I believe I know what you are talking about, the Google hdd failure test published some time ago (and discussed here in the forums), but it would be wrong to say that "hotter is better than cooler"...it depends on the temperature range really... Here in Greece a set of poorly cooled hdds, even Gree...

I believe I know what you are talking about, the Google hdd failure test published some time ago (and discussed here in the forums), but it would be wrong to say that "hotter is better than cooler"...it depends on the temperature range really... Here in Greece a set of poorly cooled hdds, even Green...

I will do some item-specific posts reviewing each bit more in depth later on if there's interest in that - this thread is more for the overall build process. I would be very interested to read reports about the cooling of the hdds in the lower chamber (with / without the "door", although I'd guess ...

Some explanations about the problem noticed by Pierre: http://www.anandtech.com/show/4159/ocz-vertex-3-pro-preview-the-first-sf2500-ssd/6 The values in that article are for a large SSD. Adjust for a lower capacity and you get Pierre's problem. Notice how TRIM is basically useless (not in general: j...

I have to say - just on the "hand behind the grille" feel the top fan does more than the reviews would suggest... there's a reasonable amount of air moving out the back, even while the fan is set to an inaudible level. I'm happy to leave it there at this stage unless there proves to be a better opt...

I am very interested in this project... I had my eye on this case, I was in contact with Fractal-Design during its production and I had been waiting months for a review...I did not proceed to buy it though, partly because my case-noise issue was to an extent resolved with Green/Low Power drives, par...

Is rigidity and hdd decoupling at all improved with this new case, compared to its older sibling?

I would love to see the DefineXL reviewed...

I posted this back in the first page, that bench results at least seemed to get better (the real performance test - copying a large archive were not as good but confirmed the improved performance)... I ran 3 benches since, they were a little lower than the 1/3 numbers mostly. Between benches and ave...

I have no idea what is going on. I was merely stating what was possible, not what I think was particularly likely. What I suggested was that the controller might not take advantage of the information it gets through TRIM to defragment internally and create empty "flash blocks" as other drives seem ...

@who1zep Thank you for your willingness...I cannot really recommend a benchmark/test that would not have an effect on your drive (temporary at best)... I don't like the idea of a sustained performance drop of 1/3 at all either, but it might well be the case... To test for degradation one would need ...

Nice article...lian li makes very attractive cases, but they may have flaws that look quite paradoxical given the great attention to detail overall...

Behardware website reports that they have tested the latest (december) version of the AMD drivers and they found TRIM to be supported both with Indilinx and Sandforce SSDs... Same goes for the latest version of the Marvell drivers for the its sata chipsets... This seems to contradict other reports ...

Well, about the speeds other are getting, there are some reviews worth reading, but I haven't kept the links to them... If I get news from Corsair, if I stumble upon a helpful thread, if an answer comes up, I'll drop in and quote it... Right now I don't see what else I can do with my drive to test f...

You can't see to get a SandForce user to chime in.

I have no complaints, though, you've been quite helpful...

Maybe people will not think to look much in a silencing orientated website for SSD reviewing and commenting, given that SSDs pretty much take care of that silence factor on their own...

I started writing in response, but the text was getting bigger and the bottom line of my answer was there are more things around -but related with- technological production-circulation-consumption that I find more meaningful to deal with than establishing an international organization and review dat...

Yes, I have had much limited input on this issue at Corsair support If we would all put a dollar in, we'd have enough money to buy gear for volunteer reviewers. I don't know about you but I give a whole lot more to some of my information sources. Since you're so keen on international organizing, you...

The tests are of course valuable but "QB" is also spreading confusion. She writes: "One thing you should know about NAND is that it only has a limited amount of writes... so why would a drive actually write a zero? It is just deleteing the block from it's lists (i.e. turning it off)." That would ma...

Ok, I did a little bit more research today and it seems the issue is much complicated... - Firstly, Sandforce SSDs do not play well even with default MS ahci driver...this may be the fault of both of them, MS's working for a universal driver and SF not doing optimizations...testing for TRIM support ...

Unless you want to run the software on a computer with a chipset that's known to be compatible, I suggest you follow dhanson865's reimaging suggestion above. Whether the test shows that TRIM is working for you or not, you'll get close to the fastest possible performance after the conclusion of the ...

Very informative HFat...I think I'm slowly starting to get the gist... 7 as such does not take up so much RAM. I assume it would not run well on 128M like XP used to (I'm not going to try!) but it runs fine much less RAM than you've got. The "recommended" size was always nonsense but I recall when p...

you seem to be assuming I'm talking about actually physically doing anything I posted in this thread as a though experiment. The whole point of that was to suggest that you NOT do that sort of experiment nor any benchmarking of writes on your drive unless you are willing to do a secure erase before...

It matters to SandForce drives whether you're writing zeroes or random data. We don't know how much it matters but it's got to matter or their compression is just a gimmick to beat the competition at meaningless benchmarks. If the controller does a good job, it'll have unallocated flash to write yo...

How much free space do you actually have on that drive? I have an original 128gb gskill falcon from release, with updates, and it slows down alot when I have less than 20gb free, but goes right back to near new speed once I free up space. Trim only happens when you delete stuff. Right now free spac...

Sure, such basic settings have been taken care of and have been doubled checked...

Are you comparing the results of two different tests? That may not be valid. Not comparing, just bringing in the discussion a bench result that qualifies the statement 33% isn't that big a deal, since if this bench is taken into account, the degradation is actually greater... Actually, you're the o...

20 minutes of random writes and sequential write performance drops by over 85%! Obviously that's a problem with that controller. But that's the context in which I say that a performance loss of 33% isn't that big of a deal. Sure, if it keeps dropping at this rate, you have a problem. But we don't k...

For starters, thanks a lot for your answer... For your Firefox problems, try Opera. I have no problems with having many tabs open on puny hardware. Opening the program is slow if you want it to open dozens of tabs automatically and you only need a good amount of RAM (like 400M or so just for the bro...

Well, the holidays brought some better prices for SSDs, users seemed to multiply and so did my anticipation for a drive that would load applications faster and would not growl when navigating through consistently opening/closing 60+ Firefox tabs day in and day out, so I got myself a Corsair Force 60...

Pierre, I love the fact that still not one comment was posted on the Bit-tech forums after yours. :lol: I would blame the discouraging review for that...it so totally destroys expectations that you are left without any specific, targeted questions about the case (apart from the necessity of releasi...

Would these new SSDs function properly in a motherboard that does not support AHCI?