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09-01-2009, 06:19 AM
Spoiler

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Originally Posted by iboomalot

now thats REALLY SOME BULLLLLLLLL SHIIIIIITTTT !!!!!!!

what upsets me most is I have bought TONS of stuff at reasonable prices and this is utter price gouging.

the G1s they even raised to over 300.00 and the 160g to 997.00 LMAO

I sure hope everyone boycots Newegg for the next 30 days

+1 Agreed. I'm done with them for a while.
09-01-2009, 09:28 AM
Kanzy

Quote:

Originally Posted by iboomalot

now thats REALLY SOME BULLLLLLLLL SHIIIIIITTTT !!!!!!!

what upsets me most is I have bought TONS of stuff at reasonable prices and this is utter price gouging.

the G1s they even raised to over 300.00 and the 160g to 997.00 LMAO

I sure hope everyone boycots Newegg for the next 30 days

+1 Gonna avoid them for some time
09-01-2009, 11:07 AM
Griff805

Glad I picked up a G1 last week at 190.00 after some cashback stuff. Newlow for Newegg. They can charge what they want, nothing illegal about it, but to not offer a better price for their customer's is very telling of what their priorities are.
09-01-2009, 02:36 PM
MoMo_RT

Meh and NewEgg removed them once again... So their either about to put them back up for sale at a different price or their pulling random ****

Oh and note the advanced search price ranges.... They don't list an exact price but even the 80gb falls in the $400-$500 range.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...5-m+g2&x=0&y=0

Oh and WTF is up with this price?!

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820167005

SSDSA2MH080G1 $359.00... That's COMPLETE BS
09-02-2009, 11:32 AM
boostdfd3s

I really want a single 80GB G2 to put in my new 13" MBP but I got tired of waiting so I picked up a 60GB Vertex Turbo. Should do the job just fine until the G2's are readily in stock and I can buy one along with a second 60GB Vertex Turbo and RAID the VT's in my Mac Pro.

Certainly will be looking places besides Newegg though. I *hate* price gouging.
09-03-2009, 01:01 AM
BulldogPO

I did do some testing with my two new 80GB Intel SSD´s.

http://kotisivu.dnainternet.net/bull...G2GC_write.jpg
Single drive connected to Intel ICH10R

http://kotisivu.dnainternet.net/bull...G2GC_write.jpg
Then two drives on RAID 0 and with stripe size set on default 128KB.

http://kotisivu.dnainternet.net/bull...G2GC_write.jpg
Best performing stripe setting seems to be 32KB one.

Than read tests:

http://kotisivu.dnainternet.net/bull...A2M080G2GC.jpg
Again single Intel 80GB 34nm SSD.

http://kotisivu.dnainternet.net/bull...SSDSA2M080G2GC
RAID 0 with stripe set to default 128KB.

http://kotisivu.dnainternet.net/bull...SSDSA2M080G2GC
RAID 0 with stripe set to 32KB.

So my conclusion is that testing those different stripe sizes did pay off fine :)
32KB Stripe size is winner in every aspect, at least when using ICH10R.

Rest of my test results are here.(CrystalDishBench, HD Tach and PCMark05 HDD Suite.
09-03-2009, 01:18 AM
neonblingbling

Nice benchmarks! Really tempting now, since my laptop's harddrive only averages 52 MB/s, and of course seek time is a slow 14.6 ms.
09-03-2009, 05:10 AM
One_Hertz

BulldogPO - you are testing with flawed benchmarks and with the cache off. They can not test RAID setups properly.
09-03-2009, 06:29 AM
CrimInalA

I just got my 2 160 drives in .
@ BulldogPO : Thanks for the tip on 32k stripesize , because i wanted to go 128k at first .
09-03-2009, 07:14 AM
dum

Quote:

Originally Posted by boostdfd3s

I really want a single 80GB G2 to put in my new 13" MBP but I got tired of waiting so I picked up a 60GB Vertex Turbo. Should do the job just fine until the G2's are readily in stock and I can buy one along with a second 60GB Vertex Turbo and RAID the VT's in my Mac Pro.

