Own a Intel Gen 2 SSD ? Getting your money's worth?

[thatsright]

Hi all. Building a new right with i7-920/Gigabyte EX58-UD3R mobo/GSkill 7-7-7-18 DDR3. I was a little skeptical about the benefit of using a SSD. For $250, it better blow me away. And it did! But I'm wondering if these
'scores' are good? Am I getting my monies worth? I installed Win7 64-Bit three times on the SSD until I was happy. I have the 80 GB retail version:

What bench scores are you guys getting with the AS SSD benchmark?

 

[Yuriman]

That's about right for a single 80. Here's mine in RAID, after being "worn in" (no trim).

 

[n7]

Yeah your numbers look excellent.

I'm extremely disappointed in myself, as i ran FreeSpaceCleaner on my RAID-0 G2s & it promptly broke the previously great write numbers i was getting. 😡
Figures that with my luck, something that's supposed to help would hurt instead.

Here's my RAID-0 numbers...notice how broken my writes are compared to Yuriman.

/also, omfg AT needs the inline image resizer already...

 

[dawza]

Originally posted to demonstrate that the Intel G2 does not seem to mind non-aligned partitions:

http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/5687/ssdbench.png

Fresh W7 image off a VR.

I am also running with the Intel storage drivers, as hot-swapping on this system seems to be finicky with the native W7 drivers, so no TRIM. Just in case anyone is interested, this is the amount of "degradation" the drive accumulated over about 1 week of moderate use (no extensive writing or benching), with a fresh run of the SSD Optimizer utility for comparison:

http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/6164/prepostsddoptimizer.png

 

[Emulex]

not having to look down at the box to see the hard drive light spinning as the cpu's stall - priceless 🙂 hell even a kingston 40gb would give me much joy

 

[Silenus]

I run an 80GB G2 drive in a laptop with a Celeron CPU and can only run at SATA-150 speeds. Guess what.... it's STILL worth it! Even with every performance factor cut in half it is still SO much faster than the slow disk drive it replaced that the machine is a joy to use.