TITAN SSD Performance Review

[genec57]

I am having similar great results with one 128 titan. a second drive will arrive tomorrow so I am looking forward to testing with RAID0.
Does prefetch negatively impact the Titan. I have disabled indexing and defrag but not prefetch.

[XS Janus]

So what does this "Diskeeper's Hyperfast" thing do?

[Brahmzy]

I am having similar great results with one 128 titan. a second drive will arrive tomorrow so I am looking forward to testing with RAID0.
Does prefetch negatively impact the Titan. I have disabled indexing and defrag but not prefetch.

Nice, I bet you'll LOVE RAID0 with your Titans... I think the main reason for disabling prefetch was that it's no longer that benficial with the random access speeds of an SSD. I think it was one more thing MS was doing to negate the need to read from disk on-access. Now that the disk "ain't slow" prefetching is moot. I may turn it on though to see if I see any differences. Now that I think of it, prefetching results in more writes to disk, er SSD, which is what we want to avoid. Nevermind.

[Ender17]

Here is my 4k test. Single Intel X25-M 80GB, 20GB free.

[aka1nas]

I've had mostly good experiences with my single 128GB titan. I have yet to disable Superfetch and Prefetch, as I still have several mechanical drives in the system. From what I have noticed, Superfetch causes the drive to stutter a bit when it is still initially populating RAM, but performance smooths out significantly once this is complete. It may even be helping things somewhat after, as I have noticed that I can install multiple apps to the SSD at that point without any noticeable stuttering.

[Brahmzy]

Here is my 4k test. Single Intel X25-M 80GB, 20GB free.

Nice, yeah Intel's got the write's nailed...

We'll see how them Vertex's do (only a few days now hopefully)....

[Brahmzy]

Here is my 4k test. Single Intel X25-M 80GB, 20GB free.

Nice, yeah Intel's got the write's nailed...

We'll see how them Vertex's do (only a few days now hopefully)....

Is that on a RAID card? Be nice to see if it it's on an ICHxR...

[Ender17]

Nice, yeah Intel's got the write's nailed...

We'll see how them Vertex's do (only a few days now hopefully)....

Is that on a RAID card? Be nice to see if it it's on an ICHxR...

ICH10R

[Brahmzy]

ICH10R

Ender have you messed with OCZ partition alignment stuff?

Vista default? XP default? I'm half-tempted to try out the 128k/128k that originally had tried. I never ran Windows on it...only benched it...

[Ender17]

Ender have you messed with OCZ partition alignment stuff?

Vista default? XP default? I'm half-tempted to try out the 128k/128k that originally had tried. I never ran Windows on it...only benched it...

no, I just hooked it up and turned on ACHI, then imaged my old drive over using Acronis
Vista Ultimate x64

[IcY18]

Quick question

With the Titan's bump in price to $329 newegg has put it in the range of the new Corsair SSD, which is just a rebranded Samsung SSD.

While the Specs for the Corsair aren't as good as the Titans, it doesn't use the infamous jmicron controller and the Samsung unit is said to perform much better for everyday work. In the end which of these drives would you guys prefer?

[m^2]

I would surely take Samsung, I'm a nervous multitasker and my psychical health is worth way more than a possible small performance loss.
You need to ask yourself:
-How do you use your computer?
-Which optimizations will you apply (i.e. enabling write caching in Windows is OK only if you have UPS)
-How will you react to stutters. Will it bother you much? If it happens frequently?

[Ender17]

any stutter is unacceptable IMO

[IcY18]

I am a pretty big multitasker. With two monitors i have plenty going on at one time. What i am looking for in the SSD is fast boot up times and quicker load times for games and such. There is so little information about these drives its hard to make a complete informed decision!

[Brahmzy]

any stutter is unacceptable IMO

I agree.

[ewitte]

LMAO the only stuttering I get is with this crappy IE8 but thats just a plain freezing until I kill the task.

[flopper]

I am a pretty big multitasker. With two monitors i have plenty going on at one time. What i am looking for in the SSD is fast boot up times and quicker load times for games and such. There is so little information about these drives its hard to make a complete informed decision!

