Interesting new item - Page 2

FACE · #11 04-01-2010

"1... 2.... Thr..... "

Neuromancer · #12 04-01-2010

OMG how freaking annoying.

Would be great.. if you are going to pronounce S-ATA you pronounce it correctly. He even says SATA DATA cable, pronouncing both words complete differently so its not some regional accent.

rickss69 · #13 04-02-2010

Test bed:

Xeon 3580 @ 4.3 GHz
Saaphire 5870 @ default settings
Evga Classified mb
Corsair GTX CMG6GX3M3A2000C7 7-8-7-20 1T
Seagate 80GB HDD
SuperTalent 30GB SSD
Win7 64 PRO

Benchmarks:

Vantage (CPU)
PCM05 (HDD and CPU)
HD Tune
CineBench (CPU)
Atto

Vantage -

A nice increase in performance with the ssd enabled.

PCM05 -

The ssd blistered thru PCM05 compared to the hdd alone.

HD Tune -

The ssd still shows improvement but notice the sharp drop...I believe this is because of the small size of the ssd. You make the call.

CineBench -

Unsure of the CineBench results...

Atto -

The Atto test revealed a gain for the ssd, tho not as great as expected.

Conclusions:

I am not sure if I included the correct tests or not. There does seem to be gains with the ssd "piggy backed" to the hdd. Is it worth the effort? I will let other's more knowledgable than myself make that decision. I do like how the ssd wakes up the always sluggish Win7 OS...I think I will be using this on my upcoming micro build.

Kal-EL · #14 04-03-2010

Kool stuff Rick, thx for sharing