Got my Intel X25-M 80GB SSD up and running

[TantrumusMaximus]

Originally posted by: azilaga
Congrats. I've been eyeing an SSD purchase the last month or so and can't wait to join the SSD users club.

For those of you having write issues, OCZ forums has some tips and tricks. Check their forums. Most interesting might be the use of SteadyState (non x64 compatible) or TrueCrypt (x64 compatible). Seems the use of either one of those programs in the background forces writes to sequential instead of random writes to give MLC SSD's SLC type performance.

I can't read all 70+ replies to this but he's right there is a lot of info about tweaking SSD over at OCZ's forum and they'e got a new one there that is a confirmed fix for everyone running XP, NO STUTTERS! Go look.

Shoot I'll link it:
http://www.ocztechnologyforum....showthread.php?t=48309

But not to hijack this thread GRATS to everyone that joined SSD. I have to wait for my tax refund 🙂 may be a good thing I'm forced to wait.. prices 🙂

 

[IntelUser2000]

I'd seen your posts about how performance would likely recover, but i'm not just seeing minor dips, it's write speeds more than halved in CrystalDiskMark, as well as 4k reads gone to crap.

Yea, those are actually the kind of dips you will see until the recovery happens when the usage pattern change is drastic. You'd want to check out the link I put on my previous post. X25-E's 170MB/sec write speeds(200MB/sec when the drive is empty) drops to 50-60MB range when it dips. When it dips, it REALLY dips.

What is the space taken up by the X25-M drive?? Mine has 30GB/74.5GB filled. Larger portion of the drive filled up will mean greater recovery times.

 

[Mako88]

All my X-25M is doing currently is irritating me. For some reason the read speed is largely ok, but my write speeds are nearly -50% slower than everyone else who has the drive in this thread.

Can't figure it out, tried a fresh Vista64 install, ACHI, No ACHI, NCQ, No NCQ, IDE Legacy, No IDE Legacy, OCZ Thread Tweaks, No OCZ Thread Tweaks, etc etc etc.

Driving me nuts.

My system:
EVGA X58
Core i7 720 @ 4GHz
6GB

Getting 30MB/s when it should be in the 70MB/s write speed range.