NEW G.Skill TITAN SSD review ...

[swiftex]

yes I agree,
had (still have them) 3x 1500ADFD's,
2x ssd's 64gb's (v2 jmicron) perform at consistently higher levels......................

[karateo]

YES. In almost every way.

if you get the shuttering i wouldn't call it faster
but if u have a raid hardware controller with cache then yes.
even the ocz solid series £60 for 30gb will be faster

[ewitte]

IDK I think its a Vista problem. There are several types of fixes on the OCZ forums that are good for all SSD not just OCZ. Also windows7 is supposed to be a lot more tweaked for SSD as well.

[flopper]

windows 7 currently just disable defragging.
and i think index, I had to tweak windows 7 a lot.

[ewitte]

I thought it detected SSD and alligned the drive as well? Do you still have to allign it manually?

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/fo...ad.php?t=48309

[flopper]

alignment is auto with vista and w7.

[Brahmzy]

alignment is auto with vista and w7.

Are you sure? I thought I read somewhere on the OCZ forums, that even in Vista, on a RAID0, multiple SSD array, you still had to align this and that to 64 something something.

If I don't have to do that, that's great, but I read that there would still be tangible gains, even in Vista-created partitions.

[Biker]

...or the Vertex is just so awesome that anybody that has witnessed them in action was so astounded, they can longer function as a normal human being.

[Mtrx]

another review of the titan ssd:

http://www.bjorn3d.com/read.php?cID=1465&pageID=6164

[One_Hertz]

another review of the titan ssd:

http://www.bjorn3d.com/read.php?cID=1465&pageID=6164

Wow that is possibly one of the worst reviews I have ever read lol. Anyhow, from CrystalMark we can see that it is based on the same controller as the OCZ Core drives (only 3MB/s random writes) so it will behave in the same manner with the stutters and all.

[flopper]

Are you sure?

o The alignment of NTFS partition to SSD geometry is important for SSD performance in case of Windows XP and Windows XP upgrade to Windows Vista and Windows 7
+ The first Windows XP partition starts at sector #63; the middle of a SSD page
+ Misaligned partition can degrade device’s performance down to 50% caused by read-modify-write
+ The example with 4k page size
+ Implementing correct alignment according to the latest ATA and SCSI spec.

Its for windows xp as xp has a different set up.
vista and w7 is done as you set up ur OS.

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/fo...6&postcount=85

[swiftex]

if you get the shuttering i wouldn't call it faster
but if u have a raid hardware controller with cache then yes.
even the ocz solid series £60 for 30gb will be faster

I use a hw raid card (pci-e x8), this is the only way I would consider using ssd's at this time,
and that is what I use with 2x (64gb v.2 jmicron)in a raid0 config,
my preference for o/s is raid5 but cost for ssd's is too high.......

[ewitte]

Thanks I'll have to try the much longer fix.

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/fo...ad.php?t=47212

BTW I'll probably get the raid card when I get a vertex 2

[ewitte]

I use a hw raid card (pci-e x8), this is the only way I would consider using ssd's at this time,
and that is what I use with 2x (64gb v.2 jmicron)in a raid0 config,
my preference for o/s is raid5 but cost for ssd's is too high.......

Seriously the cost is not going to be an issue for much longer. A year ago it was more for a 32GB drive that wasn't nearly as fast than the $129 I paid for a 64GB. Thats just to tide me over 1-2 years anyway

[genec57]

The Egg has them in stock as of a minute ago. I just pulled the trigger on a 128gig.

[Brahmzy]

The Egg has them in stock as of a minute ago. I just pulled the trigger on a 128gig.

Yeah, I got the NewEgg Notify email... 15 seconds later I put 2 128GB's in the cart and clicked submit with next day shipping.
I'll be posting some pretty serious RAID0 benchmarks up here Wednesday or Thursday night for y'all. Gonna take me a bit to load the OS n what not. Maybe I'll duck out of work early.

[Brahmzy]

Whoa, this review just gave me some real warm fuzzies about my purchase....
The reviewers are not seeing ANY write issues with these drives due to the dual controllers. Gettin' excited!!!

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/sto...b-ssd-review/1

[XS Janus]

So wouldn't this fact:

Unlike a RAID0 array though, data is not uniformly striped across the drive - entire files can be written to specific cells.

hamper the real life situations in performance?

I'm just scarred that these awesome reads/writes won't just stay as marketing based on HDtach-like results.
Hope "One Herz" or some other brave soul comes by and prove real life performance of these internaly raided SSDs when they become available to the public!

[swiftex]

that bit-tech article shows some promise..............

[naokaji]

that bit-tech article shows some promise..............

The article itself maybe, but not so much the product, check page 4 and you can see that there are still situations where the titan doesn't stand a chance against some mechanical drives.
Buying a performance gain in one situation with a performance loss in another situation would be one thing, but paying a lot of money on top of the performance trade off just trashes any value of SSD's, the introduction of cache and new controllers will change that soon though (hopefully).

[LuckyNV]

It barely loses out there, and you need to ask yourself if that situation really applies to you, if so, what's the harm in doing that work on your normal drive?
Sure it costs a large amount and you expect it to win in everything, but the technology is still in its infancy yet where it does win, it is doing it by quite a distance.

[Brahmzy]

UPS says my 2 will be on the porch this afternoon... woot!

Can't wait for some RAID0 Titan action tonight! I'll post some benches against my 3x RAID0 Velociraptors tonight hopefully.

[Andrew LB]

IDK I think its a Vista problem. There are several types of fixes on the OCZ forums that are good for all SSD not just OCZ. Also windows7 is supposed to be a lot more tweaked for SSD as well.

From my experience with a 128gb G.Skill SSD in my Dell XPS m1530 notebook, 2x G.Skill 128gb TITAN drives in Raid-0 in my workstation.... I've yet to have a single stuttering issue running the following OS's.

Vista x32
Vista x64
Windows7 x64
OSx86 Leopard x64
And a few distro versions of Linux.

Once again!!! NO STUTTERING while using G.Skill MLC SSD's.

[ewitte]

I have the 64MB G.Skill and also haven't seen the issue in Windows 7 but I also did quite a few tweaks to prevent it. Its nice going through random menus I never went to before and stuff popping up instantly

[XS Janus]

@Brahmzy: Please do more than just HDtach and HDtune. Along with those, post some MP3 and .iso R/W tests like they did in this bit-tech review compared to your velociraptor array!