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Fitseries3
03-12-2009, 07:08 PM
got a deal on a pair of these ocz solid series ssd's. im planning on getting 2 more when the time comes.

these are PRETTY QUICK if you ask me.

http://forums.techpowerup.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=23744&stc=1&d=1236890952

http://img.techpowerup.org/090312/Capture001764.jpg

GOTTA LOVE THAT!!!
ballz0r
03-12-2009, 07:12 PM
woah... thats fucking quick
Langer
03-12-2009, 07:28 PM
Makes me eager to get me drives running... I've been staring at them for months now.

Impressive speeds, may I ask the price?
FrostByte
03-12-2009, 07:35 PM
how does it do when it comes to day to day stuff like gaming or rendering, etc..
Fitseries3
03-12-2009, 07:42 PM
Makes me eager to get me drives running... I've been staring at them for months now.

Impressive speeds, may I ask the price?

$150 shipped

how does it do when it comes to day to day stuff like gaming or rendering, etc..

anything that loads from the hdd is super fast.

vista boots in about 6 - 7 seconds easily.
rubidium
03-12-2009, 07:50 PM
how does it do when it comes to day to day stuff like gaming or rendering, etc..

For day-to-day activity, I would think that the 0.2ms random access time would make things pretty sweet.
Fitseries3
03-12-2009, 07:51 PM
when i click "run benchmark" in vantage and 3dm06, the test starts without having to wait for anything to load.
sidewinder
03-12-2009, 08:03 PM
The access time and burst rates on these are crazy. What stripe size did you go with?
Fitseries3
03-12-2009, 08:04 PM
128k stripe.

i enabled write back cache as well.
sidewinder
03-12-2009, 10:23 PM
I'm running 128 as well. I think back in the old days a lower stripe setting was appropriate, but today's files are larger. That burst rate is off the scale. I had some help from ya'll a few weeks ago on some raid choices, you might like to see this from our storage array. HD Tune doesn't see the real size of it, its 6000 GB. Its not going to break any speed records, but its large, redundant, and fairly fast. Its close to the equivalent of 3x velociraptors in average reads.

x6 1 tb samsung spinpoints
x2 1 tb hitachi 7k1000
x1 areca 1220, configured for Raid 6

http://www.sidewindercomputers.com/lib/sidewindercomputers/benchmark.png
This must be the fastest the IOP333 can support.

If you are running any ICH chipset, recommend you be careful if you ever add/remove any drives from the system. It seems that chipset likes to pair new drives, even if they were not previously part of the array, to your current array. This in effect breaks the array, changing the raid status to "failed", and preventing you from booting if it is a boot partition. I found out the hard way, twice, on an ICH9 board. It is probably fixable, but I'll never run an onboard raid solution again with critical data on it.
Septim
03-13-2009, 05:18 AM
yes with onboard raid, you can't just swap out mobos like you can with a raid card.
Fitseries3
03-13-2009, 10:14 PM
OH SNAP!!!!!!!!

http://img.techpowerup.org/090313/Capture099.jpg
Fitseries3
03-13-2009, 10:15 PM
yes with onboard raid, you can't just swap out mobos like you can with a raid card.

really? i have done it several times.

i swapped my p45 out from under the OS on 4x vraps to my x58 and she boot right to the desktop.
zlojack
03-13-2009, 10:22 PM
I have heard these can be prone to stuttering. Do you notice any of that?
Fitseries3
03-13-2009, 10:27 PM
yes and no

YES because until you enable enhanced disk cache it does a tiny bit. nothing crazy though.

you'd have to wait the same amount of time with a standard mechanical drive so its no bother to me.

NO because like i said above... once you enable enhanced disk cache its gone.

without the cache on i got 163mb/s average read

enabled it and reboot...

BAM! results as depicted in the first post. 260 - 280 mb/s

this is on intel ICH10R. nothing special.

i would love to have kept my dell perc 5/i and gave it a run.
zlojack
03-13-2009, 10:34 PM
Interesting...I've been eyeing SSDs for a while now because my HDDs are the loudest thing in my rig when everything's on water.
Fitseries3
03-13-2009, 10:36 PM
just be frugal man.

DONT pay full retail for them. the price sucks enough already. someone is bound to have some used out there.

i know of a few sets off hand that are being offered for sale right now.

i would never pay retail for a SSD. all 12 i've had/have have been used.
zlojack
03-13-2009, 10:44 PM
Yeah...that will be my next round of upgrades...maybe in the summer.