Please post the link to the G2 firmware update you found?
When I looked to the Intel web support site I could only find the V1.1 update for the older G1 drives.
Intel X25-M G2 Solid State Drives
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Please post the link to the G2 firmware update you found?
When I looked to the Intel web support site I could only find the V1.1 update for the older G1 drives.
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http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Det...&strOSs=38&OSFullName=OS Independent&lang=eng
you have the write file
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my vista score went from 5.7 to 5.9 after SSD install 170 quid well spent lol
you have the write file
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my vista score went from 5.7 to 5.9 after SSD install 170 quid well spent lol
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uses the same file, just hasnt been a new one out yet
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/fil...rating+Systems&lang=eng&strOSs=All&submit=Go!
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/fil...rating+Systems&lang=eng&strOSs=All&submit=Go!
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it doesnt matter it didnt work. i only tried it cuz thats where intels site took me for that drive
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Much difference?
There's a video of them putting an SSD in a PS3 on The Escapist (The Escapist Show episode 40), and it made zero difference anywhere. Seems either the hardware in the PS3 can't either cope, or as they suggest, that Sony might have physically limited transfer rates to provide standard across the board performance on all machines so that no weird timing issues happen with games, etc.
It doesn't say which SSD model it is, you're assuming its a good one for some reason. But i'm guessing it's a older one with poor performance.
Because theres a Intel G1 drive being tested in a PS3 here. Which makes over a 40% improvement in some things. I think the PS3's hardware limits it from being more.
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Its not exactly a hardware limit put in there by Sony, its the fact that there is no hard drive work (or SSD) in progress, the bottleneck is the Read speed of the Blu-Ray drive. As you can see, as soon as you're just using the SSD the speeds improve.
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exactly, and whatever the blue ray drive isnt responsible for, its normally the cell processor doing the rest of the stuff
To be fair... the PS3's hardware still does limit it somewhat. For instance if you used a standard slow 2.5" 5400RPM drive (thats in the PS3) on a reasonably high end PC, then swapped it out for a Intel SSD, there would certainly be more than a 40% improvement in lots of things. Ignoring the obvious limitation of the Blu Ray drive transfer speeds, the PS3 simply dont have the power or hardware to fully make the most of a good SSD.
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When are these back in stock Slackworth?
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Is the 80GB intel faster than the 160GB? I might buy the 80 for now and get another 80 when it's cheaper and raid0 them both
My two 160GB's arrived yesterday, put them in RAID and installed Win7 RTM, and they're extremely fast (obviously).
In comparison to my OCZ Vertex SSD's in RAID, which are basically identical to the G.Skill Falcon SSD's (same hardware) these intel drives are faster.
Not much faster though when it comes to real world usage, it's a small upgrade as expected.
The Vertex/Falcon drives have higher sustained write, but as i've said countless times on here that does not matter at all, unless you copy single massive files. Random read/write performance is what matters. So for everything apart from copying a large file the Intel's are faster, and even when copying a large 2GB file they wasn't exactly slow at it.
I installed the Adobe CS4 master collection suite, which has every single adobe CS4 program. The install of this software suite is pretty well known for really stressing drives.
On my Raptor HDD's it used to take about 40mins to install the suite. On the X25-M's it takes about 20% of that time!
It was a little slower on the Vetex's but only by about 2 minutes.
Opening up software like Photoshop, Illustrator, DreamWeaver is a little quicker too, but in comparison to the Vertex's only by 1 second at most (Vertex's already loaded it in 2 - 3 seconds).
Game loading - from 5 - 20% faster than Vertex's depending on the game. I find whenever i'm playing online my computer is always the first to load the level/area before other peoples computers.
In comparison to my OCZ Vertex SSD's in RAID, which are basically identical to the G.Skill Falcon SSD's (same hardware) these intel drives are faster.
Not much faster though when it comes to real world usage, it's a small upgrade as expected.
The Vertex/Falcon drives have higher sustained write, but as i've said countless times on here that does not matter at all, unless you copy single massive files. Random read/write performance is what matters. So for everything apart from copying a large file the Intel's are faster, and even when copying a large 2GB file they wasn't exactly slow at it.
I installed the Adobe CS4 master collection suite, which has every single adobe CS4 program. The install of this software suite is pretty well known for really stressing drives.
On my Raptor HDD's it used to take about 40mins to install the suite. On the X25-M's it takes about 20% of that time!
It was a little slower on the Vetex's but only by about 2 minutes.
Opening up software like Photoshop, Illustrator, DreamWeaver is a little quicker too, but in comparison to the Vertex's only by 1 second at most (Vertex's already loaded it in 2 - 3 seconds).
Game loading - from 5 - 20% faster than Vertex's depending on the game. I find whenever i'm playing online my computer is always the first to load the level/area before other peoples computers.
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For Raid 0 I think 80GB is sufficient? As they will be combined to make 160GB.
I think getting two 160's is really pushing it. It is cheaper to use two normal HDD for storage.
I think getting two 160's is really pushing it. It is cheaper to use two normal HDD for storage.
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I thought you couldn't use TRIM in Raid?
You cant iirc
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Well stuff that then, the chump should have got 1x 160 not 2 he must be the devil spending £666
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