OCZ Vertex SSDs- Initial Results

[clocker]

Brand new fresh drive, Win 7 is supposed to handle that, no problem.
I just pointed the OS to the drive(s) and let it decide what needed to be done.
There is a tool available at the Vertex forum that will inspect the drive and verify if the alignment and all that hifalutin shit is correct (after you're in Windows).

I think if you manage to keep the OS dry, you'll be fine.

[Detale]

I think if you manage to keep the OS dry, you'll be fine.

Oops, too late

[clocker]

I knew it.

[tesco]

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product...-393-_-Product
Only $140CAD. That's cheap. Are these the drives you guys bought?

[Detale]

Clocker has those I have these

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product...82E16820227469

OK so I have to say HOLY 5HIT!!! I just installed Win7 X6 in 13 Min! From windows is loading files to a ready desktop. I'm stunned really. Things are noticeably faster. Clocker and Snee Thanks so much I'm glad you two got me to cave in and get these things. Here are some screens


This is the first try with only HDtach installed.


Then when I enabled the write back cache :woot:


Window rating


OK and so after some windows tweaks I found


Not impressed really on these tweaks like

Then I updated the firmware



Ummm I had to check this twice. So all of that and I'm where I started eh. No biggie



Now I'm also looking at this "ram disk" and I remember clocker having something called an "idisk" or something that he raved about.Using Ram as an actual Hard disk. Do you guys think it'w worth it??

[clocker]

Now I'm also looking at this "ram disk" and I remember clocker having something called an "idisk" or something that he raved about.Using Ram as an actual Hard disk. Do you guys think it'w worth it??

It's interesting that your burst speed did exactly the same as mine...starts out strong then after the "tweaks" it decreases by about a third.
That shouldn't happen.

My RAM drive was a physical thing- a PCI card that accepted four real RAM sticks and in essence, acted like a crude SSD.
It connected through a SATA port and was sadly limited to SATA I specs.

What you propose is a more software based method to do essentially the same thing but should be faster.
And way cheaper, also.

I still have the iRAM card but have stripped it of memory sticks and will be damned if I'll buy more DDR RAM for it.

I'm going to try that ram drive the article describes.

OH BTW D....what revision firmware did your drives come with and what did you flash to?
Mine are 1.4 already.

[Snee]

I've tweaked FF to cache to ram anyways, without that Ram diosk software, I think

But that's a nifty piece of software I might just look at anyways. Windows hardly ever uses more than 4 gigs anyhow, and that means I generally have 8 gigs doing nothing, so.

[clocker]

OK, it's installed.
HD Tach thought it had died and gone to heaven...


This compares the RAM drive with the Vertex array (which has mysteriously jumped back to a decent burst speed...???). Note the RAM drive's absurd average read speed.

I reinstalled Firefox completely to the RAM drive.
It's almost impossible to make Chrome install anywhere but it's default directory, so I found an Chrome alternative called Iron, which allows the normal install options, so it's on the RAM drive as well.
Getting all the bookmarks, settings, etc. transferred is proving to be weird...I shall persevere.

Edit:
Here's the task manager with the RAM drive operational.

I created a ram drive of 4GB, so half my available physical memory is automatically allocated there and Windows is only using @10% of what's left, so all should be fine.

[Detale]

To be clear bud you installed the ram drive and your Raid array jumped up that much in HD tach?? or is that HD tach of the ram drive? I'm going to do 2 gigs I think.

My SSd's came with version 1.0 and I updated them to 1.41 I was a little comfused which version to go with using the raid 1.4 or 1.41 so I just said fuck it.

I am still unclear as which tool to use to "clean" the drive. Sanitary erase or wiper. So much damn reading it's making me nuts.

I'm going to try that Ram drive now and see.

[clocker]

It is confusing but I think you wanted 1.4, not 1.41.

The last HDTach shows a comparison between the two- Vertex v. RAM drive-look at the top left corner...that little blue squiggle is the ram drive.