New OCZ SSD - performance

[Mango1970]

So I got a great deal on a 64 GB OCZ SS drive. I decided to take the plunge and installed my Vista64 on it. The operation went smooth but slow.. much slower than on my original WD640GB drive.

Anyhow I have it all running and so far so good. Everything that I open is pretty much instant, but it was as fast before on my WD640.

I have the swap file set on my 640GB HD and all aps of course OS are on the OCZ SSD. If you try to do anything that is 'drive" intensive such as doing a search or moving stuff...the OCZ SSD is DEAD DEAD SLOW.

Would the SS drives for now be better suited JUST as a Swap file placer?

Should I enable the Write caching and enhance performance for this drive under devices?

I am running it on a Asus p5K-e p35 mobo using the Intel ICH9 SATA. Did I read somewhere there were issues with this combo or no?

Overall it was much fun to play with this and I will keep it going as my OS. It is instant pretty much on everything I do so that is good. The boot times are also a bit quicker. Guess normal hardrives though got so fast LOL.. wish I would have gone from an older IDE 80GB to this.. would have been something.

 

[bigi]

Would the SS drives for now be better suited JUST as a Swap file placer? - NO. It has slow(er) write times. Less writes to this type on SSD, longer it should last.

Should I enable the Write caching and enhance performance for this drive under devices? - Yes.

DO NOT DEFRAG IT - in case you didn't know.

 

[Chriz]

Is this the Original core or the core 2? The core 2 has a USB plug in, FYI.

 

[Mango1970]

It is the core 2 as it does have the USB. My bad.

Shit never knew we are not to degfag it. Glad I did not. Thanks!

 

[faxon]

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuch...el/showdoc.aspx?i=3403

did you read this article? as far as writing small files to the drive you just purchased a several hundred dollar paperweight. thats also why it was so much slower installing vista. or did they fix this problem with the core2?

 

[Mango1970]

I did read that article. My plan was simply to use it for OS installation and apps. Nothing else. Place the swap somewhere else and with my other 3 HD... all storage, copying, movies, Raring/unraring, video editing target files etc will be done on those. Vista did take a bit longer to install at the very start where it was copying needed files. I have to admit that after that it blazed through the process.

Currently everything I open or do is instant. The only time I noted that a negative side of this drive is when as I had said... is when I need to do a few things at the same time and all those apps reside on the SSD main drive. I knew it was not prime time yet for these... it was a "fun" thing to do when you are bored and I could not find any other hardware to satisfy my tech addiction

Edit: Just as a side note, I am currently encoding a movie right now, I have 2 instances of Everquest going (yeah i know I still play EQ and both chars are sitting now)... got Outlook open, 3 pages open on firefox (writing this) and listening to MP3's, Not one bit of lag in anything I do or add to this. Thus for what i do, it's doing it well -- mind you my original OS drive my WD640 was just as good...