843	Re: How about some SSD reviews and comparisons to spindles. so, this looks like if you have an Intel board(which i don't) : http://downloadcenter.intel.com/deta...&DwnldID=15251

08-21-2010, 07:18 PM	#59
Flunk Henshin a go go baby! Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Toronto, ON, Canada Posts: 4,775	Re: How about some SSD reviews and comparisons to spindles. It's a software update if you have an Intel chipset. It only supports trim when you're using the drive by itself with the controller in RAID mode. I'm using that very same driver right now with that exact configuration. __________________ Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message 'Value must be 1 or below' in \www\hardcoreware.net\forum\index.php:623 Stack trace: #0 \www\hardcoreware.net\forum\index.php(12): checkNum(28) #1 {main} thrown in \www\hardcoreware.net\forum\index.php on line 623