OCZ Summit Benchmarks?

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Not entirely sure if I am very fond on this particular SSD, but I still cannot find too many benchmarks on it. Other than AnandTech and Tom's Hardware.

BUT, I want to hear from anyone here how well (or not) the Summit is working for you. Startup/shutdown times, app loading times, performance, and definitely random 4K reads and writes.

With a $150 price tag, I'll give it a fair shake and try to see if it would be a good upgrade from my 250GB WD laptop drive.

If I'm understanding this correctly right now...the Summit does support GC, BUT the next firmware revision (which will be the first user flashable?) will only support TRIM. No way to get GC back.
 
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From what I've seen, it does pretty well in the benchies. ThereI recently read a review of the Summit where it beat the Vertex in some tests while the Vertex was superior in others, and in the end they gave the edge to the Vertex.

I'd probably go for a Vertex or Agility because I believe the controller is the heart of an SSD and I'd rather have the Indilinx than any of the current Samsungs.

However, that being said, there's no question that even the Summit would be an upgrade from your 250GB laptop drive. The Summit is also reportedly stutter-free as any good SSD should be. I do wonder why more people here aren't using them. I'm sorry I haven't personally used one and can't give you firsthand experience (I know that's what you're really looking for).

Here are a few more reviews in case you missed them:

http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=333&Itemid=60
http://www.techspot.com/review/174-ocz-summit-120gb-ssd/
http://www.guru3d.com/article/ocz-summit-250gb-ssd-review/
http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=19509
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/22118-ocz-summit-120gb-ssd-review.html
http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews.php?/storage/ocz_summit_250gb_sata2_ssd/1
 
Well, one major reason I'm concerned about random write performance is because that is *supposedly* the Summit's weak spot. At least that is what AnandTech says. I don't know if that will end up hurting performance or not.

How much is it going to matter to me? I'm not sure...but it seems like random write performance is about the same as a hard drive from what I can tell. But again, not sure at all.

Main reason I'm looking into an SSD is for work related reasons. I'm hoping to see improvements in VHDL simulation times and compile times, but in general I do expect the SSD would be a great improvement PERIOD. But if I have to choose which SSD to get (X25-M, Agility, Vertex, Summit, etc) believe me I am going to try and make this as advantageous to me as possible. One particular thing I have not yet figured out? - what performance aspect do I need to focus on for the VHDL work? I know it is writing more than reading, but cannot tell how many bytes per write or if it would be considered random or sequential access, nothing. I can come up with an educated guess, but nothing 100% concrete.
 
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Procmon.exe, set a filter for I/O, and you will have a picture of what type and volume of drive access that VHDL does.
 
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Procmon.exe, set a filter for I/O, and you will have a picture of what type and volume of drive access that VHDL does.
Click to expand...

That was perfect, thank you.

Stupid thing is CPU bound most of the time. I knew the processor was kicking with a full core being utilized (most of the software is unfortunately single threaded), but that tool tells me that hard drive access is not a big thing. At least that is what it looks like to me.

Dang.

When it does access though, it is usually accessing 4-32KB chunks of the same file in sequential order.
 
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