By: admin
Many thanks Les! I have to admit though, that PCMark Vantage is a bit unpredictable in my experience. It seems overly dependent on other factors than the drive even on the HDD specific score.
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FALSE STATEMENT How can they say the F120 is dominating the market when the OCZ Z-Drive reads and writes up to 1.5GB
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Enigma, Thanks for your comment, let’s clear this up. The statement is that the SandForce SF-1200 controller (SSD processor) is killing the competition right now, which I stand by. Moreover, this is a...
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ALL the synthetic benchmark numbers are misleading! To get a feel for the actual throughput of your SSD in a worst case scenario, try this> Partition and format with XP so the partition is not...
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NOTE: 300X Compact Flash above was Transcend SLC on the IDE port of a 1st gen ATOM Dualcore with 2GB RAM Vertex 2 was on a SATA2 port of a second Gen ATOM dualcore with 4GB RAM
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In your “benchmarks” there was an effect of built-in cache of the HDD which reduced the resulting latency of I/O requests by storing them in its internal cache. Also, you should keep in mind that such...
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A few more words about performance – if you want really a great boost of performance out of your SSD, you could use software disk caching solutions like those made by SuperSpeed (with deferred writing)...
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I run a Corsair F60, 60gb ssd, on my toshiba a305d satellite. It only has 3gb 5300 ram, and a rookie amd turion, but boot speeds are less than 15s and thats stock bios. Running windows 7 ultimate along...
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Thanks for sharing Jack! It’s pretty amazing what a good ssd can do even for lower-end systems. Watching your desktop load up almost instantly for the first time is one of those moments that makes you...
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SSDs can give substantial improvement for (almost) any system using slower storage devices except memory, in fact it efficiency with MLC memory used would be greater for portable low-performance...
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