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[Righthooks]

Junior Revoltar, on 22 January 2012 - 11:09 PM, said:

Okay thanks for that, but in other words (sorry if i sound like a newbie here) If i did a clean install of Windows 7, should my motherboard settings be beneficial if it was on RAID or AHCI? I just want to get the most out of my SSD.

No, that is a perfectly legitimate question.

RAID itself only pertains to the utilization of one or more drives; RAID 0, as mentioned previously, specifically focuses on combining multiple drives as a single disk. This is known as a stripe, or a RAID array.

In a RAID 0 stripe the combination of drives (normally x2), work as a single unit under an elevated form of AHCI by default. Whereas a single drive such as you are utilizing, benefits the greatest from AHCI as the SATA mode.

The aforementioned material was simply for educational purposes. AHCI is the mode you want to utilize with a single Solid State Drive. It gives similar operation parameters as RAID, except it is designed for commands pertaining to a single storage device via the SATA.

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[Jyrba]

I got the SSD installed, are these numbers completely normal? it should be able to get to 550mb/s...

[Challenger]

Jyrba, on 02 February 2012 - 06:37 PM, said:

I got the SSD installed, are these numbers completely normal? it should be able to get to 550mb/s...

Theoretical and practical are two totally different things! Those results are about what you should expect from that drive

[dirtylarryuk]

Advertised and actual drive speeds are very different. Also by each benchmark.

ATTO, crystal mark, HD tune etc all do different things . And real world tests that simulate real world use show that even raid HDD really work around 40-55MB in multimedia tasks and SSDs depending on gen and Raid from 120MB-440MB. because very rarely do you ask storage for perfect little 4k files all of the same size. The benefit of SDD Bar the speed and iops is really no noise, low power use, no mechanical shock damage and they work better when fragged than not! I don't miss having to run defragmentation tools alot.

Most of the benchmarks used to show MB RW speeds are as realistic a test for storage use and "realworld speeds" as running a single JPG in 2d to record FPS on a 3d GPU.

In reality for gaming you just reduce storage stutter in MMO or games that stream data, which results in much better MIN FPS or average MIN FPS one of the things poeple never bother to measure but is one of the major reason people suffer 'lag' and or eye fatigue using a PC and reduce loading times by 2-3x vs a HDD. The times when you go 'OMG I just shat my pants' With SSD tech, is in Database use or Media work then they can be 10x+ faster than any HDD system.

The simple fact is if you want to use HDD's you need to leave your PC on for 1-3 days a year defragging when your not using it for best results to keep the HDD working close to best speed. With SSD tech garbage collection is done in realtime so it never slows you.

if you want to understand how fast your SSD is even HD tune is saying a SSD is doing access in 0.2MS, amazing raid array of HDD's can do 5ms and even Crap RAM is in the nanosecond, let alone the 5GHZ VRAM GPU toat now! So just imagine what you PC is doing while it waits for a file from the HDD!

[Jyrba]

Challenger, on 02 February 2012 - 10:15 PM, said:

Theoretical and practical are two totally different things! Those results are about what you should expect from that drive

Yeah, I was figuring that out but just had to make sure also installed more ram now with the SSD since I disabled the pagefile, with 16GB now and everything is blazing fast!