[H] Question of solid state drives
I was reading a review of the new Intel MLC drive, and he says The real strength of the Intel drives is in its random, small file, read/write performance. Here we see a 10% improvement in random read performance over the 1st gen drives, putting the new X25-M ahead of even the X25-E. Now there are obvious lifespan benefits you get from an SLC drive that the G2 can't match, but for a desktop user this thing is even better than the X25-E. I know nothing about SLC vs MLC - what does he mean buy obvious lifespan benefits? T
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 degrade substantially faster than the SLC drives do (around 10x). This isn't a major issue for most people as defraging is 100% pointless on an SSD and the firmwares use even wear algorithms to ensure all cells are evenly worn down..you get about 10,000 writes per cell on MLC drives, 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 Of Thane 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 he says The real strength of the Intel drives is in its random, small file, read/write performance. Here we see a 10% improvement in random read performance over the 1st gen drives, putting the new X25-M ahead of even the X25-E. Now there are obvious lifespan benefits you get from an SLC drive that the G2 can't match, but for a desktop user this thing is even better than the X25-E. I know nothing about SLC vs MLC - what does he mean buy obvious lifespan benefits? T This message and any attachment are confidential and may be privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient, please telephone or email the sender and delete this message and any attachment from your system. If you are not the intended recipient you must not copy this message or attachment or disclose the contents to any other person. Clifford Chance LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England Wales under number OC323571. The firm's registered office and principal place of business is at 10 Upper Bank Street, London, E14 5JJ. For further details, including a list of members and their professional qualifications, see our website at www.cliffordchance.com. The firm uses the word 'partner' to refer to a member of Clifford Chance LLP or an employee or consultant with equivalent standing and qualifications. The firm is regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. The Authority's rules can be accessed by clicking on the following link: http://www.sra.org.uk/code-of-conduct.page Clifford Chance as a global firm regularly shares client and/or matter-related data among its different offices and support entities in strict compliance with internal control policies and statutory requirements. Incoming and outgoing email communications may be monitored by Clifford Chance, as permitted by applicable law and regulations. For further information about Clifford Chance please see our website at http://www.cliffordchance.com or refer to any Clifford Chance office.
Re: [H] Question of solid state drives
MLC drives are usually cheaper and easier to make, but with generally less performance than SLC and quite a bit less expensive. Anandtech has a couple good articles listing price/performance of the various SSD's. I'm using OCX Vertex (newer firmware) on 2 boxes and they are pretty fast and inexpensive. I also have 2 MLC drives (trancend a generic) that are very slooow and have frequent pauses that commonly plagued the 1st gen SSDs. lopaka --- On Thu, 7/23/09, Thane Sherrington th...@computerconnectionltd.com wrote: From: Thane Sherrington th...@computerconnectionltd.com Subject: [H] Question of solid state drives To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Date: Thursday, July 23, 2009, 3:20 AM I was reading a review of the new Intel MLC drive, and he says The real strength of the Intel drives is in its random, small file, read/write performance. Here we see a 10% improvement in random read performance over the 1st gen drives, putting the new X25-M ahead of even the X25-E. Now there are obvious lifespan benefits you get from an SLC drive that the G2 can't match, but for a desktop user this thing is even better than the X25-E. I know nothing about SLC vs MLC - what does he mean buy obvious lifespan benefits? T
Re: [H] Question of solid state drives
The pauses are due to poor jmicron controller logic, nothing inherent to the type of flash -JB On Jul 23, 2009 5:34 PM, Robert Martin Jr. lopa...@pacbell.net wrote: MLC drives are usually cheaper and easier to make, but with generally less performance than SLC and quite a bit less expensive. Anandtech has a couple good articles listing price/performance of the various SSD's. I'm using OCX Vertex (newer firmware) on 2 boxes and they are pretty fast and inexpensive. I also have 2 MLC drives (trancend a generic) that are very slooow and have frequent pauses that commonly plagued the 1st gen SSDs. lopaka --- On Thu, 7/23/09, Thane Sherrington th...@computerconnectionltd.com wrote: From: Thane Sherrington th...@computerconnectionltd.com Subject: [H] Question of solid state drives To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Date: Thursday, July 23, 2009, 3:20 AM I was reading a review of the new Intel MLC drive, and he says The real strength of the Intel driv...
Re: [H] Question of solid state drives
Agreed, but the problem is there are no available fixes or flash updates to fix many of the older drives which are still being sold regularly. Best to know before buying. lopaka --- On Thu, 7/23/09, James Boswell torazch...@gmail.com wrote: From: James Boswell torazch...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [H] Question of solid state drives To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Date: Thursday, July 23, 2009, 9:51 AM The pauses are due to poor jmicron controller logic, nothing inherent to the type of flash -JB On Jul 23, 2009 5:34 PM, Robert Martin Jr. lopa...@pacbell.net wrote: MLC drives are usually cheaper and easier to make, but with generally less performance than SLC and quite a bit less expensive. Anandtech has a couple good articles listing price/performance of the various SSD's. I'm using OCX Vertex (newer firmware) on 2 boxes and they are pretty fast and inexpensive. I also have 2 MLC drives (trancend a generic) that are very slooow and have frequent pauses that commonly plagued the 1st gen SSDs. lopaka --- On Thu, 7/23/09, Thane Sherrington th...@computerconnectionltd.com wrote: From: Thane Sherrington th...@computerconnectionltd.com Subject: [H] Question of solid state drives To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Date: Thursday, July 23, 2009, 3:20 AM I was reading a review of the new Intel MLC drive, and he says The real strength of the Intel driv...
