X25-M RAID0: More useless benchmarks. Sick of them yet?

[Griff805]

EDIT: Sorry, just realized theres a whole section on Benchmarking... please move thread if desired.

Just got my X25-M 80GB RAID0 configured. Thought I'd go ahead and post all the
benchmarks in one shot-

Configuration:
Asus P5Q-Pro
Q9450 @3.4
8GB DDR2
HD4850
2x X25-M RAID0 connected to ICH10R 128k Stripe.
Vista x64 SP1
No "Tweaks" other than turned off page file, disabled defrag. That's all.

ATTO:


CrystalDisk:


HDTach Long:


HDTune:


HDTune Random Read:


MFT- Wow... Not an MFT Partition, just running the built in bench-:


Last, but not least- PCMark Vantage:


That's it-

[Levish]

any chance you can run the test in the IOmeter thread?

[Griff805]

any chance you can run the test in the IOmeter thread?

[StickyRICE]

Damn, looks like I'm have to pick me up a pair of these. Besides the benchmarks, do you have any stuttering issue with these in raid what so ever?

[Griff805]

Damn, looks like I'm have to pick me up a pair of these. Besides the benchmarks, do you have any stuttering issue with these in raid what so ever?

Stuttering has not been an issue at all- single drive or RAID These drives are awesome.

Though, be aware of the performance degradation. I have not noticed anything yet, but you might want to wait till Intel comes out with a new firmware, or at least a new statement about future fixes.

[Tony]

fill it up Griff, then see if it does not stutter.

[Griff805]

fill it up Griff, then see if it does not stutter.

What is considered full? - (not being sarcastic)

[Griff805]

Hmm, I'm trying to fill it to the brim, but it keeps finding new space??

I had 760MB or so left on C:, I then tried to copy and paste a 300MB file, checked the C: drive and it had almost 3GB free.. ?? Strange.

[Griff805]

It doesn't seem to be negatively effecting my computer so far... Here's a little clip if you're interested. Still runs too fast for the program to record the smooth movement.

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/111498/Video2.avi

Video may not work yet, still uploading to dropbox.

[[XC] riptide]

I just was shown this today in another thread. Intels Remap Fragmentation problem on them there drives.

http://arstechnica.com/news/2009/02/...x25-m-ssds.ars

"Two of their writers, pleased as punch with their new X25-Ms, began to be disappointed after long use seemed to slow the drives down. They reran the same benchmarks from their earlier review, and found a dramatic reduction in performance. They then began to run more detailed test, and their article on the results is worth reading.
It turns out that the remapping, which creates a swiss cheese of small fragments in the remap table, causes large files later written to those sectors to take up many small fragments on separate blocks. As drives, age, PCPerspective found, performance decreases dramatically on all kinds of workloads. In some instances, sequential reads were reduced to a mere 22MBps, slower than some laptop hard disks. "

"Neither is there a clear route to resetting the remap table. Intel told PCPerspective it was working on a good solution, but that one isn't available yet"

[Griff805]

I just was shown this today in another thread. Intels Remap Fragmentation problem on them there drives.

http://arstechnica.com/news/2009/02/...x25-m-ssds.ars

"Two of their writers, pleased as punch with their new X25-Ms, began to be disappointed after long use seemed to slow the drives down. They reran the same benchmarks from their earlier review, and found a dramatic reduction in performance. They then began to run more detailed test, and their article on the results is worth reading.
It turns out that the remapping, which creates a swiss cheese of small fragments in the remap table, causes large files later written to those sectors to take up many small fragments on separate blocks. As drives, age, PCPerspective found, performance decreases dramatically on all kinds of workloads. In some instances, sequential reads were reduced to a mere 22MBps, slower than some laptop hard disks. "

"Neither is there a clear route to resetting the remap table. Intel told PCPerspective it was working on a good solution, but that one isn't available yet"

Yeah, I'm not too excited about that issue. However, like Ender has done, I'll have a process of getting my drives refreshed every month or so.

Hopefully Intel will have a fix out soon, but as of right now, as you can see in the vid I posted, everything is great.

Anyone watch the vid yet? Could you get an idea of how quick my system is running?

[[XC] riptide]

Dling now. I also use dropbox

[lowfat]

Anyone watch the vid yet? Could you get an idea of how quick my system is running?

The video is WAY to big. You know like 95% of people don't use a 30" display.

[Griff805]

The video is WAY to big. You know like 95% of people don't use a 30" display.

I don't either... I use 2-

[nick2crete]

Which firmware version do you have guys on yours X25-M ?
I got 1 yesterday and it has the 045C8610...both drives on that PC Perspective test they have the v8610..
Whats yours..?

[StickyRICE]

Stuttering has not been an issue at all- single drive or RAID These drives are awesome.

Though, be aware of the performance degradation. I have not noticed anything yet, but you might want to wait till Intel comes out with a new firmware, or at least a new statement about future fixes.

Thats cool, what about say during a big program install while sufring the web with mulitiple small writes to the disk? I thought I read somewhere that intel stated that the drive degration was due to the synthetic benchmarks that was use, and that normal day to day use would be less noticable?