Intel X25-M Performance Expectations

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I just installed a gen2 drive, and put a fresh copy of W7 on it. Frankly, I'm a little underwhelmed. Yeah, it boots pretty quickly, but it's 20seconds plus, which is a lot more than I had been lead to expect. Also, load times on games aren't really noticeably faster.

Maybe this is all normal, but I'm coming from a 6400AAKS, and I'm just not blown away. is there anything I need to do to optimize it?
 
i have 2 80GB in RAID0, and i haven't been too impressed. but, i must say that the response time is the biggest jump in performance. my RAR extraction isn't too impressive, but it's limited by write performance. game loads are definitely faster, but there's no WOW factor.

overall, i'm happy with my purchase. once these drives start dropping in price and increasing in performance, they will start to shine.
 
For me, the biggest factor in deciding to pick up an SSD was to completely eliminate system slowness. If you perform an intensive disk operation on any regular HDD, such as extracting RARs, then go and open Firefox, it would take like 5-10 seconds. I guess it depends how you use your system, but this made it worthy of a "wow" for me.
 
I dunno, I plucked SSD in my laptop, it made a huge difference. I guess the fact that I also installed Win7 vs year old Vista install also helped but hey, still, 30-sec boot time to apps ready to launch as opposed to 2-3 minutes is a huge difference :)
 
I installed win7 on my Intel 80GB Gen2 and it loads widows in 15 to 18 seconds. XP took much longer to load. And the main benefit of SSDs is tremendous I/O. The second you smash the disk with a heavy workload a platter will slow down to a crawl for all tasks. SSDs plow through heavy workloads much faster and also tend to remain responsive even under that load.

If all you are doing is running notepad, then you aren't going to notice an SSD very much.
 
oh yeah, mine was also 15-20 seconds until I installed Symantec Endpoint Protection.
 
Mine boots a little faster than my 6400AALS's in RAID0.

It simply ready to use a lot quicker, before when getting to the desktop i would have to wait to launch a program. Now, i can do that right away.

In the short, i have a wow factor because my BIOS takes longer then my windows boot lol
 
Kaldskryke said:
To the point where it will be the "bottleneck" for the foreseeable future?
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i'd think so after reading this:
http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article/2008/09/25/intels_new_solid_state_drive_video_review

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Remember, the Intel SSD is not the leader in sequential writes. Some benchmarks have it on par with fast platter drives.
 
They are the undisputed leader in random writes and reads by a large margin however (from 2x to 40x). The Intel 160GB G2 writing at max sequential will fill the drive in a bit over 10 minutes, so really the randoms are what matters. Installing or unpacking 2GB of data at 100MB/s takes 20 seconds... Installing at 200MB/s takes 10 seconds. Not really as big a difference as it seems just looking at sequentials on a chart.

If you really, really need fast sustained sequential, get some terabyte platters in a striped array. Otherwise the Intels will perform just fine at sustained write for any conceivable use and kick ass at randoms.
 
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