SSD Intel Postville 80GB

by zenix • 17 Sep 2009, 22:58 • Journals
If your pc feels slow with loading or you just dont like to wait SSD is the best upgrade you can do.
I installed windows 7 64 bit ultimate on it, boots in 5-6 seconds.

Loading time in ET.
http://members.upc.nl/r.benthem7/bench/speed.jpg
1.88 sec.

HD Tune benchmark
http://members.upc.nl/r.benthem7/bench/hdtune.jpg
Look at the acces time :)

Compared to my other new disk Samsung spinpoint F3 1TB
http://members.upc.nl/r.benthem7/bench/f3.jpg

And if you put those in raid...
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duNzy 18 Sep 2009, 00:00
ICARENOT
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loazis 18 Sep 2009, 00:02
I don't understand :(

But my harddisk is dying and I need a new one.
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zenix 18 Sep 2009, 00:11
take samsung spinpoint f3, fast cheap and silent.
http://members.upc.nl/r.benthem7/bench/f3.jpg
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perforator 18 Sep 2009, 00:08
11.6ms here. :(
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h8m3 18 Sep 2009, 00:17
install ramdisk
ET loads in a few nanoseconds
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Shuki 18 Sep 2009, 03:06
I still get pb lags!
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Krosan 18 Sep 2009, 08:44
Like you've got anything remotely resemblant to that
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Superboyy 18 Sep 2009, 00:21
its not ready yet. they need to improve lifetime (overwrites). then just the price needs to drop a lot and i might buy one for my boot drive.
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zenix 18 Sep 2009, 00:24
windows 7 has trim support included only need to wait for firmware to support it and lifetime will be enough. I wont use it anyway for more than 2 years ( the warranty period ) It will lost longer than that.
Yes the price is pretty high, but you can really notice the difference. Last year they where like 300 euro's now its allready much better! And if you really want longer lifetime, take SLC but thats too expensive.
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Superboyy 18 Sep 2009, 00:40
it would be interesting if any of these "test" ads they run would compare an ssd to a 15k rpm drive and not just a regular drive
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zenix 18 Sep 2009, 00:45
it atleast is better than Western Digital VelociRaptor, and i doubt 15k sas disk will beat a good SSD. It will atleast not beat it in accestime.
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Gaso 18 Sep 2009, 09:34
Anandtech SSD roundup

Lifetime does not seem to be an issue anymore with the current drives: with an average of 7 GB writes / day the drives would last about a thousand years, so killing a drive by writing is pretty much impossible. Even with 700 gigs/day it'd take 10 years.

With the TRIM-support current drives reach 99% of their performance when all the cells have been used, which also increases the lifetime. Even if you don't use trim, the top drives kick the shit out of WD Velociraptor in every test.
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Superboyy 18 Sep 2009, 14:43
nice. im getting one when the prices drop to something reasonable.
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Gaso 19 Sep 2009, 12:59
Same... Hard to justify spending $400 on a home computer harddrive.

But at work we're renewing our workstations at the moment, and not even considering regular disks: if you can cut 5 minutes of disk-related waiting time in a day, the SSD disks will pay themselves back in couple weeks.
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Seanza 18 Sep 2009, 08:46
The problem with SSD though, is that the performance will decrease rapidly.
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zenix 18 Sep 2009, 11:01
You can do loads of things to make sure that doesnt happen fast / or doesnt happen at all. Make sure you dont write like 10% of the SSD ( that means make sure you have 4gb unused space. Also you need to Align your partition if you dont use windows 7 And you need to turn off indexing on the ssd. With TRIM support that will be here in some time with firmware updates, lifetime or descreasing performance wont be issue anymore.
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beAsty 18 Sep 2009, 11:16
Sucks hard if i cant use indexing .. I love it on my win 7 :/
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zenix 18 Sep 2009, 11:21
its not needed! ssd is faster with searching than indexing on normale hdd :P
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beAsty 18 Sep 2009, 11:46
Hm sounds awesome..
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Seanza 18 Sep 2009, 18:21
But what's the point in installing a drive of a certain capacity if you don't intend to fill it up?
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zenix 19 Sep 2009, 21:48
performance. I didnt bought this thing for his space :D And i will change with TRIM
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beAsty 18 Sep 2009, 09:58
i wanted to buy a 80gb for my laptop too.. but i dont know hwere to put files then

i would have 80gb ssd + 250gb (or more) sata..

windows + programms on ssd... but games should be there too? if i put the games on the sata they will need ages too load too :(
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zenix 18 Sep 2009, 11:02
i have etqw/wolf/et/crysis/tmnf/rtcw on my ssd + like 20 programs and win 7 ultimate 64 bit.
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