SSD Torqz 128g Results

[Liquidity]

What i finally ran with, based on the best results was:

I installed OS and WoW on the SSD, everything else on 1gig seagate.

I used keyclone to link to ONE instance of WoW on the SSD, no symlinking just 5 instances of Wow
from the SSD and....

It rocks!!!

No following breaking in major cities, going thru potals takes under a second and game runs smoother.

Now I can play in Northrend without any issues!

Thanks Patriot!

[Bask Nrobbins]

I could be wrong, but isn't installing the OS on the SSD itself considered a bad idea?

[kadaan]

Why would it be a bad idea? I'd think anything that needs to do small, fast, random reads would see a nice performance increase running off SSD.

[Smoooth]

I have win 7 installed on my ssd. The only problem is all the manual drive/directory selection for saving things and installing other programs. I try to not save anything to it to keep the writing to the ssd down.

My bios takes around 15 seconds to boot then windows fully loads in about 10 seconds.

[Multibocks]

The reason you dont save OS to the SSD is that they can only do so many read/write operations before sectors start dying. Most people just put WoW on the SSD.

[Liquidity]

The reason you dont save OS to the SSD is that they can only do so many read/write operations before sectors start dying. Most people just put WoW on the SSD.

Patriot has a 10 year warranty on the Torqz drive. I think the problem you refer to has been fixed.

[Liquidity]

I'm so impressed with my SSD I'm gonna get one for notebook.

[Bask Nrobbins]

Patriot has a 10 year warranty on the Torqz drive. I think the problem you refer to has been fixed.


Ahh, that would be good to know. Constant read/writes are what I was referring to as a "Bad idea".

[jak3676]

The issue with putting your OS on the SSD has to do with your swap file. Windows (all versions - Win 7 is no different) will be pretty constantly reading and writing small files to your swap file. While SSDs are great at all forms of reading files, sequential, random, large, small, etc - they don't do well with random writes. Check out these links if you want some background.

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3531&p=1
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3535
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3631&p=1

I'd say the anandtech reviews are pretty much the defacto standard currently.

4KB Random Write Speed
Intel X25-E 31.7 MB/s
Intel X25-M 23.1 MB/s
JMicron JMF602B MLC 0.02 MB/s
JMicron JMF602Bx2 MLC 0.03 MB/s
OCZ Summit 0.77 MB/s
OCZ Vertex 2.41 MB/s
Samsung SLC 0.53 MB/s
Seagate Momentus 5400.6 0.81 MB/s
Western Digital Caviar SE16 1.26 MB/s
Western Digital VelociRaptor 1.63 MB/s

You see that some of these are much quicker than standard hard drives and some of them are much slower. Some are about the same. But with large amounts of sequential writes you can have performance issues. Not all SSDs (very few of them initially) are designed for the type of use that you would expect to use for your OS drive.