Intel's 34nm NAND SSDs launch in two weeks

[deathman20]

Man delays and more delays.

Least I got some time still waiting til I get my copy of Win7 or jsut before it to have them so I can do a clean install on it.

[Griff805]

It's not technically a delay if they are shipping the drives but selling out before everyone gets one. That's more of a lack of supply wouldn't you think?

[JohnZS]

Brace yourselves for TRIMday.... ooops I meant Tuesday...

[Biker]

2 X25-M G2 running raid 0 aligned 128k stripe on LSI 9260-8i



Not quite sure about the low 4K and 4K 64 scores here but sequential looks fine and access times (for an LSI card) are pretty good...

Hopefully a firmware update will speed up the 4k side of things but I don't mind atm as the G2's are not OS they are a gamedrive

[Griff805]

Brace yourselves for TRIMday.... ooops I meant Tuesday...

Oh?... guess all those TRIM worshipers will finally see if they've over hyped it or not. If not, then we all win.

[Griff805]

2 X25-M G2 running raid 0 aligned 128k stripe on LSI 9260-8i

That's interesting- here's 3 x25-M G1 RAID 0 on ICH10R. Very different results, my drives seem much weaker in areas, but much stronger in others. Or it could all be just the controller, or many other hundreds of factors... guess we'll never know.

[Ao1]

2 X25-M G2 running raid 0 aligned 128k stripe on LSI 9260-8i

Something looks wrong with that benchmark. Your 4k and 4k-6k results are worse than a single g2 and your read access time is really high

Have a look at the AS benchmarks results in this tread/ post 489

[ownage]

2 X25-M G2 running raid 0 aligned 128k stripe on LSI 9260-8i



Not quite sure about the low 4K and 4K random scores here but sequential looks fine and access times (for a LSI card) are pretty good...

Hopefully a firmware update will speed up the 4k side of things but I don't mind atm as the G2's are not OS they are a gamedrive

Against Single G2.



Those things are incredibly fast in Raid0, although Access reading times seem high

[Ao1]

Against Single G2.

Hmm, your 4k-6k results seem right out as well

[Biker]

Yep.

Access time is high because i'm using a dedicated raid card, which will always introduce extra latency vs. onboard....

Not sure what is going on with the 4K though

Probably raid card firmwre...

[One_Hertz]

Against Single G2.



Those things are incredibly fast in Raid0, although Access reading times seem high

Are you using AHCI or non member RAID? IDE mode is slow for Intel drives.

[Ao1]

Oh?... guess all those TRIM worshipers will finally see if they've over hyped it or not. If not, then we all win.

The expectations are astronomical and somehow I think a lot of people are going to be disappointed. The only thing that is interesting me is the possibility of Intel adding a fw tweak at the same time to increase speed. There have been consistent rumours that intel limited the speed of the M version, so it will be interesting to see if TRIM and competitor improvements mean they take the brake off.

[lowfat]

2 X25-M G2 running raid 0 aligned 128k stripe on LSI 9260-8i



Not quite sure about the low 4K and 4K random scores here but sequential looks fine and access times (for a LSI card) are pretty good...

Hopefully a firmware update will speed up the 4k side of things but I don't mind atm as the G2's are not OS they are a gamedrive

I don't suppose you can run an iometer run using the test file found here.
http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/fo...32&postcount=1
but set the 'number of outstanding I/Os' to 64.

[lowfat]

Access time is high because i'm using a dedicated raid card, which will always introduce extra latency vs. onboard....

w/ Areca's they don't

[Jor3lBR]

They are back in stock right now at the Egg, hurry guys:

Intel X25-M Mainstream SSDSA2MH080G2C1 2.5" 80GB

[Griff805]

1 per customer @ 250 a piece. Still a good deal, but what a pain if you want more than 1.

[Biker]

w/ Areca's they don't

They do lowfat, its just that the Areca cards have the lowest latency of the lot

The Arecas are SATA only and the rest have SAS overheads which = higher latency...

[UObean]

Out of stock at newegg, but mwave has some.

http://www.mwave.com/mwave/skusearch...iteria=BA32332

[situman]

talk about price gouging. I'll wait.

[Biker]

I don't suppose you can run an iometer run using the test file found here.
http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/fo...32&postcount=1
but set the 'number of outstanding I/Os' to 64.

Don't really want to mash my drives with IOmeter + a 10GB test file right now, sorry

[dengyong]

1 per customer @ 250 a piece. Still a good deal, but what a pain if you want more than 1.

$280 now.

[Biker]

For comparison I RAN the same array on ICH10R (yayy! If you set up the paramaters exactly right then arrays are transferrable between ICH10R and LSI )

First up ICH10R:




Next my run with the same array on the LSI 9260-8i:



Looking at the results you can see that sequential writes suffer using onboard but seq reads are still very good and both random reads and writes are much improved...

As for access times, well, you can see the SAS overheads at play right there

Both arrays were running on my sigged system with 128k stripe and 64k offset.


Thoughts: Could one of you nice manufacturers get out a PCI-e 2.0 8x SATA only RAID card asap please

[Jor3lBR]

For comparison I RAN the same array on ICH10R (yayy! If you set up the paramaters exactly right then arrays are transferrable between ICH10R and LSI )

First up ICH10R:

Next my run with the same array on the LSI 9260-8i:

Looking at the results you can see that sequential writes really suffer using onboard but seq reads are still very good and both random reads and writes are much improved...

As for access times, well, you can see the SAS overheads at play right there

Both arrays were running on my sigged system with 128k stripe and 64k offset.


Thoughts: Could one of you nice manufacturers get out a PCI-e 2.0 8x SATA only RAID card asap please

Seams like LSI and Intel's G2 are not understanding each other quite yet, wait for Firmware update.

[Biker]

Seams like LSI and Intel's G2 are not understanding each other quite yet, wait for Firmware update.

As always

[Armitage]

$280 now.

Yah this really sucks.

Will the G1's work with TRIM? or do I have to shell out the cash for the new G2. Cause honestly the performance increase between the two is minimal.