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15th February 2009, 11:46 | #1 |
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| Long-term performance analysis of Intel Mainstream SSDs A laptop user placing light workloads on their X25-M may never see the worst of these issues, but many users are going solid state for their desktop OS partitions, and a typical power user workload can fragment these drives in short order. It is likely that other manufacturers will employ similar write combining techniques in the future, and with those new devices may come similar real world slowdowns. While the specialized controller used by Intel enables it to bulldoze through most scenarios, we have seen that even the best logic is subject to severe write combining / internal fragmentation. Hopefully Intel can further tweak their algorithms with a future firmware update to the X25-M. In the meantime, we hope our suggestions keep your SSD on the speedier side of things. http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid...e=expert&pid=1
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| This is definitely a must read for anyone that has or will eventually buy an SSD. I don't recall any major sites mentioning most of these facts... Quote:
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| HDD Erase 4.0 Secure erase using a special feature built into most newer hard drives It's part of Hiren's Boot CD (currently v9.7), downloadable as torrent and will cost you only few hundred mb's. |
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| HDD Erase 4.0 is incompatible with the Intel SSD, maybe with others too... Quote:
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16th February 2009, 19:01 | #7 |
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| They stated is was version HDD Erase 3.3 in the review They got their old copy from Intel as part of a review package.... I don't see version 3.3 to download anywhere. Best bet might be to email the guy behind it: http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/people/Hughes/ Last edited by Kougar : 16th February 2009 at 19:06. |
16th February 2009, 19:14 | #8 |
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| HDDErase 3.3 compatible with Intel SSD attached to this post they've also updated their article and added download link
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16th February 2009, 23:09 | #9 |
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| Sweet! Thanks for the link. |
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