TITAN SSD Performance Review

[flutie98]

Your username couldnt be more appropriate

But very impressive, specially for software raid

[dctokyo]

Does anyone have any feedback after using a Titan for about a month? It looks like there's more than their fair share of failures out there...

Can you post a source link b4 stating failures on these drives?

[MassiveOverkill]

Your username couldnt be more appropriate

But very impressive, specially for software raid

Thanks. I wish I had more time, I would have done tests with just 4, 3 and then 2 drives. I gotta get these VMWare laptop demos tweaked, but once I get an image done I'll try to do more tests.

I think once you're past 3 drives, you're pushing the law of diminishing returns. Wish I had a dedicated RAID card to see how much better they would do. Those tests were done without anything really optimized, but I was booting a seperate drive.

[Brahmzy]

sorry but i don't get it
1) why do you bother which company earns and which loses?
2) how do we know that everything you said is BS and you just want to advertise the product.

I don't want to say anything else, apart from that as you don't know anything about that person a few posts above, we don't know anything about you.
We take nothing for granted.
There much be another fifty of you to persuade me that the titans work withouts problems in raid 0.

And don't say anything about competition as i just got banned from OCZ forums for posts in XS forums

I don't care about any company - only their products. Somebody talking about failures with no proof is spreading FUD. Do you know what FUD is?

It's not my job to persuade anybody about anything - I'm just posting my findings. If you're gonna pick 'em apart, go ahead, that's what forums are for.

I haven't heard a single positive contribution from you yet on either forum, just a bunch of misdirected negativity, I'd probably ban you too.

[Brahmzy]

Thanks. I wish I had more time, I would have done tests with just 4, 3 and then 2 drives. I gotta get these VMWare laptop demos tweaked, but once I get an image done I'll try to do more tests.

I think once you're past 3 drives, you're pushing the law of diminishing returns. Wish I had a dedicated RAID card to see how much better they would do. Those tests were done without anything really optimized, but I was booting a seperate drive.

Awesome results man.

Here's to hoping Intel's ICH11R will have some more robustness and sack to it - specific to SSDs. It's just nice (convenient) NOT dealing with or buying RAID controllers, but as SSDs start to push the limits, most enthusiasts may not have a choice but to buy RAID controllers to get the full potential out of their storage. It's not a money issue for me, it's more of a PITA, long boot-times, possible compatability issue, not to mention some of the cards have loud fans and get hot as hell. I'm still trying to maintain a fairly silent PC here...

[louden]

Post #1??? Failures? Troll? Where are you hearing about failures?

Yep, that was my first post (and this is my second) - I'm just looking to buy a Titan 256, and have seen some negative reviews on NewEgg. Are they unsubstantiated?

Updating - noting the flames I've gotten - I really want to buy one of these for my 2006 MacBook Pro - it's SATA 1.5 Gb/s, so I think the Titan would be a good value. I'm just reticent from a few NewEgg customer reviews. Everything else I've seen or heard of these drives has been positive.

(Hoping post 2 doesn't cause as much of an uproar)

[aka1nas]

I am running one of the 128GB Titans(replaced a 74GB Raptor), and they definitely do stutter still at times. I am still pretty happy with mine, and it's runs quite well 99% of the time. You will still want to apply some tweaks to get optimal performance out of this drive.

Most of the guys here are running their Titans in RAID with a decent controller, which negates all stuttering on even the 1st-gen Jmicron-based SSDs. Their results are not always going to be indicative of single-drive performance.

[karateo]

I haven't heard a single positive contribution from you yet on either forum, just a bunch of misdirected negativity, I'd probably ban you too.

positive CONTRIBUTION is not just positive opinion about something!
i hope you understand me.

about the banning...you just make me laugh
if you haven't understood that, I AM (still of course) using their forums to learn some things about technology and to see when a competitive product will be out to drop prices on intel's ssds
I am USING the forum. I don't contribute to a company's forum!

misdirected negativity is your reaction to louden's post


anyway, have fun with your mlcs


EDIT:

In addition,
I find this post above

I am running one of the 128GB Titans(replaced a 74GB Raptor), and they definitely do stutter still at times. I am still pretty happy with mine, and it's runs quite well 99% of the time. You will still want to apply some tweaks to get optimal performance out of this drive.

