Intel x25-V

[SteveRo]

For the price – I am rather impressed with these drives –

Single x25-V on ide ich10R



Single x25-V on ahci ich10R



Two x25-V raid 0 ich1or write back cache on



Tomorrow – two x25M-V raid 0 on Areca 1231ML-4G – should be interesting!

[Biker]

Interesting results.

Thanks for posting.

Just bought one of these to be a system test / benching boot drive after my raptor died.

Everything is great apart from the seq write...

[G4h4o8s6T]

Everything is great apart from the seq read...

But what really matters is the 4k writes and acc. time

Compare that to my 60gb Vertex.........

[Anvil]

I'll join in with a few scores I got last weekend.

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Great drives at a very reasonable price.

Oh, it's 4 drives btw

[Biker]

But what really matters is the 4k writes and acc. time

Compare that to my 60gb Vertex.........

Of course it is (I meant to type seq Writes) I am just so retarded on morphine atm I cannot seem to type what I am thinking

[Tiltevros]

I'll join in with a few scores I got last weekend.

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Great drives at a very reasonable price.

Oh, it's 4 drives btw

can i have that version of crystaldiskmark plz!!!!!!

[Gogeta]

Very impressive drive for the price, thanks for sharing guys.

[onex]

supreme!
so this thing works,
u took that idea ?

will you add the MFT to it?
your array would blast digits

p.s - HD-Tach must be misleading,
specs says
# Sequential Access - Read: up to 170MB/s
# Sequential Access - Write: up to 35MB/s .

[lowfat]

will you add the MFT to it?
your array would blast digits

Actually it will barely make a difference at all. MFT can't do much for random writes on SSD's that already excel w/ them.

4k writes are already damn near exactly the same as sequential. How could MFT possibly improve on that?

[SteveRo]

Based on current performance vs price, I think Anvil's 4xRaid 0 of x25-V's on ich might be the knee in the curve - the best "bang for the buck" - best value in an extreme storage solution - outstanding performance for approx. $500.

What about 2 x25-e's in R0 how would that stack up?
Might be faster than 4xR0 V's but total cost goes to more like $700?
The 2xR0 e's would probably be faster in writes - both seq and random.
The e's would probably also faster in random reads - but the 4xR0 V's are probably faster in seq reads.
Total storage size would be 160 vs 64 - advantage V's.

[SteveRo]

But what really matters is the 4k writes and acc. time

Compare that to my 60gb Vertex.........

Yes - agree - when compared side-by-side to the x25-V, looks like the vertex really struggles with 4k writes and acc. time.
What condition was your drive in when you ran this - is this representative?

[Anvil]

SteveRo,
3-4 X25-V's are really fast, GullLars and I spent most of the weekend benching, creating graphs and comparing the results to other setups.
We compared G1's and G2's in different setups and the V did really well.
I'll try to get GullLars to post a few graphs showing the results.

Would you mind running your Areca/X25-V using the same iometer config file we used last weekend?

If you've still got the Acards I'd appreciate if you could try the same script on a few of those

Random Read 0,5-64kb exp2 QD1-128 v4.zip IOmeter 0.5-64KB QD1-128 config file
Use 4x cache size as the testfile length, except for ICH which is 1GB default.
The test is read only.

Tiltevros,
You can download the Technical Preview using this Link

[Anvil]

Yes - agree - when compared side-by-side to the x25-V, looks like the vertex really struggles with 4k writes and acc. time.
What condition was your drive in when you ran this - is this representative?

I've got one of those and a AS SSD score of ~190 is representative.
The 120-250GB editions are a bit faster, you can add 20-30 to that score.

He's using IDE in that test but it doesn't make that much of a difference on the Indilinx controller.

[Ao1]

At qd one these drives seem to be only slightly slower at writes than a X25-M and reads are around the same. Reads and writes at qd 1 seem much better than a Vertex. For desktop users that mostly hover around qd 1 these drives are great value and if you need higher q/d performance a raid config is also a great proposition.

[SteveRo]

SteveRo,
3-4 X25-V's are really fast, GullLars and I spent most of the weekend benching, creating graphs and comparing the results to other setups.
We compared G1's and G2's in different setups and the V did really well.
I'll try to get GullLars to post a few graphs showing the results.

Would you mind running your Areca/X25-V using the same iometer config file we used last weekend?

If you've still got the Acards I'd appreciate if you could try the same script on a few of those

Random Read 0,5-64kb exp2 QD1-128 v4.zip IOmeter 0.5-64KB QD1-128 config file
Use 4x cache size as the testfile length, except for ICH which is 1GB default.
The test is read only.

Tiltevros,
You can download the Technical Preview using this Link

Very good - not sure when but will do - I am dealing with a leaky roof and also in the process of upgrading my testbed to GGBT UD7/W3520.
Getting ready for i7 980 (6 core).

[Tiltevros]

Random Read 0,5-64kb exp2 QD1-128 v4.zip IOmeter 0.5-64KB QD1-128 config file
Use 4x cache size as the testfile length, except for ICH which is 1GB default.
The test is read only.

can u tell me the numbers for the test file plz

[SteveRo]

Interesting results.

Thanks for posting.

Just bought one of these to be a system test / benching boot drive after my raptor died.

Everything is great apart from the seq write...

Same here - after testing is done - one for benching/booting.
Another - in a seperate machine for everyday use as a boot drive

[Tiltevros]

@ stevero
can u tell me the lenght of the test file that u r using in IOmeter?

[SteveRo]

Tilt - its all over the place - sometimes as small as 1Gb - on the acards sometimes the whole drive - no reason to limit it - no write degradation for RAM.
For the x25-V iometer runs in this thread - file size was 1-2GB.

[Spoiler]

These drives are pretty nice.

I picked up two of them a few weeks ago for $110 each. While I should probably put them together in a Raid 0 setup...I am currently using each of them as a boot drive. No kidding..Win 7 cold boots fully in about 15 seconds.

I would hate to add that raid card back on.

[Anvil]

can u tell me the numbers for the test file plz

The default testlength is 1GB so you don't need to change anything using that config file. Just select the drive and you're ready to go.
(unless you've got a caching controller)

That particular config runs for ~34 minuttes. (64 runs)

I'm using a 2GB testfile (4x size of cahce) for the 9260.
(change maximum disk size to 4194300 and remember to delete the iobw.tst file if you change the size, you'll have to restart iometer in order to create the new file, or delete the file before you start iometer)

edit:
Just remember to select a meaningfull name for the result file.
(like e.g "9260_4R0_X2580GBG1_WB_DIO_NRA_DCE.txt")
meaning : 4 drives in raid-0, drive and model, Write Back, Direct IO, No read ahead, disk cache enabled

[Tiltevros]

@ anvil
the file that u post is corrapted or empty :S ----> Random Read 0,5-64kb exp2 QD1-128 v4.zip IOmeter 0.5-64KB QD1-128 config file

[Tiltevros]

btw im in the mood of buying this

The SC199 Cheetah Y-Series has R/W speeds up to 290/280 MB/s in 2.5" and 3.5" SATA form factors - which approaches the theoretical speed limit of the SATA-II protocol. It also delivers impressive R/W IOPS of up to 50,000/45,000 respectively.

but i cant find a store lol?????

[Anvil]

@ anvil
the file that u post is corrapted or empty :S ----> Random Read 0,5-64kb exp2 QD1-128 v4.zip IOmeter 0.5-64KB QD1-128 config file

I downloaded that file a few seconds ago and it worked for me.
Did you unzip the file?

[Tiltevros]

i cant unzip it it says that the file is empty or corrapted