Verbatim ssd 128gb Black Edition

MMartins

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Hi,

I found this ssd for 100€ in Fnac near me.

I want to put a second hd on my mbp, wich is sata2.

The think is that I can't find any reviews of this drive on the net of speed or reliability, anyone has any impression about this drive?

do you think that this is a good deal for the price?

thanks!
 

kmmatney

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There are 10 Verbatim drives on NewEgg, but no real reviews, so I don't think too many people are buying these, at least not in the U.S. There are too many other drives from well-known SSD companies that are the same price or lower. Unless it's a lot lower price than anything else you can get, it's going to be hard to recommend it until it gets more reviews.
 

MMartins

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here 100€ for a 120gb ssd is the lowest price I saw.

the other reason I'm thinking about this sdd is that it real cost is 120€ but I have a 20€ voucher to use on fnac with expiration date..

what do you think of the review? would it have similar performance to an intel 320 for eg?
 

MMartins

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bought it (only costed me 50€ :p)

Tested on: Qx6600, 6gb ram, windows 7 x64

crystaldiskmark:
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Jman13

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Are you in AHCI mode? The 4K numbers are pretty low. I know it might not be the best performing drive on the market (and you got a good price), but those seem pretty low to me....I had similarly low performance on my M4 in the 4K tests before setting it up on AHCI. Still, it'll still blow the doors off any HDD.

EDIT: looking at the review, those 4K numbers match the review, so disregard. It's not the fastest drive in the world, but if it's reliable, you'll still get quite a huge speed bump from a standard HDD, and I'm sure you will quite enjoy it, and you certainly can't beat the price. Good buy!
 
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MMartins

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Are you in AHCI mode? The 4K numbers are pretty low. I know it might not be the best performing drive on the market (and you got a good price), but those seem pretty low to me....I had similarly low performance on my M4 in the 4K tests before setting it up on AHCI. Still, it'll still blow the doors off any HDD.

EDIT: looking at the review, those 4K numbers match the review, so disregard. It's not the fastest drive in the world, but if it's reliable, you'll still get quite a huge speed bump from a standard HDD, and I'm sure you will quite enjoy it, and you certainly can't beat the price. Good buy!

I don't know if I had AHCI mode, I just connected it to my pc, formated in nfts and run the test. yes the 4k in read is 50% less than the 320 intel 120gb.

what is the difference between 4k and 4k qd32?
 

Jman13

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For AHCI - It's a BIOS setting....download AS SSD benchmark and run it...it'll tell you whether or not you are running in AHCI or IDE. If you're in IDE, you will need to change a setting in your BIOS. HOWEVER...if you installed Windows in IDE mode, and you switch to AHCI without doing the following instructions, your machine will BSOD immediately upon entering Windows. Follow these directions, and you'll be good to go. (I did the same thing, and this worked flawlessly.)

However, check whether you're in AHCI mode first. If you are in IDE, in the upper left of AS-SSD benchmark your drive will show your drive model, then the firmware and then "IDE-BAD" in red. If you are in AHCI mode, it will say "msahci - OK" in green.

Of course your drive info will be different (as will your speeds), but to see what I'm referring to, see here (this is my drive):
as_ssd1.jpg



If you are in IDE mode, do the following:

Exit all Windows-based programs.
Press [Win] + R or take the RUN option from the start menu.
Now type Regedit there and press Enter Key to open up the Registry Editor Window. (If you receive the User Account Control dialog box, click Continue.)
Locate and then click the following registry sub key:
Code:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\msahci

In the right pane right-click Start in the Name column and then click Modify.
In the Value data box, type 0 [3 is default], and then click OK.
On the File menu, click Exit to close Registry Editor.
Restart your computer
Go to UEFI/BIOS and enable AHCI, Save & Reboot
Another restart will be required to finish the driver installation.
 
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