Any guys with SSD experience here?
 

I have the Crucial M225 128GB. Read up on the internet before I bought it. It got pretty good reviews.

CrystalDiskInfo tells me that I have firmware 1819 and that the drive supports TRIM. Just google CrystalDiskInfo if you want to check out your drive.

I also tested my drive with CrystalDiskMark. Here are the results:

SSD:
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CrystalDiskMark 2.2 (C) 2007-2008 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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Sequential Read : 221.542 MB/s
Sequential Write : 140.769 MB/sdd
Random Read 512KB : 160.061 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 154.771 MB/s
Random Read 4KB : 27.425 MB/s
Random Write 4KB : 14.573 MB/s

Test Size : 100 MB
Date : 2009/12/30 15:05:33


And for comparison my 2x500GB RAID0:

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CrystalDiskMark 2.2 (C) 2007-2008 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : http://crystalmark.info/
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Sequential Read : 182.390 MB/s
Sequential Write : 181.443 MB/s
Random Read 512KB : 60.392 MB/s
Random Write 512KB : 100.611 MB/s
Random Read 4KB : 0.876 MB/s
Random Write 4KB : 4.211 MB/s

Test Size : 100 MB
Date : 2009/12/30 15:14:41



Should I expect better results on the SSD disk? The disk is 57% full.

Its a bit below specifications. Is that normal behavior?

You mean the size? Yes, always. A megabyte is 1024KB, but for measuring drive capacity manufacturers use 1MB=1000KB. As a result the actual size is always different from what is marketed.

Usually they market theoretical performance under ideal circumstances, so if performance is different as expected I'd say that's normal too. :hmmm:

No I dont mean the size. I know what happens when you format a drive ;) I am thinking performance-wise.

There is a firmware update coming out soon from Crucial. I hope that will keep me afloat.

I'm glad if anybody else has some thoughts/tips though. And thanks to you Arc for posting an answer.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=SDD+vs+SATA+hard+drives :O:

Haha! Google? Is that something new? I use Altavista....