Any guys with SSD experience here?

[VirtualVikingX]

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?