Certainly will be looking places besides Newegg though. I *hate* price gouging.

yea that was bs, they sold out again in a day though:down:
09-03-2009, 08:00 AM
Kanzy

Got my two 80G, haven't install them
09-03-2009, 08:09 AM
MoMo_RT

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Originally Posted by Kanzy

Got my two 80G, haven't install them

Ha sell them to me... I think I'm going to harass you in PM :up:
09-03-2009, 08:21 AM
TankGuys

I've got 5 160Gb drives in stock (and I'm not gouging ;) )

Had some 80's, sold out quick, but I'm working in getting more ASAP!
09-03-2009, 09:00 AM
BulldogPO

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Originally Posted by One_Hertz

BulldogPO - you are testing with flawed benchmarks and with the cache off. They can not test RAID setups properly.

How they are flawed?
So what software do you recommend?
09-03-2009, 09:24 AM
Brahmzy

The stripe size is absolutely meaningless the way you're "benching" it. WAY, WAY, WAY more things to consider than an HDTach screen.
09-03-2009, 12:28 PM
dum

Quote:

Originally Posted by TankGuys

I've got 5 160Gb drives in stock (and I'm not gouging ;) )

Had some 80's, sold out quick, but I'm working in getting more ASAP!

man you are straight up, newegg was charging 499.00 for an 80 gig, you have a 160 for less, to be honest I forgot about you, bought my e6600 from u about 3 years ago
09-03-2009, 01:03 PM
zalbard

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Originally Posted by TankGuys

I've got 5 160Gb drives in stock (and I'm not gouging ;) )

Had some 80's, sold out quick, but I'm working in getting more ASAP!

I might need a 80 Gb drive soon, so I'll keep checking your site. Thanks for letting us know! :yepp:
09-03-2009, 03:36 PM
Armitage

350$ at newegg for the 80gb btw

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820167016
09-03-2009, 09:45 PM
Rhys

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Originally Posted by Armitage

350$ at newegg for the 80gb btw

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820167016

WTF Lol! I don't believe how much cheaper these things are in the uk!
09-03-2009, 11:14 PM
lowfat

Lol @ the people who buy them for this price. That is disgusting.
09-03-2009, 11:32 PM
BulldogPO

Brahmzy: That´s funny as all other programs that I used tell similar results (CrystalDiskBench, HD Tune and PCMark05).
09-04-2009, 03:17 AM
ACS

Hello guys,
Ive got a question about TRIM. I just managed to purchase a x25m 160gb gen2 drive, while im waiting for it i read around that there will be some firmware update from intel to actually enable TRIM?
Is there a way to use TRIM already , im planning to install a fresh w7 64bit on that drive, on Anandtech they say to use trim you must use the microsoft default driver instead of intel matrix/chipset. Is that the case or i must wait for intel to release their firmware update.
Thanks !
09-04-2009, 03:19 AM
ownage

Anyone noticed huge performance drops when the disk is full? My system became real laggy. I had to delete a few ISO's, to make it stable again.
I heard you have to keep empty disk space when using an SSD, but is it really that important?
09-04-2009, 04:42 AM
Ao1

Quote:

Originally Posted by ACS

Hello guys,
Ive got a question about TRIM. I just managed to purchase a x25m 160gb gen2 drive, while im waiting for it i read around that there will be some firmware update from intel to actually enable TRIM?
Is there a way to use TRIM already , im planning to install a fresh w7 64bit on that drive, on Anandtech they say to use trim you must use the microsoft default driver instead of intel matrix/chipset. Is that the case or i must wait for intel to release their firmware update.
Thanks !

Win 7 is already TRIM enabled, but it will not work until Intel update the G2 firmware. It seems that only G2 drives will be updated to become TRIM enabled.
09-04-2009, 04:54 AM
Anemic

Got two drives for $290 a piece! One for me and one for my friend. Stores here in Swedonia are getting them in stock finally.

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