MDSSD TweakTown Chris Ramseyer Signature Edition by SuperSSpeed SLC SSD Available Now

[REAL]

Some shameless self promotion for a product that has my name on it

There are just a couple of left at MyDigitalDiscount.com.

Here are some review links:

TweakTown JBOD and RAID 0

RWLabs JBOD

RWLabs RAID 0

MPN	SSSFM73A1QS1128G
Capacity	128GB
NAND Flash Type	SLC
Form Factor	2.5 inch
Interface	SATA III 6Gbps (7+15pin)
Controller IC	SandForce SF-2281
Sequential Read	550 MB/s
Sequential Write	520 MB/s
Random IOPS Read	80000 IOPS
Random IOPS Write	68000 IOPS
Dimensions	100.18mm x 69.93mm x 9.3mm
Weight	80g
Operation Temperature	-20°C - +70°C
Humidity	5% - 95%
Security Erase	Support
In-Drive UPS	Support
Input Voltage	5V ± 5%
Power Consumption	< 3.0 W
Power Consumption Idle	< 1.5 W
MTBF	2,000,000 Hours
ECC	55 bit
Compliance	RoHS / CE / FCC
Supported Operation Systems	Windows XP, Vista, 7 Mac OS10.X Linux

[unityole]

im just curious after reading reviews on tweaktown and here on rwlab, the data fill testing seems to be quite different. JBOD testing here on rwlab reached a high of 70k score while 25% of the drive is filled where as tweaktown is much lower, the same goes for raid0, 100k score compared to 60k ish. I do understand test machine are different, motherboard and cpu, but IRST driver and Orom should be similar. is there a lot of different tweaks between reviews on these two sites? ie power tweaks, smaller stripes etc, or does different motherboard and raid card really play a significant role here?

[REAL]

Jon is on a much faster board. At TT I'm sponsored to use the board I'm running. That board is about to come out and my new MSI is about to go in. The GBT board is really good when it comes to stability but the SATA seems slower. My numbers on the MSI board are inline with Jon's.

[unityole]

Jon is on a much faster board. At TT I'm sponsored to use the board I'm running. That board is about to come out and my new MSI is about to go in. The GBT board is really good when it comes to stability but the SATA seems slower. My numbers on the MSI board are inline with Jon's.

ah thanks for explaining, so mobo is a important factor.

[REAL]

With this drive it is. It's mainly the OROM on the GBT board. Jon is using the new 11 Series OROM and I'm using a much older one.

I tried to load the new OROM but the board doesn't really like it. GBT will have an update soon though.

[unityole]

With this drive it is. It's mainly the OROM on the GBT board. Jon is using the new 11 Series OROM and I'm using a much older one.

I tried to load the new OROM but the board doesn't really like it. GBT will have an update soon though.

if you're using old OROM that means trim isnt working right? that would explain HDT benchmark in raid 0 showing low write performance, usually one would think with empty drive it'd be near 1 gbps but it's only around 600 mbps

[Bill Gates]

Write caching needs to be turned on to score like I do. Chris was testing without it on because some people want to see it that way.

[Bill Gates]

BTW I have a SuperSSpeed S301 that RWL will be giving away in a contest on this forum.

[unityole]

Write caching needs to be turned on to score like I do. Chris was testing without it on because some people want to see it that way.

thats an amazing value considering write cache was turned off.. what hit me most was still the fill data test though. whenever I ran HD Tune test with my SSD, the blank storage space gets a good 400mb/s read where as it's only 250-300mb/s on flash that has file stored, which is why made me go for sandforce based drives, currently waiting for the latest firmware!

I will be grabbing two of these SLC drive from My digital discount very soon, if only im not so short on money.. tuition fee

[Bill Gates]

Yep you cant beat the S301 in my book its the best drive to ever hit the consumer market IMHO.