SSD... No noticeable improvement in speed!

[stahlhart]

Win 7 Ultimate.

I may be way off on a ridiculous tangent that has nothing to do with your SSD performance issue, but -- weren't there problems with driver support from Creative for the Audigy 2 ZS post-Windows XP -- wasn't that the trainwreck that led to the unofficial daniel_k modified drivers?

It was just that mention of the audible humming while browsing folders. If it means nothing then just ignore me.

And what is AS SSD?

http://www.alex-is.de/PHP/fusion/downloads.php?cat_id=4

 

[jihe]

Look at the speed test he posted, 512k is awesome, 4k looks like a floppy drive.

this is the usual speed for ssd's. have you seen the 4k speed for mechanical drives?

 

[beginner99]

Kingston drives often used some derivatives of the completely crappy jmicron controller infamous for stuttering issues.

Hence i would never recommend such a drive. you get what you pay for.

Of course instantaneous is not true. For me the fact that I basically never have any stuttering is the main advantage.

 

[deimos3428]

I tried out a 128GB version of one of these drives, and experienced similar hitching, so it was returned pretty darn quickly. The expected performance for one of these is only on par with (or slightly worse than) a high-end HDD, anyway:

http://www.trustedreviews.com/Kings...l_review_kingston-ssdnow-v-series-64gb_Page-2

So if they aren't working out for you, I'd suggest returning them and buying better-quality single drive. You can get a 120GB SF-1200 drive for less than $1/GB these days, or a newer-generation SSD for a bit more if you have the budget.

 

[Puffnstuff]

You don't want a sf12xx ssd, their controllers are known to go into panic mode and brick the drive. I know from personal experience as my first one died this way without warning. I'm still running one with the new replacement of the original sitting in wait just in case the one I'm using now dies. I cloned my drive to it so all I have to do is just install it and go. If I were buying again I'd get an intel drive.

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Kingston V100+ = excellent, TOSHIBA based
Any other Kingston SSD = turdsandwich

 

[amdhunter]

Try the drives separately. I bet one of them is a bum drive and causing the slowdown. Any stutter is an indication of a bad drive - I guess in RAID mode, the stutter is causing the other drive to wait for something to happen before it can proceed.

Try them one by one.