OCZ Vertex 2 - SSD settings/tweaks

[SteveRo]

@ PnoT - it depends on the game - SSDs will make a difference is some and not in others -
My theory - i think this is due to texture expansion cpu cycles sometimes getting sprinkled in between reads.
Not optimized for SSDs - no real surprise there though is there.

[kevikev]

I finally got my OCZ Vertex 2 installed with Windows 7 x64 and the speeds are right on par other posts in here and 0fill.

I'm rather disappointed in the jump from my Raptor R0 array to the SSD. I was hoping to pick up a lot in loading my games and map loading but I can honestly say it's slim to nill.

Windows boots like a madman but I never turn off my machine but instead put it into sleep so that's 99% of my usage. I'm saving on power and heat so that's a plus I guess.

That's the sad truth ... when my Q6600 PC died I finally upgraded it to an i7 and upgraded from the Raptor boot drive into a Vertex 2/LE drive and can't really notice that much of a difference ... other than the fact that my Outlook and browser data files now reside on the SSD, so my Outlook and browser rage is less but other than that, not much.

[-JJ-]

I finally got my OCZ Vertex 2 installed with Windows 7 x64 and the speeds are right on par other posts in here and 0fill.

I'm rather disappointed in the jump from my Raptor R0 array to the SSD. I was hoping to pick up a lot in loading my games and map loading but I can honestly say it's slim to nill.

I can say pretty much the same, but I would not call it disappointment though. I upgraded from 300 GB Raptor (x 2) RAID 0, and from what I have experienced this single Vertex 2 SSD performs +/- the same in various areas. For instance, unzipping/unraring archives and game load from what I have tested is just a slightly faster on SSD than with that raptor raid 0. Then again vertex 2 wins hands down in app load time, OS boot and heat/power consumption/noise department and with few games I have already experienced vaster load improvement over raptor raid.

[Soulburner]

Disable Superfetch and Prefetch

This is disabled by default if the SSD is fast enough.

This is not true. The engineering blog says this, but in reality Windows 7 does use both Superfetch and the Prefetcher. They are not disabled, and rightfully so. You should have them enabled. There is almost no reason to disable them.

[Soulburner]

Again, I agree totally which is why I now make sure that performance testing software (ie vantage) is used in reviews. Its actually a two sided coin where it is not fair to base an end opinion on a simple Crystal 0Fill score because it is not indicative of the true performance yet, its not right to exclude this method because comparing a compressed/non-compressed ssd in ...oh lets say ATTO... is also not a true representation because the non-compressed (Intel) looks so much better when it actually is not the case. For example, if I put the OWC beside the Intel in AS SSD tests, the Intel cleans house. People would wonder why anyone would buy the OWC. Now, if we go and put these through the wash in PCMark Vantage x64, It shows a totally different picture. Actually, the true picture shown in simulated true to life testing is closest resembled through an ATTO test of both drives.

Its really a damned if you do and damned if you don't story. At the end of the day though, we still have countless number of people wondering why there SandForce SSDs are getting such poor AS SSD and Crystal scores... Oh and thanks for the article....I eat thats stuff up.

This is why we have the Anandtech Storage Bench

[Ao1]

This is not true. The engineering blog says this, but in reality Windows 7 does use both Superfetch and the Prefetcher. They are not disabled, and rightfully so. You should have them enabled. There is almost no reason to disable them.

Hi Soulburner,
When I ran the new Intel Toolbox it did indeed show that Superfetch had not been disabled, however the Toolbox identified that and set it to disabled when I ran the optimiser.

[M_T_M]

Which SSD is better and why, had it in RAID OCZ Agility 2 Extended 120GB or OCZ Vertex 2 Extended 120GB?