First OCZ Core Series SSD results!

[Buckeye]

First off thanks for the review at legitreviews ! and first time I have seen that program CrystalDiskMark.
http://forums.legitreviews.com/post116997.html#p116997

But I think it clearly shows there is a huge differance in SSD's out there right now, depending on SLC or MLC. You take your pick on which one is better. The cost value of the newer SSD's are looking very good tho. How ever I think there is much room for improvement. I would also like to see how these new drives stack up in a real Raid using a good Raid card like a ARC-1231ML or better.

So I thought I would check out what my system came up with.

I know this is not a fair test !
1 OZC 64GB SSD vs my 8x 32GB MTRON PRO's in Raid 5

But here it is. This was with a full setup system complete with Kaspersky, MSN and just about everything under the sun all running on Vista Ultimate 64 with 4 gigs RAM



Now for a mini rant...

With one SSD in those tests the amount of noise and graphs spikes is just unbelievable. Two things come to mind, #1 the test rig was not setup correctly #2) something is very wrong with either the drivers or SSD. Even with my system running in full working config I do not even come close to the number of spikes that are shown, in fact mine are pretty much a stright line in HDTune, while HDTach does show some spiking I can get rid of most of that by turning off processes and other programs. Mine show a fully setup working system in Raid 5, not a test bench setup.