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Odd. Anyway, the SSD's are worth the money now, since they dropped in price a bit, and, since seek time is unlikely to become perceptibly faster, they are pretty much a must have. As far as access time, the RAID controllers added a very fast processor, plus a cache, reducing seek times. I...

LM: What is your current system?

I've converted all the machines I have, except my laptop, to Vertex Turbos. I used 30 gig turbos for the Athlon 3200 HTPC, and everything fits fine. Very impressive speed increase, and, IIRC, the drives were 154 dollars each from Tiger direct, shipped. I see no downside. The SSD is usable in...

HMMM. I guess because it's also a statement of fact, it kind of did a fly by;-)

I guess the real question for me would be, WHY? ;-)

Thanks Merc. Works for me...or I should say working right now.

Hi I'm using my old box as a server. Problem is, I loaded 2003 Server on it, and, most of the free virus stuff, AVAST, and a few others don't work with it. Any suggestions?

Athlon 3200+ now takes 35 seconds to boot to splash screen. That's about half the velociraptor.

Some of the best ATTO numbers I've ever posted:

After watching DVD's and using 40-80 of the two processors, this was a bit of a shock, watching Pirates of the Carribean, doing a little Photoshop work, etc. Speed test on boot drive...

How about this cooling setup;-)? http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1067/3/

Total 535 if I stay with the stock Intel cooler...

HTPC upgrade: Considering the following: Here's what I've got so far: Intel Core i5 750 @ 2.67 ghz. 4,216 Passmark. That's about 8-9 times faster then my Athlon 3200+. I've noticed with this setup a number of programs take advantage of the massive amount of ram, so at least 4 GB of memory...

SSD raised the system score about 40 points...

Here's a 'low end PC upgraded with a Vertex Turbo:

Same file Read rate 6000kb/sec DVDD 24 minutes. Supermicro dual 2.8 ghz xeons.

Intel i7 940 @ 3Ghz 12GB DDR3 DRAM Gigabyte X58 Chipset Motherboard nVidia GeForce GTX 295 2x 160GB Intel 25M RAID0 LG BluRay Burner and Plextor Bluray 310 Antec P183 Chassis Seasonic 700W Power Supply Monitors 37" Vizio VXT Samsung 2233 7 Ultimate

Games. Unreal tourney 2004, Farcry, and COD4 are REALLY different, all played at max settings, no lag, incredible visuals.

Doing some benchmarking of this beast. DVD Decrypter on the 940: 10:12 to rip a DVD. 1-2% of processor, 1.8 GB of Ram used. DVD Shrink to backup. 45% processor 15% memory 1.9 GB rate 42,152 kb/sec 3:15 minutes/sec

I've got a http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827249040&cm_re=bluray_burner-_-27-249-040-_-Product Seems to work great with my new computer;-)

Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 Lite-On SATA BR Burner BFG Tech GTX 295 6x 2GB OCZ 12800 DDR3 Thermaltake Tower-style CPU coole Plus one

For what it's worth, my new system plays my sound, and video unreal. NVIDIA. The same setup, on ATI 4670 sucks...

It appears the smaller the stripe, the better the HDTach results, and, the worse the ATTO results. System feels snappier with the 16k stripe. I'm going to assume the atto numbers have problems with the SSD's, or, at least the version I'm using. More after install...

I looked at the transfer rates below 64k, and they are really terrible. current ATTO results below: 4k was 25 mb/se 8 36mb/sec 16 64 mb/sec 32 was 95 mb/sec 64 was 106 mb/sec from there, 128 is 132 mb/sec 256 is 173 mb/sec

They are simply incredible, fantastic, etc.!!!!! and, don't forget Lisa Fischer....WOW Ronnie Woods is incredible. too....

It artifacts at the start, but, the majority os playing beautifully. Something isn't up to getting data fast enough from the bluray player. However, reading from a drive, on the bus, virtual drive, it's awesome... You can really see Mick's wrinkles.

Facts: Plextor drive artifacts when connected to my Supermicro motherboard, on playing, and on writing with AnyDVD HD to the hard drive. In other words, what is coming out of the DVD player, into the computer, is corrupted, even when it's NOT playing on the screen. The corrupted ISO's play just...

