Intel x25-v SSD vs VelociRaptors in raid 0

2 Western Digital 300GB VelociRaptors in Raid0 vs Intel x25-v 40GB SSD, windows 7 boot times, and windows index scores.

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Science & Technology

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• SSD
• raptor
• velociraptor
• wd
• western digital
• intel

[iiiears]

Do SSDs slow down as they get older? TRIM etc. How much?

Would 2 used SSDs 64GB in RAID0 be faster than 1 newer SSD?

I was really surprised by the windows score.

[bigfwd69]

@iiiears all drives ssd or hdd slow down over time, its just the nature of windows and its swap file filling up the drives, you can restore the performance buy formatting the drives with secure erase and reinstalling windows just like a regular hdd. If you have a SATA3 controller then get a newer SATA3 SSD otherwise then go with the older SATA2 drives. Most won't notice a difference between 1 SSD and 2 ssd in raid0, so either way your going to be happy.

[ZZZ91924]

14 seconds?? u power ur pc with ssd at 3:07 and make it at 3:56 that is 49 SECONDS! TOO SLOW!/watch?v=-Ojm5eY-i_Q

[bigfwd69]

@ZZZ91924 Perhaps it's a hard concept for some to grasp, but you don't include POST time in a boot time, only the time that is used to load windows, or when the SSD or HDD is accessed. POST time can only speed up or slowed down by turning things on or off in the bios, or low level editing of the bios it'self. FYI

[Blizzard56k]

@bigfwd69 Thank you. After looking into it i was wrong. We did a small test back in Vista and it seemed size was the only contributing factor to the score. Now it seems it really works off speed. My apologizes.

[bigfwd69]

@Blizzard56k thats incorrect, it's based on reads, and writes. If it were solely based on size my current set up wouldn't even score as high as 1 Velociraptor at 300gb, but my current score is 7.7 and it even scpecifically says "Disk data transfer rate"

[BriareosHX]

u have done something sooo wrong in ur setup there, either that or your velociraptors are crapper than my 1 single samsung sata 2 hdd, my win7 boots up in like 25-30 seconds.. within 40 seconds you can watch a movie . and i have some stuff installed too, its not a fresh windows. so explain that

[iiiears]

@bigfwd69

Thank You.

I have the performance bug. You know the one that keeps you reading and looking at code blogs when you might be playing. - lol

Discovered a few software RAID comparisons here on youtube were nearly as fast as REAL hardware raid. (1 caveat never hard lock an application or cache isn't written.) Really surprising.

[SirCaca82]

Good Song :D



[iiiears]

@bigfwd69 - Thanks.

Bought 2 smaller 64GB SSD for write performance. Works faster than platters until all cache is used. (Maybe 2 more?)

[frjoethesecond]

@ajs2120 Velociraptors are silent thanks to the enclosures that they are installed in.

[ajs2120]

great video i'm surprised at how long it took the two 10k drives to boot into windows. i've just bought an 80gb 10k raptor where i was expecting a noisy motor its actually very quiet, and then when it starts to read and write it becomes noisy! are the velociraptors that noisy as i'm not sure if i'm wanting to spend out on the SSD front yet? also i see you have a 2270/2370hd monitor, i have the same and using an ATI card will NOT display 1920x1080 correct on HDMI, always have to use DVI input.