[H] ATI Catalyst 9.7 is out
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[H] USB keyboard problem
I've got a computer that boots up to XP and immediately comes up with the found new hardware wizard. The problem is that it has a USB keyboard and mouse, and these don't work, and the drivers for these won't install because they are blocked by the found new hardware wizard that is for some other device (as far as I can tell.) There are no PS2 ports, so I can't use that - any ideas? T
Re: [H] USB keyboard problem
Thane, I do so want to read the answer to this one! It addresses why I did not choose the m/b's suggested months ago that required USB. I still use the old PS/2 interface...(P5Q3) I know; slow, behind the times! Thank you so much for this query. Best, Duncan Thane Sherrington wrote: I've got a computer that boots up to XP and immediately comes up with the found new hardware wizard. The problem is that it has a USB keyboard and mouse, and these don't work, and the drivers for these won't install because they are blocked by the found new hardware wizard that is for some other device (as far as I can tell.) There are no PS2 ports, so I can't use that - any ideas? T
Re: [H] Question of solid state drives
The Vertex drives are nice. We ordered 40 of the 120GB variants at work to replace 7.2k mechanical drives in the laptops of our top customer-facing employees. There aren't many times when you can do a hardware upgrade and make people go Oh wow, holy sh** -- but the Vertex drives did just that. With the 2nd gen Intel drives on 34nm NAND, and other manufacturers soon to release 32nm NAND, I'm getting close to upgrading my Velociraptor. Greg -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Robert Martin Jr. Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 11:34 AM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: Re: [H] Question of solid state drives MLC drives are usually cheaper and easier to make, but with generally less performance than SLC and quite a bit less expensive. Anandtech has a couple good articles listing price/performance of the various SSD's. I'm using OCX Vertex (newer firmware) on 2 boxes and they are pretty fast and inexpensive. I also have 2 MLC drives (trancend a generic) that are very slooow and have frequent pauses that commonly plagued the 1st gen SSDs. lopaka
Re: [H] USB keyboard problem
Try them in different ports - Windows should recognize them if they're plugged into the same ports that they were plugged into before. I've used this trick to get a USB wireless NIC to use its previously stored network credentials instead of having to re-enter them. I don't know if setting USB legacy options in the BIOS will make any difference, as Windows takes over control of the USB controllers when it starts up. It might be worth taking a look for it just in case Windows is trying to load drivers for the USB controllers. Jamie DSinc wrote: Thane, I do so want to read the answer to this one! It addresses why I did not choose the m/b's suggested months ago that required USB. I still use the old PS/2 interface...(P5Q3) I know; slow, behind the times! Thank you so much for this query. Best, Duncan Thane Sherrington wrote: I've got a computer that boots up to XP and immediately comes up with the found new hardware wizard. The problem is that it has a USB keyboard and mouse, and these don't work, and the drivers for these won't install because they are blocked by the found new hardware wizard that is for some other device (as far as I can tell.) There are no PS2 ports, so I can't use that - any ideas? T -- Jamie Furtner ja...@furtner.ca I aim to misbehave - Malcom Reynolds (Serenity movie) It's not safe... For them. - River Tam (Serenity movie)
Re: [H] USB keyboard problem
At 04:30 PM 23/07/2009, DSinc wrote: Thane, I do so want to read the answer to this one! It addresses why I did not choose the m/b's suggested months ago that required USB. I still use the old PS/2 interface...(P5Q3) I know; slow, behind the times! Thank you so much for this query. Not at all. PS2 is the best interface for the keyboard since it always works. These USB-only Dells really suck, and this situation is a prime example why. T
Re: [H] USB keyboard problem
XP Pro? You could remote in, assuming the Windows firewall is either disabled or has appropriate exceptions. Can even remotely enable it if required, assuming the startup policy for remote registry hasn't been altered. If it's Home, you could remotely deploy something like VNC or DameWare's remote client, assuming you have the software and again, the firewall isn't enabled. -Original Message- From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com [mailto:hardware- boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Thane Sherrington Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 2:01 PM To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com Subject: [H] USB keyboard problem I've got a computer that boots up to XP and immediately comes up with the found new hardware wizard. The problem is that it has a USB keyboard and mouse, and these don't work, and the drivers for these won't install because they are blocked by the found new hardware wizard that is for some other device (as far as I can tell.) There are no PS2 ports, so I can't use that - any ideas? T
[H] AMD platform
Am looking to upgrade my aging Q6600 cpu. Looking to go to AMD. But I have been a bit out of touch with the AMD top end stuff. Should I do the upgrade now or wait for lynnfield? Thanks for the advice.
Re: [H] AMD platform
Am looking to upgrade my aging Q6600 cpu. Looking to go to AMD. But I have been a bit out of touch with the AMD top end stuff. Should I do the upgrade now or wait for lynnfield? Thanks for the advice. I'm interested in knowing this too. My brother is considering updating his system and doesn't know if he should upgrade now or wait.
Re: [H] AMD platform
In both cases you'll have to upgrade your mobo and possibly RAM depending on the choice for DDR2/DDR3 for AMD and DDR3 for Intel. Frankly, the upcoming i5 platform is going to be faster than Phenom II but it's going to be immature and more expensive for quite some time. I suggest you see what's available from AMD now and read the hardware previews on Lynnfield. Personally, I'd go AMD and DDR2 at this time. Next year that will be a different story. Good luck! Zulfiqar Naushad wrote: Am looking to upgrade my aging Q6600 cpu. Looking to go to AMD. But I have been a bit out of touch with the AMD top end stuff. Should I do the upgrade now or wait for lynnfield? Thanks for the advice.
