Hello all,

When it comes to SSD drives they are great for bootdevices and program 
drives.Remember,all user data should be on another hard drive.

I prefer SLC drives, because they seem to run faster thanMLC. But this could be 
due to Operating Systems as well. Only have tested SSDon Windows XP, Windows 
Vista and Windows 7. Windows 7 has an enormousperformance increase of all 
operating systems over the others.

Tests were done with a SLC and MLC drive. The testvolumes were defragged and in 
all windows registries the user drive was forcedto D:\users. After Defragged 
the drives were then cloned over to the SSD drive.

I'm impressed with the performance.I wish I could get one installed in my 
gamingcomputer at home. But, I would not install World of Warcraft on it, due 
to WoWdoes write to the install directory numerous times during play.

Regards,

Tim Lider
Sr. Data Recovery Specialist
Advanced Data Solutions, LLC
http://www.adv-data.com

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hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com[mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] 
On Behalf ofjason.to...@cliffordchance.com
Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 3:32 AM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] Question of solid state drives

SLC stores 1 bit of data per cell. MLC stores 4.

Because of this, the MLC silicon will degradesubstantially faster than the SLC 
drives do (around 10x).

This isn't a major issue for most people as defraging is100% pointless on an 
SSD and the firmwares use even wear algorithms to ensureall cells are evenly 
worn down......you get about 10,000 writes per cell on MLCdrives, that will 
take a very long time to start causing issues.



-----Original Message-----
From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com
[mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf OfThane Sherrington
Sent: 23 July 2009 11:20
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: [H] Question of solid state drives

I was reading a review of the new Intel MLC drive, and hesays "The real 
strength of the Intel drives is in its random, small file,read/write 
performance. Here we see a 10% improvement in random readperformance over the 
1st gen drives, putting the new X25-M ahead of even theX25-E. Now there are 
obvious lifespan benefits you get from an SLC drive thatthe G2 can't match, but 
for a desktop user this thing is even better than theX25-E. "

I know nothing about SLC vs MLC - what does he mean buy"obvious lifespan 
benefits?"

T



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