Intel SSD vs 7200 Hard Drive - CS4 Install

[SOF006]

Shame this is being run on XP. If this was Windows 7 it would be a whole lot faster due to the fact Windows 7 takes full advantage of SSDs and XP does not.

[NaplesTech]

@SOF006 - I agree but when this test was done Windows 7 was not released yet. Thanks

[farstarfilms]

To: NaplesTech, great comparison but how does SDD work when surfing the net her its a lot slower!

[StreakingTiger]

None of my business, but I think you need to upgrade to Windows 7 since it supports TRIM. TRIM keeps your drive space free whenever you add/delete things. Otherwise, your drive gets full and becomes useless. Just my opinion, but worth checking out just in case I'm right. Win XP does NOT support TRIM. I just migrated my system from Win XP with a HD to Windows 7 with an Intel SSD. Works great so far. Good luck man.

[26psyside]

Heh now imagine the same comparation but..

Vertex 2 vs HDD, the Intel models are slow on writing (instalaltion) and of top of that toss WIN7 instead of XP and you will get like 2x faster installation.

[loasolidsnakemgs]

Quick Conclusion: SSD Won't be truely worth buying until the majority of them have speeds of 1400 MB/s (1.4 GB/s), such as OCZSSDPX-ZD2P881T. Generally, the ones that are actually affordable read/write at speeds twice as much as hard discs. That being said, if you want the speed, and you need to compare it with something, compare it with a 15000 RPM HD, with a SSD of the same storage capacity and figure out which one is right for you.

These things aren't that great yet, but they will be.

[BoredAussieGamer]

@loasolidsnakemgs you should be aware that the reason that SSDs are purchased isn't because of the read/write speeds it's because of the seek times you can boot operating systems and load programs allot faster then a regular hard drive

[hornick18]

nice

[Zomgwtfbbq1228]

@Baraquiel62 i meant is it the video speed up

[Baraquiel62]

@Zomgwtfbbq1228 lol yeah I know I was just having fun man :P

[Zomgwtfbbq1228]

is that in real time?

[qbert1345]

@opmike343

and ya, understand all that that's is one aspect but this one aspect, the last deciding aspect for me, lead to that conclusion. this and many other video's, and my own controlled testing gave me the full answer. i actually liked ur vid :P

[Eragon86micky]

SSD is epic!!!

[Anton338]

haha honestly, whats the rush? xD

truefax. adobe was made to take forever...

but anywho, cant wait til these bad boys get cheaper and they start makin em in 6gbps SATA xD

[thisischuck01]

@Anton338 They do. Check out the Crucial RealSSD C300. Comparable or better than an Intel x25-M 160GB drive in most benchmarks. But seriously, these, Intel x25-M drives, and SandForce drives are all relatively equal at this point. Hopefully the prices will come down quite a bit in Q3-Q4 when Intel starts releasing their new 25nm SSDs.

[Nollog]

@Anton338 c300 is win.

[shogun5655]

I guess if your in a hurry it helps. People need to slow down., whats the hurry.

[elick0]

Well yeah SSD is much faster and secure than any 7200HDD however when storage and price matters SDD is not that convenient but anyway you can actually combine then, to improve the performance of you HDD using SSD.

[HerecomestheCalavera]

It was only about 40 seconds faster. Would you rather pay $70 for a 1TB traditional Sata drive or pay $100+ for a 32Gb SSD. If I was rich well sure I'd have my system loaded up with SSDs, but for your average person the traditional hard drives are the way to go

[tonihammett]

Well, at least 7200 rpm is better than 5400...

But SSD's awesomness wins!

[HOTTESTHERE]

for those hundrads of dollars needed to get a ok amount of gb with ssd il just wait that half a minute extra ty

[eikira]

well its ok that installations are faster BUT.

for normal user doesnt matter. you dont install every time you boot your pc the same applications.

the only really important thing is read spead (random or constantly) you want that the application starts fast and you can use tham "instantly"

[CarbonSteel93]

yay john mayer =D

[darren100880]

besides the fact you have 2 items running in the task bar on the hdd pc :s and only 1 in the ssd task bar, for the price of the ssd (for now) i dont mind waiting the extra 44 seconds the hdd took :p

thanks for the vid.

[kerolification]

jm... cool song :) cool vid :) = 5 stars

[fgsfdsfgsfds1]

i expected more from an SSD tbh, something like instant install. with this small performance increase i find it unworthy 300$

[c11umw]

Write speeds are about 2x a fast HDD, but the read speeds are up to 5x faster. Plus you can drop a laptop and not corrupt any data. That's what you're paying for :o)

I have one in my laptop and one as my main disk in my desktop. I'm never going back to HDD primaries disks ever again

[danwat1234]

@ItsjustagameNUB , and also I wonder if they were installing off a DVD .. the DVD-ROM would be the I/O bottleneck a lot of the time except for when the hard drive is busy expanding files and stuff.

Also I am curious what '7200RPM drive' they used. 160GB 2TB Caviar Black? Who knows.

[NaplesTech]

WD 500 Black Professional Series

[aSASa45454]

Amazingly the Intel still raped the standard HDD. That really shows how good they are.

[ItsjustagameNUB]

Well, yes.. The Intel has 70-80MB/s write speed, whereas a common harddisk has got 45-50MB/s, the veloci raptor does over 100.

[aSASa45454]

All I'm trying to say is that even though this SSD has a major flaw [ Sequential write ], it still outperformed standard drives - by a hell of a lot. Now just imagine the X25-E w/ 170mb/s sequential vs 70mb/s.

[ItsjustagameNUB]

The x25-E cant be set in perspective to a standard harddrive since the x25-E is the capasity of either 32 or 64gb and is ten times or more the price of a standard harddrive.

My point is simply that this video does not show the potential in an SSD.

[aSASa45454]

@ItsjustagameNUB And my point is that even though its not showing SSD's maximum potential, it still did great.

[MrDylanblue]

@aSASa45454 The intel drives are actually made by Kingston. Which is very good.

[aSASa45454]

@MrDylanblue It's the opposite, but yeah.

[darthirakli]

@ItsjustagameNUB Which also gets worse over time...

[010Blackeyes]

@a4ol, you can't really benchmark games, only loading the maps can be faster on a SSD.

[a4ol]

Why are there no PC Game benchmarks of SSD's???? I guess they = HDD 7200 or lose the battle...

[phreak81]

nobody cares about gaming kiddys! :P

[jincuteguy]

what is the model of the Intel SSD? Is it X25-M ? Also what is the volume of the intel ssd? is it 80gb? or more?

[Crysis99]

song name ? ^^