Well, choices are,
Intel ssd.
ocz vertex.
Out of the box and run ssd´s.

If your ready to tweak and get a controller card for raid, then the options opens up a little. (more ram for a ramdisk is also a neat option)
I would guess, apex, titan and a few more in raid0 with a controller would not just be fast but also relive any stuttering especially with the tweaks you might do.

I use a areca 1210, with 2 a-data ssd, and they use a the horrible jmicron controller also.
works fine for me now, tweaked and set up as I want.
I might get a 2gb ramdisk if someone figures out a way to fix a program that works for windows 7 64bit.
Then I move all the cache writes to that and get a even faster and snappier system.

[ewitte]

Hey flopper,

I'm running the 3 non titans on the ICH10 controller right now. I have Crystalmark, CrystalDiskmark and HTUNE screen shots. Can't run hdtach (x64) or atto (no idea says it can't write the file), anything else you want to compare to when I get the 2405? I hope to switch over to the 2405 Saturday.

[flopper]

Hey flopper,

I'm running the 3 non titans on the ICH10 controller right now. I have Crystalmark, CrystalDiskmark and HTUNE screen shots. Can't run hdtach (x64) or atto (no idea says it can't write the file), anything else you want to compare to when I get the 2405? I hope to switch over to the 2405 Saturday.

atto and hd tach give enough data if u ask me.
Run the programs in admin mode?

I noticed for me a difference, I doubled the numbers in some areas.

[ewitte]

atto and hd tach give enough data if u ask me.
Run the programs in admin mode?

I noticed for me a difference, I doubled the numbers in some areas.

I'll try that. Also go back to the intel drivers and enable the cache on the array. I noticed 1 drive there was no stutter, a very small amount with 2 and its very noticeable on 3 drives. My PCmark vantage scores were like 11118, 11218, 10600 (1,2,3 drives). It went up for the 2nd drive on most tests except the importing pictures test was WAY down. My controller will be here today but I worry the SAS cable will not be here by the weekend. I ordered on Friday but it was ebay...

[btdvox]

My friends....

Competition is a beautiful thing.... These things were 750 a week ago.

Since the titans and vertexes got listed there 490 now...

Intel SSD

http://www.ncix.com/products/index.p...7&promoid=1069

Now I was going to go for 2X OCZ vertex and raid them (30 GB x2 )

which costs 189 each, but this is 489..... hmmm

Intel it is

[LIQUIDHERION]

I'm interested in geting 2 64 GB G-skill SSD. With the intent of making it a O/S Raid-0 drive.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231220
Cost on Newegg is 260 minus shipping.

Will I need a Raid card, or can I get away with using on-board?

I'm afraid the cost of a Raid card would price me out of this option.

Would A controller like this work?

http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/sys/1011149986.html

[IcY18]

I'm interested in geting 2 64 GB G-skill SSD. With the intent of making it a O/S Raid-0 drive.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231220
Cost on Newegg is 260 minus shipping.

Will I need a Raid card, or can I get away with using on-board?

I'm afraid the cost of a Raid card would price me out of this option.

Would A controller like this work?

http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/sys/1011149986.html

Those two drives even in raid 0 could have stuttering problems, beware.

[Brahmzy]

For those of you JUST getting SSDs for your OS, think twice. I had 3 screaming VRs in RAID0 where all of my games and apps lives, in addition to my OS. Well, I've got only TWO Titans now and my games load so freaking fast in comparison, it's ridiculous.

Moral of the story: RAID0'd SSDs are not only great for your OS, they're friggin' fantastic for your games and other apps too.

So after over a week of ownership with these Titans on an ICH10R, I am very pleased. No slowdowns, no stuttering... just snappiness.

[LIQUIDHERION]

For the budget minded.

What do you think is better....

A single 60 gig apex series for 225. (internal raid built in)


or 2 60gb ocz in raid 0


What can I expect if I try to use software raid...I know its not ideal.