HMMMM. Defrag is not an issue, since the drives are two Vertex Turbos, 30 gigs, in Raid 0, for about 59 gigs of boot drive. Reads are about 200 mb/sec. Others have been getting faster results... It's kind of too late, since it's already done...

Has anyone any information on changing block sizes, and how that might affect performance? I wonder if I screwed the pooch by using 64k as the block size in the raid array...

You are correct... My mistake...;0

I've got Star Trek, and, it plays well. I'm beyond pissed right now, since I have Pirates of the Carrib sitting on my desk, and, my system won't play it. Artifacts. Also, when I tried to install the PowerDVD Bluray 8 version, hoping it would play what 9 ultra didn't it TOTALLY screwed my...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227393&nm_mc=EMC-IGNEFL021610&cm_mmc=EMC-IGNEFL021610-_-SolidStateDisk-_-L0C-_-20227393 LOOKS PRETTY GOOD. Really 119 dollars

Thanks Sam and all. Appears to have solved the problem...

When do you ever use 12 gig of RAM? Ram disk for page file? Scratch disk for Photoshop????? How much ram does 7 use?

I really don't think about processor upgrades. I've yet to find one that I thought was worth the money. If I've kept a system long enough to consider a processor upgrade, usually another part of the computer requires improving. Video slots in particular seem to put out to pasture motherboards...

WE got that;-) Handurin: The weird part is HD Tach REALLY doesn't know what to do with SSD's. It gives me a line that looks about the same as your Velociraptor's....

Here's my velociraptor ATTO score: WEIRD! This disk is about 60% full, just ran it. Handruin, looks like we have the same sort of limit...

Just ran it on the Athlon 3200_ Gigabyte, velociraptor, 9600. Now I have to go in the other room and compare them on my dual screens;-)

Strange Here is the result from a used Velociraptor that I'm using in the Athlon 3200+, with Gigabyte mobo. Plugged into said motherboard:

I was just thinking only one of the drives might be faster on the raid card. However, 30 gigs is what my OS and program installs run. I need the 60 gigs for space.

HMMMM That was run on the Vertex Turbo Raid 0, on the 9550 card. Here is the ATTO result: Something is bottle necking the drives, or, maybe that's as fast as the card can run the two drives. I do have two more I was thinking about adding, but, that would mean an entire system reinstall...

Handurin: That Argus stuff is really cool. WHAT did you do to max out the processor?

Thanks Handurin: I hate to think what XP Pro does to their testing. None the less, thank you very much. This gives me an excellent reference point to compare systems. The only category that is close is the Disk Mark. Your video card is much better at 2d then mine, and, the 4670 appears to be...

PASSMARK results for my system: Handurin: Makes it fun to compare to your machine. This is with Avast running.

Handruin: As you have pointed out: the 920 is avaliable for the same price as the 860, though both are about the same speed. That is what I was looking at, or something similar, when I priced it out at newegg.com. Sometimes it's better to buy a used, tested system then a new one... If I go...

Computer is pretty much done. A couple removeable drive bays to put in, deciding what to do with a couple 30 gig vertex turbos I bought, and I should pick it up this week. Handruin: Thanks for the excellent advice. This is a used computer, and, a total package. I agree the 920 is the sensible...

I follow your advice, and you make fun of me???? NICE.

Intel i7 940 @ 3Ghz 12GB DDR3 DRAM Gigabyte X58 Chipset Motherboard nVidia GeForce GTX 295 2x 120GB Intel X 25M in RAID0 BluRay Burner Antec P183 Chassis Seasonic 700 PS Why is 1366 dead? Not that it matters. I've yet to see a cpu upgrade that actually made a double speed improvement, and was...

Anyone have a link, or a copy of 3.5? 3.6 is incompatible with one of my favorites, Clipta...

HMMM. What would you suggest? http://www.storageforum.net/forum/showthread.php?t=8006 The above thread is for a gaming system Snowhiker is putting together. It's 900 dollars, without an SSD. Passmark score 4,214. So for me, it would still be at least 1200 dollars, with SSD's. I've wondered...