SSD Performance Questions

[vanilla guerilla]

after a couple weeks research, i bought my first ssd, mushkin callisto dx 60gb (no capped firmware). i am moving from 2x 80gb velociraptor raid 0 (wei disk 6.2). no probs installing it, no probs installing win7 with it connected to sata port 0, ahci, on evga x58 sli. ran ssdtweaker, and have done just about all published tweaks. indexing disabled, trim enabled, etc, etc. win install took about as long as before, maybe 10 or 15 min. boot time is about the same, 25 -30 secs from beep to desktop. shutdown takes about twice as long, maybe 30 seconds now. atto benchmark shows that this drive is indeed blazing fast and working just about up to spec - 282mbs read, 255mbs write, wei 7.7. tf2 shiows no improvement anywhere (i expected this), metro 2033 shows slight improvement in loads. is this about what i should be getting, and whats the deal with my shutdown times? btw, no other hdd connected at this time.

 

[flamenko]

Speed Up Your Shut Down Time

Windows 7 allows you to control your shut down time and allows it to be set from instantaneous to a 20 second delay. In considering this, your work habits need to be thought of and whether or not there is data being saved on exit. My shut down time is set at 2 seconds which I find a perfect setting as I hate waiting for a computer to shut down. We need to go into the Registry for this one so buckle up!

Press Winkey +’R’ and type ‘Regedit’ which brings you to the Registry Editor;

Follow” HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control and then look to the right to find WaitToKillServiceTimeOut and double click on it. You can enter a value from 2 to 20000, each value representing a millisecond.

Two seconds would be 2000; and

Again click OK and then simply exit the program; it will be saved automatically.

 

[Voo]

Sure you can just reduce the shut down time - but that just means that Win will kill any processes that haven't properly shut down till that. Which really isn't the best thing to do (that may lead to loosing some data or getting it corrupted) - I'd look which program delays the shutdown and see if you can fix the cause of the problem..

 

[tweakboy]

Its gonna shut down fast no matter what you might get pop up error program shutdown and what not but dont worry it will just go and shutdown fast. Also try using aTuneup Utilz...

Soo what are you saying here, that your RAID 0 and SSD 80gb perform the same ?

What did you get as score for the RAID 0 then the SSD if your using W7 what hard drive score you get. let us know... thx and gg and gb

 

[vanilla guerilla]

well, i got a wei of 6.2 with the 80gb velociraptor raid 0 array, and i get a 7.7 with the callisto dx. BUT in real world stuff (so far) i havent seen much improvement. boot-up is about the same, games run about the same, and shutdown is longer.

 

[beginner99]

First of it's known that games don't really benefit from ssd's. Maybe load times increase a bit but in general it's a waste of expensive space.
Second I got the intel 80 gb, which is slower than the one you listed and I wasn't really that amazed too considering the hype. But just use your system for a while. Then go back and work at a standard pc with 7200 rpm drive. For me ssd is one of those things that only after you don't have it anymore you realize it's value.
The reason for me is simple because I expect the pc to worl like it does with an ssd, be responsive. Those seconds of stuttering with normal hdd's are a PITA. They are really annoying.

 

[Elganja]

First of it's known that games don't really benefit from ssd's. Maybe load times increase a bit but in general it's a waste of expensive space.
Second I got the intel 80 gb, which is slower than the one you listed and I wasn't really that amazed too considering the hype. But just use your system for a while. Then go back and work at a standard pc with 7200 rpm drive. For me ssd is one of those things that only after you don't have it anymore you realize it's value.
The reason for me is simple because I expect the pc to worl like it does with an ssd, be responsive. Those seconds of stuttering with normal hdd's are a PITA. They are really annoying.

Agreed... reminds of switching back and forth from 3g to wireless/4g on my phone... lol