i7 + ssd = SLOW

[carnag3]

Hey guys, I have an i7860, 8 gig corsair ddr3, Nvidia GTX260, OCZ Vertex 120 gig...

Fresh install of windows 7, whils most things are pretty snappy, it is hardly noticable coming from my sig rig :S, Itunes still takes around 1.5-2 seconds to load and that is empty, is this normal, or am I doing it wrong .

thanks in advance.

 

[engiNURD]

Make sure you have the latest firmware and have write-cache enabled. With that said, yes, a single SSD isn't overwhelmingly faster than a hard drive... just faster. Personally, I was underwhelmed by a single Vertex. Two Vertex drives in RAID0... now thats fast. Small random write speeds are so slow on the indilinx based drives, which is what makes them unappealing as single SSDs. Throw them in RAID0 and the small write speed jumps to the likes of the Intels.

http://www.alphaq.org/enginurd/hdd/ocz_vertex.html ... I didn't get a chance to test them with the new firmware before they were sold, so check the links at the top of my page.

 

[tesfaye]

You're doing it wrong! I just had to...

I wouldn't worry about iTunes. If you timed your boot time and found it to be quicker, then everything is OK. You are only going to see performance increases during those times that the SSD is being accessed. I haven't installed iTunes in ages so I have no idea how it loads on my SSD. Everything I run on a daily basis saw a small to large performance increases. Not everything is going to jump right at ya, especially if the program in question is doing some heavy processing before presenting an usable interface to you.