OCZ Vertex SSDs- Initial Results

[tesco]

Are you talking about christmas or your "Black Friday" sales which don't apply to me?

[Detale]

Damn Foreigners!! I guess I meant Xmas then. Ross I thought you were an apple pie guy man. Are you Brazilian?

On topic though your ressurection of this thread and the need for me to do a fresh install on Win7 has led me to update the firmware, use sanitary erase and reinstall windows. I have to say I am impressed by the lack of degradation I have. I have had these drives for almost a year now and I do put them through the wringer and the have held up better than I expected.

Original post in this thread.
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After doing my maintenance today

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I'm not sure what that downward spike is but I'll surely investigate like.

[tesco]

I'm not sure what that downward spike is but I'll surely investigate like.

Your windows might have been doing something in the background.

It's good to see that the performance stayed so consistent after all these months, that's good news.

edit: wait, what "maintenance" did you do? Do you mean you just erased it and reinstalled windows? In that case, wish you would have put up a benchmark showing the performance after months of daily use.

[Detale]

I know I thought of it after the fact. By maintenance I meant I just updated and reinstalled. I do however do a regular work up on my disks. I use Perfect disk 11 about once a week and make sure the trim command is enabled. Also I'll leave the bios screen up for an hour or so from time to time so the trim can work better.

[tesco]

So did the performance ever drop noticeably or was it pretty much constant?

[Detale]

I do remember it dropping last time I reinstalled and I was concerned thinking that it would be a steady degradation from then on. To my surprise after using the OCZ sanitary erase things are pretty much the same as the day I got it a year ago

[tesco]

So what's the latest news on SSDs?
I stopped paying attention to them since June, and I'm ready to buy now...
Is the intel x25-m still a good deal or has something better come along? (don't want to go over $250CAD).
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product...-031-_-Product

edit: After reading this and this it's looking like other great choices are SSDs with the Sandforce sf-1200 controller in them:
OCZ Vertex 2 OCZSSD3-2VTX120G 3.5" 120GB SATA II MLC
OCZ Vertex 2 OCZSSD3-2VTX90G 3.5" 90GB SATA II MLC
Corsair Force CSSD-F120GB2-BRKT 2.5" 120GB SATA II

So today my only hard drive crashed, which lead to me ordering the 90gb OCZ Vertex 2 and also a 1tb WD drive. It picked a great time to crash, I was going to order the ssd this week anyway, why couldn't it have crashed a few days from now.
I'll post some benchmarks when it's here.

[clocker]

So did the performance ever drop noticeably or was it pretty much constant?

Performance of my RAIDed OCZ Vertex's is almost identical today to initial install almost a year ago.
I also have been using Perfect Disk 11 as a defrag.

Compare to the screenie from page 1...


@Detale...
I have been under the impression that TRIM doesn't work on RAID arrays...has something changed or was I wrong all along?

[Detale]

Honestly I'm not sure. As usual I'm betting you're right. I'll do some research and check it out maybe I'm wasting time with it then. Wouldn't be the first time


EDIT: Read this just now and just so happens I have the latest rapid storage installed, but it looks like it's only for Intel boards

[tesco]

How do these results look?

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Nowhere near as high as you two, but then mine isn't raided and I'm on a sata2 controller; or is something wrong?
And what's up with the imaginary barrier at around 225mb/s? Is that the limit of the ssd or my controller?

And yes I bought the agility2 when I meant to buy the vertex2. Oh well, who needs 5 times the IOps.

But overall I'm really happy with this, everything loads almost instantly no matter what I'm doing at the time...