Most of the guys here are running their Titans in RAID with a decent controller, which negates all stuttering on even the 1st-gen Jmicron-based SSDs. Their results are not always going to be indicative of single-drive performance.

much more important than your findings.
I hope you don't say aka1nas spreads FUD

Anyway, again, we need more than one user to make safe assumptions.

@aka1nas follow OCZ's guides on how to properly setup the drive if you haven't done so.

[aka1nas]

I already have applied most of the OCZ tweaks. The drive is fine for normal usage afterwards, but it is still not all that hard to choke it with random writes.

I am finding that disabling Superfetch is not worth it on a desktop (especially if you have other rmechanical drives still). Superfetch causes stuttering when you initially start up and it is populating RAM. Once that is complete, it seems to alleviate potential stuttering somewhat as it is probably freeing up the SSD to service more writes.

Disabling Superfetch does stop the initial stuttering on boot up, but I seem to get a lot more random stuttering with it off, where I get almost no stuttering during normal use with it on. It would make more sense to disable it on a laptop as you will likely be rebooting it more often.

Firefox was also killing performance until I moved my profile off the SSD.

[Brahmzy]

Karateo, I don't think there's much else we need to say to each other that will benefit this thread.

I'm thinking RAID0 can and is making a pretty significant difference in the performance of small, random writes with these - even using the ICHxR. All of the performance related issues seem to be with single drive scenerios.

[karateo]

So we are talking about the same product as OCZ core series

aka1nas great great info man
thank you

[saint-francis]

I already have applied most of the OCZ tweaks. The drive is fine for normal usage afterwards, but it is still not all that hard to choke it with random writes.

I am finding that disabling Superfetch is not worth it on a desktop (especially if you have other rmechanical drives still). Superfetch causes stuttering when you initially start up and it is populating RAM. Once that is complete, it seems to alleviate potential stuttering somewhat as it is probably freeing up the SSD to service more writes.

Disabling Superfetch does stop the initial stuttering on boot up, but I seem to get a lot more random stuttering with it off, where I get almost no stuttering during normal use with it on. It would make more sense to disable it on a laptop as you will likely be rebooting it more often.

Firefox was also killing performance until I moved my profile off the SSD.

Interesting. I have noticed that turning off superfetch made my system generally more stable. The difference was noticed immediately.

I have yet to move things like browser cache or profiles. I will have to give it a try.

Thanks for your input.

EDIT:
You moved your entire FF profile to another disk or just the cache as suggested by Tony OCZ?

[aka1nas]

I found moving the cache only to be insufficient as the Firefox crash protection is constantly writing data to the profile folder still and was causing massive stuttering if I had anything else writing to the SSD at the same time.

With the profile moved off to a mechanical disk, I can install two or more games or apps to the SSD at once without Firefox locking up.

[m^2]

Interesting. I have noticed that turning off superfetch made my system generally more stable. The difference was noticed immediately.

I have yet to move things like browser cache or profiles. I will have to give it a try.

Thanks for your input.

EDIT:
You moved your entire FF profile to another disk or just the cache as suggested by Tony OCZ?

More stable?? By what means? If you're system is unstable, then you have some problem, Windows doesn't crash by itself.

[saint-francis]

More stable?? By what means? If you're system is unstable, then you have some problem, Windows doesn't crash by itself.

Not crashing. Not unstable in the sense you are thinking of from a faulty OC. By stability I mean a smooth experience. Since putting my disks on a ARC-1210 I haven't experienced the freezing I would sometimes see before. But the system would still be a little jerky at times. I didn't even really notice it until turning of superfetch made it go away.

[genec57]

A couple of quick questions.
In my system Superfetch was set at manual by default. Is there anything to be gained by disabling it?
How do you move firefox profiles to a mechanical drive. I have made a couple of attempts without success. A google search hasn't given me anything that I could work with. Perhaps a Windows 7 oddity.
Thanks,